EP 312: Reader Question - How can I convince others not to drink?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Annie Grace answers a phenomenal question today. A reader asks, “Now that I know the truth about alcohol, how do I not force it on others who are doing the same thing I was?” When you have removed alcohol from your life and learned so much from your experience and you’re watching people you love continue doing something that’s harmful to them, how do you reconcile those things? What can you do to get people to take your advice?

If you asked me about the one thing that makes This Naked Mind so different from anything else, I would have to say emotion. It is the emotion when people feel really ready to make a change, when they’ve had that mindset shift, when they’ve gone through all the materials and the methodology and they get this feeling that it’s not that they never get to drink again it's that they never have to drink again. And, interestingly, according to all sorts of new research, it is emotion, especially positive emotion, more than anything else that predicates how long a change will stick, how long it will last. It is emotion. When you feel excited about a change in your life. When you feel thrilled you’re making this new difference, instead of feeling deprived like you’re missing out, everything changes. And it really makes it that This Naked Mind can stick for the long term. If you want to know more about how to truly change your emotion around drinking, I want you to join me at nakedmindpath.com. It is the path to changing your emotion and changing your feelings and really finding freedom in your relationship with alcohol.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Annie Grace, I hope everyone is doing amazing. I am answering a reader's question. I got
0:33.0	this email earlier today and it was just such a great question that instead of answering
0:38.0	it over email, I wanted to make this video. And so this is a question. The question is,
0:44.6	hey, Annie, now that I know the truth about alcohol, how do I not force it on others that
0:49.5	I love who are doing the same thing I was. My husband coming home on a Friday and saying,
0:54.2	ah, the work week is over, I'm going to go sit in my chair and have a few beers which leads
0:58.6	to him passing out by 8 p.m. and then I'm alone. Or my 22 year old daughter drinking a
1:03.0	hard seltzer in her room alone saying, what, I'm just relaxing. They have all the false
1:08.2	beliefs I used to have about what alcohol is doing for them when it's really just harming
1:12.7	them and I see that now. Particularly my daughter who's unmotivated and has depression
1:17.5	anxiety, it's making me crazy. I'm now counting my husband's beers and my anxiety level is skyrocketing.
1:24.5	Any thoughts would help me out. I sow so respect even your program. So first of all, I just
1:29.4	want to say this is a phenomenal, phenomenal question. And honestly, just the level of awareness
1:36.6	to bring this up and to see that you don't want to inquire about it and to see how this
1:44.5	is affecting you in your anxiety just shows a level of self-awareness that I think is amazing.
1:50.5	We sow often and so quickly something bothers us emotionally or we see something and we judge
1:56.1	somebody else and we just say, oh, they need to fix that. They need to fix that. They
1:59.4	need to stop drinking or they need to, you know, not pass out or they need to do this or
2:03.2	they need to do that. And yeah, sure, your mind is saying all those things. But you said,
2:08.4	wait a second. Stop. How can I better do something about this? And that shift, that shift
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