EP 317: Coaching Questions with Scott Pinyard

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this month’s coaching episode, This Naked Mind head coach Scott Pinyard answers four amazing questions: 1) Why do really happy occasions trigger my need for alcohol? 2) I'm waking up with some really unsettling dreams that feel true to life and freak me out before I realized it was just a dream. Any thoughts? 3) What are your opinions on alcohol-free wines and beers? 4) I feel like I'm obsessing about not drinking; I find myself reminding myself about all the negatives about drinking so that I don't drink, as well as the positives. I have been doing well, but I wonder about this self-talk. It's like I am brainwashing myself, although I know it's all true.

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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.
0:28.7	Well, hello, it's Scott Pinyard, head coach of this naked mind. And I'm back with another edition
0:35.2	of coaching questions. I hope you're doing well. I hope everything is going awesome for you. I have
0:40.9	four incredible questions and I'm going to dive right in. So question number one, hi, Scott,
0:47.3	hi, I'm doing well with changing a lot of my drinking triggers, but still struggle with
0:52.1	celebrating. Why do really happy occasions trigger my need for alcohol? That is a great question.
0:59.6	And you know, one of the things, and I hear about this a lot, right? No matter what time of year,
1:03.9	there's always some sort of celebration going on, whether it's, you know, the holidays,
1:07.8	which are coming up for us right now, or if it's the, you know, it's spring turning into summer,
1:12.9	and everyone's outside, or whether it's vacations or weddings or I mean, there's always something.
1:18.7	And celebration and alcohol for many, many people go hand in hand. So there's a reason for this.
1:27.7	And there's a reason that you are feeling that pull every time you celebrate. And the reason is this,
1:34.0	right, we have been culturally habituated to celebration equals alcohol. Think about every
1:42.5	celebration you've ever been to, think about every movie you've ever watched. What happens when
1:46.6	someone wins the World Series, right? They shake up a bottle of champagne, right? Every single
1:52.5	instance of celebration in our culture is absolutely drenched in alcohol. It's the thing you do.
2:00.2	And so what ends up happening is that creates this subconscious conditioning, right? To where your
2:05.5	brain is very closely associating the feeling of celebration with the feeling of an ebriation,
2:10.8	right? These two things are very much linked for us. And when they're linked for us,
2:16.8	you know, we get these subconscious cues. So even if you've been alcohol-free for a while,
2:21.1	you could walk into a celebration and suddenly find yourself saying like, man, I really think I should
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