EP 488: Reader Question: The best strategy for overcoming a craving

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

There are many different ways you can approach overcoming a craving. In this reader’s question, Annie shares the best way she has found to truly solve the craving.

Tune in to find out how this simple, yet intense practice can help create an awareness that actually prevents the craving from returning.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this Naked Mind Podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:21.3	This episode is sponsored by the Alcohol Experiment, a free 30-day challenge designed to interrupt
0:32.5	your patterns, give you control, restore your health and put you back in touch with the
0:36.8	version of you who doesn't eat alcohol to cope, relax or enjoy life.
0:41.4	More than 220,000 people have already tried the alcohol experiment for themselves and has
0:45.9	seen improved sleep, increased happiness, reduced anxiety and so much more.
0:51.2	With 10,000 in this inspiring, hopeful and exciting program, we examine your beliefs and
0:55.7	reconnect with the best version of you without ever feeling like you're missing out.
1:00.4	Start today for free at alcoholexperiment.com.
1:03.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace and I am answering readers questions and today I have a question
1:08.9	and it is, how do you overcome a craving?
1:13.4	So this is such a great question and there's so many tools and tactics and techniques that
1:18.3	we teach and that our coaches teach it specifically in how to overcome a craving but the reality
1:24.3	is that the best one that I have ever known is actually totally counterintuitive and it
1:32.0	is taking that feeling in your body, that craving and instead of running away from it or
1:36.9	trying to push it away or trying to suppress it, it's actually taking a moment, finding
1:42.0	somewhere to sit, closing your eyes and going into that feeling and understanding how does this
1:48.2	feel?
1:49.2	What is my mind telling me about what might or might not happen if I don't have that
1:54.1	drink and actually really getting in touch with where that craving is coming from?
2:00.5	Is it physical?
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