EP 570: Reader Question - Why do I keep going back to drinking?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We see so many questions come in all of the time at This Naked Mind and they all have a common theme to them - why do I keep going back to drinking? Annie Grace dives into three questions that all relate to why we see ourselves drinking again. Annie offers answers on how and why we get stuck in a cycle of Day 1’s and multiple attempts to stop drinking, she explains the way our fears over physical withdrawal symptoms (or our experiences with them) can lead us to drink again, and also touches on the incredible impact our negative self-talk can have on going back to drinking again and again.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Alcohol Experiment, a free 30-day challenge designed to interrupt
0:05.5	your patterns, give you control, restore your health and put you back in touch with the version of
0:10.3	you who doesn't eat alcohol to cope, relax or enjoy life. More than 220,000 people have already
0:16.8	tried the alcohol experiment for themselves and has seen improved sleep, increased happiness,
0:21.5	reduced anxiety and so much more. Join thousands in this inspiring, hopeful and exciting program,
0:27.2	we examine your beliefs and reconnect with the best version of you without ever feeling like
0:32.0	you're missing out. Start today for free at alcoholexperiment.com.
0:38.1	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind Podcast. Today I am answering some questions
0:43.5	from readers and from people in our programs and I am going to do a few of them for you.
0:48.5	So I did an alcohol experiment, I couldn't make it the 30 days, why is that? So everything that I
0:53.2	just said about the Substant Society and Self plus, when we are in the cycle of day one, day one, day one,
1:02.8	I believe we often need a pause in order to allow new information to come in. So again, this naked
1:09.3	mind, you change your drinking by learning something new, unwinding old beliefs, installing new beliefs,
1:16.4	both at a conscious and subconscious level, that's how it works, that new knowledge helps you
1:21.0	feel something new. When you feel something new, you actually without desire, there is no temptation.
1:27.0	If you don't feel like you want to drink, if you don't desire it, you are not tempted, right?
1:33.0	And then when you feel something new, you can do something new, you can change your drinking with
1:37.8	relatively little pain and that's why this naked mind feels like a magic trick. But here's the thing,
1:42.4	if you are in that cycle of day one, day one, day one, that is such a loud, hateful place to be.
1:51.9	It's so full of what's called cognitive dissonance, which is fighting with yourself. And if you think
1:56.6	about it for a minute, if you fight with somebody across the street, or if you've even witness fighting
2:01.4	on television, you're going to feel that in your body, you're going to feel anxious and uncomfortable.
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