EP 578: Reader Question - Why is it hard to imagine being happy after going alcohol-free?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Annie Grace answers real questions from real readers and listeners like you every week. Listen each week not just for advice but for the science, research, and knowledge that empower you to change how you feel about alcohol and ultimately change your relationship with it. This week Annie Grace dives into a topic that keeps many from exploring life with less alcohol in it - the fear that we can’t be happy after going alcohol-free. Find out what science and personal experience have to say about that idea!

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Path, the Coach Guided Membership designed to help
0:05.1	you make alcohol small and relevant your life by removing your true desire to
0:09.8	grab that next drink. Our Science-based Compassion-led program allows you not only to
0:14.7	shift your behavior and your relationship around alcohol but more importantly
0:18.9	uncover and reprogram your subconscious conditioning and neural connections
0:23.7	that have been keeping you stuck for years. With daily live breakthrough
0:28.2	coaching, an intimate and supportive community, regular peer-to-peer connection
0:32.5	calls and a complete vault of resources. This is where your path to total
0:36.7	freedom and effortless enjoyment of your new way of life begins. Join us at
0:41.3	nakedmindpath.com. Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind
0:46.8	podcast. Today I am answering some questions from readers and from people in
0:51.9	our programs and I am going to do a few of them for you. Why is it so hard to
0:56.1	imagine being happy after going alcohol free? A few reasons. Number one, you have
1:01.2	created neural connections with everything that you do that makes you happy and
1:05.7	alcohol because you drink at every wedding and every sporting event and every
1:10.1	barbecue and every Tuesday and every Netflix binge and every dinner time. So
1:14.0	all of the things in your life that actually bring you joy, you drink and you
1:17.1	create a neural connections. Those are false neural connections and we show you
1:20.5	that. But that's why. And so those things are just totally wound up. The other
1:25.7	thing is that it's really hard to imagine like it's just like when you desire
1:29.9	something, desire isn't entirely conscious. There's a lot of desire that
1:33.7	subconscious. Imagine this again. This is the classic analogy but if you were in a
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