EP 588: Reader Question - How do I break the cycle of recurring data points?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Annie Grace is back again answering questions. This week’s episode is a real treat as you get to listen in on an actual real-life coaching call with Annie. Tune in as Annie helps tackle the issue of going back to drinking over and over again with science, experience, and compassion. Learn about why we get stuck in the cycle, how doing just one thing can break the cycle of going back to drinking, and how to reprogram our brain to keep from allowing the cycle to repeat.

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0:00.0	Hey there!
0:05.2	Every month Annie has a call with our path 365 members and answers their questions.
0:09.5	She tackles a wide range of topics from what to do with big emotions, what kinds of tips
0:13.2	and advice she has for addressing difficult situations, how to deal with cravings and so
0:17.1	much more.
0:18.1	Listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path members.
0:26.7	How do I break the cycle of recurring data plates?
0:29.9	My best advice to break the cycle of recurring data points is to take the pause.
0:35.0	And I know the pause is hard.
0:36.6	So as we go of day one, day one, look at the predictable outcome of that cycle, right?
0:41.0	You're having a day one.
0:43.0	You're promising yourself, by the way, we usually promise ourselves we're never going
0:46.6	to drink again, which is a goal that we won't know we're successful with until we're dead.
0:51.8	So we make this impossible goal.
0:54.2	That goal feels terrible inside of our bodies.
0:57.9	And so not only have we made an impossible goal that we're never going to know if we win,
1:02.0	we've also made a goal that doesn't feel good to us.
1:05.4	And of course, now we know for sure that the way to sustain behavior change is by feeling
1:10.3	positive toward the behavior change.
1:13.1	So we're already on the back foot.
1:15.6	And then we come into it and we break the promise to ourselves and then we're ammished
1:20.8	and shame and blame and everything in us just wants to escape that.
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