EP 600: Reader's Question - Finding Hope for Long-time Drinkers

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

One of the most impactful parts of Annie Grace’s monthly coaching call with members of The PATH: 365 is the hope that she offers for those who feel as if their journey is doomed to failure. This can be an especially difficult struggle for long-time drinkers. Today Annie offers hope for long-time drinkers. She shares on how we often fail to see the progress we’ve made on our journey, what matters more than your behavior changes, what our primary concerns should be, and she shares a powerful exercise that can provide incredible hope for long-time drinkers.

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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
0:17.1	so much more.
0:18.1	Listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path members.
0:21.5	I'm starting the path.
0:28.5	I would like coaching on hope.
0:30.1	In the last 24 years my longest stretch of sobriety has been in three months.
0:33.9	While I was in rehab, so three months in rehab, I've been through AA, I've been through
0:36.8	smart recovery, and here I am still been drinking twice a week for whatever reason.
0:43.0	I feel like a coward because I give it a get and again without any sense of hope that
0:46.4	I can actually be free of alcohol in my lifetime.
0:49.1	I think if I would only choose to cope with my problems like a man, I could be free,
0:53.8	but every time I fail, so failure has become my expectation.
0:57.1	I'm 66 and I feel like an outlier.
0:59.0	It seems like most people are younger and maybe they haven't been as bad off as me, so
1:02.0	I wonder if there's any hope at my age given the number of years I've been dealing with
1:05.3	this and the programs that I've tried that haven't worked because I failed at them or
1:09.1	others succeeded.
1:10.4	I need hope for the future, a future free from alcohol where I can feel joy.
1:14.1	It's hard to imagine being free of it when I would no longer have to wonder why I'd
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