EP 616: Reader's Question - Getting Past Emotional Drinking Triggers

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

One of the things that members love most about The PATH: 365 is their monthly coaching call with Annie Grace. Each month Annie takes the time to coach PATH members through the questions and obstacles that come up on their alcohol-free journey. This week’s podcast episode gives you an inside look at a coaching call. Annie helps a member with their struggle getting past emotional drinking triggers. She shares knowledge from her own journey with alcohol, scientific research, and valuable tools to empower anyone dealing with emotional drinking triggers.

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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.
0:27.4	On the psychological dependence, right now in the beginning, how do I move through
0:30.9	being triggered emotionally to drink?
0:33.3	I have a history of 30 plus years of you using wine as my go to to numb and shift my emotions.
0:39.5	All right, so when we get into the take a break content and we actually are out of the
0:49.0	pause, there are so many ways that we have to overcome triggers because there is a physiological
0:56.3	response to not only to the alcohol in the moment, but to our prior stories about alcohol.
1:03.6	So for instance, every time you do a first, like your first wedding or your first happy
1:08.4	hour, you're going to have a response that's just been patterned into your brain.
1:12.0	There's something called Hebs Law.
1:13.8	Hebs laws a neurological principle and it says neurons that fire together, wire together,
1:19.2	which means that if you do the same things at the same time, those neurons will create
1:24.2	a pattern in your brain and that pattern will trigger.
1:27.7	So you walk into the happy hour with all your colleagues and first time that you're going
1:33.1	to order an iced tea and sit at the beer, you're going to have a triggered pattern and you're
1:36.7	going to be like, oh my God, the brain's going to say, oh my gosh, what's wrong with me?
1:40.4	This isn't working.
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