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This Naked Mind Podcast

EP 624: Reader's Question - Balancing Mental Health Medication and Stopping Drinking

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this exclusive episode, Annie Grace joins The PATH:365 members to offer coaching, research insights, and her personal experiences. We delve into mental health medication and stopping drinking, gaining valuable insights into this critical aspect of the journey. Annie Grace's expertise and compassion shine as she guides us through the concept of 'the pause' and its role along The PATH. Uncover the wisdom she shares about maintaining your mental well-being while working towards living and thriving alcohol-free.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you’re ready to see how This Naked Mind can help you on your personal health and wellness journey and wanna learn more. Go to ThisNakedMindpodcast.com to learn more. Again, that’s ThisNakedMindpodcast.com. We have all of our free resources, programs, social links and more available for you there. Plus, if you have your own Naked Life Story, you can submit it there as well. Until next week, stay curious.

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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.

0:22.6

I've been thinking about mental health and myself.

0:30.6

I take medications that are mood stabilizers, so are there any recommendations for someone

0:34.9

about to do the pause who has also been on medications?

0:38.8

What the pause is at its core is just to stop trying and think of the pause as like it's

0:44.4

VAU with a huge dose of curiosity, right, business as usual, typical, huge dose of curiosity.

0:53.3

So don't let this additional sort of confusion about what's going on with your medication,

0:57.9

sort of influence this because that, like it almost pollutes the experiment.

1:03.6

Work on the dose with your doctor, you know, going and out of that, like that can live

1:08.4

and exist and and then the pause can live over here because all the pause is saying it's

1:12.7

not like anything you're doing, it's just something you're not doing because like you're

1:17.3

almost thinking like the pause is like, oh, it's a thing to do, but I'm like, no, actually

1:22.6

it's a thing not to do, just be normal, just don't make any changes quite yet.

1:29.2

And so that's interesting, right, like it's actually a non thing to do, it's a thing not

1:33.2

to do.

1:34.2

I'm saying don't change anything.

1:35.8

So I would maybe if you're a doer, I didn't really want to just double down and like what

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