Hey there!

Every month Annie has a call with our Path 365 members and answers their questions.

She tackles a wide range of topics from what to do with big emotions, what kinds of tips and

advice she has for addressing difficult situations, how to deal with cravings, and

so much more. Listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path

members. Hey Annie, is there anything I can do when I'm feeling the cravings come on?

I find around days four to eight have been really

difficult for me and I just want to keep myself from giving in.

What I would recommend is is really just leaning into the craving and experiencing the feeling of it in your body, whether you drink or not.

Because often, like we have this switch where and this comes from this brilliant study and it was done on a lot of different habits but one of the most notable ones was on cigarettes and they had people not smoke for 24 hours

and then they sat in a room and they had them like

had their favorite packet smokes in front of them.

They picked it up, they held it, they like had,

and of course their body is like, oh gosh and then they would like you know undo the cellophane

pack the pack smell it all the stuff and they walked out of this room and 100% of them smoked.

But what they'd never done before is they'd never sat in the discomfort of the

craving and they did it for like two hours and they didn't and they never sat in it and then their brain all of the

sudden was like oh this isn't going to kill me actually and then very

naturally very easily over the next I think they measured 40 days,

smoking decreased by some astronomical percent across the board.

And so what I would do is just try to allow yourself to surf the urge if you can,

and that might have been the thing that people are recommending.

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