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. Hi, this is Annie.

I'm answering readers questions today.

Today's question is such a good one, and it's one that so many people have and it is just

basically can I become an occasional drinker again and it's so interesting in

this spectrum right like we we go through this time where we're just a social drinker we're maybe just drinking on

occasion and and some of us do right from that first drink we become very

serious drinkers there there may have been some trauma in our early lives

where that first drink has a totally different effect on us than it might on somebody who has an experience that level of trauma and instantly alcohol is the end all be all and we we go through these stages much much quicker.

But for many people we go and we're like, okay, you know, just drinking socially and then

eventually we start drinking both socially and to medicate a little bit like maybe just for stress maybe just when I'm bored maybe just when something's been really hard at work or you know something else is going on in the world and so we start to drink just a little bit more. And we start to wonder, hmm, well, do I have a,

you know, am I drinking too much?

I don't know.

You know, we start to maybe look at our friends drinking and say,

you know, are they, how much are they drinking compared to me and we get into this really great area, this really unknown area of, you know, will I be drinking too much, am I drinking too much? And then eventually, because alcohol really just goes one way and it

might take longer for each individual, but if we keep drinking it, especially if we

keep drinking it to self-medicate, it creates a tolerance inside our bodies, which means we need more of it to get the same effect, and so we start to drink more of it to get the same effect.

And eventually we look around and we're like, oh, this, I think this is actually a problem.

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