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 Grace and I am answering readers questions and today I have such a great

question. It is why do I drink even though I

don't want to so to answer this question I want to tell you a little bit of a

story and this story is going to be about bison hunting and gathering raspberries.

So bear with me, but I think this is really going to give perspective to why sometimes

we drink even though we don't want to.

So I want you to imagine for a minute that you are back in the

Stone Age and you are trying to survive and you're in luck because your brain is a survival machine.

So the brain says, okay, great, my one mission in life is to help this human being survive.

So that's what I'm going to do at all costs.

And so one of the ways the brain helps us survive is by producing dopamine.

And dopamine is a neurotransmitter.

And neuro basically means brain and transmitter

means like mover of information.

So what dopamine does is it helps information move around the brain and so you're back in the

Stone Age and you're looking around and you find a raspberry bush your brain is

going to shoot off dopamine because you eat that raspberry, that raspberry tastes good and your brain says, hey, this thing we need to do.

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