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, it's Annie Grace.

How's everybody doing?

I am answering readers questions.

So today I have a question again and it is how do

all handle friends that only want to hang out and get trashed. I've been trying to

distance myself but she could just keeps begging me to hang out. We've been

friends and drinking buddies for about 35 years.

She knows I'm sober and I told her

that I'm just not doing that anymore.

I feel like I need to cut ties.

So I want to talk a little bit about this this framework that I use to make these sort of decisions.

And first of all, I want to say like well done even asking the question and honoring yourself and there's no black and white answer here like I don't have a script that says say this and it will all get better you know or have this heart to heart conversation. I mean, I always

believe in more communication, more transparency, but I think in

relationships specifically, we need to think about our intention in the

relationship as a bigger picture rather than our sort of short-term

getting out of discomfort. And often when we're presented with like a you know

somebody asked us to do something that we don't want to say yes to we

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