How to Tell If You’re Drinking Too Much (with Ericka Andersen)

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🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Resetting our relationship to alcohol

Host Curtis Chang and author Ericka Andersen mark Ericka’s fourth year of sobriety by asking a thought-provoking question: How’s your relationship with alcohol? Together, they explore the challenges of alcohol dependency, why it might be time to reevaluate your connection to drinking, and how to lovingly support others on the same journey. Using the metaphor of alcohol as a “person” woven into our memories and social experiences, they explore the grief that can accompany “breaking up” with alcohol and how the Spirit of God’s still, small voice is sometimes drowned out by cocktail hour. If you’ve ever questioned whether your life might be better without alcohol, this episode offers practical insights and gentle encouragement to take a closer look.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. And the Good Faith podcast is a production of
0:26.5	redeeming Babel. It's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.
0:33.5	And one of the things that many of us in the world are doing now is making New Year's resolutions.
0:39.1	It's a natural time where we think about hitting reset, hitting some change button in our life.
0:45.8	And here in January at Good Faith, we're going to do a series on hitting reset, hitting reset on some areas of our life.
0:52.9	But I want to take a particular angle to this,
0:55.6	which is, I want this series to address the reset buttons that we may tend to ignore. They may
1:02.7	be the settings that are buried deeply in the menu that we don't even know are there, perhaps,
1:08.2	but actually may have outsize importance on our life precisely by
1:13.0	being somewhat hidden from our view. And the example I want to use that to start off our series
1:18.5	on hitting reset is hitting reset in our relationship to alcohol. And why do I choose that one?
1:25.9	Well, if you take New Year's resolutions as a indicator of the areas in our life that get a lot of attention, that demand a lot of sense that we should be changing it, you look at the top New Year's resolutions made by Americans.
1:41.5	Now, according to Forbes Health, three of the top resolutions are all around
1:48.3	improving fitness, losing weight, improving diet. And that's not a surprise. And this is a year we are
1:55.3	inundated with messages, articles to feel better, look better, eat better.
2:01.2	If that's your New Year's resolutions, more power to you, that's great.
2:05.8	Important to address those issues.
2:07.7	And of course, this is why we see gym memberships and diet plan subscription spiking.
2:12.6	I think those are important goals for fitness, weight, and diet.
2:16.7	But what about alcohol? If you actually look at
2:20.4	impact on well-being, according to the CDC, there's about 300,000 deaths related every year to
2:28.0	obesity-related deaths, right, to our distorted relationship with food. When it comes to alcohol, it's not that far behind.
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