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Embarking on the path to living alcohol-free opens up a world of challenges, and one of those challenges involves dealing with family members who continue to drink. In this podcast episode Annie Grace shares a look inside the coaching she provides to members of the PATH community. Annie's insights offer a fresh perspective on handling these delicate situations, from understanding why family members might judge or feel fearful to nurturing authentic connections while staying true to your commitment. Her unique strategies empower you to gracefully navigate social gatherings, ensuring you can sidestep resentment and feelings of isolation. This book is very preachy also... The writer try’s hard to make the reader believe she does not expect you to stop drinking forever as she did, but it is very obvious that is what the narrative is aiming to achieve. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you’re ready to see how This Naked Mind can help you on your personal health and wellness journey and wanna learn more. Go to ThisNakedMindpodcast.com to learn more. Again, that’s ThisNakedMindpodcast.com. We have all of our free resources, programs, social links and more available for you there. Plus, if you have your own Naked Life Story, you can submit it there as well. Until next week, stay curious. Very soon (we hope) in real life, face-to-face connection and meetup opportunities we plan to facilitate around the globe.
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As a first step we must put down the weapons of shame and blame. Let ourselves off the hook and then understand our power. Research that has found alcohol to be the most harmful drug to individuals and society on the planet, outranking cocaine, heroin and painkillers If you’re reading this right now, you’re questioning how much you drink. Maybe you know you drink way too much, and you want to quit. Or maybe you’re just curious. You’re questioning whether you might be overdoing it a bit. No matter where you are on the drinking spectrum, you’re not alone. I’ve been there. And thousands of people inside the This Naked Mind community have been there, too. Annie Grace holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Science in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She worked as a global marketing executive for Fortune 500 companies before leaving her corporate career to focus on helping people improve their relationships with alcohol. You can stop drinking for a few days but find yourself needing multiple drinks just to get through the day.
In the shadows of his undiagnosed mental health problems, Lee turned to a seemingly socially acceptable solution: alcohol. It was a crutch he [...] Welcome to an exclusive inside look at the monthly coaching call with Annie Grace for members of The
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In a world where alcohol seems to infiltrate everything from our yoga classes to misguided but well-intentioned recommendations from medical professionals, the question [...] Welcome to this week's episode of the This Naked Mind podcast! In today's episode, we're excited to share a special edition featuring the Zero Limits Living Podcast hosted by Dr. Joe Vitale, where Annie Grace joins him as a guest. Together, they delve into the profound journey of controlling alcohol and embracing a life without limits. Throughout the discussion, Annie and Dr. Joe touch on key points that include redefining one's relationship with alcohol and discovering the true essence of zero limits living. Let's dive into the highlights and insights they share in this transformative conversation. Casey struggled with his drinking for years. He rode the moderation rollercoaster a few times and finally decided the time had come for [...] You are of two minds about alcohol - you have a desire to drink less, but you also feel deprived, left out, or upset when you think about or try to abstain. The psychological, neurological, cultural, social and industry factors that influence our desire to drinkAs a self-professed former wine enthusiast and author of books delving into the intricate relationship between alcohol and our minds, I've often pondered [...] We've all been there. The clinking glasses, the laughter, those warm, fuzzy feelings - there's something undeniably enticing about the social ritual of [...] I mean, I totally agree, I spent 8 years in that place where, you know, I think everybody tries to moderate and makes all the rules about like, I only have two drinks, or only drink when I’m out, or I’ll switch when I’m drinking. So, I think it takes a while of experimentation, and then trying a period of time without alcohol before you realize that it’s actually way easier to not drink, and you’re happier than when you’re trying to control it. You’re looking forward to feeling great on a Saturday night and feeling even better on Sunday morning. Kaily is a 33-year-old mom and loving wife. She's had an incredible life, but it hasn't been without its share of challenges, primarily [...]
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And then the second one is curiosity. And I think those things go hand in hand, because when you are approaching whatever situation, it is with curiosity, you will awaken possibility. So as an example, if I’m going into a happy hour, and I haven’t, I mean, in my case, I hadn’t been at a happy hour without drinking, except when I was pregnant for like, more than a decade. And I’m walking into this happy hour. And I have this for sure narrative in my head that this is going to be miserable minus will not even be here, what is even the point? I promise it will be miserable. But if I just allow a little bit of curiosity to instead of okay, maybe it won’t, I don’t know that for sure. I haven’t actually done it in a decade, I actually have no idea what it’s like to walk into a happy hour and drink iced tea instead of you know, a martini, I’ve no idea what that experience is like, what might it be? Oh, my goodness, that opens up a whole new realm of possibility and experience. And inevitably, when people do those sorts of experiments on themselves, they walk out of it, and I’m like, Whoa, it wasn’t that bad. Or sometimes it was even fun. You can go a few days without alcohol but it feels miserable, like you’re being deprived of something important.Our primary feeling is “Oh, S%*#T!” Why?”. Because we’ve just realized alcohol is a problem, but we also feel like it’s our best friend, the very thing keeping our lives together. The first few days of the experiment involve examining why we drink and the role that alcohol plays in our lives. Readers are encouraged to think about their reasons for drinking, such as social pressure or stress relief, and to consider how alcohol affects their physical and emotional health. Why the message to “drink responsibility” was created by alcohol companies to shift the blame from the substance and shame the drinker for becoming dependent on an addictive substance You know, it didn’t it really didn’t take effort. Because I will just read it and understand Oh, well, why didn’t I didn’t I know this before? And it was mind blowing in the sense that I can’t tell you how many times I must have said like, how do we not know this? How do we not understand this? How is this something that is kind of hidden from our general knowledge? And it was amazing experience, because in some ways, it had me questioning so many things that were just “common knowledge”, and realizing that often common knowledge is, you know, not actually true. We’ve just collectively sort of made it true. And if you look under the surface, the things that we know to be true, like we know the sky to be blue, have pretty big holes in them, we’re just not questioning them. Because we’re not even aware, there’s something to question. And that’s where it was for me with alcohol. I wasn’t even aware that there was something to question for a long time. And a lot of people when they try to change something, when they try to change their behavior, they usually start with the behavior first or, you know, doing the action, right.
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Daily LIVE group coaching. The power is here - we don’t want you to have to go through this experiment alone! Get your questions answered. Have your breakthroughs with a like-minded community. Make sense of your emotions without feeling isolated. Our coaches are highly trained to ensure your success. Why it’s a false choice to believe that you have only two options around alcohol: submit to a life of deprivation or continue to drink I think, yeah, I think it is two phases. I think that’s really a really astute point. Because I think initially, you have to allow enough of a mindset shift to awaken, okay, maybe it’s gonna be okay. You know, because our experience no matter what is going to be our best guide, right? Even if you’ve quit drinking completely with willpower, and you might have to be four or five 610 years into it. I mean, this is legitimately true for people who’ve totally quit with pure willpower. Eventually your experiences will show you that life is tolerable without alcohol. And but if you have a mindset shift, you can go into it like life might not just be tolerable, but it might be Really fun. If you’ve tried to give up or moderate your alcohol consumption in the past and failed, you need to know it’s not your fault. There’s something going on that you’re probably not aware of. And once you understand it, your eyes will be opened, and you’ll be able to undergo this experiment in a meaningful way. It won’t be just another failed attempt at willpower.
As we know from Sir Roger Bannister breaking the 4-min mile, once we see something is possible, it stops being impossible. And then, with repetition, it even becomes possible for us. You have a love-hate relationship with alcohol - and find yourself setting limits and then breaking them and losing control when happy hour rolls around. Yeah, exactly. And that’s the thing is that when we introduced so much fear into the conversation, and I can speak to this so well, because it was where I lived. For many years, I think I’ve estimated between 6 and 7 years of living in that cycle that you were just so eloquently talking about, of making those rules saying, you know, not this type of alcohol or not on these dates, or only this much, or taking this sort of break, and always coming up with either. You’re of two minds about drinking -- you both want to drink less but also feel like something is missing whenever you abstain.
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