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If you go into sobriety without changing any of your thinking about alcohol, thinking, “Okay, but drinking is still awesome, everybody still loves it, and I’m the only one who doesn’t get to do it, poor me,” then sometimes you have to have, like, a decade of sober fun experiences to convince yourself otherwise. A decade of, “Oh, this concert is actually fun,” “Oh, this vacation is actually fun,” “Oh, this is actually good.” I saw a quote from the writer Mark Manson recently that really encapsulates the truth of life for me right now. Research that has found alcohol to be the most harmful drug to individuals and society on the planet, outranking cocaine, heroin and painkillers This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace
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. There’s no commitment involved beyond your own curiosity and wanting to take a deeper look at yourself and your drinking. One of the greatest things in life is having a growth mindset – that means that you’re always challenging and pushing yourself to do the hard stuff. Sure, leaving your comfort zone might be a little scary but what if a life beyond what you imagined was waiting for you? Isn’t that worth testing out? Let’s Do This! I also started buying boxes of wine at home, because I did not want to know that I was opening that second bottle. The cognitive dissonance there was extremely high. So I decided to create The Alcohol Experiment in 2017, and the question that I posit is, essentially, what if I could be a bit better at drinking a little bit less? There's no requirement to get sober. It's free and there's no following a plan and sailing off into sobriety. You want to drink less, but life is just way too stressful at the moment. (Alcohol is often your Duct-Tape that is holding life together!)
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The Hello Someday Podcast helps busy and successful women build a life they love without alcohol. Host Casey McGuire Davidson, a certified life coach and creator of The 30-Day Guide to Quitting Drinking, brings together her experience of quitting drinking while navigating work and motherhood, along with the voices of experts in personal development, self-care, addiction and recovery and self-improvement. I think the harm comes when we use the term “alcoholic” in society in general. That same friend came up to me and was like, “Annie, I have learned this about myself, and you’re just not an alcoholic.” And she categorized my drinking as slightly different than hers, because I wasn’t necessarily doing some of the same things she was doing. And because I could take a break from drinking, like when I had a baby. But she was like, “Annie, you’re not an alcoholic.” And I really took that to heart. And that made it harder for me to quit drinking, ultimately. And so often we’ll just keep drinking until something really bad happens. But I think a goal would be for us, culturally, to be able to ask a simple question: Would I be happier drinking a bit less alcohol? And to be able to ask it at any point, without any judgment, without inner judgement, without the inner fear, and certainly without any cultural or societal judgment.
The book starts by introducing the author and her personal story of struggling with alcohol addiction. Annie Grace explains that the book is not about giving up alcohol forever, but rather about taking a break from drinking to understand its impact on one’s life. Lifetime access to the archived Facebook group and to the daily recordings in your Membership Area (off-Facebook). Your membership area (off Facebook) contains all of the video content and replays of the coach Q&A calls. Return to the content over and over again to ensure you are reaching your goals and achieving lasting success.
Oh, my God, that’s my favorite. Because I was working with a coworker. I was at L’Oréal, and she, you know, I quit, probably a year before, but I just was like, yep, used to drink feel better without it. I’m done, you know, whatever. And so, she was somehow distinguishing. She was like, but you chose to quit. I mean, you didn’t have a problem with it. Like, it was super important for her to draw that line. And I was like, and it’s addictive. You know, I was like, you know, if I was just, and then you know, other people would come in, super hungover. And when they heard I stopped drinking, they’d be like, Well, did you have a problem with it? And I’m like, at the time, like, I haven’t had a drink in Oh, they present tense. Do you have a problem with alcohol? Right? I mean, like, I haven’t had a drink in three years, you were hungover. Yesterday, like, eight, zero problem with alcohol, you know?
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