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Even if you aren’t experiencing the urge to drink, you still have everything you need to learn about your habit and how to change it. Here’s how. Listen Now »
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- Beating yourself up for drinking won’t help you change the habit. Discover what’s actually required in order to shift your relationship with alcohol. Listen Now »
- Why you might be dreaming about alcohol during your break and how your dreams can shed light on the habit. Listen Now »
- You can start to figure out why you drink more than you want to by asking this question. Listen Now »
- When you’re focused on what other people will think about your decision to take a break from drinking, you inadvertently divert your attention from crucial information that will help you change the habit. Listen Now »
- A simple tool you can use if you’re struggling to say no to a drink, despite promising yourself you would reign it in. Listen Now »
- When you’re alone and bored, it’s easy to reach for a drink. Learn how to use this information to change the habit and your relationship with alcohol. Listen Now »
- Drinking habits reside in your unconscious mind. If you want to change, you need to grab a pen and paper and start bringing full awareness to how the habit is unfolding. Listen Now »
- You can’t change your drinking habits just by saying no. You have to understand the real reason you keep saying yes to a drink. Listen Now »
- Learn why trying to wrestle the urge to drink into submission leads to inadvertently handing over your power to it. Listen Now »
- The reason you’re struggling with your commitment to say no to a drink is that you’re focused on the wrong solution to changing the habit. Listen Now »
- Learn about the role that rituals play in our lives, why it’s so uncomfortable when our holiday plans are upended, and how to survive without turning to food and drink to cope. Listen Now »
- Discover the reason why shifting your relationship with alcohol goes hand-in-hand with changing your relationship with yourself. Listen Now »
- The reason why feeling “fine” when you say no isn’t enough to shift your relationship with alcohol, and the missing ingredients to create lasting change. Listen Now »
- Discover why so many people reach for a drink, something to eat, or other forms of distractions when they wait for news and why this is a problem. Listen Now »
- When you find yourself constantly chasing after the desire to drink and feeling unsatisfied and wanting more, it’s a good sign you may be caught up in desire confusion. Listen Now »
- To understand why you crave a drink between the end of the work day and dinner, you need to examine the changes to work, community, and nature that ushered in this ritual. Listen Now »
- Why not trusting yourself around alcohol is a problem, no matter the decision you make about drinking. Listen Now »
- Telling yourself you shouldn’t feel stressed, worried, or dissatisfied with life will only block your efforts to change the habit of drinking. Listen Now »
- The three reasons why some people develop a habit around drinking while others don’t. Listen Now »
- What to do when you take a break and discover that pouring a drink was actually helping you enjoy the people you were with. Listen Now »
- Discover why it’s easy to start sliding backwards once you’ve made headway changing your drinking habits. Listen Now »
- If you think saying no to a drink requires trying harder, you’ve got it backwards. Instead of relying on effort, you need to understand the inner workings of the habit. Listen Now »
- Stop tallying up the room and start asking yourself two questions that will help you examine the habit of drinking from a new perspective. Listen Now »
- Why sobriety milestones are a problem and the reason that crossing days off a calendar will never help you change your relationship with alcohol. Listen Now »
- Why trying to balance just the right buzz will always leave you walking a very precarious tightrope. Listen Now »
- If you believe that you can’t change your thoughts about drinking, then you’ll never be able to change the habit. Uncover the three biggest obstacles to creating a mindset shift around alcohol. Listen Now »
