The Alcohol Experiment: How to Take Control of Your Drinking and Enjoy Being Sober for Good

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Yeah, that is incredible. You’re reaching so many people. I love it. Well, thank you so much for your time. I truly appreciate it. This is my 100th episode. My, can’t imagine a better, better guest to have on. You follow up every challenging situation with, “At least I have my wine” or “I could really use a drink”. What it’s not is a magic bullet, which I can’t seem to stop pursuing. And sometimes Annie’s cheerleadery tone got on my nerves. It’s not for everyone, but it is for someone, probably many someones. Challenge your thinking, find clarity, and form new habits with a 30-day alcohol-free experiment from the author of This Naked Mind .

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Annie’s goal is to help you decide that alcohol is a substance that isn’t making your life better so that you’re able to walk away from alcohol painlessly, genuinely feeling that you no longer want or need to drink. The book itself is typical self-help fare, but does have a lot of interesting information about the science of alcohol and habit formation. Weirdly, having a chapter to read every day created a sort of reward system for myself. I would fast from alcohol for the day, and as a reward I got to read another chapter of the book and journal my thoughts. I created a new habit that has kept going beyond 30 days. Annie Grace is the author of The Alcohol Experiment. She is a well-known author, speaker, and coach who specializes in helping people overcome alcohol addiction. You don’t have to be a doctor anymore, anything like that. And I started just learning that actually the brain response outcome or the way that those things that we believe are true, just are not true. You know, where we believe that alcohol relaxes us, it actually awakens a quarter of soul response in the body, it actually creates more stress, where we believe that alcohol is key to having fun, it actually knowns our brain’s ability to enjoy pleasures, everyday pleasures, and then when we think, Well, nothing’s fun without a drink, which is where I lived for a long time. Yeah, it becomes not fun without a drink, because of all the prior drinks you’ve had and how your brain is responding. And all of this stuff was really clear to me something beautiful happened and walked into my office and I told my husband, if you want to drink with me again, you know, tonight’s the night because after this, I think I’m done. I just, I just really don’t want to drink anymore. And he was skeptical and surprised. And that was over 7 years ago now. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly WhitakerIn this podcast, my goal is to teach you the tried and true secrets of creating and living a life you don’t want to escape from. So, I had been asking this one question, which was, what’s wrong with you? You know, are you an alcoholic? And these were such scary questions. And in this moment, after a very busy work trip, I was just really in a bad place, and had a few drinks that morning to kind of pair of the dog at the hotel bar. And I was sitting, waiting for my flight very still drunk, very upset with myself massive hangover, everything was kind of on top of me. And I remember thinking, Well, why is it like this? You know, why did I used to be able to take it or leave it and why is it that now this fermented liquid and glass has just such a powerful hold on me, on my emotions, on my thoughts, on my experience of life? I feel like it’s one of the most important things I remember vividly saying, If I can’t have a drink, it’s just not worth going and feeling that way, feeling that if I was had to be the designated driver, or if I was pregnant, like why even socialize because there’s no point without drinking? And in that moment of asking, why did it change? I decided to find out and I did something which is radical I had no idea was radical at the time, but I in trying to find out. I decided I was going to stop trying, to stop drinking. I started out reading this out loud to an addicted loved one. That fizzled at about the 3 week point, and there was a long break before I took this up again, mainly because I can’t stand not to finish a book if I’ve gotten past a certain point.

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You know, it’s really just about again, being super curious, and allowing enough solitude or time just with you and your thoughts, and maybe a journal to recognize how you’re speaking to yourself, you know, would you talk to a stranger like that? Most people, including myself that I’ve met, that actually awakened to how we’re talking to ourselves in our own heads, if we write it down, and we reread it, we realize we wouldn’t even say that to someone we didn’t like, yeah, much less our children or our partners, or someone we really love. I’ve been reading on this topic for a long time, and I appreciate fresh approaches and ideas. I don’t think AA is one-size-fits-all any more than I think any approach is. It works for some people and not for others. I think Annie Grace’s 30-day experiment is a valid thing for people to try, and judging by the testimonials at the end of each chapter, it works for some people. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-Free Life by Catherine Gray 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!)Annie Grace is the author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control. She grew up outside Aspen, Colorado, in a one-room log cabin without running water or electricity. Having discovered a passion for marketing, Annie Grace earned a Masters of Science (Marketing) and dove into corporate life. As the youngest vice president in a multinational company at the age of 26, her drinking career began in earnest. At 35, in a global C-level marketing role, she was responsible for marketing in 28 countries; she was drinking almost two bottles of wine a night. Knowing she needed a change but unwilling to submit to a life of deprivation and stigma, Annie Grace embarked on a journey to painlessly gain control of alcohol — for her that process resulted in no longer wanting to drink. Never happier, she left her executive role to write and share This Naked Mind with the world. In her free time, she loves to ski, travel (26 countries and counting), and enjoy her beautiful family. Annie Grace lives with her husband and three children in the Colorado mountains.