What if everything around you has been designed to influence your choices?

Kori grew up believing emotions were a weakness. As an adult, she used alcohol, food, and other substances to escape her feelings. When she focused on her health, she tried to change her drinking habits but kept falling back into old patterns, no matter how hard she tried. After joining The PATH, she uncovered the hidden thoughts shaping her choices and learned how to rewire them for lasting change. In this episode, Kori joins Annie to explore how advertising, social norms, and easy access to alcohol shape drinking and eating habits and how letting go of control helped her create real change and deeper connections.

In this episode, Annie and Kori will discuss:

- Growing up in poverty and learning to hide emotions

- Using food, alcohol, and substances to cope

- Experiencing drinking culture in the military

- Feeling emotionally disconnected in relationships

- Struggling to change habits while focusing on health

- How the brain’s reward system shapes behavior

- Why alcohol is more available now than ever

- How social norms shape drinking and eating habits

- Understanding liminal thoughts and unconscious decisions

- Choosing self-compassion over self-judgment

- Finding strength in emotional connection

- Discovering the power of emotional connection

- Taking small, brave steps toward lasting change

- And other topics…

Connect with Kori:

Kori’s Website: https://korimcclurg.com/ 

Related Episodes:

EP 162: Reader Question – Why Does Alcohol Get a Free Pass in Society When It is so Dangerous? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-162-why-does-alcohol-get-a-free-pass-in-society/ 

EP 649: Naked Life Story – The Food Code Interview https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-649-naked-life-story-the-food-code-interview/ 

EP 668: Reader’s Question –  Why Willpower Fails: Cracking the Code to Emotion-Driven Behavior Change  https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-668-readers-question-why-willpower-fails-cracking-the-code-to-emotion-driven-behavior-change/

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