“Do you help me learn to moderate or to quit drinking?”

This is a question that I am often asked by my clients and followers.
AND….
The answer is NEITHER!

What I do is help YOU decide what is best for you.

In this podcast rewind, I shared some feedback I received from a long-time AA advocate who was worried I was giving real alcoholics false positive hope in offering help to drink less versus quitting.

When you have learned how to listen to yourself, get honest with yourself, and make decisions around what is best for you and alcohol is when it sticks and becomes permanent.

I help guide you to what is best for YOU!

Figuring out what is right for you is so very powerful and is work worth doing!!

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This episode take you into a Masterclass I hosted earlier this week called How to Stop Over-drinking, and we address the fundamentals of how YOU hold the key to drinking less and making it stick.

I teach about the motivational triad (seek pleasure, avoid pain, save energy) and how this human function drives us to create patterns or "habits" that aren't always the best thing for us.

We also discuss urges, and how they aren't something to fight against, but feelings we should learn to allow and process. THIS is where the money is!

Wether you are brand new to this concept, or you've been listening to my podcast for years, this is a great episode to get back on track and get re-inspired!

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Today's episode goes deep into our over-desire for alcohol, and urges.

We over-drink because we have an over-desire for alcohol.

Over-desire is created by the consistent drinking we do in response to our emotions and urges.

Over-desire is built up over time and it's a learned behavior that can be unlearned by learning how to be with your desires and how to process your urges.

In this episode I teach you about over-desire and how to be with your urges that will help you unwire this over-desire for alcohol.

I also am addressing recent obstacles my listeners have shared about their struggles with urges, you don't want to miss this one!

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Doors open this week but won't stay open for long, and the next time we open them the rate is going up!

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I recently asked my followers what their #1 struggle was in stopping over-drinking.

We categorized all the responses that came in.

Having a complicated life was ranked #1.
Meaning, from all the responses we received, this was the most common response.

Women who are managing older parents, kids, work, their own health, and having complicated relationships, plus any other issues that arise in life...

They feel overwhelmed with it all and drink to escape all the things they have going on.

Well, this episode is for them. Grab a notebook and get ready to take notes on the tips that I provide including how to get awareness in your own mind and what to do to take care of yourself when you have this going on.

Don't forget to sign up for the Wine Free Workweek Challenge, happening April 3-April 6th, sign up at www.angelamascenik.com/wfww.

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This is a special conversation with my new friend and colleague, Allyson Scammell. 

I met Allyson during my retreat to Morocco this past fall. 

Allyson and I initially didn't think we would be going to Morocco, but there we were, there and experiencing a week of magic and wonder. 

In this conversation, we dove into saying yes to these types of opportunities and how you can tune in and listen to your own intuition. 

And you get to hear about how she helped me buy the most perfect Moroccan rug and more. 

Check out Allyson's website here: 
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Check out her podcast here: 
https://allysonscammell.com/episode35/

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In this episode, I explore how we might always have painful emotions from something that happened to us in our past. 

The goal isn't to 'get rid of' or 'move on' past these feelings. 

The goal should be to accept them, validate them, and learn how to be with them when they come up. 

When we have thoughts like 'I wish I didn't keep feeling this way' or 'I want to forget about all that and move on,' it doesn't help, and it invalidates our experience.

What we actually need is to acknowledge, pause and validate our feeling and learn how to be with them no matter how long ago the thing happened. 

This is actually how we can 'move on' easier and how we can be with these feelings and not let them interrupt our day to day lives or cause us to drink. 

In this podcast, I dive into how to do this, which is actually a form of self-love. 

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In this episode I discuss how to be joyful and feel alive as you stop over-drinking.

The reason so many of us over-drink is because we are using it as a reward for #allthethings we do each and everyday. However, #allthethings don't typically include doing fun and joyful things for ourselves, so at the end of the day we are in desperate need to reward ourselves and relax, so cue 'it's WINE TIME!'

Adding more joy and pleasure to your everyday is how we stay connected to ourselves and feel good, so we don't need to seek the artificial pleasure through multiple glasses of wine and escape.

When your life feels joyful and you feel good to be alive, you are less likely to seek something outside of yourself that actually doesn't make your life any better.

I hope you enjoy this episode and would love to hear from you about how your are feeling more joyful and alive and drinking less!

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This episodes dives into emotional resilience, what it is, and why having it will help you drink less and live a bigger life.

I also share a few of my own stories of when I had emotional resilience and when I did not.

Not having emotional resilience led me to not ask for raises when I absolutely deserved one and would lead to way more over-drinking than I had wanted to do.

Having emotional resilience has led to me going for bigger things, putting myself out there more, changing and growing my business and giving up alcohol.

Building your emotional resilience is a skill and a foundation to un-do your automatic behaviors and triggers.

Blog mentioned in the podcast: https://www.angelamascenik.com/blog/over-drinking-is-the-symptom-not-the-problem

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Story time! We have recently been fostering dogs with the potential to adopt. It’s been a tremendous learning experience.

In this episode I share the process that we took to set the dog up for the highest chance of success for our family, and in parallel discuss how it’s the same process for learning how to stop over-drinking and giving yourselves the best chance for success.

You all have experiences in learning how to do something new. You all have made mistakes and learned from them and ultimately figured it out in the end. I invite you to remember something difficult that you had to figure out, and the process in which you obtained the result you wanted.

Learning how to stop over-drinking is very similar. The biggest thing that stops us from long term success is our own mind and what we think of ourselves and our capabilities.

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This episode dives into how loving and accepting yourself HELPS you achieve your goals, not hold you back from them.

Self-love is an unwavering, unconditional love you have for yourself that includes the way you talk to yourself, allowing your uncomfortable emotions, having boundaries, and putting yourself and your well being as top priority.

It's less about bubble baths, flowers and pedicures (although those are amazing things to do for yourself, they don't equate as self-love).

Tune in and learn how you can increase your self-love and move closer to your goals.

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