Do You Want to be Sober or Do You Want to Drink Without the Consequences? (E91)
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Gill discusses losing the motivation to stay sober. Sometimes, we’ll say we don’t want to drink anymore, but what we really mean is we want to drink without the consequences. Your intention matters and if you are carrying around hopes and dreams of drinking again someday, then you’ll drink again. In this episode she explains why even when sobriety, your life, your job, and your relationships are a priority for you you still might end up drinking and then later you’re left wondering why you always do this to yourself.
What to listen to next:
E28: Is it a Bad Habit or a Problem?
E55: How to Power Through When You Want to Give Up
E79: Why We Romanticize Alcohol
E81: Why We Drink: Social Drinkers vs Problem Drinkers
Rage walk video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy10StaHa4
Sources
Hogarth, L. Addiction is driven by excessive goal-directed drug choice under negative affect: translational critique of habit and compulsion theory. Neuropsychopharmacol. 45, 720–735 (2020).
Cite this episode
Tietz, G. Episode 91: Do You Want to be Sober or Do You Want to Drink Without the Consequences? Sober Powered. 2022.
