help with alcohol

Have you wanted to join EXIT & Beyond Life Coaching Membership but you just don't have the money? Do you love the podcast and want others to get help from it too? 

FANTASTIC

I'm announcing the 2021 giveaway plus a way for you to take a step towards helping others receive the same help you've received. 

Detail can be found here - https://www.jumpseatcoaching.com/givin

What I wanted was to change my desire…..I just wished I could desire less of it. I remember so desperately wanting to not want alcohol.

I was unhappy, exhausted, and uncomfortable with the direction my life was headed and my drinking was getting in the way of me making the changes I

I kept finding myself going to get that drink again, and again knowing how it was going to turn out.

I was frightened about so many things. Would I sleep at night, what would I do with my time, how would I keep friends, how would I relieve stress, how would I celebrate something amazing, who would console me when I was down. 

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The most dangerous weapon we use against ourselves on our journey to exit the drinking life
• How to use your past failures as a tool.
• Why you have a choice in whether having a drink is a tool or a weapon.
• How taking action from a place of frustration or obligation makes it more painful than it needs to be.
• Why planning can be one of your most valuable tools.

Once we are down, we keep right on beating ourselves up when we are down. Then we drink even more.

Tools to help you EXIT 

Examine your beliefs about alcohol & what life without it will be

X-out the ones holding you back

Ignite curiosity

Trust yourself to figure this out

If you want to take what you are learning in the podcast further, then I’d love to be your Life and Alcohol Freedom Coach. Come apply to join by going to JumpseatCoaching.com/membership

In this episode, we'll dive deep into the idea of necessary darkness and crossing the river of misery. We're going to be uncomfortable on this journey of life and transforming our relationship with alcohol, no matter what we do.

We get to choose whether we want the discomfort of staying the same, or the discomfort of transformation.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The one skill that we need to exit the drinking life. 
• Why drinking less is simple, but not easy.
• How our thinking about the process gets us into trouble when things get difficult.
• What the river of misery is and what's on the other side of it.
• Why we need to choose between the misery of now and the misery of growth.

The poem referenced in the Episode 

To love ourselves long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the person we used to be. The person we are too exhausted to be any longer. The person we don’t recognize inside ourselves anymore. The person we grew out of. The person we never ended up growing into. We so badly want ourselves to get our spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when we are lost. But it is not our job to hold ourselves accountable to the person we used to be. It’s our job to travel between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.

To celebrate (the 25th Episode and beyond), I’m giving away a few things I can’t live without to some lucky listeners: $50 Amazon gift cards, and a brand-new pair of AirPods.

Here’s what you want to do right now to sign up for your weekly, bite-sized coaching from Exit The Drinking Life:

Subscribing in Apple Podcasts

Step 1 
To subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Click here to visit the Exit The Drinking Life Apple Podcast Webpage  - it will open in a new tab so these instructions will be accessible to you on the other tab. 

Then click on the “Listen on Apple Podcasts” button. This will launch Apple Podcasts on your computer and bring up the podcast.

Step 2

Click on the “Subscribe” button and you’re all set!

You can also listen to the podcast via Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Step 3 - Review the Podcast is necessary for you to then enter to Win!

I’ll be giving away $50 Amazon gift card and a pair of Apple AirPods to a couple of lucky listeners who review the podcast in Apple Podcasts.

How to Enter: Once you’ve listened to an episode or two, click on the “Ratings and Reviews” link on the Exit The Drinking Life in Apple Podcasts to leave a review.

Any review qualifies you to win: I want you to be honest, tell me what you think, and how I can help you better. 

Unfortunately, Apple Podcasts doesn’t release contact information for reviewers so please email me at Debi@JumpseatCoaching.com with the title of your review for your official entry. 

You can also screen shot your review and email it to me to qualify. 
 

Thanks for listening! 

The most difficult and complicated part of exiting the drinking life is the decision to start. 

During my 7 year struggle to drink less my thoughts about the process were all about relentless, unwavering willpower and deprivation.  Basically, a horrible, turbulent trip of resist, deny, resist, deny, cave, resist, deny, resist day after day, week after week and never feeling  happy about alcohol's role in my life. 

It wasn't until I began to decided to go against the grain and explore how I was attempting to drink less did I make alcohol irrelevant in my life. 

Understanding the way the brain is designed by default is key. 

Discussed in today's episode:

The brain's natural programing to:

• Seeking pleasure
• Avoiding pain
• Proving ourself right
• Connecting with people 

The skills to work around the brain's natural programing:

• Delay gratification
• Lean into discomfort
• Be OK with trying new things
• Be OK with going against the grain

You can find out how to work directly with me, Debi, at https://www.jumpseatcoaching.com/ExitTribe

In today episode you'll learn:

• How to work with the mind instead of against it
• One of the Brains primary functions
• What failure is really
• About and Armless Archer - Yes and armless archer