how to drink less alcohol

In this episode I want to talk you through a way to think about these moments and share tips to help you navigate them in a way that help you move towards the new relationship you want to have with alcohol. 

For support taking what you are learning here head over to JumpseatCoaching.com

In today's episode Lorna, a fellow This Naked Mind Sr. Certified Coach, and I share her story. Her ups and downs with attempting to exit the cycle as well as how she exited the cycle. 

Listen in to this story because it will help you. You'll learn you aren't alone. You'll discover possibility and hope. 

Lorna believes that each of us has a yearning to be fulfilled, a desire to feel safe and strong in the decisions we make, and a right to find a ‘clarity of purpose’ as we move through our lives. Through her own life experiences Lorna learned first-hand what alcohol can do to your body, mind and spirit.

For support exiting the cycle of drinking, over drink shame or regret reach out to either one of us.

Connect with Lorna here: LornaWilsonCoaching.com

Connect with Debi here: JumpseatCoaching.com

When it comes to the topic of alcohol, drinking less of it or stopping, we have this great skill of beating ourselves up. Blaming ourselves for our inability to change. 

The truth is, this only keeps us stuck in our unwanted pattern.  

What you will discover in this episode:

• How to hack your brains built in pleasure center
• Why this skill will help you untangle the over drinking habit
• 3 tools to help you built this brain hack into your life

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

• EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership

It’s all about balancing the comfortable with the uncomfortable.

If you want to create your own unique relationship with alcohol, with yourself in the Captains seat, then…this is your work. 

The drinking rate has skyrocketed during the past 15 months. If your current relationship with alcohol is something you want to re-evaluate, then know....my specialty is helping you do just that while learning to savor the entire experience. 

What you will discover in today's episode:

• One of the most important things to embrace while you change what you drink
• Why seeing your life only as your future self is a problem.
• What happens when you plan for the future without considering where you are now.
• How to become your future self while still regarding your current self.

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

• EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership

In today's episode I'm going to teach you how to make decision from your future. It's a higher level of thinking. Remembering and repeating your past does not require as much of you as thinking from your future. I love the concept of thinking from our future. What would the you, that is already achieved, that has already become, that has already where you want to be, how would they make these decisions?

What you will discover:

• How your view of your own future impacts your current self
• The importance of a clear vision of your future
• Imagination is more important than knowledge
• Stop letting your past impact your current self and future self

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

• EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership

How much of your time do you spend thinking about what your life with less alcohol in it would be like? 

This week, I’m sharing how important it is to know what you actually do what. 

If you find yourself arguing with reality, focusing on the past, making excuses, justifying your choices, or beating yourself up about it, I invite you to try on the questions I’m posing to you today. 

There is so much power in observing and owning what you truly, deeply want. 

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Why knowing what you want is necessary
• A tool to help you easier discover exactly what you want
• The importance of observing things how you already have things you want
   

What you will discover:

• This is a journey - not a quick fix
• The stories you tell yourself matter
• It's possible to transform your relationship with alcohol AND remain your socializing, extraverted self.
• Where the "fun" actually comes from

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

• EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership
• This Naked Mind Coaching

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• We don’t need to be a “better” person
• The perfect storm affect
• Why we choose to believe certain things are true without question.
• The power of asking “what if.”

This episode is brought to you by EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership. 

If you want to design, claim and create your own unique relationship with alcohol. One based on how it fits in the life you want to live, then this is the place for you. 

The lenses we see the world and ourselves through are completely optional and we can wear as many different lenses on this journey called life as we want. Did you know that? 

Too many of us are comparing our “prescriptions” to other people’s, trying on their glasses, thinking, “My journey has to look like theirs" But friends, we are all unique and this journey is going to require your own unique prescription and I’m inviting you to try on some new ones.

Join me this week as I show you what the process of changing lenses has looked like for me over the journey of growing my own business, and how so many of you are wearing damaging lenses that make it impossible for you to see all the ways in which you are amazing and accomplished right now. 
 

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Why comparing your journey to other people’s and trying to do what they’re doing won’t work.
• What the process of changing lenses looked like for me on my business growth journey.
• The damaging kinds of lenses we wear on our EXIT journey making it hard to see where we really are.

This episode is brought to you by EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership. If you want to design, claim and create your own unique relationship with alcohol. One based on how it fits in the life you want to live, then this is the place for you. 

Listen in as Christy and I chat all about integrative medicine, our nervous system, and the lies our brain tells us all day long.  Ignite your curiosity and trust you'll get exactly what you need. 

Referenced in the episode:

Jumpseat Coaching
Dance Yourself Clean Coaching
The Tapping Solution 

My mission is to help every woman love what they see in the mirror with their own eyes. My dream is to rebrand the messaging around solving over drinking, updating the known methodology to match what current behavior change studies have proven to be more effective. 

I know exactly what it's like to let the idea of forever along with the stigma and shame associated with even needing help drinking less does to a person's self-image.  

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• What I've put together to help other women just like myself
• The why behind the EXIT Methodology
• A whole new approach to solving over drinking
• A special offer during the month of May.

Program referenced: EXIT & Beyond Virtual Life Coaching Membership 

Recourses and support available at JumpseatCoaching.com

What if there is more than one way to change what you drink?  What if all your past attempts are learning you to create the exact relationship you want. 

What You’ll Learn:

• Cycles of change
• Changing what you make failure mean
• The power of your belief 
• About the brain negativity bias
• Retraining the brain

I've created brand new resources and options for help for you. Head over to JumpseatCoaching.com to check them out. 

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The truth about alcohol and happiness
• 4 Neurochemicals of the brain's pleasure center
• Tips to help  you practice activating the brain pleasure center on purpose
• Ways to boost your own natural high

Mentioned on the episode:

EXIT & Beyond Life Coaching Membership
Opportunity to win an annual scholarship to EXIT & Beyond
DayBreaker DOSE program

In this episode, I want to talk to you about the main themes and topics that I teach and go into detail about why I teach them. Listen in as I cover the following areas that I think are crucial for everyone to understand:

• The importance of the words we use 
• The concept of Self Coaching 
• The power of knowing how to process your emotions
• Relationships (with yourself and others)
• Belief systems

I teach all of these topics in EXIT & Beyond Life Coaching Membership, with my private clients, and throughout past podcast episodes. If you can get your head around these concepts and apply them, you’re going to be able to get unstuck from the drinking life cycle faster as well as live a much more accelerated and exciting life.

Completing these 3 things each morning will train your brain to see your future. 

IN TODAY’S EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

• Key to long turn success
• Skills you already have to bring along on the journey
• Why this works 

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

Podcast Giveaway and 2021 Annual Gift Package

Life truly is way more fun without alcohol in it. 

It takes time and patience to really do this work. The space between awareness you are indeed drinking too much alcohol for your life and figuring out how to make alcohol small and irrelevant in your life requires  the skills of delaying gratification, leaning into discomfort, being OK with trying new things, and be ok with going against the grain.  

In order to navigate all the way to success, the journey requires resilience. 

IN TODAY’S EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

• How to apply EXIT to help make the navigation less messy
• Why more than 1 compelling reason is necessary 
• A simple process to create as many compelling reasons as you need. 

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

The 2021 Annual Gift
Podcast review giveaway

I’m talking about motivating ourselves by beating ourselves up. This is a huge issue because it not only hinders us from moving forward, but it’s also something that can be so insidious we don’t even see that it’s happening.

So in this episode, I’m sharing what beating yourself up can look like (it might not be what you think!) and why it’s actually detrimental to your success. 

I’ll be giving you the low-down on why this behavior affects your journey and sharing tools to motivate yourself differently so you can quit the negative self-talk and feel better in all aspects of your life.

IN TODAY’S EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

• What beating yourself up can look like.
• Why we beat ourselves up and how it creates a false belief on the path to success.
• The five components of the thought model.
• Five steps to stop beating yourself up as a form of motivation

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:
Podcast Giveaway
Holiday Gift

IN TODAY’S EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

• About my own personal blooper 
• Examples of how I applied the EXIT tools
• How long it actually took me to exit the drinking life
• What I'm discovering from other people 
• What alcohol actually is 
• Why I no longer put it into my body. 

Mentioned in Today's Episode: 

The giveaway
Other free resources

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? 

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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. 

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