132. Understanding Triggers to Drink & How to Manage Urges
Want some help with understanding why you want to drink and how to manage urges this dry January?
Join Patrick in this episode of The Alcohol ReThink podcast where he teaches everything you need to know to understand triggers and how to navigate the urge to drink alcohol.
Some of the cool things he covers in this episode are:
- Celebrate yourself more often
- Understanding what triggers and urges are
- The role of dopamine in experiencing a desire to drink
- Identifying association (triggers) of wanting to have a drink
- Getting to know how your brain wants to think so you don’t have to listen to it
- How cognitive dissonance plays out
- Competing wants
- Start noticing where else urges show up in your life
- Learning what the urge might be doing for you
- The urge scale
- Tools to help you manage urges to drink
Resources mentioned
- Walking your way back to happiness - Nigel Jones
Connect with Patrick:
To find out how Patrick can help you stop drinking and create an awesome life without alcohol, book a free one hour consultation to discover how his 6 month 1-1 coaching program will take you from feeling out of control and self-hating to sober, clear-headed, full of energy, looking good and doing more of what you love in life.
Whether you decide to work with him or not, the consultation alone will help you understand where you are and why you do what you do. It’s a no-brainer. Get yourself booked in here.
You can also join The Alcohol ReThink Project, a free 30 day email mindset-reset series to support you in stopping drinking
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