392: The Remedy: What the Brain Learns

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Humans have a long history of using alcohol for medicinal purposes. While drinking can often numb your pain in the moment, it actually creates more stress on the body.

When we repeatedly turn to alcohol for relief from insomnia, chronic pain, or other ailments, our brains start to believe that drinking is the only way out of suffering. But in reality, alcohol increases inflammation in the body, disrupts sleep, and diverts energy away from healing.

Tune in to today’s episode to learn about this Drink Archetype, including what The Remedy prevents you from doing—such as distinguishing pain from suffering—and how to use the Think-Feel-Act cycle to change your relationship with alcohol.

Take the free Drink Archetype quiz to understand your drinking patterns and how to address them effectively: http://drinktype.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 392.
0:05.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change
0:11.0	the habit from the inside out.
0:13.0	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink
0:17.0	and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:20.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your
0:26.8	drinking.
0:27.8	Now here's your host Rachel Hart. Hello again everybody I am back we are doing our final episode in this series all about the different drink
0:43.7	archetypes and what your brain is learning from each of them.
0:48.2	So if you haven't been following this series you can go back and you can listen to each of the episodes that I do about the seven other
0:56.4	archetypes. There's eight archetypes in total. We are doing our eighth
0:59.8	archetype today. The remedy that's all about using alcohol to help with insomnia or pain, injury,
1:07.0	other kind of chronic ailments, but I've also talked about in the series all of the other
1:11.3	archetypes. So we've talked about the upgrade, which is all about what your
1:15.4	brain learns when you're using alcohol to elevate your experience. We've talked about the
1:20.6	connector, which is all about forming social bonds and what your brain learns
1:24.8	around this when you use alcohol in this way.
1:27.6	We've talked about the reward.
1:28.8	It's all about using alcohol as a treat for hard work or a sign at the end of the day that you have permission to stop working.
1:34.8	We covered the escape, which is all about drinking to avoid certain big emotions that may feel
1:40.3	very overwhelming. The mask, which is all about focusing on feeling more
1:44.9	confident in social situations and using a drink to deal with social anxiety.
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