How to Change Your Mindset to Change Your Drinking Habits
How to Change Your Mindset to Change Your Drinking Habits

The Alcohol Minimalist Podcast

Molly Watts discusses how changing your mindset can transform your drinking habits, offering practical tips and journaling techniques to foster self-awareness.

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The Alcohol Minimalist Podcast

Molly Watts

The Alcohol Minimalist podcast is dedicated to helping habit drinkers and adult children of alcoholics to change their drinking habits and create a peaceful relationship with alcohol: past, present and future. We are proof positive that you can break unbreakable habits and create a peaceful relationship with alcohol. Becoming an alcohol minimalist means: Choosing how to include alcohol in our lives following low-risk guidelines. Freedom from anxiety around alcohol use. Less alcohol without feeling deprived. Using the power of our own brains to overcome our past patterns and choose peace. The Alcohol Minimalist Podcast explores the science behind alcohol and analyzes physical and mental wellness to empower choice. You have the power to change your relationship with alcohol, you are not sick, broken and it's not your genes! This show is intended for educational purposes and does not constitute medical advice. If you are physically dependent on alcohol, please seek medical help to reduce your drinking.

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Transform Your Drinking Habits by Changing Your Mindset

Episode Overview

Identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts driving your desire to drink.
Use journaling to increase self-awareness and track thought patterns.
Understand the concept of metacognition to observe and change your thinking.
Ask yourself specific, direct questions to uncover helpful or unhelpful thoughts.
Recognise that repeating a thought makes you believe it more, even if it's not true.

“Repeating a thought doesn't make it true; it just makes you believe it more.”

Molly Watts, host of The Alcohol Minimalist Podcast, dives into the crucial topic of mindset and its impact on drinking habits. This episode is packed with practical tips on how to identify and change unhelpful thoughts that may be driving your desire to drink. Molly shares her personal experiences and professional insights, offering listeners a roadmap to uncovering and redirecting negative thoughts.

She introduces the concept of 'metacognition' - the ability to observe one's own thinking - as a key skill for creating sustainable change. You'll learn how to journal effectively to increase self-awareness and decide whether your thoughts are moving you closer to or further away from your goals. Molly also highlights the importance of challenging core beliefs and offers specific journaling prompts to help you get started.

If you're looking to transform your relationship with alcohol, this episode provides actionable steps and valuable insights to help you on your journey.

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