NLP Intro Week 1

NLP Intro Week 1

Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This session with Dr. Will Horton zooms in on why change around drinking, drugs, food and other habits can feel so impossibly hard, even when you’re desperate for it. Speaking as a psychologist and long-time addictions specialist, Dr. Will leans into one big theme: identity. He argues that, “People don’t resist change.

They resist losing their identity.” If someone sees themself as the party girl, the big drinker after work, or the one who always brings the sweets, giving that up can feel like giving up who they are, not just a behaviour. You’ll hear him dismantle the myth of motivation, calling it “a lie” that feels good but fades fast. Instead, he champions discipline, habits and repetition done the *right* way.

From gym routines to nightly drinking, he shows how the brain clings to whatever is familiar – even if it’s painful – and how that same patterning can be redirected towards recovery.

The talk is relaxed and conversational, peppered with funny and relatable examples: actors stuck in old stage movements, retired people losing the structure that once helped them, and a man in recovery who kept relapsing until he simply drove home a different way so he didn’t pass his usual bars. This session is ideal if you’re trying to change your own drinking or food habits, or if you’re a coach, hypnotherapist or counsellor working with addictive patterns. Dr.

Will keeps looping back to identity-level change, sharing phrases like “That’s not who I am anymore” as a practical way to support a new sober or health-focused self-image. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why do I keep going back to the same thing?”, this conversation might nudge you to look less at willpower and more at the patterns and identity that sit underneath your habits. What pattern could you change today, even in a small way?