{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alcohol Minimalist: Mindful Drinking & Behavior Change","title":"5 Myths that Keep Us Drinking More Alcohol","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1790,"description":"Have you grabbed your free e-book?  \"Alcohol Truths: How Much is Safe?\"  Go to www.mollywatts.com\nJoin my private FB group \"Change Your Alcohol Habit\" here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/changeyouralcoholhabit\nHas this podcast helped you?  How about leaving a review: \n Itunes\nThis week on the podcast you'll learn about five myths that keep us drinking alcohol.   Myths are really just stories we've been telling ourselves and believing for year. They aren't true. \nMyth #1: I'm weak-willed (not disciplined enough, lazy, not strong enough)  \nThis story/thought is rooted in absolute thinking and in the past.   I held onto the story that I was someone who lacked discipline and it kept me from proving to myself that I actually was disciplined.  Quit looking backward for a path forward.  From the words of Corinne Crabtree:\nQuit sitting around in your old garbage memories, ruminating over what should've happened, what was wrong about it, and what you wish you could change.⠀⠀\nYour past is done. Your future is waiting to be visited.⠀\nMyth/Story/Thought #2:  I need to take the edge off.\nIt is one of the thoughts that definitely keeps people drinking alcohol and often drinking more than we want to.  It absolutely was another thought that kept my daily drinking habit going.  And it’s also one of the areas where I first understood that I got to choose how I felt and could manage my mind when it came to stress.\nMyth #3: Alcohol makes things more fun.\nAlcohol doesn’t make things more fun. Neither does food, or people or music or any other external circumstance.  You create FUN with your thoughts.  It’s what you are making alcohol MEAN in your life that is why you believe it’s so true that alcohol makes things more fun.\nMyth/Story/Thought #4:  I just love the taste of wine (or beer, or whiskey, or whatever other alcoholic drink you choose). \nAs you know if you’ve listened I’m not exclusively AF and Non-alcoholic beers are something I have used to help me change my drinking...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zu3PtA3XzNKb2qSH95OKvfAaoixqds182Hao41kpkws/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZjY5/NjVmY2Y2MGQ0NmMx/NGNiMzdiZGY0OTMz/OWQzMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}