Stress Spikes Are Your Real Trigger How to Relax Without Alcohol and Curb Alcohol Cravings to Stay Sober When Life Gets Messy
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What is the main premise: are stress spikes the real trigger for alcohol cravings?
Hey, welcome back to the Sober Vibes Podcast. I am your host and sober coach, Courtney Anderson. You are listening to episode 279, Good People of the World. So have you ever had one of those days where everything seemed fine? You woke up and it was fine until it really wasn't, right? So maybe you got a shitty email from your boss, right? Maybe your kid or kids are already acting like spawns of Satan by 9 a.m. And then your nervous system is like, Good golly, Miss Molly, what is happening here? That is currently in the phase that I am at with the dictator. Whew. Parents, this four and a half business. I have never in my life Seeing such big little feelings. Anyways, or in your day two, you get really shitty shitty news that you weren't expecting.
Or maybe all of a sudden you and your spouse have a fight because your perimenopod rage is just so over the top. And there's nothing he's gonna do that is going to be correct today. You just need to not talk to each other, right? So when that all happens, maybe suddenly your brain goes to the I need to drink thought, right? This is normal. And it's not because you planned on drinking. It's not. You could be a couple weeks in, maybe a couple months in. And it's not because you woke up wanting alcohol, but because of how stress showed up and how your brain immediately reaches for the fastest solution. And for many, many years, the fastest solution. Solution for you was to drink, to cope. Okay. I've said this in a repeated number of podcast episodes.
Just because you have a couple months sober does not mean that you're quote unquote cured from ever thinking like this. This is a couple years process. That's why I state that those first five years are early years of sobriety. Does it get easier? Yes, absolutely. But will you always go back to that default mode of thinking when times of stress happen. Absolutely. Again, it doesn't mean that anything it's there's like anything wrong with you. It's just what you did for so many years. So it's embedded and really like ingrained into your whole psyche. So that's really what we are talking about on today's episode, okay? I don't think that your alcohol is actually I don't think alcohol for people is the biggest trigger.
I really do think that stress spikes uh are, right? And nervous system, your nervous system response and how it gets overwhelmed and it starts searching for relief, right? The good news is about this, you can prepare for those moments even before they happened, right? And that's exactly what we're gonna be talking. about today so grab yourself a cool beverage na of course and let's get ready to cover this topic and it's really what stress spikes actually look like and how to create a 10 minute emergency plan to this right And also sent simple boundary scripts that help protect your piece before things spiral because sometimes you can catch yourself before you go into a full blown meltdown. All right.
So before we get into it today, as always, if you need help in your sobriety journey, there are three ways to work with me with me as your sober coach. And that is you can do it solo dolo if you are that lone girly who likes to just go at your own pace. I totally understand that. You can look at my stop starting over program. That's really getting off of the cycle of moderation. Second, you can join the sobriety community if you are looking for more. connection and support. There's monthly meetings in there, tons of resources, recorded workshops from like the past two years. Or if you are a person who likes to go deeper and likes the one-on-one support and accountability, I have my one-on-one coaching.
All of all the links are in the show notes below. So check it out. And also too if you haven't gotten your free 30 day sober dot boring guide, check it in the show notes below. Or you can go to Courtney Recovered dot com. Alright, so Getting into it. What does a stress spike look like? I'm sure you probably know yours, correct? But most people think that cravings start in their thoughts, but this is not the case.
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