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Our mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire. Experts imply that it takes months, even years, of hardship to stop drinking. A tough riddle can make you crazy, taking forever to solve. But if someone gives you the answer, solving the riddle becomes ef- fortless. I hope this book will be the answer you are looking for.
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The rest is a series of very broad generalizations based off of the author's personal experiences and views. The author hasn't re-invented the wheel, what she has done is write a great book that presents plenty of information on how our brains are wired into believing alcohol is, and should, play a part in our life. And this is where the "wow" moment for me was. The author details her own negative experiences with alcohol which fueled her desire to give it up, relates facts about the damage it does to the body and brain, and argues that the way we consume alcohol doesn’t make sense when compared with the way we consume any other food or drink. She’s adamant and persuasive, and I’m right there with her and her anger toward alcohol and the damage it does. As a self-professed former wine enthusiast and author of books delving into the intricate relationship between alcohol and our minds, I've often pondered [...] The intro started out very open minded and fine; this is an experiment, draw your own conclusions, you don't have to stop drinking forever, no stigma, etc.
I know people who abstain by choice; others who moderate extremely well, some who have had their drinking questioned but haven't yet crossed into dependence, and some who are recovering and have nearly died from alcohol consumption. Everyone's choices and experiences are different. There is no one-size-fits-all solution or view. Alcohol can be dangerous and it also can be handled safely. Annie Grace is the author of This Naked Mind, The Alcohol Experiment, and This Naked Mind: Nicotine, as well as the founder of the This Naked Mind online community and the This Naked Mind companion app. Grace lives happily alcohol-free with her husband and three children in the Colorado mountains. Her theory is that our conscious (surface level) attention may know these facts but it is our subconscious mind that makes the decisions. And it is the part of us that has been programmed to do so with alcohol consumption. Have fun, loosen up, relieve stress, be more socially acceptable, advance your career- she looks at all these myths of the benefits of drinking and disassembles them. I just don’t know if reading a book can change us on the basic level she is seeking. But it has helped many people. It can take 10 days for alcohol to leave your system. This is good to know if you’re trying to detox.
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Alcohol does NOT relax the body because it actually releases cortisol (the stress hormone) in the body. Alcohol is difficult. We don't question that drugs like meth or heroin are bad for us, we'd never have anyone do a line of coke in front of our children for example. Alcohol on the other hand is, as Annie Grace states early on, the only drug you have to justify not taking. In the shadows of his undiagnosed mental health problems, Lee turned to a seemingly socially acceptable solution: alcohol. It was a crutch he [...] It's written in such a way that you get the benefits of this thinking (meaning, the changes to your unconsciousness in how you think about the effects of alcohol - something you have been mislead about since birth) by just reading. The author has been inspired in this method by Dr Sarno (who is the author to read if you have any chronic pain; spoiler: it might be caused by your brain!).Annie, what did you do? It’s like you took the part of my brain that wanted to drink and you took it away.”
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What I didn't agree with is that Annie Grace's theory seems to be that everyone who drinks has a problem with alcohol and that there is no such thing as an "allergy." Well then, that lets her off the hook now, doesn't it. Needless to say, I had trouble being open-minded because some of what she said went against what I've been taught about addiction. Then again, I must use the disclaimer that I have only managed to stay sober for long stretches of time, but then I have relapsed. So there is the possibility that even with experience. I don't know what I'm talking about. Alicia found herself at a crossroads in life. Her story is one of resilience, self-discovery, and a commitment to stay motivated to quit [...]of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace Truth rests with the minority . . . because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.” —Søren Kierkegaard” You can be drunk and you can be a shit cunt, but you'd have to be a drunk shit cunt to rape someone and act like the booze made you do it. One thing the author said that I’ve never heard before is that everyone has the potential to become an addict, not just people with a particular temperament or gene. Alcohol is a drug, and addiction comes with frequency of use. Everyone who drinks travels a path that leads to addiction. Not everyone travels at the same pace or reaches the end before they die, so some never reach the end point of addiction, but it’s still the same path. This actually makes a lot of sense to me. She also equates choosing to drink less or not at all to her inability to eat eggs due to an allergy. Which...is not the same thing.
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