rethinking drinking when our kids struggle with substances; why and how you might consider a change, with Casey Davidson
Host: Brenda Zane, brenda@brendazane.com
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Guest: Casey Davidson, Hello Someday Coaching and Podcast
Show Resources:
Casey’s free guides
Hello Someday podcast episode with William Porter - Alcohol Explained
Hello Someday podcast episode with Gill Tietz - What You Don’t Know About Alcohol and Your Body
The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol (Whitaker)
This Naked Mind, Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life (Grace)
Show Notes:
SPEAKERS
Brenda Zane, Casey Davidson
Episode topics: parenting, teens, mental health, family, addiction, recovery, substance use, alcohol, sobriety
1:38 Why this episode is so important
5:03 Casey Davidson introduction
7:37 Looking in the mirror and looking at your own habits
8:12 My decision to quit drinking during COVID
9:54 About Casey's drinking experience and why women tend to drink alcohol
15:01 Things that get better when you remove alcohol from the picture
17:01 When should you start "thinking" about your drinking and the normalization of alcohol in our culture
22:07The marketing of alcohol to women
27:11 How our bodies respond to alcohol by wanting more, the reality of drinking and weight loss and the emotional impact
31:24 The harm caused by substances and where alcohol ranks
33:24 Waking up at 3am?
34:14 Getting ahead of the panic and emotional roller coaster that alcohol adds to an already stressful life
35:20 You don't know what you don't know
36:45 But what if you really don't want to stop drinking?
39:05 Willpower and motivation and how to think about making a change
41:10 The key question that reframed drinking for me
42:14 Why aren't there cigarette-aholics and the link between alcohol and cancer
43:32 Why we demonize the person versus the addictive substance when it comes to alcohol
44:25 Why do we care more about putting gluten and sugar in our bodies than alcohol
46:15 When alcohol feels like the only thing you get to have for yourself
46:57 How to start if you're curious enough to experiment with a change in your drinking
54:23 Getting through the time of day when you would normally drink and a common trigger
1:00:03 Finding others who live an alcohol-free life and realizing you can cope with hard things without it
1:01:56 Resources for more information
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