Navigating Peer Pressure and Cultivating Positive Habits Around Alcohol Consumption

Alex sits down with 'One Year No Beer' co-founder Ruari Fairbairns to talk about the surprising relationship between ADHD and alcohol.

Expect to learn: Why quitting alcohol in this day and age is so hard, how to speak to a friend who is drinking too much alcohol and how alcohol is holding you back without you knowing.

Topics:

01:06 The surprising negative relationship between alcohol and ADHD

07:38 When does alcohol become a problem?

11:19 How would you approach a friend who drinks too much alcohol?

12:48 How to NOT give in to peer pressure

15:36 Why quitting alcohol is so hard

27:02 Ruari's ADHD diagnosis

27:33 How ADHD shows up in your marriage

29:03 The most important thing for a neurotypical partner to understand about ADHD

30:19 How your wife felt about being married to a heavy drinker

34:31 How to change behaviour and break habits

37:44 Your drinking habits in your marriage

41:03 How alcohol is holding people back

42:36 Your ADHD item

43:54 Why are people scared to quit alcohol?

46:29 Other ways alcohol affects people

47:46 Washing machine of woes

52:43 The connection between compulsive behaviour and trauma

55:35 Your most impulsive thing

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