Annie Grace, author of 'This Naked Mind,' takes a fresh approach to overcoming addiction. She challenges traditional methods like cold turkey, advocating for harnessing the brain's pleasure centers instead. Grace discusses her personal journey with alcohol, promoting self-compassion and curiosity in recovery. She connects her ideas to intuitive eating and explores various addictions, emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing beliefs behind behaviors. Her insights offer new hope for those struggling with dependencies.
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Cultivate Curiosity
Get curious about your behavior instead of judging it.
Ask yourself why you're doing something, rather than focusing on whether you should be doing it.
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Annie Grace's Story
Annie Grace's journey with alcohol started with casual drinking, escalated due to work pressure, and led to nightly wine consumption.
After a moment of self-reflection, she began a 13-month research project to change her relationship with alcohol.
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Alcohol's Dual Nature
Alcohol is a stimulant for about 20 minutes while blood alcohol content rises, creating euphoria.
It then becomes a depressant for 2-3 hours as it leaves the body, causing anxiety and stress.
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This naked mind
Annie Grace
This Naked Mind offers a new, positive solution to alcohol dependence by presenting the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science. Annie Grace reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence and provides guidance on how to align one’s subconscious brain with their conscious desire to quit drinking. The book includes personal anecdotes, scientific insights, and practical advice to help readers break free from alcohol’s grip without feeling deprived or miserable.
Intuitive Eating
A Recovery Book For The Chronic Dieter; Rediscover The Pleasures Of Eating And Rebuild Your Body Image
Evelyn Tribole
Intuitive Eating is a classic bestseller that has been revised and updated for modern readers. Written by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, this book focuses on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. It introduces the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, which aim to help readers reject diet mentality, honor their hunger and fullness, make peace with food, and respect their bodies. The book also addresses diet culture, weight stigma, and baby-led weaning, and provides guidance on raising intuitive eaters and healing from eating disorders.
The Snake in Mind for Nicotine
The Snake in Mind for Nicotine
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Annie Grace
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The stereotypical depiction of fighting addiction makes it seem highly unpleasant: White knuckling, sweating it out, detoxing, going cold turkey–you get the picture. This applies to classical addiction, and also to the less dangerous (but nonetheless nettlesome) unhealthy habits and compulsions that we all wrestle with. My guest today takes a very different approach. She aims to harness the pleasure centers of the brain as a way to handle addictive habits—and, controversially, she doesn’t believe you need to go cold turkey on alcohol, which is the main intoxicant she has targeted. Her name is Annie Grace, and she is the author of a very popular book called This Naked Mind. (Shout out to my friend and colleague Steve Baker, the executive producer of Nightline, who has gotten a lot out of Annie’s work, and turned me on to her.) This episode is the second in a two-part series we’re doing this week on addiction. If you missed it, go check out Monday’s episode with Buddhist teacher Kevin Griffin, who has worked to combine the dharma and the 12 steps. Speaking of the 12 steps, many people in the AA community are quite critical of Annie Grace, and she will address that in our conversation. We also cover: Her personal story, and why she now drinks as much alcohol as she wants to–which is none at all; the connection between her approach and Evelyn Tribole’s “intuitive eating”; and her thoughts on working with other addictions, including nicotine, gambling, shopping, pornography, and video games. Also: We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to help us out by answering a new survey about your experience with this podcast. We want to hear about your experience with our show, because we care deeply, and we are always looking for ways to improve. Please go to https://www.tenpercent.com/survey. Thank you! Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/annie-grace-325
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