Stop Overdrinking After Abortion
This week’s guest is Dr Sherry Price. She helps her clients identify the specific mental programming they have that is creating their over-desire for drinking. Then she helps them process and move past any shame, self-doubt, or frustration and make room for the drinking pattern that works best for their lifestyle.
Visit her website at: https://sherryprice.com/
Show Notes:
3:09 Sherry’s Introduction
4:35 “Society has this way of talking to us moms that ‘wine will help’”
5:00 Alcohol was a way “I started to bond with women”
5:20 Fell into an overdrinking habit
6:53 “Feeling most of the day that you don’t want it, you don’t need it, and you think you’re strong enough” “6am self vs 6pm self”
7:25 “It feels like you’re not making the choice to have it; it’s starting to control you”
7:57 “I’ll only stick to one glass; it’s the same conversation day in and day out”
8:34 “It’s like you program your mind and your body to expect it, so your desire starts to kick in around the same time of day… driven by desire”
10:01 “I’m in healthcare, I should know better”
10:39 “For me it was being willing to see that the shame was holding me back”
11:11 “Most of society thinks that when you get to an overdrinking habit, it’s an all or nothing approach”
13:23 When the terms/labels don’t feel good: alcoholic, sober… pro-life, pro-choice
15:50 Live a label-less life… health care programs us for “labels” “diagnosis”
17:17 What’s the next step that feels good to me?
18:23 “Drinking like any condition has a spectrum”
20:13 “How do I want to be with alcohol in my life in a way that serves me?”
20:56 “I only get one” vs “I get to have one”
21:52 “Language is the way the brain understands things and feelings are the way the body understands things”
23:56 “fully love yourself” and understand why you are struggling in the first place
24:36 “Self-compassion is where I like to start with all my clients”
25:48 It’s so easy to forget once you’re past it, why you got there in the first place
26:51 “Let me just open my mind to what might potentially be possible”
28:07 Let the negative emotions be there AND choose curiosity
29:28 “Why do you want to be different?”
29:33 “Start connecting with the person you want to be”
30:33 “I used to think I was drinking out of anger… but I was drinking over was fear”
31:44 “Everytime we go through something difficult we learn to be more compassionate… makes us evolve as humans, makes us more loving toward ourselves and toward others”
32:00 When you think you can’t live with your decision for the rest of your life
32:53 Not processing the emotion is harder
34:08 “How would you show up for your best friend? How would I treat somebody who wasn’t me?”
35:54 There are so many ways to heal, please keep looking
36:36 “We only get one precious life”... we have a responsibility to ourselves to learn and evolve on this journey, not for it to be perfect
37:28 “If we don’t learn to appreciate it we’re always going to be stuck”
38:24 You’re always going to learn something valuable if you are looking
