This Naked Mind: Transform your life and empower yourself to drink less or even quit alcohol with this practical how to guide rooted in science to boost your wellbeing

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Using peoples experiences and scientific research, the author offers a new perspective on alcohol and how to manage it. Instead of viewing alcohol as a necessary part of life, it encourages readers to see it as a choice. It explains how society and marketing have influenced our perceptions of alcohol and offers tools to help readers reframe their thinking. 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.

Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress relief associated with alcohol and assume giving it up will involve deprivation and misery. Look at weddings, sports events, New Years Eve to just going to happy hour with friends. Alcohol is always present. Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery. They fear drinking less will be boring, difficult and involve deprivation, and significant lifestyle changes. Very interesting. I found the idea of reprogramming the unconscious mind really compelling. That and the fact alcohol is a carcinogen, which I didn't know and seems insane I didn't know.One of the book’s main points is that people have trouble stopping or even recognizing their drinking has become a problem because we live in a culture in which the majority of the population drinks, and where drinking is celebrated. This affects us on an unconscious level so that even when a conscious decision to quit drinking is made, there’s cognitive dissonance which sabotages efforts to change. Grace: Dry January can be extremely positive or can actually reinforce the stronghold alcohol has on someone. Here’s why. When we give up something we feel is benefiting us, we feel deprived. While you might be able to get through the 31 days of January without drinking, there is a good chance that...you have actually created more of a desire for it. As soon as we tell ourselves we can’t have something we tend to want it even more. I tried to reach out for help with my GP; however, the only response I received is that they are not a rehab facility and I should just try to wean myself off of alcohol. I tried tapering; however, I have not been successful. I tried to research outpatient rehab facilities, but I did not agree with the methods of one of them and the other wanted me to commit to at least 2 weeks (out of state) and I cannot do this with my job responsibilities. I’ve never been happier. I am having more fun than ever. It’s as if I have woken up from the Matrix and realized that alcohol was only dulling my senses and keeping me trapped rather than adding to my life. I know you may find this hard, if not impossible, to believe. That’s OK. But I can give you the same freedom, the same joy, and the same control over alcohol in your life. I can take you on the same journey—a journey of facts, neuroscience, and logic. A journey that empowers you rather than rendering you powerless. A journey that does not involve the pain of deprivation. I love the new me and I could not have done it without this book. Believe me, I had tried for years!

I never got really drunk and didn't drink in front of the kids, but the same time every night I would crave alcohol. If I went without it, I couldn't think of anything else. I thought I needed wine to relax, but in reality I was addicted so I had withdrawals if I didn't get my alcohol on time. The relaxation was not true relaxation, but a relief from withdrawal.When you have a super stressful day, what's the first thing you think about doing? Drinking alcohol to unwind? That's what I found to love, and it's a lot. All of that kept me reading attentively right through to the very end, and left me changed. My biggest takeaway was that I’m now very conscious of drinking alcohol: avoiding it mostly and feeling great about it, but when I do drink, enjoying the hell out of it! 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.