When someone quit drinking for good they usually say something like, “it just feels different this time”. That’s how I felt too this time around. It just felt different. So why did it click for me after 7 years of drinking but maybe it took you 20 or maybe it hasn’t clicked for you at all yet? In this episode you’ll learn how alcohol impacts our decision making process to put us into auto-pilot, how this continues into early sobriety, and what you can do to get yourself out of auto-pilot. You’ll learn about the different ways the brain makes decisions, and how you can start recruiting the parts of the brain that are going to help sobriety finally click for you too.

What to listen to next:
E115: why you aren't ready to quit drinking and how to get ready
E97: why we keep believing it'll be different this time
E94: drinking to cope or numb out doesn't help, here's how to really cope
E91: do you want to be sober or do you want to drink without the consequences

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