Ep 67: Is Alcohol Stealing Your Potential Without You Noticing? With Anna Donaghey

How does the way you speak to yourself about alcohol shape your habits, identity and potential? Helen welcomes alcohol mindset coach Anna Donaghey to share eye-opening insights into the stories we tell ourselves about drinking. This episode offers practical, compassionate wisdom on breaking cycles of shame and unlocking a way to rethink the way you drink alcohol.

Here are the highlights:

00:00  Exploring the importance of the language we use around alcohol.

09:13 Lost confidence and sparkle due to years of drinking 

11:35 Loss of long-term goals and motivation due to alcohol

15:27 Words shape mindset; self-talk matters

26:35 Is life good enough or could reducing alcohol enhance it?

32:55 Everyone can be prone to addiction.

36:35 Moving beyond the limiting labels of "normal" and "alcoholic."

38:43 Admitting to a drinking problem was a daunting step for me

43:51 Acknowledge past mistakes but emphasise openness to change with ‘yet’.

About Anna Donaghey:

Anna Donaghey is an alcohol mindset coach, speaker and host of The BigDrink Rethink, a podcast aimed at encouraging people to talk openly and honestly about alcohol. With a career spanning 25 years as a strategist in the advertising industry, she combines her own lived experience of alcohol addiction with great insight into what makes us tick and what influences us to behave the way we do. Through The Big Drink Rethink, Anna is on a mission to get the nation drinking more mindfully. 

Connect with Anna:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/annadonaghey

Listen To The Podcast:

https://www.thebeliefscoach.com/big-drink-rethink

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