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Podcast: It's Not About the Alcohol
Episode: Ep 80 Resolving Ambivalence (Part 1) Why you still want to drink and also want to stop
Description: How do you handle the emotional whiplash of knowing you should stay sober for a while but also feeling like that's unrealistic? Ambivalence feels like climbing up to the high dive only to chicken out and refuse to jump. And then telling yourself it's not that bad and you like learning lessons the hard way–Cheers! Or secretly thinking it's actually so bad that you probably should go to rehab. Either way, you can't deal with this today. Which temporarily solves the problem until you wake up in the middle of the n...