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Podcast: It's Not About the Alcohol
Episode: EP166 Four reasons you should stop trying to quit drinking
Description: Have you noticed that the more you try to control your drinking, the harder it feels to control?  It's assumed that the only way to prevent over-drinking is no-drinking. If you can't stop once you start, don't start.  But science shows that people who identify as "sober alcoholics" are much more likely to relapse into binge drinking. Because they identify as diseased or damaged all-or-nothing people.  And sobriety is the "nothing" in the all-or-nothing cycle.  Alcohol use disorder isn't a drinking problem, it's a think...