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Podcast: The Truth About Alcohol (Why Quitting Feels So Hard)
Episode: Is Alcohol Hiding the Truth About Your Relationship?
Description: Most people don’t drink because they love alcohol—they drink because they’re hiding from something deeper. And nowhere is this more obvious than in our relationships.
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In this episode, inspired by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, I explore why so many of us choose partners from PARTS—fear of loneliness, desperation for approval—instead of from SELF. When that happens, alcohol becomes the band-aid that holds together relationships that were never truly built on love or alignment in the first place.
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If you’re reaching for the bottle to cope with confli...