Tag: Habit Change
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Friendly Friction: How to Drink Less at Home
In some ways, outside drinking can be easier to manage. It has built-in friction. For a start, going to the pub in your dressing gown is widely discouraged. But beyond the need for clothes, shoes and a raincoat, it involves other people and their encouragement or judgement, either of which you may be trying to…
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6 Drinking Habits That Undo Moderation Without You Realising
Instead, what happens is the accumulation of a series of small actions, unseen habits and automatic behaviours that all add up over the week. So that by the time Friday rolls around, you feel like you’ve made no progress, nothing’s working, and you might as well knock it all on the head for now and…
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7 (and a Bit) Things No One Tells You About Drinking Less in Midlife
Not the Instagram-worthy benefits you’ll see plastered across wellness feeds. The real, sometimes uncomfortable realities that come with changing how you drink when you’re 40-, 50- or 60-something years old, with a mortgage, kids, and a properly established life that just won’t stop pulling you in twelve different directions all at once.
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3-Step Method for Breaking Automatic Drinking Habits
Habits are simply learned behaviours. In the most basic terms, you’ve learned that when a trigger occurs, you take a specific action and that leads to a desired reward. The problem with habits is that they’re actually a super-efficient, energy-saving service provided to you by your brain.
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Five Years into Drinking Differently
Mostly, I’ve come to learn that mastering mindful drinking is not all about rules and restrictions. It’s about getting to know yourself all the way. I don’t count my drinks. There is nothing more miserable on a night out than having to keep a count of how many drinks I’ve had before I’m not ‘allowed’…
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