THIS NAKED MIND: The myth-busting cult hit for anyone who wants to cut down their alcohol consumption.

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Because I came to the book as someone who drinks a bit too much but not way too much, hoping it might help reduce my intake from around 25 units a week to 14, I found this irksome. If your goal is to just learn more, maybe to cut back, this book is extremely narrow minded and I do not recommend it. I started working out again, my body doesn't hurt as much and I'm getting up easier in the morning for work. I don't care much about alcohol, it's not that I despise or even avoid it, it's just never been an integral part of my life.

Let me tell you, after helping hundreds of thousands of people reinvent their relationship with alcohol, we are not all that different. Long before this day I had decided to moderate my drinking, yet sitting there I realized rather than drinking less I was drinking more. This affects us on an unconscious level so that even when a conscious decision to quit drinking is made, there’s cognitive dissonance which sabotages efforts to change.Then again, I must use the disclaimer that I have only managed to stay sober for long stretches of time, but then I have relapsed.

They fear drinking less will be boring, difficult and involve deprivation, and significant lifestyle changes. Anyway, there's still some really good shit in here and I admire Grace for getting sober and producing such a comprehensive and useful guide to sobriety. Throughout the book she refers to This Naked Mind as though it were a third object or protocol, without ever really defining it. It's written in such a way that you get the benefits of this thinking (meaning, the changes to your unconsciousness in how you think about the effects of alcohol - something you have been mislead about since birth) by just reading.The author has been inspired in this method by Dr Sarno (who is the author to read if you have any chronic pain; spoiler: it might be caused by your brain! I have imbibed less on each occasion, and there have been fewer occasions in total when I’ve had a drink than there would have been otherwise. In adding this book, I was admitting that I didn’t have full control over my relationship with alcohol, and that’s something massive, or that’s what society has always told me anyway. I think they knew it would sell because the title is promising and appears to be open-minded and almost Buddhist. First of all, let me preface this review by saying that if this book helps even one person stay sober, then it is a good book whether I got something out of it or not.