The irony of posting this online is not lost on me.

And I have several meditation and health-focused apps that I love. 📱💕

But, honestly, I’m having to work harder than usual to maintain a “media balance” in my own life at the moment (aka keeping my mental health in check)

And have set some serious limits both for social media and “screens,” in general.

How are *you* feeling out there lately??

The irony of posting this online is not lost on me.

And I have several meditation and health-focused apps that I love. 📱💕

But, honestly, I’m having to work harder than usual to maintain a “media balance” in my own life at the moment (aka keeping my mental health in check)

And have set some serious limits both for social media and “screens,” in general.

How are *you* feeling out there lately??

Believe me. You won’t regret it. 💌

We can be so hard on ourselves! 😝

Yet another thing that I *did not know* about alcohol.

(…and it makes me SO MAD.) 😠

The fact that the alcohol industry has spent billions on governmental lobbying to dodge putting ACTUAL WARNING LABELS on their products is both surprising and *not* surprising.

(…ah, the joys of capitalism.) 🙄

Ok, but why is this GOOD NEWS, you ask?

Calling all hustlers:

Our lives are often built around productivity and pursuit. 📈
Our worth is often defined by achievements and accolades. 🏆

And in-between the hustle and the grind, we are eating in a hurry, texting in a hurry, *resting* in a hurry, and multitasking our little faces off.

We are sending ourselves through a gauntlet of physiological highs and lows. 🎢

THIS! This is how our habits are formed. 🔬🧠🌿🛣️

🤓 And knowledge is power, my friend.

I hope this video sparks your curiosity and helps explain a little of why using willpower is so hard.

Like bushwhacking through the brush, change is a process that gets easier over time.

THAT IS THE WRONG QUESTION!

“Emotions create habits.🔬
Not repetition. Not frequency.
Not fairy dust.
...emotions.”

- Dr. BJ Fogg is a behavioral scientist at the leading front of habit change.

His research and findings play a major role in the methodology I follow and have had a huge impact in my own personal journey.

By changing the way you THINK about alcohol… you can change the way you FEEL about it.

And then your BEHAVIOR just clicks into place.

“We cannot shame ourselves into change. We can only love ourselves into evolution.”
If beating ourselves up—judging and criticizing ourselves for all of the ways we wanted to improve—led to a successful, happy life... we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. 😅

I used to drink “at” the news.
(I used to drink “at” a lot of things…)
And I remember why.

Of course I wanted to numb this darkness… of course I wanted to seek shelter from the ugliness of the world [that seems to be growing exponentially, doesn’t it?]

It’s really hard to face.

To all the beautiful deep-thinkers and deep-feelers out there trying to cope right now,

I see you.
I’m right there with you.

But let me tell you: drinking alcohol to cope with this darkness just perpetuates the dark.