Reddit Reddit reviews This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

We found 13 Reddit comments about This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

Books
Self-Help
Happiness Self-Help
This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
Check price on Amazon

13 Reddit comments about This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life:

u/ludwigvonmises · 37 pointsr/outside

Yeah, sure thing. These were helpful for me. No doubt there are other, maybe even better resources out there.

  • Skill books on overcoming addiction
    • Recovery (Russell Brand's unique AA-style approach applicable to everything)
    • This Naked Mind (on alcohol)
    • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking (on tobacco)
    • These are willpower-free approaches, meaning they don't ask you to muscle through some tough initial period. They simply reorient your mind towards your desire for these things, so you never desire them again.
  • Online tutorials for understanding your psychology
  • Other resources
    • The X-Effect - a subreddit that uses a 50 day method to eliminate your association with an activity
    • Nightly journaling - Writing down your experiences with your issue, how you felt, how you overcame it, why you succumbed to it, what you plan to do next time, etc. Articulating yourself on it over and over.
u/caged_dragon · 3 pointsr/stopdrinking
u/spider_sauce · 3 pointsr/stopdrinking

This book is a life saver(I used the audiobook off audible). Literally changes how you view drinking. No 12 steps. No bs. Just logic.

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525537236/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_83tHAbXE7SZFD

u/thatoneguywhogolfs · 2 pointsr/WeightLossAdvice

My best weight loss was when I wasn’t drinking. I am indulging now and weight loss is very stagnant. Been stuck around 202-205 for some time now. When I wasn’t drinking I read this book that talks to your subconscious. It was very interesting and I would highly encourage you to read it if you plan to give up alcohol.


https://www.amazon.com/This-Naked-Mind-Discover-Happiness/dp/0525537236

u/dvzhinbege · 2 pointsr/stopdrinking

Have read this? Try reading this it might help yiu get over the hump. It helped me. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525537236/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_s2MVAb4AXQGS1

u/upsidedownonacross · 2 pointsr/alcoholism

It is possible to do alone. I've been to (court mandated) AA and NA and I simply cannot stand it. One sob story or wild tale of drunken adventure after another, the same stories week after week...everyone with tears in their eyes, a good 40% of people in there saying they are sober when the reality is that they have just switched up to something else (weed or pills generally). All the God and Jesus bullshit. I hate everything about it, even the camaraderie/people pretending to care about you

I wanted to become sober and I have. books like these X X help me put things into perspective and realize that there is much more that I want to do in life than get home and get wasted and then feel shitty the entire next day.

I was a monster...I'd do any drug under the sun, I'd drink a fifth of vodka every night and I was able to stop with my own willpower eventually

u/ReadyRoad · 2 pointsr/pornfree

I'm in the same boat, trying to quit porn and alcohol at the same time. I find Annie Grace's book 'This naked mind' super helpful with the alcohol side:

https://www.amazon.com/This-Naked-Mind-Discover-Happiness/dp/0525537236

u/2ndal · 2 pointsr/askMRP

There's a lot going on here. You have seven ten question marks in your post:

  • What exactly should I want?
  • I have read a lot about motivation and I think most people are motivated by social status. They are aiming to gain social rank. For me the problem is that social status only exists if you interact with people. That is, if they treat you inferior or superior, right?
  • People cannot treat you as superior or inferior if they hardly interact with you, right?
  • Therapy for stopping drinking?
  • Better treatment for depression and drinking at the same time?
  • I am at my fourth psychiatrist, just how long should I shop around?
  • What would change if I was super obese?
  • Similarly, what would change if I managed to get actually fit?
  • Maybe my sex drive would return. Maybe. In which case what, divorce wife?
  • Cheat on her?

    Look, I'm not sure you're going to find the right answer here on this forum. Answers here, in fact, might be dangerous. You need to be treated for alcoholism and depression. Or if you feel you can't find someone to treat you, you need to focus yourself on improving in those areas through your own study. Start to make headway there and other things will start to fall into place. Have more days sober than drunk, have a will to live, bring some hobbies, drive, and passion back in your life, and then maybe we start thinking about how to improve your marriage.

    I'll leave you with a book that helped me reframe my thinking about alcohol. I've recommended it here before and most men agree. This Naked Mind.

    Good luck.
u/SnausageDawg · 2 pointsr/stopdrinking

I 100% understand the fear of saying you will not drink and then falling back into the same old cycles that we want to break free of. Maybe approaching it by saying something like, "I am trying my best to stay away from alcohol for the near future because (insert pertinent reason here)". That way it is not so definitive as, 'I am never drinking again.'

Honestly, how many of us here can actually say that we will never touch alcohol again? I do not know if I will NEVER again drink but, I know I am not going to drink TODAY. Sometimes, it is: I know I am going to avoid alcohol for the next hour or two...until I find something better to which I redirect my energy.

I recommend getting a copy of This Naked Mind. I and many others here have found it an incredibly helpful book. https://www.amazon.com/This-Naked-Mind-Discover-Happiness/dp/0525537236/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517871205&sr=8-1&keywords=this+naked+mind

Keep us all posted! You have people from all over the world rooting for you!

{Edited for shit grammar}

u/RPeed · 1 pointr/marriedredpill

This is the go to book for drinkers on the quit drinking Reddit:

​

https://www.amazon.com/This-Naked-Mind-Discover-Happiness/dp/0525537236/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=this+naked+mind&qid=1554735806&s=gateway&sr=8-1

​

Worked for me. I don't miss drinking. I miss wanting to drink now.

​

As for the fat. Prime candidate for this big guy:

​

https://www.reddit.com/r/marriedredpill/comments/b6yn4l/60_dod_week_2_diet_part_3_fast_and_painful/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

​

Keto is just another way to fuck around and avoid counting calories.

u/HMontana777 · 1 pointr/alcoholism

Hey,

​

Welcome! You have come to the right place. You are not alone. Read "This Nake Mind" by Annie Grace. It will set you free.

https://www.amazon.com/This-Naked-Mind-Discover-Happiness/dp/0525537236/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556289466&sr=8-1

​

Audioable has free trial promo. Sign up and start listening to the book now! Will change your life.

https://www.audible.com/

​

You got this. It's not you. Alcohol is ADDICTIVE period but you have to change your beliefs around this popular drug.

u/Piczoid · 1 pointr/alcoholism
u/tqrNcGFlNSgHC3Hf · 1 pointr/asktransgender

I think some part of you already knows the answer. I think the edge of the word "alcoholic" is that even a doctor is never going to give you a straight up answer. It's one of those words that take on more and more power the more and more you wonder. But if you're wondering that's a sign of the direction you're headed in. Maybe ask yourself how long it has been a bottle of wine a night. Before asking yourself if you can have a night off - I mean that might not be convenient, timing might be bad, fuck it, whatever y'know. But just try and remember the last few months, or the past year even. How many nights a week usually? And try not to lie, if a number of nights is in question, round upwards, what've you got to lose, you can always estimate a low number later. Brag about it. I got 10 years minimum on the daily, can you beat that? I can round upwards to 15 maybe. Anyway, whatever you say ain't going to scare me is all I'm saying. I mean that sounds bad eh? So if some stranger on the internet told you the same number you come up with, what would call them?

Truthfully, the term "alcoholic" is out of medical vouge.. they've got a sliding scale of "alcohol use order", with eleven points and you're just ranked on a scale. Scroll down to see a chart comparing the old Alcoholic with AUD

For me I think i was doing pretty good with beer, but a diagnosis of gout (which I was all but positive was triggered by the excessive alcohol of sugar of years) had me switch from beer to whisky and shit took on a whole new level. I wanted to keep drinking beer forever because it didn't get me drunk.. so i told myself.. oh fuck i drove drunk with the kids man. jesus eh? what the fuck. but i digress. anyway, I just kept sliding down that honey pot, like a venus fly trap getting sucked in closer

Probably the most helpful book, which get's recommended on /r/stopdrinking (which is an amazing sub by the way, check it out), is This Naked Mind (website ~ Audiobook ~ first 40 pages ~ Amazon). I did the audiobook and it really helped me get a clearer perspective. I think it's got a lot of fascinating things to say about a substance that is advertised everwhere, served everywhere, seen everywhere. I think it deserves as much attention as the place cigarettes did in our society a few years back. go back and watch an 80s move - everyone's smoking. Now nobody smokes. Societal norms impact that and we've got a really big blind spot when it comes to Alcohol. Anyway, so, really really great book and it's not a "quit drinking" alcohol book unless you need it to be. It's about getting control of alcohol in your life which for me was ending it's consumption. I handle alcohol much better when it stays out of my body. Some 15 days in to some stretch of trying to quit (it wouldnt be the first) and I was like "hey this is easy" (it wasn't) "what else should I do to keep it going, maybe I'll read this book all the /r/stopdrinking folks are talking about" So I already knew where I was going, but even if you don't have a problem I think it was really really well done.

Sorry for rambling on but just in case you're kinda close to what I felt like back in the day, I figure you might be okay with me going on a bit.. Anyway, thanks for following me to this comment, that's a pretty big complement. I'm really glad you liked what I wrote. I really liked what you wrote about the cubes on ketamine, that sounds amazing. I'm happy to read anything you want to write back