Aging Flipped with Debi Talbert

IN TODAY’S EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: About my own personal blooper  Examples of how I applied the EXIT tools How long it actually took me to exit the drinking life What I'm discovering from other people  What alcohol actually is  Why I no longer put it into my body.  Mentioned in Today's Episode:  The giveaway Other free resources agingflipped.com for more resources on aging with ease and more fulfil...

Have you wanted to join EXIT & Beyond Life Coaching Membership but you just don't have the money? Do you love the podcast and want others to get help from it too?  FANTASTIC I'm announcing the 2021 giveaway plus a way for you to take a step towards helping others receive the same help you've received.  Detail can be found here - https://www.jumpseatcoaching.com/givin agingflipped.com for more reso...

Hey my friend, how are you? So glad to have you here, so glad to be recording this for you today. Listen, if you want to get started exiting the drinking life and I’m pretty sure you do or you would not be listening to this podcast, I want to make sure that you get my Jumpstart Guide. This is a beautiful starting off point for you. It’s a really quick easy read with some powerful tools you can sta...

Keep noticing the thoughts that come up for you when drinking shows up in your consciousness - they all point to your beliefs . You may notice it in the patterns of thoughts or how your moods shift throughout the day.  Make sure you are journaling and recording how you feel each day. If possible, record your thoughts and emotions around the parts of the day when you experience the most triggers. B...

The idea for this episode came to me while attending a networking event this morning. As I record this it’s the Tuesday before Thanksgiving here in the United States. The episode will go live on Thanksgiving day. In addition to sharing what you do and who it is you help, the coordinate of the meeting asked people to share something they are grateful for. For me, I’m actually grateful for all the c...

Most of your first times with new experiences in your life alcohol free will bring up thoughts leading to uncomfortable emotions and feelings. Know this is an amazing opportunity to create new neural pathways in your brain.  The more you experience getting through events without drinking, the easier it gets. Eventually, even if you're surrounded by alcohol and people drinking, you'll notice the ol...

How often have you told yourself that your drinking isn’t “that bad” How often have you talked about needing to get a handle on your over drinking but never make the decision to do what it requires to actually do it? How often have you blown off your goals, telling yourself that you'll start again on Monday? To me, this is locking yourself in your own prison from the inside because we want to avoi...

You'll learn about the growth of the industry. Why the growth is happening now and where you can find some gorgeous, delicious alcohol free options. Referenced in the show today: Martha's amazing resource over at Clear Power Coaching.  Debi's membership site Lyre's Non-Alcoholic spirts Gruvi - non-alcoholic beer and wine options agingflipped.com for more resources on aging with ease and more fulfi...

In this episode, I talk about how our thoughts can aid us with gradual improvement and the small steps we can take to ensure our minds don’t get the better of us. I’ll recount a personal story of how I recently experienced the feeling of success and how you can, too, by simply changing the rules you have set up for yourself in your mind.  I’ll explain that completing small tasks, like hitting play...

What you'll discover is how planning helps with exiting the drinking life plus some new ideas to open up your mind to.  In today's episode you'll learn: What does creating time with your mind mean? What are some of the benefits to our brains when we plan? Examine beliefs X-out the beliefs keeping them stuck Ignite curiosity Trust themselves to figure it out. Tiny, baby steps and celebrating them....

One of my main goals of the show is to help you become an expert at applying the model, so you can use it to work past negative emotions and stay on track with your goals, whatever they may be. You’ll hear me talk about why it’s so important to know the difference between your circumstances and your thoughts, and how this will help you be a more compassionate observer of your mind. IN TODAY’S EPIS...

It hit me that Halloween is just a few days away. Which means the holiday season is about to begin. Personally, I think the holiday season is the best, best time to get your ticket and board the transformation flight to alcohol freedom. I know, I know many of you are thinking I’m crazy right about now…. Let me just tell you why I think this is the ideal time to allow yourself to tackle exiting the...

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER: The struggle wellness professionals have when it comes to addressing the topic of alcohol How the belief of "normal" vs "alcoholic" keeps the conversation from coming up The power of better questions How Teri's helping the wellness professional help their clients   MENTIONED IN THE SHOW: Teri's program exclusively for wellness professionals - The Sober Edge EXIT & Beyond Life...

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER: The #1 skill I use to get and remain alcohol free for over 4 years. How to point your brain in the direction you'd like to go The power of unconsciously thought patterns and how to change them. Questions you can ask yourself    MENTIONED IN THE SHOW: Ask Debi EXIT & Beyond Life Coaching Membership agingflipped.com for more resources on aging with ease and more fulfillment.&nb...

I want to give you 5 tips today to help you make achieving the goal of changing what you drink a little bit easier for yourself.   1 - Start now. Your brain will tell you that this isn’t the best time, this is the wrong time.  2 - Be willing to go through the messy middle. 3 - Become a part of the 1% club.  It is the small, easy, consistent things you do that actually create the biggest results in...

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so ~ William Shakespeare. We have neurons that are firing and wiring in our brains. When they’re firing and wiring they send off chemical reactions and we just call those things feelings . Our feelings are what drive our actions. Our feelings come from our thoughts.  How would life be different if we stopping thinking of our feelings as go...

In today’s episode, I invite you to challenge the idea that actions are “good” “bad” "right" or "wrong".  How would your life be different if you let go of assigning a good or bad right or wrong meaning to actions?  What you'll discover in today's episode: Why there is so much power is letting go of assigning good, bad, right, or wrong to action. How continuing to believe this lie fuels your drink...

The journey of living a life free from the influence of outside substances like alcohol is one that goes outside the norm. What is considered “normal behavior.” Because of this, you can sometimes feel isolated and alone. Especially when you are new at navigating this world. Terri Hug decided to create something to help with getting to know yourself again and connecting with others who’ve also made...

What I wanted was to change my desire…..I just wished I could desire less of it. I remember so desperately wanting to not want alcohol. I was unhappy, exhausted, and uncomfortable with the direction my life was headed and my drinking was getting in the way of me making the changes I I kept finding myself going to get that drink again, and again knowing how it was going to turn out. I was frightene...

Yes, it's considered "normal" to drink alcohol. However, when we begin to appreciate that it’s interfering with how we want to show up in life, our brain starts to offer us up all kinds of stories pointing us away from changing.  This everyday childs play tool just might give you the shift you need to embrace the journey so you can change what you drink without judgment.  Small changes are much mo...

I get questions like these a lot...."What is wrong with me? Why can't I figure this over drinking thing out?" "Why can I just cut back and stop thinking about alcohol?"  My short answer to all of these questions is BELIEF.  Today, I'm inviting you to listen in as I share what beliefs are. How belief affects our actions. Plus what you can do to start uncovering your beliefs.  As long as a belief ex...

We can accept the pain that will inevitably come along in life and be more alive for it. We don’t need to suffer. When we argue with our pain or think that we shouldn’t be feeling it, we suffer. We find all sorts of ways to create unnecessary emotional suffering. But when we’re suffering, we’re not showing up fully for life. We’re robbing ourselves of the life we  could  have. In today’s episode,...

Because we've used alcohol for so long to avoid feeling our feelings, we may not not how to actually allow ourselves to feel them. This is the audio portion of a video training I did teaching a 7 step process for feeling your feelings.  agingflipped.com for more resources on aging with ease and more fulfillment. 

In this episode, we'll dive deep into the idea of necessary darkness and crossing the river of misery. We're going to be uncomfortable on this journey of life and transforming our relationship with alcohol, no matter what we do. We get to choose whether we want the discomfort of  staying the same , or the discomfort of  transformation. What You’ll Learn from this Episode: The one skill that we nee...

Worry is always about something that might happen in the future. It’s not about what’s happening in the present. We can always handle the present moment. In the present we have real circumstances so even if it’s dangerous we can problem solve, think critically and begin finding solutions. The present is do-able. It’s just our thoughts about the future that are intolerable because the future is unk...