Alcohol Minimalist: Mindful Drinking & Behavior Change

Grab your free e-book "Alcohol Truths: How Much is SAFE?" here !  Join the private community "Change Your Alcohol Habit" here! This week on the podcast I'm delighted to share my conversation with Clare Pooley, author of "The Sober Diaries".  This book and Clare's story were a huge inspiration for me while I was changing my drinking habit. The book is a wonderful mixture of humor, science and strai...

Join my private Facebook group!  Pick up your free copy of "Alcohol Truths: How Much is Safe" here.  Do you believe that you need to have a drink to take the edge off?  This episode is all about the relationship between alcohol and anxiety.  We'll dive into the science of alcohol and how it effects neurotransmitters in the brain.  The therapeutic benefits of alcohol are limited to only one drink w...

Join my private Facebook group!  Pick up your free copy of "Alcohol Truths: How Much is Safe" here.  What is intuitive drinking?  Learn more in today's episode about intutive drinking and what I have in my intuitive drinking toolbox.  Article on "intuitive drinking" These are the tools I've used to create a peaceful relationship with alcohol: past, present and future. In combination with understan...

Grab 32 FREE self-help books including "Alcohol Truths: How Much is Safe?"  Link is valid through March 15, 2021.  FREE Self-Help Books Join my free private Facebook group. It's private so no one will know you are in there but the group is searchable on Facebook. Click here to join me!  This week's episode extend's last week's conversation talking about the Results Cycle and the Behavior Map.  Spe...

Free Self-Help Book Promotion! Grab 32 Free books here:  Have you grabbed your free E-book Alcohol Truths: How Much is Safe?  Get it here: www.mollywatts.com Join my private Facebook group for support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakingthebottlelegacy This week's episode I dive into the Behavior Map and the Results Cycle.  These tools are my take on Brooke Castillo's self-coaching model.  Vi...

This week on the podcast Molly is talking about how the habit of drinking works in the brain and why this habit seemed "unbreakable" in her own life.  She shares the science of alcohol and how it impacts  neurotransmitters including dopamine, the "feel good" cheminal in our brains and is responsible for motivating us to keep doing whatever we're doing that released it.  The paradox with alcohol is...

This week's episode is the first dive into Molly's life as an adult child of an alcoholic. She shares information she learned while researching the Breaking the Bottle Legacy book. Her research included conversations with other adult children of alcoholics and the NY Times bestseller,  Adult Children of Alcoholics From the book, Molly shares some of the thirteen characteristics outlined by Dr. Woi...

In this episode of Breaking the Bottle Legacy, Molly interviews one of Britain's leading alcohol experts.  Professor David Nutt is a neuropharmacoligist and has spent his career researching drugs and specifically psychopharmacology— the study of the effects of drugs on the brain, from the perspectives of both how drug treatments in psychiatry and neurology work, and why people use and become addic...

Have you tried taking an extended break from drinking?  Tune in to this week's episode as Molly Watts details the five benefits she is noticing while participating in #Dryuary.  There are scientific reasons that taking a break is good for you and Molly shares both science and her own experience from January's successful month off alcohol.  Molly discusses her own journey and why taking a break in...

In this episode of the Breaking the Bottle Legacy, Molly talks with William Porter, author of Alcohol Explained and Alcohol Explained 2.  William's decision to stop drinking came after unsuccessful stints in AA, where he struggled with the lack of science and logical information.  He says that even while he was drinking he sought to understand what effects alcohol was having on him and why people,...

In this episode of Breaking the Bottle Legacy you'll hear from Kenneth Anderson, CEO and founder of HAMS.  Kenneth shares his journey and the experience he had in AA that he says nearly killed him. The idea that he was powerless and alcohol was all-powerful was something that he categorically did not accept and he ended up in detox trying to imagine a different type of recovery program that empowe...

One of the questions people often ask about drinking alcohol is how much is safe?   In this episode of Breaking the Bottle Legacy, Molly Watts discusses the idea of safety in terms of physical health, social health and financial health. When evaluating your decision to drink or not, the advice offered here is to use the best data you can to create your own risk/rewards analysis.  There are conside...

In this two-part series of Breaking the Bottle Legacy, we'll explore challenges to creating your peaceful relationship with alcohol. The power to create a peaceful relationship with alcohol sits squarely on top of your shoulders--namely inside your head and in your own brain.  The challenges to your power include science, society and industry.  This is part two of the series, and in this episode w...

In this two-part series of Breaking the Bottle Legacy, we'll explore challenges to creating your peaceful relationship with alcohol. The power to create a peaceful relationship with alcohol sits squarely on top of your shoulders--namely inside your head and in your own brain.  The challenges to your power include science, society and industry.  The first is the science of alcohol and includes both...

In the first episode of Breaking the Bottle Legacy, host Molly Watts shares her beliefs surrounding alcohol and how you can create a peaceful relationship with alcohol: past, present and future.  This podcast is dedicated to adult children of alcoholics who are drinking more than they want to, and who struggle with anxiety and fear of becoming an alcoholic like his/her parent. The show is based in...