One Minute Message 126 > You and That Voice

Sometimes, when you’re trying to quit drinking, the voice in your head can get really loud. So I send out free one minute audio messages of encouragement (and ass-kicking) to anyone who wants them. This is a transcript of One Minute Message #126.

You:
“I just need to try harder.
My brain says I just need to start again and try harder
Sorry Belle, I’m on Day 1
I’ll try harder”

And Belle says:
It’s not about trying harder
It’s about trying different
If what you’ve been trying up to now isn’t working the way you want it to
If you’re not getting the results that you want
Then you do something different
To get a different result

To begin again with the same tools
is, you know, that definition of insanity

But also, we have a brain that tells us
that all tools won’t work for us
That we are specifically, specially deficient and broken

And that same voice that gets us to drink
Tells us that anything we try won’t work
So, no point in trying anything new

‘I could set up calls with her, it won’t work
I could go to an AA meeting, it won’t work
I don’t want to ask my doctor
I don’t want to take her class
I don’t want to listen to an audio
I don’t want to do anything’

That voice that you hear is the same voice that says Drink Now
And when you reach out and get some support
You learn how to get between you and that voice

~

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Belle Robertson, 4.75 year sober, blogs and writes and records daily sober audios. She’s been sober penpals with 2,607 people, and works as a text designer, baker & caterer, and sober coach. She lives in France. She makes the best apple pie with two kinds of apples and a crumble top.