Did you know that there are only two industries that refer to its consumers as users? Can you guess what two those might be?
The digital and the drug and alcohol industries.
On this weeks episode of The Sex is Great, I’m taking a little detour to discuss alcohol consumption and addiction, particularly in women. For the first time in history, women are narrowing the gender gap in deaths from alcohol or related to alcohol. A few factors play a role in this. The ever pervasive normalizing and promoting of drinking culture. Physiological factors such as hormones and women’s bodies lacking the enzymes to properly aid in processing and metabolizing alcohol. And of course, dopamine. Our chemical desire and drive in seeking rewards for survival.
The negative effects of such substances and the challenge of breaking the cycle of desire are just the beginning.
Join me today and listen in as I explain the deeper pain body we are experiencing as women who are socialized to be the primary caregivers, not to complain or ask for help and to put everyone else first.
We are conditioned to compact our feelings or suppress them. Instead of going inward to solve for them, we are easily reaching out for a drink, anti depressants, or desserts.
What You Will Discover:
The problem is not you.
Dopamine's role in desire and its impact on behavior are explained, showing how alcohol and drugs can override the brain's natural dopamine regulation.
How the marketing and social normalization of alcohol consumption, particularly among women is targeted at making you believe it’s the answer to a successful life and the way to de-stress.
Your stress is coming from a much deeper pain body than you are aware of.
How you can begin to overcome the urge to drink, change your reactive patterns and slowly start integrating your shadow side into your whole being.
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If you are a woman who feels stuck and stagnate in her current relationship, unable to have the conversations to either repair it or end it, can’t stop seeking pleasure from other men and martinis and feel hungover with guilt, unsure how to untangle yourself from it all, head on over to www.ashleykelsch.com to inquire about working 1:1 with her.