Ep 182: 10 Reasons Alcohol is Like a Toxic Ex Boyfriend

Beautiful, what if you thought about alcohol as a person you’re in a relationship with?

If you look at it this way, you can see there are a lot of red flags, right? From lowering your self-esteem, to not supporting your self-improvement, alcohol frequently steals your momentum and makes you take five steps backward.

In today’s episode, Karolina talks openly about how alcohol is actually like a toxic ex-boyfriend. Just like an actual unhealthy relationship, it can feel so terrifying to leave, even though we know this relationship isn’t making us happy.

The hope is that this episode gives you an “I Will Survive” Aretha Franklin kinda energy, helping you make the decision to go alcohol-free or feel even more solid in this choice. Because truthfully, you are actually much more endearing, interesting, and powerful on your own!

Ready to do alcohol differently? Dry Bootcamp is back on August 1st. Join Karolina for a 22-day life-changing, immersive community experience! Take a break from alcohol and discover how to take care of your emotional needs in a luxurious, beautiful, and healthy way. There will be group coaching calls, mocktail happy hours, unique guides, and instructions on how to train your brain to adopt rituals that are good for you! Enroll here for $159.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Karolina’s real-life, toxic ex-boyfriend, and how this compares with the healthy relationship she has with her husband
Alcohol’s effect on our brain chemistry, lowering good neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin) and releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline
How 60 percent of drinkers actually have unhealthy relationships with alcohol, so you have to know, it’s not you – it’s him!
The impact alcohol has on our health goals, self-esteem, free time, self-improvement efforts, confidence, and how with “him”, nothing ever changes – the patterns are always the same
It takes intuition and courage to re-evaluate the role of alcohol in your life. Karolina shares how empowering it can feel to even recognize that you’ve outgrown alcohol
Dry Bootcamp starts August 1st – and is actually less expensive than the cost of a monthly drinking habit!

REFLECTION QUESTION:

Have you ever been in a toxic relationship? How did you get out of it? If you’re in a better relationship now, did you have to do any inner work to get there?

“I remember this so clearly, that I believed that I needed to have alcohol to socialize, to feel confident. I thought I needed it to have fun. I thought I needed it to relax. And the thing is, every one of those statements goes back to this belief that I didn't believe I could achieve those things on my own. That I had to have something outside of me – this toxic beverage – in order to feel that way. And I wasn't powerful enough on my own to tap into those states. And that is the most disempowering and limiting thing we could possibly ever believe.” - Karolina Rzadkowolska

“I love anthropomorphizing alcohol into an actual boyfriend because it's so much easier to see all the red flags this way. And I get really fired up. I almost think of Aretha Franklin's ‘I Will Survive’ song. Get out of my house, get out of my life. You don't belong here anymore. This person did nothing but bring you down and make you feel like you needed him. Made you feel less than and made you lose your self-trust. Made you lose your connection with your personal development, your dreams, and your goals. He doesn't deserve a place in your life.” - Karolina Rzadkowolska

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Ready to do alcohol differently? Dry Bootcamp is back on August 1st. Join Karolina for a 22-day life-changing, immersive community experience! Take a break from alcohol and discover how to take care of your emotional needs in a luxurious, beautiful, and healthy way. There will be group coaching calls, mocktail happy hours, unique guides, and instructions on how to train your brain to adopt rituals that are good for you! Enroll here for $159.

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