How to Stop Beating Yourself Up and Practice Self-Compassion when Changing Your Drinking

How do you get out of the shame spiral after you drink? How can you stop beating yourself up every time you drink? How can you learn to be more compassionate with yourself? I answer these questions and more in this episode of the podcast. Part of this podcast is from a course I teach called Mindful AF. One component of mindfulness is compassion. A lot of what I talk about is having self-compassion when you're changing your drinking. We cannot hate ourselves to recovery. We can't shame ourselves to recovery. It's only when we start caring for ourselves and have self-compassion when we drink that we can overcome this habit. It's more helpful to be compassionate to ourselves than to beat ourselves up. This episode talks about: The inner critic voice that beats us up The purpose of the inner critic How to stop beating yourself up What compassion is