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Oct 2024
57m 19s

Changing my relationship with alcohol wi...

LEXI HIDALGO
About this episode

Something you may not know about me is that I've been alcohol-free for the past three months. It hasn't been easy. Basically, I started paying attention to my body and how I felt the days after I drank -- anxious, sad and just no energy. I've taken breaks before but I would always come back to drinking. So to better understand my relationship with alcohol, I brought on one of the smartest people I know onto the pod, Dr. Jessica Leon.

Some of the things we get into here:


  • A judgment-free conversation about (legal) drinking
  • How exactly alcohol became so unavoidable
  • How binge drinking steals our peace...and how it also steals our sleep! And our money :,)
  • What exactly alcohol does to our bodies
  • And, Dr. Jessica provides a checklist for questions we can ask ourselves to see if we're ready to change our relationship to alcohol


With love, Lexi


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