A review by oliviaheusy
This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol: Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace

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4.0

"This Naked Mind" shifted everything for me. Annie Grace's argues that the most efficient way to escape alcohol's clutches, is to tackle our unconscious beliefs about the substance. After all, there is a billion dollar marketing campaign built to make us believe that alcohol is fun, relaxing, romantic, empowering, healing, etc etc. In my own life, even in times when I was unhappy with my relationship to alcohol (I have always been a "social drinker," but even that can become unhealthy quickly), I always came back to drinking because I thought there was something in it I wanted. Since reading "This Naked Mind," I no longer believe that. I read this book immediately after reading "Quit Like a Woman," which really served as a great one-two punch within my own relationship to alcohol. This book  had me re-thinking whether I have ever truly enjoyed alcohol, when nights I previously coded as "fun" were paired with dreadful hang-xiety, regretful decisions, and memory loss. The truth is alcohol is toxic, with even a single drink increasing our risk to several types of cancer, and dozens of different health complications. This book illuminated something for me: the life I want is not possible with alcohol. 

I can, however, see why some people would not like this book. It does at times become repetitive, and some could view it as pedantic. It was helpful to me, but I think it would depend on where a person is in their own journey, and how they like to receive information from others. 
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