Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Please enjoy this podcast REWIND- Frustration As Fuel

This episode I dive into how you can channel your frustration to stop over-drinking to get you to take actions you haven't been willing to take. Frustration can be a great emotion to initiate permanent changes if you know how to identify which actions will move you forward or keep you stuck.

Angela Mascenik, certified stop over-drinking coach, breaks what it really takes to create lasting change from the inside out with your relationship with alcohol, every week in the Stop Over-drinking and Start Living podcast.

If you’re successful, responsible, and “high functioning” on the outside but privately exhausted from managing alcohol in your head, you'll resonate with the helpful tips in this episode to cut back or take a break from alcohol.

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This week's podcast is a must listen if you have been making drink plans or zero drink plans and not following them.

First, I'm sharing how I'm self-coaching myself through the final days before I welcome my first group to The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal! And you can apply this to any project or big event in your life that might be happening.

Then, I share a tactic that will help you interrupt the automatica behavior of drinking off plan, even when you have the best intentions to stick to your plan in the morning.

The idea is that we need to pro-actively check in with ourselves and Stop - Notice- Process BEFORE the urge or the chatter hits at the end of the day.

SNP {Stop - Notice - Process} is my signature interruption technique to handle urges or interrupt behavior when we have strong feelings or desires to do drink or take unwanted actions.

Don't miss this episode.

Angela Mascenik, certified stop over-drinking coach, breaks what it really takes to create lasting change from the inside out with your relationship with alcohol, every week in the Stop Over-drinking and Start Living podcast.

If you’re successful, responsible, and “high functioning” on the outside but privately exhausted from managing alcohol in your head, you'll resonate with the helpful tips in this episode to cut back or take a break from alcohol.

Click the link to get more info about the Lisbon Magic House:
https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

Please enjoy this podcast REWIND:

I received a great question last week around the fears we have when we think about changing our drinking.

Here it is:

The biggest fear I have about not drinking is a potential loss of emotional connection with other people. My husband and I have a routine of drinking together, having one of our great, deep conversations. And with other people - I love to connect deeply with people and put them at their ease - and so many people use mutual drinking to do that!

I met a friend of mine who’s going through a hard time. I didn’t drink, so she didn’t drink, but it felt like neither of us could quite relax and enjoy ourselves. And with new friends - so often people use mutual drinking with me to let their guards down and get to know each other.

I know this is all just an unfortunate part of the drinking culture, but this, I feel, is the biggest barrier to me not socially drinking: the loss of apparent mutual intimacy.

This is such a great question.

This podcast episode addresses this common fear, how alcohol actually doesn't help build true intimacy, and some ideas on how to start building intimacy without drinking.

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If you’ve been trying to drink less for years; making rules, starting over on Mondays, doing Dry January or “taking a break” and it keeps not working the way you hoped, this episode will help you understand why.

For many high-functioning women, drinking didn’t begin as a habit. It began as a response. A response to stress, pressure, loneliness, overstimulation, reward, or simply the need to finally relax at the end of a long day.

Over time, that response gets repeated enough that it starts to feel automatic. Like something you don’t fully choose anymore. Like a pattern your brain runs before you even have time to think.

In this episode, Angela Mascenik, certified stop over-drinking coach, breaks down how drinking habits actually form, why behavior-based approaches often don’t last, and what it really takes to create lasting change from the inside out.

If you’re successful, responsible, and “high functioning” on the outside but privately exhausted from managing alcohol in your head, this conversation will feel very familiar.

What you’ll learn in this episode

• Why drinking often starts as an emotional or nervous system response

• How the brain builds automatic drinking patterns over time

• The difference between conscious choice and conditioned habit

• Why rules, challenges, and behavior-only approaches don’t always stick

• What it means to work underneath the habit instead of just on top of it

• How learning to feel and process discomfort changes your relationship with alcohol

• What real, sustainable change can look like

Ready for deeper support?

Alive AF! is Angela’s monthly coaching membership for high-functioning women who want to change their relationship with alcohol in a thoughtful, sustainable, shame-free way.

Inside you’ll get coaching, community, workshops, and real tools to help you interrupt old patterns and build new ones.

Enrollment is open now through April 3.
Join here → www.angelamascenik.com/aliveaf

If you’ve been trying to drink less for years, making rules, cutting back, starting over every Monday, and it still is not sticking, this episode will help you understand why.

In this episode, certified stop over-drinking coach Angela Mascenik explains why high-functioning women stay stuck in the drinking cycle even when they are motivated, capable, and successful in other areas of life. You will learn why behavior-based strategies and willpower alone often fail, what is actually happening in your brain when you reach for a drink, and what creates real, lasting change from the inside out.

This conversation is for sober curious women who feel mentally exhausted managing their drinking and want a different approach. Angela shares practical insight into how automatic patterns form, why moderation attempts can feel so draining, and how to begin changing your relationship with alcohol without shame, rigid labels, or the pressure to quit forever.

If your life looks put together on the outside but you are privately frustrated by your drinking habits, this episode offers clarity, relief, and a new path forward.

What we cover in this episode:
• Why willpower and discipline are not the real problem
• How high-functioning women develop automatic drinking patterns
• What your brain is doing when you reach for alcohol
• The hidden mental load of trying to control drinking
• Why behavior-only approaches often do not create lasting change
• How to start shifting your relationship with alcohol from the inside out

SAVE THE DATE, Alive AF! My monthly stop over-drinking online membership opens on March 27th!

There are only three spots left for the May Magic House Retreat in Lisbon! Click the link to get more info:
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