Cognitive Dissonance and Alcohol-Free Living: Understanding the Psychological Struggle with Coach Jason
Release Date: 06/13/2025
4 Things You're Always in Control Of - Coach Matt & Coach Jason
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
In this episode of the Alcohol-Free Lifestyle Podcast, Matt and Jason open up about navigating seasonal triggers, lingering alcohol cravings, even years into being alcohol-free, and the powerful tools that keep them grounded. Discover how controlling your breath, posture, words, and focus can help you stay resilient, emotionally balanced, and connected to your alcohol-free path. Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs & High Performers: https://social.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/podcast ★ - Learn more about Project 90:...
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Short the Stock: Alcohol’s Crashing Value" - Victoria English
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
You wouldn’t invest in a stock with declining returns, mounting risks, and fake rewards, so why keep pouring into alcohol? This episode unpacks the hidden costs of drinking through the lens of value, logic, and self-trust. Discover why high-achieving professionals stay stuck in a losing game, and how to start making deposits into something that actually grows: your clarity, confidence, health, and peace. If alcohol is a failing stock, it’s time to stop living like it, and start building something better. Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs...
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Your Compass Is Pointing Somewhere, Why Aren’t You Moving? - Victoria English
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
Do you feel stuck, knowing you want to change your relationship with alcohol but waiting for the “perfect time”? In this episode, Coach Victoria English uses the powerful metaphor to explain why you might be frozen in the “almost phase”. She reveals how the mental exhaustion of debating your drinking and the myth of “being ready” can keep you from moving forward. Discover why clarity and relief don't come from standing still, but from taking that first, single step. Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs & High Performers:...
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How Visualization Can Rewire Your Alcohol-Free Journey with Coach Jason and Coach Matt
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
In this episode, Coaches Jason and Matt explain how this simple mental practice can help you build the alcohol-free life you want. They share the science behind it, including a study where visualization improved performance by 23%, and give you actionable tools like “playing the tape forward” to consciously create your future. Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs & High Performers: https://social.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/podcast ★ - Learn more about Project 90: www.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/Project90 ★ - (Accountability &...
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Leading with Strength: How Natural Talents Support the Alcohol-Free Journey
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
In this episode, Coach Teri Patterson sits down with Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach Sally Magee to explore how identifying and embracing your natural talents can support and strengthen your alcohol-free lifestyle. They discuss the Clifton Strengths assessment, the value of focusing on what you do well, and how leaning into your strengths builds confidence, clarity, and momentum on the path to freedom from alcohol. Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs & High Performers: https://social.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/podcast ★ - Learn more about...
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Cognitive Dissonance and Alcohol-Free Living: Understanding the Psychological Struggle with Coach Jason
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
What happens when your actions don’t match your values? In this episode, we talk about cognitive dissonance, the mental stress that comes from doing one thing while believing another. You’ll hear a personal story about how this conflict can lead to habits that feel hard to break. If you're thinking about a change or just want to understand why some habits stick, this episode can help. We look at how your thoughts, actions, and values all connect, and how making them work together can lead to real change. Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs...
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The Corona Cartel: How Big Alcohol Took Over Summer - Victoria English
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
Ever wonder what's really behind those perfect summer alcohol ads? This episode, Coach Victoria disrupts the biggest lie sold by alcohol companies: that their drinks create your happiness and an "effortless summer vibe." Prepare to see things differently as Victoria challenges you to imagine those glossy beach ads selling another risky product, would they still seem so harmless? It's a bold invitation to question what's truly being sold. Victoria uncovers the smart psychological tricks these ads use to connect alcohol with your summer joy, often hiding the real story. She...
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After the Silence: What I Heard When I Finally Stopped Escaping - Victoria English
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
Do you ever wish you could handle tough feelings without needing to escape them? Coach Victoria shares her own story of facing emotional pain after using alcohol as an "emotional anesthetic". Many of us try to numb feelings from stress, grief, or old hurts with drinks. Victoria talks openly about why it’s so scary to meet these feelings when we choose to live alcohol-free, and the "emotional weight" many people carry. But there's amazing hope for change. Victoria explains how alcohol affects our brains and the exciting science of "neuroplasticity". How our brains can heal and build new...
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Villain, Victim, or Helpless? Rewriting the Stories You Tell Yourself - Coach Jason & Coach Matt
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
Do your inner stories hold you back? Jason and Matt, coaches at Alcohol-Free Lifestyle, talk about these powerful hidden stories. Often, these stories shape our lives without us even knowing it. They look at how we might see ourselves in unhelpful ways, like a Villain, a Victim, or as Helpless. Learn how these inner thoughts can really affect our lives, especially our relationship with alcohol and our happiness. You can find simple ways to change these unhelpful thoughts. Rewrite your inner story to feel stronger and more in control. Jason and Matt talk about knowing yourself better and...
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"It's a Miracle": Dan's 90-Day Journey to an Alcohol-Free Life He Never Thought Possible. An honest conversation with Coach Matt, told through the eyes of an AFL member
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
Ever wondered if you could truly change your relationship with drinks and unlock a more vibrant life? Hear Dan Hall's powerful story, an AFL 90-day program graduate who went from decades of habitual drinking, a pattern that intensified during COVID, to a life he never imagined. After a pivotal “bad experience” and initial skepticism about the program's high success claims, Dan committed to the 90-day journey. This episode delves into that decision and the path that unfolded. Dan describes his transformation as a "miracle", explaining how AFL helped reshape his neuropath ways until...
info_outlineWhat happens when your actions don’t match your values? In this episode, we talk about cognitive dissonance, the mental stress that comes from doing one thing while believing another. You’ll hear a personal story about how this conflict can lead to habits that feel hard to break.
If you're thinking about a change or just want to understand why some habits stick, this episode can help. We look at how your thoughts, actions, and values all connect, and how making them work together can lead to real change.
Download my FREE guide: The Alcohol Freedom Formula For Over 30s Entrepreneurs & High Performers: https://social.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/podcast
★ - Learn more about Project 90: www.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/Project90
★ - (Accountability & Support) Speak verbally to a certified Alcohol-Free Lifestyle coach to see if, or how, we could support you having a better relationship with alcohol: https://www.alcoholfreelifestyle.com/schedule
★ - The wait is over – My new book “CLEAR” is now available. Get your copy here: https://www.alcoholfreelifestyle.com