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Brain retraining

Living Sober

I talk about this often, how I had to do a lot of really hard work retraining my brain when I first got sober. I often say "I had to work hard to shift my hard-wired thinking around alcohol and retrain my brain". What does this mean?

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I deserve this (a challenge to retrain your brain)

Living Sober

Try this 'I deserve it' exercise and see if it helps shift your thinking around booze.

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What is metacognition and what does it have to do with worry and rumination?

Lawson Psychology

For example, we might become concerned that negative thinking will make us sick, go crazy, damage our brain, lose control of our behaviour, or even cause something bad to happen. We might even attach moral judgments to our thinking and believe that having certain negative thoughts makes us a bad person.