Your Nervous System Is Running the Show

People think willpower is the thing.

But when you learn about the nervous system and you learn about the biology of all this, I am telling you, you will remove the shame, remove the shame because you're going to be like, oh my goodness.

Because if you just try to stop drinking and do nothing else, it will feel like a struggle.

I am telling you, if you don't understand this stuff or you don't have help to understand this stuff, it will be heavy because you have to look at like, I see three factors.

One is the biology, meaning blood sugar.

sleep, your hormones, all the things that make your body work, what you eat, what you do, what you think, what you, all the things, the sleeping, it matters.

And it matters with cravings.

And it also matters how you consume sugary things and salty things.

Also, if your willpower is in your prefrontal cortex, when you get stressed out, when you have high levels of cortisol, which is a stress hormone, your brain goes offline, which makes so much sense why we start the day off with trying to be good and then we don't be good.

And this is just one part of it.

And I don't want to say don't be good.

I don't think I even like that language.

We find ourselves doing things we don't like and we're mad at ourselves and we don't simply understand.

We just try to stop drinking.

And I don't think you can just stop drinking.

I think you have to learn this stuff.

And without further ado, let's go into today's topic.

And before I move into today's topic, I think it's important to understand that willpower isn't a you problem.

It's literally part of our biology, that when we have certain things happen to us, our body, our brains have learned a certain way to cope.

And that might be alcohol, that might be food.

You know, those are the things, even scrolling, gambling, all of these things promote dopamine and also even dopamine before you do them.

And I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of dopamine because it is, it's important, but it's just part of it.

And I think that there are so many different players with these things that it's so important to understand it, but let's talk about the nervous system.

So I have a whole chapter in my book.

So I would really, really highly recommend you get my book and I will link it below because part of my journey was learning about this.