Family Dynamics, the Relapse Mindset, and 7 Drinking Permission Slips We Create to Ease the Tension (E304)
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Family interactions can trigger the relapse mindset long before cravings show up. You’ll learn how old emotional roles, deep shame pathways, and the brain’s threat-prediction system pull you back into survival mode and why alcohol becomes the remembered shortcut for relief. I break down seven internal permission slips that fuel relapse thinking and the emotional chain reaction behind them. This episode teaches you how to interrupt the pattern early, before the thought of drinking even enters the picture.
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Gillian Tietz. Family Dynamics, the Relapse Mindset, and 7 Drinking Permission Slips We Create to Ease the Tension (E304). Sober Powered. 2025
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