The Stop Drinking Coach
The Stop Drinking Coach Podcast is a recovery podcast that offers a neuroscience-based approach to quitting alcohol without willpower, shame, or outdated recovery models. Hosted by Bardia Rezaei, founder of NeuroRepatterning™, it focuses on changing the underlying behaviors that drive drinking. The show is designed for listeners who are done fighting alcohol and want a method that actually works. It also mentions one-on-one and group coaching available through the host's website.
Episodes
The Rebirth of Your New Self - Identity & Potential
In this video I go deep into the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual journey we must all embrace as we quit drinking into step into and begin to embody a new version of ourself.Early on it can feel raw, messy & and uncertain. But it's the path towards everything you've ever dreamed of. Everything you want is on the other side of drinking alcohol and I hope this episodes help you
Stop Fighting Cravings - Do This Instead
Cravings and the desire to drink alcohol are the last pieces of the chain, yet we believe they are the problem so that's where we keep our focus and it feels like we're fighting an uphill battle.Instead, you must address all of the components that drive the craving and desire to drink in the first place:Thoughts, feelings, emotions, cues, triggers, people, places, things, belifes & ide
The Science of Dopamine, Prediction Error & How to Stop Drinking Alcohol
In This episode I break down the science of dopamine, it's role in learning & addiction how to your brain learns and updates its models of reality through Prediction Error.I also explain how NeuroRepatterning is the only recovery system that helps you consistently generate prediction error across all the "upstream" architecture that produces cravings & the desire to drink alc
Why Getting Sober Feels Hard & What To Do Instead
In this episode I talk about why creating the conditions for sobriety isn't just a "nice to have" - it's a requirement if you want to get to a place where your mind and body stop craving alcohol & you constantly feel like you're missing out.What's beautiful about NeuroRepatterning and the SDC process it that it provides you a clear, comprehensive step by step path you
Quit Drinking Alcohol Using Proven Neuroscience - NeuroRepatterning Explained
In this podcast I explain why you haven't been able to stop drinking despite your knowledge of alcohol, addiction or trying different programs.I also help you understand what NeuroRepatterning is, how it works & how it's helping so many people lose the desire to drink while reducing and eliminating cravings all together.If you aren't updating the brain and nervous system, the pattern stays ali
Alcohol & Relationships & How To Quit Drinking
In this podcast I talk about the impact that alcohol has on relationships, how drinking degrades them overtime and creates a lack of stability, safety & trust.If you want to quit drinking using proven Neuroscience go to www.thestopdrinkingcoach.com - it's helped 40 year drinkers that have tried everything find sobriety."It's so crazy I have no cravings and have completely lost the
Walking as a Gateway To Sobriety + First Ever Affordable Payment Plan To Join SDC (Limited Time)
For a limited time (a few days), you can join SDC at a huge discount and a small monthly payment. This is to reward action takes, those who have been sitting on the fence and anyone who hasn't joined because of funds. SDC at this low monthly rate is now accessible to anyone who has a desire to stop drinking. You still get full access to the entire program for a year & NeuroRepatterning + my ne
Choose The Story You Want To Live
I invite you to look deeply within yourself and reflect on the stories you tell and how your life might change if you changed them.The latest science explains addiction not as a disease, but a learning disorder. Addiction is a prediction error in the brain where through repititon, you teach your brain that everytime you feel or desire X it = alcohol. You gain the reward, the brain learns and predi
Go On a Walk & Listen To This
Hey SDC Fam, it's been a while and I'm back with another episode. Took some time for myself. Was figuring out and navigating life and recently experienced a very profound and spontaneous realization that's shifting my life path and I'm very excited to share it with you.I believe it's going to help even more people than just quitting drinking. Would love to invite you to join me
Managing Sensation As You Quit Drinking
In this episode of The Stop Drinking Coach Podcast, I talk about the mindset of managing sensation as you embark on the journey of quitting drinking. I go deep into the mindset and help you understand how to frame it so that you are in the best possible position to succeed as you meet the edge of your old programming and patterns.Thank you to everyone who continues to listen and support this work.
Overcoming The Fear of Quitting Drinking
In this episode of The Stop Drinking Coach Podcast, I go deep in helping you understand how to move through the fear and uncertainty of quitting drinking. I talk about the importance of taking risk and the mindset necessary to achieve your goals.Thank you to everyone who continues to listen and support this work. If you are ready to understand yourself more deeply, regulate your nervous system, an
Quit Drinking Through Nonresistance
In this episode of The Stop Drinking Coach Podcast, I help you understand that everything that you're experiencing right now in the material word is a projection of what you first desired inside of your consciousness. Everything that exists first starts in the mind. And when you focus on what you want, rather than what you don't want - life will begin revealing opportunities that are in al
The Neuroscience & Mindset of Quitting Alcohol
In this episode of The Stop Drinking Coach Podcast, you dive deep into the neuroscience and mindset of quitting drinking and what actually creates lasting freedom from alcohol. You explore how alcohol rewires the brain, why cravings are neurological prediction errors, and how the pain-pleasure principle drives addictive behavior beneath conscious awareness.You break down the mental, emotional, phy
Deconstructing Your Relationship With Alcohol, Finding Your Why & How To Quit Drinking
In this episode I dive deep in helping you deconstruct your relationship with alcohol. I help you better understand why you drink from both a personal and neurobiological level and really drive home the importance of finding your deeper purpose and drive behind quitting. Inside this conversation, you will explore:• The neuroscience of cravings and why they are prediction errors, not commands• How
Healing Your Inner Child, The Neuroscience of Addiction & NeuroRepatterning
Healing Your Inner Child, The Neuroscience of Addiction & NeuroRepatterningCravings are not a lack of willpower. They are learned neurological responses.In this episode, I go deep into the neuroscience of addiction and relapse, breaking down what cravings actually are, why they feel so compelling, and how unresolved emotional memory and inner child wounds quietly drive the urge to escape.You w
The Neuroscience of Cravings
In this episode I explore the neuroscience of cravings, what they are, mental models around them and how to move through them successfully to reduce and eliminate relapse.The Stop Drinking Coach is a Leading Alcohol Recovery and Life coaching system that is designed with several core pillars in mind:1. Proactive lifestyle transformation; Daily optimization of Mind, Body, Spirit & Neurochemistr
Alcoholism is Not a Disease & How To Quit Drinking Alcohol
In this episode I help you understand how and why Alcoholism got labeled a disease and breakdown the neuroscience of what's happening in the brain when we drink alcohol. I also share my new alcohol recovery methodology, how it works and why I believe it's going to be so effective at helping people experience lasting freedom from alcohol.The Stop Drinking Coach is a Leading Alcohol Recovery
What's It Gonna Take?
What's it gonna take? How much longer are you going to delay? Do you want to set your life on fire before you change? Or are you willing to take the next right step even though it feels scary? You can do this.The Stop Drinking Coach is a Leading Alcohol Recovery and Life coaching system that is designed with several core pillars in mind:1. Proactive lifestyle transformation; Daily optimization
AA, Transcending The Ego & Spirituality
In this video I dive deep into helping you better understand the role of spirituality in recovery, how AA turns most people off by their approach and how transcending your ego and living through a spiritual lens provides an adaptive advantage in your healing, maturity and personal evolution as a human being.The Stop Drinking Coach is a Leading Alcohol Recovery and Life coaching system that is desi
Keep Relpsing? Listen To This
Better understand the underlying drivers of your alcohol free journey.The Stop Drinking Coach is a Leading Alcohol Recovery and Life coaching system that is designed with several core pillars in mind:1. Proactive lifestyle transformation; Daily optimization of Mind, Body, Spirit & Neurochemistry2. Helps you optimize dopamine on a daily basis, leading to improved mood & up to 80% less cravi
Triggers, Cravings...AKA "The Gap" - Understanding this is KEY
The thing you're afraid of contains within it the seeds of your potential. The healing, growth, expansion, power, success, freedom, love, connection, presence, confidence, peace and joy come from your ability to learn how to navigate The "Gap." Learn what it is and how to redefine your relationship to it.The Stop Drinking Coach is a Leading Alcohol Recovery and Life coaching system t
Understanding Frequency - The Key To Your Evolution
Quitting drinking will elevate your frequency and raise your energetic vibration. The higher your frequency, the more presence, love, joy and connection you experience. Life manifests and materializes more quickly. And you learn how to align your mind, heart, behaviors into a state of coherence that creates harmony. This is when life literally becomes magic and every moment becomes a blessing.This
Quitting Drinking is an Initiation - Time To Step Up
Quitting drinking can be met with fear, doubt, anxiety and all the worries about who we are going to become and what our life is going to be. This is 100% normal and every. single. person. across the board feels this way.However, what quitting drinking ACTUALLY is is a profound initiation process into becoming the version of yourself you've always dreamed of. A more whole, complete, powerful,
SDC Group Coaching Call Snippet
Hey SDC Fam, here's a short 20 minute snippet of our last weekly group coaching call held every Tuesday at 7pm cst. We dive deep into a variety of topics including sobriety, mindset, psychology, mental & emotional regulation, coping, spirituality, philosophy, parts-work, trauma and much more.If you've tried quitting on your own and have gone a few days, few weeks or few months, but alw
Alcohol is a Compensation Pattern & What You Need To Do To Quit
Hey SDC Fam, in this video I dive into helping you understand how our relationship with alcohol is simply a compensation pattern to deeper underlying and unresolved challenges that we have been avoiding and unwilling to face.
If you've tried quitting on your own and have gone a few days, few weeks or few months, but always find yourself returning to the bottle, it's because you haven't begun the
How The SDC Group Program Can Help You Quit Drinking & Transform Your Life + Meet Julian
Welcome back SDC Fam! In today's episode I officially announce the launch of the new SDC Group program in January! I also introduce SDC's newest Coach, Julian Rosen!
Julian was my coach when I was going through this program just 4 years ago and has been instrumental in my evolution in becoming the person who I am today. I can't think of a better person on earth to have part of the program helping
Feelings Are Feedback
In this episode I help you better understand how our feelings and emotions are data points and signals that carry a message and point to what we need to work on addressing in our life. By developing a better relationship with our emotions and not catastrophizing or avoiding them, we gain the necessary wisdom to make the changes in our life that will lead us to empowerment, success and freedom.
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Alcohol is NOT The Problem!
SDC I am back with another episode! It's been too long and it feels so good to be back! Sorry for the minor hiccups in audio quality as my settings had the wrong microphone selected - all future podcasts will return back to high quality!
I'm also excited to announce the launch of my group program launching the first week of January 2025! Everyone who has filled out an application will receive upd
Don't "Quit Drinking" - Do THIS Instead
This SIMPLE and Subtle shift in INTENTION and MINDSET will help you quit drinking
If you want to transform your life, stop running from the pain of this journey and develop the courage to embrace and move through it. This is why working a structured program is so life-changing! It provides you the systems, tools, strategies and support to plug the gaps that lead to relapse.
The Stop Drinking Coa
Your Pain is a Messenger - Stop Running From It
The pain underlying our drinking is a messenger. Whether it be pain from your past...pain from challenges you're experiencing in the present moment...or the pain from the neurochemical feeding cycle (craving, boredom, anxiety) as a result of years of drinking alcohol - your pain is a MESSENGER!
It's there to teach you something. It's feedback to help you understand where you need make
The Discomfort IS The Compass
Everything you've been wanting...the presence, love, connection, family time, personal growth, success...etc is ON THE OTHER SIDE of moving through the discomfort. The discomfort is the compass. Lean in, see it as an opportunity to grow and you WILL!
The Stop Drinking Coach is a PROACTIVE sobriety coaching system that focuses on helping you optimize Mind, Body, Spirit & Neurochemistry to
Process Over Outcomes - The Key To Sobriety
The key to success in ANY area of life comes from focusing on the PROCESS, not just saying you want the outcome. You must commit to the pre-requisite conditions that are necessary for the outcome to occur.
If you want to lose 25lbs, you have to focus on burning more calories than you're consuming, getting the right combination of macro nutrients and exercising daily.
Similarly, if you want
Managing Cravings & Discomfort
Work with me 1-1 to finally quit drinking and get your life back:
visit www.thestopdrinkingcoach.com and fill out an application. My program offers the most comprehensive solution with a system, tools and strategies to not only quit drinking, but to learn how to live an alcohol free life that you love.
In this episode I dive deep into framing the mindset around how to think about cravings and di
What Story Are You Telling Yourself?
The stories you tell yourself determine your experience of reality and how life unfolds. Reality mirrors back what you hold to be true. If you tell yourself this is hard, impossible, painful - guess what, that will be your experience. If you focus on the possibilities of your growth, forward progress as an adult and potential - you'll experience more of that.
The story you tell yourself dicta
Alcohol is Mental, Emotional & Physical Debt
Drinking alcohol incurs debt that you have to pay back mentally, emotionally, energetically, and neurochemically the days, even weeks after. There is no free lunch in nature. The consequences of drinking alcohol on your mind, health, relationships, children, family and financial future are immense. It's like a payday loan you'll never be able to repay. When you finally eliminate this debt
The Brain is a Predictive Modeling System
In this episode I pull back the curtain and help you understand how our brains and consciousness operates to produce our experience of reality. When you begin to understand how experiences, memories, internal representations and emotions are all connected, you gain elite, life-changing power to transform your life.
This is just the TIP of the iceberg. The assets I'm building behind the scenes
How Trauma Leads To Addiction
If you want to better understand how trauma impacts you and leads to a problematic relationship with alcohol, this episode is for you. This will help you understand how your past is still impacting you today, leading you to consciously or unconsciously choose strategies and behaviors that no longer serve your growth and evolution.
The Stop Drinking Coach is a proactive coaching system to help you
Alcohol is Self Preservation Against Pain & Fear
In this episode I help you understand the underlying connection between alcohol and internal pain. Alcohol is not what has been marketed to us. It is a substance used to procrastinate and delay your growth as a human being. Alcohol serves as a form of protection against something deeper than you are avoiding. When you develop the courage to finally face and be present to what lurks beneath, your l
Quitting Drinking Is a Biological Upgrade
Removing alcohol from your life is the direct path to leveling up your life. When you no longer systematically poison yourself in the name of cultural fun and stress relief - you will begin the journey inward to discover the true nature of who and what you are. You will begin to learn how to operate and manage the vehicle you inhabit. In this lies your personal power, sovereignty and freedom.
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Quitting Drinking is About Choosing Your Potential
Quitting drinking is about choosing your potential. It's about letting go over 1 thing, to GAIN BACK EVERYTHING. The start if this journey is about connecting to that part, DEEP inside yourself that KNOWS, that your life is more than just being stuck in a vicious cycle of seeking instant gratification. When you quit drinking and take a proactive approach to your recovery, you can begin archite
Why Accountability Changes Everything
In this episode I help you understand WHY accountability is SO Important on this journey. Listen, I would NOT have been able to do this without accountability. Plain and simple. Month 6-9 I would have cracked because I was experiencing so many changes. But the accountability I had to my coach and community made all the difference. Now I'm here changing thousands of lives. You need accountabili
What "One Day at a Time" Really Means
You've probably heard the term "one day at a time" - but what does it really mean? When I was trying to quit drinking in my 20's I heard it all the time in the recovery space, but it just went in one ear out the other. It didn't mean much. Let me help you understand what it really means and how it applies to you figuring this thing out.
The Stop Drinking Coach is a proactive
Choose Your Sacrifice - Or They Will Be Chosen For You
Choose your sacrifice... or your sacrifices will be chosen for you. This is an important episode.
The Stop Drinking Coach is a proactive coaching system to help you stop drinking alcohol through a neuroscientific and trauma informed lens. If you're ready to follow a proven system to help you stop and finally step into the next chapter of your life visit www.thestopdrinkingcoach.com, fill out
My Story - Raw & Vulnerable
In this episode I share my story. About half way through I wasn't sure if I was going to publish it. It's pretty raw and vulnerable. I went off topic several times and came back. Forgot some things. Sometimes it felt like it didn't come through the way I wanted it. But I guess that's part of being real.
I feel blessed to be here. All the pain. All of the loss. All of the sufferin
What Are You Leaving On The Table?
What are you leaving on the table by drinking alcohol? Your potential? Your family? Your Kids? Think of the possibilities if you could untether yourself from alcohol and no longer be mentally obsessed while gaining back 720 - 1500 hours per year. Who could you be? What would you do? What could your life look like? This is what you need to get clear on. The opportunity cost with alcohol is bigger t
You Are The Mountain - It's Time To Start Climbing
Quitting drinking is a personal journey of mental, emotional and spiritual evolution. YOU are the mountain you are climbing. This is a journey of turning inward and developing the courage to face, work through and overcome the very thing YOU KNOW you are avoiding. This is how you evolve. This is how you heal. This is how you step into the most elite powerful version of yourself.
The Stop Drinking
Play The Tape Forward
In this episode I explain the concept of playing the tape forward. It's a powerful strategy that can be applied in the moment when you crave alcohol but also in a broader sense around your relationship with alcohol and ultimately your life here on earth.
The Stop Drinking Coach is a proactive coaching system to help you stop drinking alcohol through a neuroscientific and trauma informed lens. If y
Drinking Alcohol is Procrastination Against Your Personal Evolution
At a deep level, drinking alcohol represents procrastination against your personal evolution. Alcohol is THE thing that holds you back from mentally, emotionally and spiritually evolving into a higher state of being. One that is more in control, calm, regulated and has a more complete understanding of itself. In order to stop drinking alcohol, you have to develop the courage to being addressing th
You Need To Lean Into The Discomfort
If you want to successfully stop drinking, you HAVE to learn how to lean into discomfort. The reason we are trapped in the alcohol cycle is because of our unwillingness to feel the discomfort. This is what keeps us trapped, limited and repeating the same mistakes, over and over and over again. So, the way you STOP drinking is by developing the courage to feel and move through the discomfort. Whate
Why Will Power ALONE Isn't Enough - There's More To Success
If you try to quit drinking by white knuckling and pushing through with will power ALONE, there's a good chance you'll go back. But here's the deal, there is an element of will power that you do apply. This is called learning the skill of delayed gratification. Quitting drinking is not just about not drinking...it's about so much more than that. Living an alcohol free life is about upgrading your
You MUST Get Honest With Yourself - This is Not Negotiable
If you want to successfully quit drinking alcohol, you MUST be honest with yourself. This is a non-negotiable. If you want to succeed, you have to develop the courage to get honest and stay honest. It's the only way. Alcohol is ruthless. It has no remorse. It will destroy you, your family and steal everything you have from you - and the alcohol companies will continue producing your favorite drink
You Either Pay The Price of Discipline Now Or Feel The Excruciating Pain of Regret Later
I recorded this one really quickly before one of my calls and just let things flow. I reflected on how alcohol really is the #1 thing that gets in the way of all of the things that we want in our life. When you remove the alcohol, you can have it all. It finally clears space for you to begin working on yourself.
We all feel the discomfort early on, but that's just part of the process. It's part of
2023 Is Calling You To Evolve - Are You Ready?
We're a week away from 2023. How did this year go for you? Did you accomplish all of your goals? Did your relationship with alcohol get worse?
Did you make a promise to yourself last year that this was the year you were going to figure it out?
In this episode I share insights to help you really put this journey into frame and help you build context around what quitting drinking is actually about a
Stop Suffering In Silence! Take The First Step - Client Interview - Mathew B.
In this episode I interview a long time friend and client of Stop Drinking Coach, Mathew - we dig deep into his story and how he spent nearly a decade suffering in silence. I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you for listening.
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The 5 Stages of Sobriety - From Struggle to Transcendence
In this episode I breakdown the 5 stages of sobriety and lay down a path forward to help you better understand what is head of you. Most people get stuck in the struggle phase and a high percentage of people go back to drinking in the monotony phase, but if you dig your heels in and commit to your healing and personal growth - you can taste the fruit and freedom this journey offers.
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The Most IMPORTANT Episode Yet - Transform Your Understanding Forever
In this episode, I help you better understand the MAP and context behind why we drink alcohol, addiction and the path to freedom. This will transform the way you think about alcohol forever. Ready to stop drinking and step into the next chapter of your life and become your best self? Fill out an application on my website.
Books Mentioned:
Dopamine Nation - Dr. Anna Lembke
The Map of Consc
To Quit Drinking...You Need To Address & Heal The Underlying Cause
What you NEED to understand is that if you want to quit drinking successfully, you need to address and heal the underlying reasons for why you drink.
For most people people, it comes down to escaping a sense of pain - caused by a dysregulation in their nervous system from old memories, faulty beliefs, programs or patterns at the unconscious level.
You need to change your focus from "not drinking"
Mindset - You MUST Be Willing To Go To War
You have to be willing to go to war. This is the mindset you NEED to have as you approach this process. You cannot be lackadaisical, half in, half out. Or you will continue to repeat the same mistakes and continue suffering the consequences. You have to begin waking up.
In war, you would not drop your pants and give in at the fist site of discomfort. At the first sign of pain. At the first sign of
It's "Scary/Hard" In The Beginning, But Then It Gets Amazing!
As we approach this journey, every single one of us feels fear, stress and discomfort. We feel frozen by the thought of "how am I NEVER going to drink again!?" This is very normal. Everyone experiences it. You're not alone. The "secret key" for this entire process to be successful is taking it one day a time.
Do not overwhelm yourself by imagining a future without alcohol. This is the wrong
How Alcohol Destroys Your Potential & Slowly Steals Your Dreams
This is one of the most important episodes you will ever listen to on your journey. This is the reason why I do what I do.
Alcohol is a slow burn drug that will quietly steal your youth and BEST YEARS of your life. Do not be fooled.
It feels like when you make the decision to give you alcohol that you're giving up everything. That life is destined to be boring and dull. This is an illusion caused
Alcohol & The Pain Pleasure Principle - Understanding THIS is KEY
If you want to have an "edge" and make this process easier...it's very important that you understand the Pain Pleasure principle and how it related to addiction and the cycle we find ourselves in with drinking.
The pain pleasure principle states humans are more motivated to AVOID PAIN than to PURSUE PLEASURE.
What's this have to do with drinking? Listen in to find out.
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Alcohol & Boredom...EXPLAINED!
Do you want to quit drinking but feel like life will be boring without alcohol? You're not alone.
My video on alcohol and boredom received over 1.5 Million views on TikTok. This is one of the major psychological hurdles we need to understand, address and overcome if we want to quit drinking and move on with our life.
EVERYONE feels this way in the beginning.
And it's not because life is boring wit
Should I cut back…or quit?
In the first episode of The Stop Drinking Coach Podcast we talk about the big question everyone asks themselves as they begin this journey:
Should I quit or cut back? The answer my surprise you.
Listen in to find out.
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