This week on Mastering the Drop, join Tricia with Guest Julie Jones!⁠Listen as Tricia and Julie discuss Intellectualizing a life change.⁠⁠When we experience changes in the outside world, they often bring about an internalization. The process of intellectualizing can be seen as one that helps us to understand our own life.⁠

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All right. Welcome back to Mastering the Drop. A real view of recovery. I am super jazz pumped right now because, you know, my, my, my really good friend Julie Jones is here with us today and, and she just always brings so much love, light energy, pizzaz to any space. So of course I've already like energized.

Um, and, and so, you know, we're just gonna kind of jump to the chase because we're ready to have this conversation , right? Um, because intellectualizing a life change or a recovery journey or, you know, whatever that life change is. It's a great conversation to have.......

My guest, Julie Jones, Welcome my friend. Welcome.

Well, thank you. I am super excited to be here. I've been looking forward to this, this conversation with you and I'm just so grateful to have you in my life. And yeah, so again, I appreciate the opportunity because you know, it's in these types of conversations that so much comes out that it supports and, you know, inspires other people to, you know, figure out their own journey.

Because everybody's journey is unique and everybody's journey, if you wanna say, is customized. Like nobody's gonna have the same journey ever cuz that's life.

So true. So true. When I know that, you know, you've had, you know, a lot of, a lot of journeys happening, right? Like some, like really cool, some, you know, some challenging, some whatever, right?

Like life change is big. Life change is big. 

Well it is, and I don't know, I just recently posted, um, on all my social media, so on October 27th was a big day for me, and I call it my 10 and 10. So 10 years married, and that's been a journey in and of itself. Um, because of the fact that, um, my husband and I have had a lot of ups and downs in our relationship, but bottom line was that, you know, I, I love him so much that sometimes I was just willing to weather some things at my expense.

And then it was when I finally took a stand for myself and realizing, That I was no longer gonna tolerate some of the things that I tolerated. It's really shifted and changed a lot of different dynamics in, in our relationship as well. And then the other 10 came in. That I'm, you know, 10 months sober. So on December 27th of last year, so 20, you know, 20, 21.

I made the decision after examining my relationship with alcohol and I said, Okay, enough is enough. And I had thought about it a a lot as well. Like, you know, you talk about this, you know, intellectualization and I'm not always a think. Right. But at this particular moment, and this particular decision, I was. Because I had really started examining, um, you know, like the, the instances in my life where I was probably a little bit embarrassed by my behavior, and I realized a lot of it was alcohol related.

And then I also realized because of the struggles with my husband is that when, you know, he would drink, Then that would be like the trigger for me to drink and to drink even more. Like, it was like almost like, I'm gonna show you like, you know, Uhhuh, I can, you know, I can drink too. Right? And I, I also just recognized for myself that I really don't have a shutoff bells like I would say it's gonna be just, you know, one, one glass, right?

And it was one bottle and it wasn't every night, but it was quite a bit. And so I, I think about all the different times again, like in blacking out, getting sick, like, you know, those different kinds of things that, you know, really made me stop and think, is this the best, you know, best solution for my life? Yeah.

Yeah. I, I hear, wow, I hear that, right. Like the no, shut off. But also that intellectualization as to why we're drinking, right? Like when we're in it, we're in it, right? 

Oh yeah, we can justify anything, right? Like, I mean, I. You know, like I used to justify that it was, you know, like my way to like, to relax, right?

Or I had a hard day, or you know, all the reasons that, you know, we give ourselves, I'm socializing it's happy hour. It's this, it's that, you know, I mean, think I remember because it was, um, Halloween last year and I'm known for throwing a huge Halloween party.  and like I, I now look back and I, I recognize like a little bit of like my default and thinking.

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Connect with Julie Jones:

Email: theadventuresofjuliejones@gmail.com

Website: https://juliejones.biz/

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LN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsdcoach/

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