More Than Sweat
More Than Sweat is a natural extension of Brook Benten's 2024 book, "Sweat with Brook Benten." In both, Brook encourages movement and emboldens humans to go at hard things with gumption.
With every word of every episode and every page of the book, she guides her audience to a world of well-being where worth has nothing to do with a workout.
She encourages listeners to walk as they tune in to episodes. In season one, every episode is synchronized to music to guide a walking pace.
But the message is always more than sweat.
This podcast exists to guide growth.
"You had the power all along, my dear." -Glenda the Good Witch
Music courtesy of Royalty Free Fitness Music.
Brook Benten, M.Ed., is an exercise physiologist, life coach, and personal trainer in Austin, Texas. @BrookBenten
More Than Sweat
Season 3, Episode 7: Sobriety
Wellness and alcohol do not go together. No amount of alcohol is safe (World Health Organization). You don’t need to drink less to optimize well-being. Alcohol is a toxic drug that hijacks your pleasure chemicals and creates a craving for more of itself. This podcast gives marketing history on Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco. “Drink responsibly” is meant to deceive you into thinking that poison isn’t a problem. That propaganda posits that some people cannot use it right. Poison. They don’t poison right. 🙄 To actually drink responsibly means to drink something else.
This episode isn’t intended to castigate heavy drinkers. It is to castigate alcohol. No amount of alcohol is safe (WHO). It is responsible for at least 7 different types of cancer (U.S. Surgeon General). It is the third-leading cause of all preventable cancers. You don’t need it. You’re better without it. You’re more YOU without it. If I had the power to give it up and make my life exponentially better, you can, too.
When I finally quit alcohol for good, it was without willpower. It was without white knuckles. Because you don’t need willpower to not do something you do not want to do! When I quit for good, I recognized that it had no benefit to my life, whatsoever. And holding on to sobriety felt like finally giving myself the hug I needed and wanted all those years— the literal opposite of white knuckles.
I’ve been sober for well over two years and never think about nor miss alcohol. I’ve seen the other side and I’m never going back. In this episode, I hope to encourage you to make this life-changing shift to an alcohol-free lifestyle, too.
Wellness is among my core values. It feels so good to live a life aligned with my values.
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