6. Triggers, Cravings a Urges: Reduce Your Anxiety and Fight Back!
In this episode you will learn: Differences between triggers, cravings and urges. Why do some cravings lead to relapse while others do not? The link between cravings and behaviors. Why using willpower (control) actually leads to more cravings. What is the connection between anxiety and cravings? What explains the mysterious urge to do something that has caused so much damage in the past? What makes that simple thought pop into your mind? When you are doing everything in your power to do better, when you are at your most committed, what brings that powerful image of chocolate into your brain, leading your car toward the grocery store just minutes before it closes? What convinces you to give up what you worked so hard to achieve? Take a listen to find these and more answers!