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Poison or Pleasure? Examining the Emotional and Physical Toll of Alcohol Consumption

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 29

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🌟 Join Jason and Jana Shelfer in a transformative episode of "Living Lucky," as they unveil the journey towards embracing life's moments with consciousness and authenticity. In this lively discussion, they delve into the power of choices, self-awareness, and the pursuit of happiness without numbing out.

🔑 Discover how this dynamic duo navigates the world of experiences, diving headfirst into topics ranging from the iconic Jimmy Buffett to the profound impact of their own choices. With humor and wisdom, they explore the subtleties of numbing behaviors, whether it's through alcohol or other means, and how these patterns can impact emotions, relationships, and wellbeing.

🎵 From sharing hilarious anecdotes about misheard lyrics to tapping into the energy of being truly present, Jason and Jana illuminate the path towards living a life that aligns with your deepest desires. As they share their personal journey, they candidly discuss the pivotal moment when Jana decided to pause her drinking habits, highlighting the internal shifts that followed.

🌅 Discover the essence of embracing moderation and fostering a healthy relationship with indulgence. By choosing moments of extraordinary over mindless habits, you can create a life of meaningful experiences that resonate on a profound level.

🌞 The episode invites you to reflect on your own choices, inviting a shift towards a more vibrant and aware existence. Dive into a thought-provoking exploration of conscious living and learn how embracing vulnerability, self-discovery, & conscious decision-making can lead to a life of fulfillment and luck.

🔗 Tune in to "Living Lucky" now on [Podcast Platform] or visit their website at www.startlivinglucky.com to go on a journey that encourages you to make choices that align with your best self. Immerse yourself in insightful discussions that promise to elevate your perspective & guide you towards the extraordinary.

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky. Good morning, I'm Jenna.

Speaker 2:

I'm Jason.

Speaker 1:

And we are living lucky. That's right. We were talking about Jimmy Buffett. If you follow us on social media, we went live. I've been mourning all week because I'm a parrot head.

Speaker 2:

And I love buffets.

Speaker 1:

Wrong kind of Buffett.

Speaker 2:

Little Miss Buffett sat on her Buffett.

Speaker 1:

Oh no, that was her toughet it sure was.

Speaker 2:

Eating her curds and whey Eating her cheeseburger in paradise.

Speaker 1:

It always comes back to cheeseburgers in paradise for Jason, as we were saying during our live, if you do follow us. I have been a Jimmy Buffett fan for I don't know how long. I absolutely love his mix of it's almost like country, western and Caribbean and he kind of somehow made it work together and he developed his own new style. He kind of fornicated music styles.

Speaker 2:

He had his idea of sex.

Speaker 1:

He did. He had idea sex with music.

Speaker 2:

Sound sex he did?

Speaker 1:

He had sound sex.

Speaker 2:

Make sound sex decisions.

Speaker 1:

Sound sex and style sex. I love it To come up with his own little genre.

Speaker 2:

I'm just happy that we're talking about Jimmy Buffett's musical sex.

Speaker 1:

I thought you were going to say sex and then he kind of paved the way for other people because I think Kenny Chesney, who is another favorite, of mine has kind of built his whole career.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, Toes in the sand.

Speaker 1:

Off of Jimmy Buffett and if you have no idea what we're talking about, Jimmy Buffett passed away this week and he is a Florida boy. Actually, he wasn't born in Florida, but when he became popular was when he moved to Key West and that's when his music really phew, and Jason and I were having the argument of what his best songs were. Yes, and Jason always comes back to.

Speaker 2:

Cheeseburger and Paradise.

Speaker 1:

Which I think is Margaritaville.

Speaker 2:

You know there are a lot of good songs, but I'm a foodie, yeah, and Cheeseburger and Paradise really sums up like give me all the good stuff in life. Like give it all to me. Like I want it all I want, mine with lettuce and tomato. Hans 57 and french fries potatoes a big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer. Well, good.

Speaker 1:

God Almighty, which way do I?

Speaker 2:

see you remember that Cheeseburger and Paradise, paradise.

Speaker 1:

You got to get it. Yeah, when you say the paradise, I'm not sure you had the tune.

Speaker 2:

I'm sure I don't.

Speaker 1:

But you have the energy.

Speaker 2:

When I hear it in my head, I hear it perfectly, and you had the fun, so I'll give that to you. Yeah, I'll give that to you. It's all about the fun.

Speaker 1:

And then, of course, the Margarita Wasted away again in Margaritaville.

Speaker 2:

That is definitely a to me like a one o'clock in the afternoon to five o'clock song. Oh my gosh, it's like you're hot from the sun and you're kind of melting into a drink that is cooling you off.

Speaker 1:

Right, or you're getting off the boat and you're like, oh, it's just time. And when I thought of that, I thought of all the concerts that we had gone to we we've had Margaritas or all the the races that we've done the five case, the 10 case, the triathlons, and afterwards, what do we want?

Speaker 1:

We want a Margarita. And anyway, my whole point for today's topic is that, as we were talking about Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville, the whole topic led to I haven't had a Margarita in years, and here's my story. I got to the point where I had started to numb out. I had started to numb out and after we talked about this on our live, I got a couple DMs asking why don't you drink anymore? Because we had said on our live you know what, maybe we'll go have a margarita today in honor of Jimmy Buffett, like that just sounds like a lot of fun. And it's not that I have quit drinking forever, I just quit drinking for a while.

Speaker 2:

That was a conscious decision, because it became a habit.

Speaker 1:

It not only became a habit, it became a way for me to not feel my feelings and people were like I don't understand, were you an alcoholic? Maybe I don't know? It literally became a way for me to avoid feeling something that was bubbling up inside me. I sometimes feel like emotions are like beach balls and we sometimes, if we don't wanna feel them, we kind of suppress them. And there came a point in my life where they started to bubble up and I was doing everything in my conscious knowing, to avoid them and to not feel them and to not feel them.

Speaker 2:

So that's kind of like the I've had a hard day put a bourbon in my hand or put a scotch in my hand, yes, and I literally would come home and I'd be like I need a glass of wine and it's not a it's kind of that. It's an emotional trigger that you learn at some point, because really alcohols are depressant and it is a numbing agent. But it's a. What you're looking for with it is comfort, relaxation, those types of qualities, and you've defined that that's what alcohol is giving you.

Speaker 1:

And also when I would drink alcohol, I felt like it would relax some of the. It would almost loosen the inhibitions and it would allow me to be, freer, where I wasn't worried about what other people thought.

Speaker 2:

So I think that's a huge point, because I believe that alcohol gives people the excuse to do the things that they're conscious mind says don't do this because this is who you are and people aren't going to like you for who it is. But now you've got that alcohol blanket that says, hey, you can blame it on something that's outside of you, but in you.

Speaker 1:

Alcohol. So it's like I was suppressing these emotions that I didn't want to feel. And then there were some times when I was drinking where these feelings and words and actions would come out and I would say and act in a way and I would think, oh, my gosh, oh, was that really me? It was really me, it was really me. It just was a side of me that I had been.

Speaker 1:

It's like the dark side of me started to come out but it's not really the dark side, it just was a loud side that sometimes I had put in a leash for so long. It's like the minister's daughter. Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2:

like the real from footloose the minister's daughter.

Speaker 1:

You know, for so long the minister's daughter can't do anything, can't say a cuss word, can't date, can't dance, can't go to any of the party and she gets a car and she's doing it all yeah, and then all of a sudden she goes off to college out of the box and you're like, oh my god, like she went all the way to the other end of the spectrum got her red boots or red heels on hi many skirt yeah.

Speaker 1:

So there's a weird little dynamic there. It's like whoa, we let the, we let it out of the cage. Yeah right, yeah. So anyway, I got a couple dms like why did you stop drinking? Well, there was an avoidance there.

Speaker 1:

I didn't want to feel my feelings and and then also I found that when I was drinking, there was a lot of energy in how I felt oh well, because it's a drug trying to recover and I didn't like how I felt the next morning, so there's a lot of time trying to feel good, you don't absorb nutrients, you don't sleep as well you know you're dehydrated, like it it's. It's a downward spiral that we don't even realize is happening this is a lot of.

Speaker 2:

I mean, we're focused kind of on the drinking which and we can stay there. But we have a lot of little tiny nuances and the things that we put in our body or the things that we do to our body that that put us in those situations, like certain foods that we that we're trying to fill a comfort void or we're trying to fill a love void and we so we we just stuff our face with ice cream or carbs or whatever it is, and there's a there, there is energy that gets put into the recovery phase of that and your stomach. All the blood has to go to your stomach if you eat a lot. Well, putting alcohol in your system is a poison and every everything in moderation. I'm not saying absolutely no alcohol, because I still drink. It's once every quarter probably so there's energy in.

Speaker 1:

There's energy physically in how it makes us feel. We don't sleep well, we don't digest nutrients, we make bad decisions. We don't think well we don't think well, there's a lot that goes into it physically, but then there's a lot that goes into it emotionally. Sometimes there's vulnerability that comes up. I mean, the next morning have you ever had a vulnerability hangover when you're like oh my gosh, I revealed way too much about myself yes, and just how much.

Speaker 2:

How many times have you woken up in the next morning and said, wow, I'm. I can't believe I did, did that last night, I did that again. I can't believe. I knew how tequila made me feel and did it again fell into the same trap.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I told myself I was wasn't gonna do that. I told myself I just have one and next thing, you know, I had one drink which turned into two, and then I was on the roof of the car party time sticking outside of the sun roof taking my top off and you never know what comes up next. Right, who was driving? I don't know.

Speaker 2:

The uber guy and then you feel guilty and shame and you're literally going to work the next day that's another lasting effect, like that's not a, that's not a short term, that's not even just that morning, but that sticks in your subconscious, in your conscious mind, even before you make the decision again next time. But then you still fall into that pattern yes, and then I.

Speaker 1:

I also just realized you know what I? I don't want to be dependent on Anything like.

Speaker 2:

I don't want to feel like the only way that I can be fine is if I have alcohol or the only way that you can Deal with a cop, with a process and emotion are feeling is by not being out, or or exposing it to that, an ebrea state yeah or actually.

Speaker 1:

The only way to feel a feeling is to feel it so you gotta feel it to heal it right, yeah, that's such a good saying, did you just make that up?

Speaker 2:

right now, just like the rhymes, cuz I'm a poet rapper yeah, what's the saying?

Speaker 1:

I'm a poet and did it.

Speaker 2:

But my feet show it cuz they're long, fellows, my feet I don't think feet was supposed to be in there.

Speaker 1:

My friend used to say that when we were in school and he was a I'm a poet, cuz they didn't realize it Anyway. So that's why I chose to stop drinking and then, ultimately, I just felt like if I wanted to raise my consciousness and get closer to god and plug into what napoleon hill calls the infinite intelligence, and Experience the synchronicities, these miracles that I now know are available everywhere. Exactly yeah. I wanted to be alert and aware present.

Speaker 2:

Completely present.

Speaker 1:

yeah, and completely alive.

Speaker 2:

Inalienable.

Speaker 1:

yeah, I just wanted to be alive and just in it at every point. So I can't say that I have quit drinking forever, but I have quit drinking for a while, for quit making bad choices we're going to make.

Speaker 2:

On a regular basis. Bad choices, right, I mean it's just we're human, we're human.

Speaker 2:

Our thing is that we're extraordinary people and we're going to make extraordinary choices in the micro moments of life, and it's about having the wherewithal to just be present in the moment and say, all right, is this where I'm heading? Am I heading towards extraordinary with this decision? And it's a yes or no once you know where you're going. So, do I want a healthy lifestyle? Do I want X or do I want the other direction? And then you kind of know what those decisions are going to be and that's a big game changer. But you made a decision, was big.

Speaker 1:

I did. I made a decision. Now we also have a value of having fun.

Speaker 2:

Yes, big time, all the time.

Speaker 1:

Moderation is also a part of that, and I can't say that I will never have a drink, ever again. But in that moment, what is fun for me now and what will be fun for me tomorrow morning? Yeah, oh, jimmy Buffett, we love you. Son of a, son of a sailor.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for all the gifts you've given us.

Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh, where are some other dances All the?

Speaker 2:

dances come Monday. So now my outlook on Mondays is so much different. Really, his song was come Monday It'll be all right, come Monday.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, I'll be holding you tight.

Speaker 2:

I spent four lonely days in a brown heavy haze.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you sounded better. Like I know Sheila's listening to this.

Speaker 2:

And just watch me back by my side.

Speaker 1:

Finally he gets a tune right, Sheila, Finally.

Speaker 2:

But so a lot of times you think come Monday, sunday night, you're going. Oh my god, it's Monday, is right around the corner. But that kind of gives a different take on it. You get to be back with the person that you love or be back with the life you love, if you think about it like that and just making that decision.

Speaker 2:

Am I heading in the direction I want to go in? Am I making the decisions that keep me on that path or am I making decisions that lead me away from that path? And if you're making decisions in the right way and you're cognizant and present about it, have that awareness, then come Monday you're going to be all right and you're going to be living towards the life that you want to live.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's so good, you're going to be living lucky. Oh, that's so much better than the one that popped into my mind, which was why don't we get drunk and screw?

Speaker 2:

it, we got to go.

Speaker 1:

Screw it, I'm just kidding. Ah, love you guys. Thanks for joining us. Check out our website. It's wwwlivingluckycom. Have a great day, bye-bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom.