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Do You Let Your Alcohol Speak For You?

16 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short recorded talk by Amber Hollingsworth discussing how alcohol removes emotional filters, causing people to express unfiltered emotions in ways that can harm relationships. The speaker contrasts genuine needs (e.g., people-pleasing needing assertiveness) with the inappropriate, unfiltered expressions produced under intoxication.

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They're emotionally raw, which means there's nothing to filter out how they experience their emotions, how they communicate their emotions. And because of that, you get a completely unfiltered version of whatever this person's going through at the moment, or whatever they've even just been thinking about at the moment. Maybe this people pleasing person really does need to speak up and like get their needs met better. But when you're drinking, you do that in a completely inappropriate way because it is not filtered and relationships require filter.