Reframeable Podcast
This inagural episode is simply an introduction to what this podcast is going to focus on and what you can expect moving forward. Join us as we reframe the way alcohol shows up in our life, one episode at a time!
Kevin Bellack is a Certified Professional Recovery Coach and Head of Coaching at the Reframe app. Alcohol-free husband, father, certified professional recovery coach, former tax accountant, current coffee lover, and tattoo enthusiast. Kevin started this new life on January 22, 2019 and his last drink was on April 28, 2019.
When he went alcohol free in 2019, therapy played a large role. It helped him open up and find new ways to cope with the stressors in his life in a constructive manner. That inspired Kevin to work to become a coach to helps others in a similar way.
Kevin used to spend his days stressed and waiting for a drink to take that away only to repeat that vicious cycle the next day. Now, he’s trying to help people address alcohol's role in their life and cut back or quit it altogether.
This inagural episode is simply an introduction to what this podcast is going to focus on and what you can expect moving forward. Join us as we reframe the way alcohol shows up in our life, one episode at a time!
Episode #1 - How to be Reframeable
[00:00:00]
Kevin: Hey everyone, welcome to this very first episode of the Reframeable Podcast. I am your host, Kevin, and I just wanted to hop in here and say hi, introduce myself, and let you know what to expect moving forward. This podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the number one iOS app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you.
My name is Kevin Bellack. I am the head of coaching at Reframe. I'm a certified professional recovery coach, and as of this recording, I'm coming up on four years Alcohol-Free.
But this podcast isn't about the app. This podcast is going to be about a word, and that word is Reframeable. To reframe something is to look at a topic, an action, an idea, and see it in a new way. To be reframeable is going to be to take an [00:01:00] active role in that change. It's to become open to change in the first place. It's to be able to see things differently. It's being willing to do things differently than we have before and it's about being open to challenging the way we've always done things.
We'll be bringing you episodes each week, some short ones like this one, giving you information, tools, and science about how you can address alcohol's role in your life. We will also be bringing you interviews with people to listen to their stories and find out how they have gone about this journey as well.
So what? That's what every podcast does, right? . That's true, and that's what's so great about it because we get to hear more and more people's stories. We get to hear a lot of different viewpoints, and because of that, we are able to perhaps see things that resonate with us as individuals.
Because there is only one way to address alcohol's role in your life. Now, I'm a firm believer in this too, so there's only one way, and the only [00:02:00] way to address alcohol's role in your life is the way that works for you. While there are many specific programs to follow, there is no one size fits all. There isn't just one thing that we can do that will help us change.
It's going to be many things that we need to incorporate into our lives to help us change our relationship with alcohol or with anything else that we are looking to make a change with. I wanna keep the scope broad for now because addressing alcohol's role in our life is about so much more than just addressing alcohol specifically. It can be more about addressing the reasons why we might reach for a drink in the first place.
Alcohol use is not just a black and white issue. Yes, there is black, there is white, there are those ends of the spectrum, but there is a sea of gray in between there that our alcohol use can fall on, and at any point on that spectrum, we can stop and say, I don't like how this is showing up.
We can stop and make a change. [00:03:00] Alcohol impacts everyone that consumes it. Just like smoking a cigarette brings with its specific health risks. So does every glass of wine, beer, and liquor, and we can't just hope to address this superficially. Ultimately, alcohol is an addictive substance that has been around for a long time and has been the solution or at least present at many times in our life, at almost every event.
Alcohol companies tell us to drink responsibly. That's the disclaimer. Right? And when we don't, we don't blame their product, we blame ourselves. But for them to say, drink responsibly is laughable if you ask me. If everyone drank responsibly, I'm guessing we would see a lot of these companies going out of business.
They don't want us to drink responsibly. And saying that pushes the blame onto the user and not the product itself directly causing any irresponsibility going on. Should we also be told to smoke responsibly? Eat junk food responsibly, binge watch TV responsibly? How [00:04:00] about using our devices responsibly?
A lot of money goes into making sure that we don't do any of these things responsibly. So we have to recognize that forces are at work here that are actively undermining any willpower or well-intentioned changes we are trying to make. Let's look at the bigger picture a little bit and recognize where and how alcohol is showing up in our lives, and understand that if we want to make real change for the better in our life, we need to start doing things differently.
Now, I'm not saying it's quote unquote their fault, but we need to recognize that there is some blame to be spread around and it doesn't squarely fall on our shoulders if we find that alcohol is showing up in our lives in an adverse way. However, it is our responsibility to address it and to make a change.
And we can do that with help, by learning how and why it does show up in our life, with help from other people, with help from a community, and with help from various tools and methods that people use to make these [00:05:00] changes.
We need to be like Neo in the Matrix. We need to take the red pill and we need to look at how these things show up in our lives and see it for what it is.
Take away the story we might tell ourself to make us feel better when we're down. Take away the mental gymnastics we might go through to justify why something happened the way it did, and just be honest with ourselves and ask whether, this is how I want to show up in my life. We need to challenge and reframe these perspectives. We need to become reframeable.
So with that, we will continue to bring you episodes each week to challenge the way we look at alcohol's role in our life. How we can address it and the many different ways others are changing, how it shows up in their lives. Stay tuned and I hope to see you soon because there is definitely more to come. [00:06:00]
Episode #1 - How to be Reframeable
[00:00:00]
Kevin: Hey everyone, welcome to this very first episode of the Reframeable Podcast. I am your host, Kevin, and I just wanted to hop in here and say hi, introduce myself, and let you know what to expect moving forward. This podcast is brought to you by the Reframe app. Reframe is the number one iOS app to help you cut back or quit drinking alcohol. It uses neuroscience to reframe your relationship with alcohol and unlock the healthiest, happiest you.
My name is Kevin Bellack. I am the head of coaching at Reframe. I'm a certified professional recovery coach, and as of this recording, I'm coming up on four years Alcohol-Free.
But this podcast isn't about the app. This podcast is going to be about a word, and that word is Reframeable. To reframe something is to look at a topic, an action, an idea, and see it in a new way. To be reframeable is going to be to take an [00:01:00] active role in that change. It's to become open to change in the first place. It's to be able to see things differently. It's being willing to do things differently than we have before and it's about being open to challenging the way we've always done things.
We'll be bringing you episodes each week, some short ones like this one, giving you information, tools, and science about how you can address alcohol's role in your life. We will also be bringing you interviews with people to listen to their stories and find out how they have gone about this journey as well.
So what? That's what every podcast does, right? . That's true, and that's what's so great about it because we get to hear more and more people's stories. We get to hear a lot of different viewpoints, and because of that, we are able to perhaps see things that resonate with us as individuals.
Because there is only one way to address alcohol's role in your life. Now, I'm a firm believer in this too, so there's only one way, and the only [00:02:00] way to address alcohol's role in your life is the way that works for you. While there are many specific programs to follow, there is no one size fits all. There isn't just one thing that we can do that will help us change.
It's going to be many things that we need to incorporate into our lives to help us change our relationship with alcohol or with anything else that we are looking to make a change with. I wanna keep the scope broad for now because addressing alcohol's role in our life is about so much more than just addressing alcohol specifically. It can be more about addressing the reasons why we might reach for a drink in the first place.
Alcohol use is not just a black and white issue. Yes, there is black, there is white, there are those ends of the spectrum, but there is a sea of gray in between there that our alcohol use can fall on, and at any point on that spectrum, we can stop and say, I don't like how this is showing up.
We can stop and make a change. [00:03:00] Alcohol impacts everyone that consumes it. Just like smoking a cigarette brings with its specific health risks. So does every glass of wine, beer, and liquor, and we can't just hope to address this superficially. Ultimately, alcohol is an addictive substance that has been around for a long time and has been the solution or at least present at many times in our life, at almost every event.
Alcohol companies tell us to drink responsibly. That's the disclaimer. Right? And when we don't, we don't blame their product, we blame ourselves. But for them to say, drink responsibly is laughable if you ask me. If everyone drank responsibly, I'm guessing we would see a lot of these companies going out of business.
They don't want us to drink responsibly. And saying that pushes the blame onto the user and not the product itself directly causing any irresponsibility going on. Should we also be told to smoke responsibly? Eat junk food responsibly, binge watch TV responsibly? How [00:04:00] about using our devices responsibly?
A lot of money goes into making sure that we don't do any of these things responsibly. So we have to recognize that forces are at work here that are actively undermining any willpower or well-intentioned changes we are trying to make. Let's look at the bigger picture a little bit and recognize where and how alcohol is showing up in our lives, and understand that if we want to make real change for the better in our life, we need to start doing things differently.
Now, I'm not saying it's quote unquote their fault, but we need to recognize that there is some blame to be spread around and it doesn't squarely fall on our shoulders if we find that alcohol is showing up in our lives in an adverse way. However, it is our responsibility to address it and to make a change.
And we can do that with help, by learning how and why it does show up in our life, with help from other people, with help from a community, and with help from various tools and methods that people use to make these [00:05:00] changes.
We need to be like Neo in the Matrix. We need to take the red pill and we need to look at how these things show up in our lives and see it for what it is.
Take away the story we might tell ourself to make us feel better when we're down. Take away the mental gymnastics we might go through to justify why something happened the way it did, and just be honest with ourselves and ask whether, this is how I want to show up in my life. We need to challenge and reframe these perspectives. We need to become reframeable.
So with that, we will continue to bring you episodes each week to challenge the way we look at alcohol's role in our life. How we can address it and the many different ways others are changing, how it shows up in their lives. Stay tuned and I hope to see you soon because there is definitely more to come. [00:06:00]
