Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-Help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less · Misty Stinnett & Lisa Linke

Mindful Drinking: How Cutting Down Can Change Your Life by Rosamund Dean

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Megan says the book helped her stop drinking, reduce rage, and feel clearer with her kids.

Misty Stinnett opens by reminding listeners that Go Help Yourself exists to read popular self-help books so people can hear the main points without wasting time. She says the show has widened beyond book reviews into guest interviews, research, articles, and broader personal-development questions. Megan Parlin-Isser joins as the guest, and the conversation has the easy feel of two people who know each other well. The discussion then moves into a mindful drinking framework built around a 28-day break from alcohol. Megan explains that the point is to lower tolerance after regular drinking has pushed it up. She frames that month as a reset rather than a cure-all. The pair also talks about how alcohol in the system can make it harder to stick to your own guardrails. That leads into the blunt point that being a little buzzed is not a great state for staying on track with your goals. Cost comes up next. They compare drink prices in Ashland and Los Angeles. In Ashland, a cocktail is described as running about twelve or thirteen dollars. In Los Angeles, wine and cocktails can climb into the sixteen- to twenty-two-dollar range. Two drinks each at dinner can turn into a hundred-dollar tab once tax and tip are added. The hosts keep circling back to why the book picks twenty-eight days. The answer is practical, not mystical. A clean month is easy to understand and long enough to start shifting a habit. The conversation also leaves room for resistance to going fully sober, which keeps the tone from turning into a sermon. Instead, it stays conversational, skeptical, and personal. The segment closes by inviting listeners to write in, share their own experience, or argue for and against the whole idea.

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A useful reset for listeners wondering what a 28-day break from drinking might change.

Mindful drinking is treated as a practical question about tolerance, spending, and the habits people often assume they still control. The conversation stays close to basics: why a 28-day break matters, how it can lower tolerance, and how alcohol can make guardrails harder to…

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A comedy self-help reset for anyone curious about what 28 days of sobriety can do to your tolerance and your tab.

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