it is a basic fundamental law: for every quick fix, there is an even greater price to pay.

This resonates so much as i quit coffee 8 days ago. It really surprised me how hard it has been. 🥵 I suffered the whole week of horrible headache and muscle pain in my legs and back. And never been that tired.. today is the first day without headache or muscle pain. 🎉 I will never go back now when i have seen and felt what coffee makes to your system. Luckily we have good caffeine free coffee in Finland so i can still have the taste of morning coffee. 🥰

I love that idea, to associate the addiction with pain instead of pleasure. What a mind shift!

This is exactly what happened to me as well… I had my first panic attack 2 months ago (I am 37 and was drinking coffee heavily for the last 15 years) and after that very frightening experience (I thought I was having a heart attack and ended up in the ER room) I knew that I had to give up coffee immediately. Interestingly I had no withdrawals and had more ENERGY the first week and I am now grateful for this panic attack. I am saving so much $ and nurturing my nervous system at the same time. I only wish I gave up coffee sooner bc honestly I just drank it for its energy and “focus” not so much for its flavor at all.

I love how often you upload!! Thanks for sharing your wisdom

I've probably had two coffees in my life (it tastes gross to me!) and recently, have felt I've been missing out, due to being close to an artisan coffee place. Your raw portrayal of your experience is shocking and has completely shifted my perception, so thank you. I very much admire your overall intention of ridding yourself of the 'noise': unnecessary mental, physical, emotional stuff that is an impediment to healing. Your channel, more than any other, has made me aware that, in our aversion to silence, we are not only trying to escape our emotional difficulties, but often adding more things that need to be healed from: addictions, toxic relationships, maladaptive patterns. Eventually, you are forced to realise that the way you are working, isn't working. Listening to your videos makes me increasingly aware that I can't continue to avert my own healing journey. It's scary though 🙏

So glad you quit. I watch coworkers struggle with it and all claim to have anxiety and panic attacks and it’s hard to even talk with them sometimes because they are so jittery and unable to communicate properly. I never really liked it and to be able to I would have to add a bunch of sugary things to it and I’ve since cut out all processed sugar completely. I’ve been vegan almost 10 years and it’s also what gives me my energy. This last year in July my Doberman Venus started having seizures and the stress from it was causing me to lose sleep so I went to see my Dr and ask for help but while discussing my stress from falling asleep (she would only have seizures as she was coming out of sleep so every time she would move during the night I would jump up thinking one was happening) my Dr said btw it’s time for your first mammogram. I almost didn’t go I was too worried about Venus and thought being vegan made me somewhat invincible to cancer but I knew I had several family members who had it and sure enough so did I. Stage 0 DCIS and the PALB2 gene mutation increasing my risk to 70% so I said get them off I don’t care I’m not living my life worrying it will come back and I don’t need them. So September 1st I had surgery and pathology found a small piece of stage 1 so I know I made the right choice. I knew I wanted to stay flat as I wanted all tissue removed to lower my risk to less than 1%. Since then I’ve changed my diet even more to be lower carb no processed carbs no processed sugar and higher healthy fats as there is a lot of research that ketosis starves the glucose that feeds cancer so I do fasting often as well and it gives me a lot of clarity and energy. I was following chef AJ and she interviewed Kiyomi of Sei Mee tea who came up with a process to cold press remove the caffeine from her green tea and now I drink her tea 3xs a day for the cancer fighting benefits and it tastes delicious and I’ll never have coffee again. Sorry for the long post but bless all of you please stay healthy and take care of yourselves 💚🌱

I have never had coffee, thankfully.

Organic Matcha with hot soy milk and maple syrup. I gave up coffee a year ago and have never looked back (also vegan :)....

Thanks for your video and describing your journey. I've avoided coffee for 2 months so far. I totally agree - having natural energy is the best thing.

Could you please make a video talking more about how exactly you turned vegan? I've been having the hardest time for years with my health, and the culprit is certantly how I've been eating. I'd love your take on the topic. Lovely video as always, thank you!!! 💗

I like this video because it's real low-tech and you sound authentic and real and here I am trying to quit coffee, two weeks in drinking Teeccino, thank you for your video

I was so happy to see this video! This May will be my 3 years without any caffeine. I quit to get my migraines under control (I did) but yep, all the positive things you listed (yes, birds dress me in the morning, that's just how it is without caffeine /wink) totally happened. Not smoking, drinking, having caffeine and also being vegan is pretty rough in Hungary. You are suddenly excluded from so many social rituals, especially as an artist, but it's a small price to pay for not having those crashes, migraines, shakes, AND also feeling balanced most of the time. We are on the same wavelength about many, many things! Excited for more of your videos! (Also, very happy with the clean, straightforward, just talking videos. So many YTs are just too overwhelming for me. You keep it real, just chatting to us, hangin' with friends, telling stories. Refreshing.

Managed to quit smoking, never enjoyed drinking alcohol. Quitting coffee is next on my list (drinking it as I'm watching this) lol. Thank you for the vid!

I didn’t start drinking Joe until I got married! In fact, on our first “date” at Starbucks I told my husband that I didn’t drink coffee. I knew/know it’s terrible for my anxiety. Somewhere along the way I got hooked and feel like I cling to it too much. I gave it up for two pregnancies, so I know it’s possible. I would love this out of my life. I’m on a trip, so I will try again.

I’ve been toying with the idea of removing caffeinated drinks from my life for awhile. It tried to do it cold turkey in December and failed big time. Haha. I’ll try it gradually this time! Thanks for another inspiring video! 💜

Loved this! You're a fantastic natural speaker and I really enjoy the minimal editing. I'm plant based too. Thankfully, I've never liked tea or coffee. I tend to be quite anxious because I'm naturally high energy. I'd be a literal mess if I drank coffee as well 😂.

Going on a year without the cupa Joe and haven’t looked back. Only problem is all the coffee paraphernalia that’s left over. Can’t seem to part with that yet because I spent so much money on these items. Keep thinking when someone visits they will want coffee, and I’ll have the stuff for them. But, I literally live within walking distance of a Starbucks, so I can likely send that phantom somebody there. Ahhh, I frustrate myself so! 😩 I just need to get rid of that crap. It’s a process, I’m learning. 😊

Yay another video, love your raw and truthful videos ❤

The dark circles spoke to me, I drink about 1-2 cups of coffee a day. I have gone a good amount of time without it and I came back to it. It’s the ritual as well.

I'm coming up on a year of being caffeine free. Coffee was a big part of who I was, and I think I found that the hardest change, rather than the no more caffeine in itself.

Thanks 🙏 Will keep you posted 😅 Great and so inspiring videos 🌟🌟❤️

I’m so inspired to quit thanks to you, it’s been 3 days since I started to reduce to one coffee a day and I already sleep better! I am so happy whenever your post, your channel is my new favorite. You are awesome! ❤️🤩

I drink coffee like crazy. Must say 10 cups a day. And i suffer from high anxiety and also shoulder blade,back pain. Every parts of my body pains. Now i am seeing ur video and i shall see how to cut that coffee down then umtimately eliminate it. Thanks for this video hun

Coffee is ingrained into every community known to man, like the health community, the minimalist community, the student community etc. It's in consumerism, in every supermarket and home goods store, on a mug with a sign saying 'I am not me before coffee' or slogan cushions, making it fashionable and quirky. There are more coffee places in just one city to chose from than we could visit in a year.

Unfortunately, I cannot drink coffee (even decaf) as the oils upset my stomach. I still enjoy the coffee shop vibe with an oat milk latte -- London Fog, matcha, or turmeric -- while I read or write letters.

Thank you for this video because I am ready to let coffee go, I did it before and I lost tons of weight and now I see the weight back I am ready to let it go for good. Thanks for being an inspiration to us all. :)

My brother started getting really bad tinnitus. It turns out he was drinking 8+ cups of coffee per day and as soon as he cut back the tinnitus went away. I, on the other hand, have never even had a cup of coffee!

After over 50 years of coffee I am now at day 15 caffeine free. Thirty years ago I did abstain from caffeine for nearly a year. This time around I’m going to stay the course. I hear many caffeine free testimonials my understanding is it takes over 3 months to experience dramatic results. We will see.

Thanks for sharing your story! I too drank a fair amount of coffee in college as well. I now typically drink one cup of flavored decaf coffee a day and possibly one diet soda. Sometimes I will have one cup of caffeinated coffee. Either way keeping my caffeine intake low is just so much better for me overall. 🥰

Hey:) Quitting coffee sounds great! I also did that and it wasn’t hard, but for me it was a big challenge quitting chocolate (I was sooo addicted, it was controlling my life😂). But now I haven’t eaten chocolate for 2 years yay :)

I used to work at Starbucks corporate, and we all had to learn to use the espresso machine. I used to make myself several double or triple shot lattes a day. No wonder my normal sleep struggles were exaggerated!

THIS. You are so great. And SO inspiring. Might you consider getting a little microphone for your videos?

Same here, makes me feel anxious, I’m glad I saw this video knowing that’s is ok not to drink coffee instead I’m going to eat better and sleep better cause that why I was drinking it to give me energy

Wow thanks for sharing your journey with us. I can relate to the panic attacks because for a number of years as an adult I had panic attacks to the point where I thought I was having heart attacks I couldn't breathe and I couldn't get through my day and finally I had to be put on some medication. Thankfully that didn't last long and I learned to control it and I now 10 or 15 years later I only have occasional panic attacks. I never associated coffee drinking with it so you have given me food for thought. I have been a coffee drinker all my life and I drink it black at home but go several times a week to my local espresso stand and get a single shot espresso. I have been thinking though lately of cutting because it is expensive to get it at the espresso also to make it at home with all the equipment needed. I chuckled when you said it was a legal drug because it reminded me of Tom Hanks character in the movie " you've got mail" when he tells his assistant as they are about to open a new book store with a coffee shop in it that they sold their customers " books and legal addictive stimulants." Wish me well on cutting coffee out of my life too.

I relate to this so much! ☕️😱 I was never a coffee drinker in my twenties and then it became a social thing. I wean off and then go back for the habit, taste, identity, etc. I have been wanting to try again to get rid of the habit since my health hasn’t been the greatest for the past year. I needed this inspiration. Thank you 🙏🏼

Good for you! 👏👏👏 I used to have severe panic attacks as well. My right hand used to lock during attacks. That usually happened after an asthma attack. It still happens, but not nearly as often. Thank you for sharing. 🌻

I've been drinking coffee for 40 years! I'm in the second week cutting back. Some days just a green tea.

WOW! THIS IS SUCH A POWERFUL MESSAGE!! Thank you for sharing all of your story. It is definitely something that I need to consider after drinking coffee for 31 years and having worked in that industry for nearly two decades. I can relate to your experience on many, many levels and after hearing this I am encouraged and inspired to get it a try. 💛

My problem is taste and ritual, that grinding of the beans and hearing the brewing pot. And sipping black coffee or putting a tiny bit of coconut milk in. I continue to try and give it up and replace with Teecino herbal teas.

Alicia, finishing day two caffeine free. No issues yet. Feel good so far. Shooting for a week.

I quit coffee a few times cold turkey over the last few years for months at a time. I never felt good without it. Part of it also is the health benefits of coffee, like newer studies showing lower body fat and lower risk of diabetes. But I stick to 1.5 to 2 cups a day tops. I cannot drink it after lunch it makes me feel sick. Mornings are way better with it for me though haha. Knowing me though, I am sure I will experiment again to see if I feel better without it again. I wish I felt way better without it!

I’m down to 75% decaf/25% regular coffee after 40 years of being caffeinated. About 2 weeks then all decaf because I like the taste. Maybe not the best choice but better than what I’ve been drinking. I don’t find herbal teas satisfying, generally.

Hi again, just finished your « coffee-video » I tried ones to stop drinking coffee, with no succès, but I think it would be good for me too. Have been drinking daily at least the last 25 years, but will try to stop 1st April. Thank you sooo much for sharing your expériences 🙏❤️🌟

Good video! Thanks for sharing. If you have any tips on giving up alcohol wpuld love to hear!

Can you make a video about college and if your degree is in use now at the restaurant you work at. I have become so anti college mainly due to the debt I see others in and I'm curious to hear your take, thanks.

Thank you, It was awesome

Hi Exploravore, I really love your videos on minimalism, veganism, consuming less, etc; just the other day I saw a short of you doing insane yoga postures and I'm wondering if you might offer zoom instruction for beginners, I'm 47 and can barely touch my toes, name your price!

2012 was also my year when I felt burnt out and my anxiety got bad (turns out my body was yelling at me to process experiences that happened to me, that I never even knew needed to be processed)!

Gave up alcohol for dry January and realised that coffee keeps me awake at night, have recently switched over to decaf and feel so much better.

I love your authenticity and what you create. I would love to watch your morning/evening routine, or more food videos. 🤍

Amazing your story, very Eye opening thank you for sharing. Also for maten more insight for addiction, fitigue maybe the work of Anthony william aka medical medium night also be nice read and information about health. I think you would love it if you don’t know him already that is.

Caffeine is absolutely a drug and I wish people were more aware of the negative affects of it, especially on your sleep and anxiety/panic. I do a tolerance break every few weeks but I love the taste of black coffee. I limit myself to a cup a day and some green tea when I’m in the mood. Coffee does have health benefits and that’s part of the reason I continue to drink it, but the benefits are outweighed by the negative effects if too much is consumed 😢

I stopped the flavored sugary espresso drinks from coffee shops because it was definitely an addiction and it was contributing to my cholesterol. I’ve always been high end of normal and my LDL/HDL was always good!!! My diet is perfect snd I exercise! The sugar and carbs was just allowing my body to hold on to cholesterol and needless to say I topped the scale of being in high normal to actually being over 200 for my total cholesterol! Not to mention my sleep was sporadic and I was noticing dark circles and occasionally have palpitations! I know black filtered coffee is the better option but I don’t own a coffee pot and most of these coffee houses don’t filter through the old school paper filters…they have more drip coffee and cold brew versions which are still not ideal for me.

I never really liked coffee much, except ice coffee in summer with vanilla ice cream and cream. I can't sleep, if I drink coffee after 3 o'clock, it makes me jittery, and I get migraines from it. I drink green tea all day long. Would like to drink more herbal tea, but they taste so boring.

Still working on this one, Alicia - much love ❤️🇦🇺

Blue looks great on you! I don't drink coffee either. Do you workout? Your arms look like they got some muscle on it :)

Hey oh i love coffee so much ☕🙋

For me it's also time to let the coffee go. Will you share some of your stoicisme- insights in the future?

Same as all other drugs, yeah once in a while a cup of coffee isnt that bad but if you need to use it just to feel normal youre just an addict... people saying all the time at my work etc yeah iam not addicted i just like the taste and the ritual😂😂 drinking 10 cups every day

Oh no.. Working at Starbucks! I spent 6 months in a bakery distributors :( I do a few decafs every week now... But chocolate!

Ive been struggling quitting caffiene for the past couple years. It really is a subtle drug, i somehow always convince myself yea, i can do it once a week on weekdays no probleeeem. Then turns to ok, every other day. Before you know it your dragging your feet with a stank attitude until you drink it daily. Even when things are going so good naturally it then becomes a reward lol. Im coming to terms knowing that I cant use it in moderation it is what it is.

I agree it’s a drug. Luckily I have no addiction to it and just drink it occasionally. But for those with addiction it’s better to quit for sure!

I have the same problems with sugar and chocolate. They are such strong drugs on my body👀 A day without chocolate or sweets is very hard for me. Did you have similar experiences or do you just not eat such things?

I've been thinking about quiting for a long time but I feel sick after trying to quit after a day

Yep relate 200 percent

Well, the coffee industry is another big lobby, which traps us in healthy promises... I think life without coffee is much clearer

thank you for your great videos. But can you please activate the german subtitles? Thank you 😊

Everry thing that give us addiction its bad for our body, mind and spirit. This is a law of life. Coffee addiction its like tobacco adiction or other intoxication for the body: give you on short moment pleasure and relaxing but on the long run if you whant to same pleasure and relaxing you need to take it more and more, untill you dont feel anymore the pleasure that you fealt from beginning, it becomes only an automatic reflex. What its intresting in my case its exactly what you talk in the video. I quit Coffee long time a go , for a period. It was great! Than when I start this job were Im working now ,I start again drinkin it. Little in the begining, and now I drink like 4 or 5 cups per day, because its a job with anlot of stress level and somehow, in my mind, I say to myself that drinking it calm me down, in the moment. But its only in my mind because you can obtain the saime level on calmness dribkin only a cup of warm water with honey inside. Problem its the cofein that make you dependent.... So I better to quit for alll drinkin coffe. What its intresting is that all the people who have lets say bussy life, they are coffe drinkers. Its an modern society dependency like: alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc.. So my opinion its the best thing that happens to you.: quitting coffee. This is other thing that give you fredom! Have a nice sunny day😊!

I love coffee, i say i'm addicted ! But whoa not to the degree you drank! Hily crow. Anyhow i wouldnt mind trying to kick it for : better sleep, whiter teeth 🤔 etc. i wont go cold turkey! 🤗

My laptop is spying on me and is alive. I'm drinking coffee watching this after midnight lol. This was autosuggested. Coincidence?

Oh oki

Hi! ❤ This color suits you very well) I really want to stop drinking coffee. Now I drink 2 cups a day and it’s some kind of addiction. Do you just drink water throughout the day? Or water with lemon? When you wake up in the morning, do you eat fruit right after breakfast or drink water first? I look forward to every video of yours🪻

I'm the only one around me who doesn't drink coffee. Sometimes I feel weird because it's so common to drink it.🫤🙂 But I don't feel well after drinking coffee, so I stick with it. I like having a cup of herbal tea when I want a hot drink. Thanks for sharing! 💜

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