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AVRT 
Yes, outsourcing is one way of looking at it.
That is correct. The insight is that the Addictive Voice appears to be "you," and so you tend to follow what it says as if they were your own ideas. The key is to dissociate from all addictive desire by recognizing the addictive voice, which is the expression of that desire, which in AVRT is called the Beast.
Careful with the "we's" - the point of AVRT is to separate yourself from the Beast. You aren't going to drink. What might the Beast want to do? Why, drink, of course! Who cares what it wants to do, though? It can't control your arms, legs, or muscles, can it? Only you can do that.
Yes, Terminally, I get you now. Maybe I was using "we" the way a nurse might talk to a naughty child (e.g., " We're not going to have any of that now or ever!") But the nurse child idea doesn't fit because in this situation, the child (i.e. the Beast) is trying to get the nurse drunk.So here one should say, "I'm just not going to listen to you any more when you talk this way."
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