Beyond the Bottle: Finding a Fulfilling Life Using The Alcohol Experiment | Lisa’s Naked Life | E812

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Can losing everything actually help you come back to yourself? For Lisa, it did. In the middle of pandemic chaos, she realized that using The Alcohol Experiment to quit drinking wasn’t just about removing alcohol—it was about reclaiming her life. As she began to unearth long-buried truths and emotional wounds, she found clarity, courage, and a new path forward. In this episode, she shares how releasing alcohol helped her find the tools to rebuild from the inside out. In this episode Annie and Lisa discuss: Why social drinking felt harmless until it wasn’t The moment pandemic lockdowns forced her to confront reality How cognitive dissonance revealed the truth about alcohol What changed when she stopped trying to please everyone Letting go of a marriage, career, and identity that no longer fit How using The Alcohol Experiment to quit drinking sparked a personal awakening Tools she leaned on, including somatic healing and journaling Exploring plant medicine and how microdosing helped her rewire patterns Losing over 50 pounds by applying the same awareness to food How creativity, nature, and solo adventures became her new way to connect Finding freedom in choosing emotional wellness over temporary relief and other topics Episode Links: Lisa’s Book - A New Way Back - https://amzn.to/436eFze When you buy something we recommend, we may get an affiliate commission — but it never affects your price or what we pick.

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0:00.0	You're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.4	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast. I'm here with Lisa. Hi, Lisa. How are you?
0:19.9	Hi, Annie. I'm well. Great. I'm so glad.
0:23.3	Well, thank you for joining. And why don't you sort of take us back to the beginning in your journey
0:28.2	with alcohol? Like, where did it all, where did it all start for you? Yes. Well, it's interesting. I grew up in a
0:35.0	small town in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, and for me, it was
0:40.3	interesting that drinking was normalized so much socially. My parents both drank, but I never
0:48.6	saw either one of them drunk ever. It was just, you know, campingings always had the black Russians going in the background.
0:57.1	And I think what I learned was there was that socializing and drinking went hand to hand.
1:03.4	And my parents were very social and I never saw a problem with it. And even with our, in our family,
1:10.1	I didn't realize that my dad's parents were, quote,
1:14.2	alcoholics and had drinking problems because my parents said to them at an early age,
1:19.6	if you ever drink, you can't come around the kids. And nobody ever told us. So I hadn't
1:25.7	really seen alcohol as a danger.
1:28.3	You know, small town, you're experimenting in public school.
1:32.3	When I got to grade nine, I didn't even kind of like alcohol that much.
1:39.3	You know, back in the 80s, alcohol, if you didn't like beer, you were kind of stuck with, you know, hard liquor in a mix.
1:46.4	It wasn't that portable.
1:48.2	But then once I hit high school, I started dating an older guy.
1:52.5	So that introduced me to the older world of alcohol.
1:55.5	He was almost drinking age.
1:57.6	And then all of a sudden, alcohol became a lot more tasty and portable when coolers came about.
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