Breaking Free From Secret Drinking and Emotional Disconnection | Kate's Naked Life | E806

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if your child told you that you loved alcohol more than them? For Kate, this devastating moment was just one of many wake-up calls in her journey with alcohol. Growing up in a home where emotions weren't openly expressed, Kate developed patterns of using alcohol to navigate social situations and ultimately to escape feeling uncomfortable emotions. As her tolerance increased, her drinking became more secretive, hidden from her family in elaborate ways that mirrored behaviors she had observed in her own mother. Her story is a vulnerable, honest look at how alcohol keeps you from feeling emotions—grief, guilt, shame, and even love—and what it took to stop hiding and start healing. In this eye-opening conversation, Kate shares with Annie how finding This Naked Mind helped her understand the science behind her drinking, empowering her to not just change her behavior but transform her entire relationship with alcohol and emotions. In this episode, Annie and Kate discuss: Kate's childhood experiences with alcohol and her mother's secret drinking The progression from social drinking to daily consumption and hiding Creative methods for obtaining alcohol during COVID restrictions The growing disconnect with her daughter due to prioritizing drinking How alcohol keeps you from feeling emotions while hijacking brain chemistry The final day of drinking and the 3 AM moment of decision to change Discovering This Naked Mind and the failed attempt at moderation The transformative experience of The Path program and health improvements Rebuilding trust with family and becoming a certified coach to help others And other topics… Episode links: Connect with Kate - https://freedomaffect.com/ Start reading This Naked Mind - https://thisnakedmind.com/bookJoin The Path - https://go.tnmprograms.com/the-path-from-this-naked-mind Related Episodes: EP 616: Reader’s Question – Getting Past Emotional Drinking Triggers – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-616-readers-question-getting-past-emotional-drinking-triggers/ EP 632: Reader’s Question – How To Stop Running Away from Life and Emotions – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-630-readers-question-how-to-stop-running-away-from-life-and-emotions/ Dare to Feel: Agnes’s Naked Life | E771 - https://thisnakedmind.com/dare-to-feel-agness-naked-life-e771/ Ready to take the next step on your journey? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!

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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, and I am here with Kate. Hi, Kate. How are you?
0:22.5	Claw very well. Nice to see you, Annie. Oh, it's great to see you too. This is wonderful. Thank you so much for doing this.
0:28.3	It's always so powerful when people come on and share their stories. So why don't we take it all the way
0:32.9	sort of back to the beginning in your relationship, your journey with alcohol, where did it all start
0:37.8	for you? Well, yeah, I was thinking about this obviously in terms of seeing you today. To be
0:43.3	honest with you, I was thinking about how alcohol featured in my upbringing and my life.
0:48.3	And I've got a story to tell in terms of my home life. It's pretty normal. I was born in the
0:53.5	60s. I had a normal loving family home. It was pretty normal. I was born in the 60s. I had a normal loving
0:56.1	family home. I was the youngest daughter of three. And alcohol wasn't visibly consumed in my
1:03.7	household. I don't think I ever saw my dad drink at home. Maybe at Christmas time, but I don't
1:08.9	really remember. So there was never really booze in the house.
1:11.9	But one thing that is significant and that would go on to play a part in my later life is that my mother did drink.
1:19.9	So if you imagine a housewife of the 70s, she was stay-at-home mom, and she used to drink something called synacogen wine. I can only describe it as
1:29.4	like a sherry type port, but I kind of looked into it a little bit before talking to you today
1:35.0	about it. And it was consumed very much, maybe more in the UK, but it was considered to have
1:40.5	health benefits like iron. And my mother was somebody that kind of take things at face value.
1:46.0	And she used to say, oh, it's really good for you this wine.
1:49.0	I would have been about eight or so.
1:51.0	And she'd give me little sips of this slashage and wine, which is a full blow and 40%.
1:56.0	And she kept it in the pantry, which at the time I didn't think anything much of.
2:02.4	But she was always in the kitchen, my mom.
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