Breaking Free from Shame After Drinking | Linda's Naked Life | E840

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt shame after drinking? Linda spent years trying to align her desire for authenticity with her ongoing battle with alcohol. Despite practicing yoga, meditation, and promoting holistic health, alcohol continued to be her way of coping, even though she felt deep cognitive dissonance. On the outside, she helped others find balance; on the inside, she struggled with shame after drinking. Her people-pleasing nature kept her in this tug-of-war. It wasn’t until she embraced The PATH that she found clarity, hope, and the courage to stop hiding. In this episode, Linda shares how she stopped feeling shame after drinking and began to embrace her true self. In this episode, Annie and Linda discuss : Struggling with authenticity while practicing yoga and holistic health, yet secretly battling alcohol Parenting her parents and siblings—Linda felt responsible for holding her family together Being encouraged to drink by her father, who believed alcohol was essential for connection People-pleasing tendencies that kept Linda stuck in unhealthy cycles, including her reliance on alcohol Drinking to fit in—how alcohol became a way to mask feelings of insecurity and inadequacy Feeling shame after drinking—how Linda struggled with self-judgment and guilt Joining The PATH and finding clarity, hope, and self-compassion as she shifted her mindset The shift from people-pleasing to setting boundaries, and how it helped her regain control Rediscovering her true self after years of using alcohol to cope Embracing emotional connection over numbing with alcohol, and how it deepened her relationships And much more... Episode links: This Naked Mind Institute - jointnmi.com Good Vibration Coaching - https://www.goodvibrationcoaching.com/ Related Episodes: How do I handle cravings and people pleasing? - Reader Question - E 272 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-272-reader-question-how-do-i-handle-cravings-and-people-pleasing/ Naked Life Story – Where are they now? – Halima - E 703 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-703-naked-life-story-hayley-where-are-they-now-halima/ The Cost of Fitting In - Alcohol Freedom Coaching - E785 - https://thisnakedmind.com/the-cost-of-fitting-in-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e785/ 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.
0:14.9	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast, and I'm here with Linda.
0:18.9	Hi, Linda. How are you?
0:20.2	I'm doing very well, Annie. How are
0:21.7	you? I'm great. So good to see you. Great to see you. So, yeah, why don't you take us back to the
0:29.0	beginning in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you? Well, as I'm thinking about
0:34.1	this, it's been about 50 years. That's a long time. Half a century. So I was trying
0:41.1	to remember my first drink and it's not super memorable, but I think I was around 13. And I do remember
0:47.7	walking with friends in a cemetery. My friend's house was near a cemetery. We were walking around.
0:52.1	They were passing around the bottle and it didn't mean much to me. I'm like, okay, sure, I'll have some. And then I remember having
0:59.6	a sleepout with a bunch of friends and the boys were in one tent down the street. The girls were
1:04.7	in the other and they had stole some cold duck from someplace. And I still can't have cold duck
1:10.5	to this day.
1:11.5	And I, that was the first time I puked.
1:13.5	It was gross.
1:15.0	But I remember even right away this euphoria, this feeling of, I think I've heard other
1:20.7	people say like, that's what I've been missing.
1:24.9	And to the point where, you know, even my friends were like taking the bottle away from me and I was fighting them for it.
1:29.0	I was grabbing it back.
1:30.6	And then I got sick.
1:34.1	And you know, and I listened to a podcast by Andrew Huberman
1:38.2	and he was talking about how some people don't really get tired.
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