Breaking the Evening Wine Habit | Kay's Naked Life | E816

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What if you feel sad about giving up wine, even when you know it’s time? That’s exactly how Kay felt when she realized that alcohol had taken over her life. After years of struggling with guilt, social pressure, and a growing dependence on wine to cope, Kay’s turning point came when she found the courage to confront her relationship with alcohol. In this episode, Kay shares her powerful journey of grief, self-doubt, and eventual healing. Through The Path and Annie's guidance, Kay discovered that while the road to quitting drinking was tough, the freedom on the other side was worth it. In this episode, Annie and Kay discuss: Kay's early memories of sherry with her parents and feeling included Alcohol becoming a coping mechanism during marriage struggles and divorce Moving to a remote village and the challenge of hiding her drinking Her partner's concerns and Kay's feeling of being stuck Discovering This Naked Mind's 5-day course and the initial reluctance to quit Feeling sad about giving up wine and the internal "temper tantrum" Understanding cognitive dissonance as a key to her breakthrough The relief of waking up without the mental "noise" and guilt Navigating social situations and big events alcohol-free with ease And other topics…

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0:00.0	you're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:12.6	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast. I'm here with Kay. Hi, Kay. How are you?
0:20.6	Hi, Annie. I'm good. Thank you.
0:23.3	Oh, I'm so glad. So thanks so much for doing this. I'm really excited. So, why don't you
0:29.2	take us back to the beginning in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you?
0:36.3	Well, for me, it was when I was just a young child, my mum and dad used to,
0:43.2	dad used to come home from work and used to have a sherry with mum,
0:47.6	and it just looked so special, and it was their little time together and debrief from the day and I was fascinated by it.
0:59.0	And then as I got a little bit older I was still under 10.
1:03.0	I begged and begged and begged for, you know, to be part of this special time.
1:08.0	My parents were older, they had me at 47. And anyway, so I was allowed
1:12.8	this glass and, you know, little wine glass and this little bit of sherry with the, you know,
1:18.1	lemonade. It was delicious and it was so special and very, very exciting and I felt very included.
1:23.9	It wasn't a bad experience, it was like this is something great and exciting and made me feel part of my family. I was the youngest of five. There was 10 years between me and the next one up. So there was quite a big gap and there was lots of times maybe that I didn't feel included. And this was one of those times that I did feel a good memory
1:47.6	of being included with my parents and is our time together so that was my first kind of introduction
1:55.5	and my first taste of alcohol back then and it wasn't unpleasant it it was lovely. Then as I got older, of course, into teenagehood and so it wasn't really a bad thing,
2:09.9	you know, but that it wasn't right to go sneaking away with the boys drinking bottles
2:15.1	of Mar Cavo, the cheap wine and, you know, that was, you knew that wasn't right, but we did it anyway.
2:21.3	Then I got married at 17, I got pregnant and married, so I became a young mum.
2:28.3	And there was a bit of drinking then as well, just because my husband was the drink drinker and so that's just what we did.
2:36.9	So I went on to have five more children after that. I got divorced and that's probably when it
2:42.8	really kicked in. Well just prior to that I was drinking at home just to get through the end of the
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