Calming the Type A Mind Without Alcohol | Jennifer’s Naked Life | E804

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Learning how to turn your brain off without drinking can feel impossible when your mind is constantly racing. Jennifer, a self-described control freak, discovered this firsthand as she navigated years of using alcohol to quiet the mental chatter. What happens when that coping mechanism is removed? Join us as Jennifer shares her powerful journey of realizing alcohol wasn't her friend and how she ultimately found a more fulfilling and peaceful existence without it. In this episode, Cole and Jennifer discuss: Drinking as a way to manage stress, loneliness, and the loss of control Using alcohol to feel connected and to quiet a constantly running mind How early sobriety revealed emotional triggers Jennifer didn’t expect Navigating the fear of change and giving up the one “friend” that always showed up Her experience with the Alcohol Experiment Facebook group How she discovered how to turn your brain off without drinking New coping tools for stress, overthinking, and emotional discomfort Why ditching alcohol helped her show up more fully for her family Embracing self-trust, not self-judgment and more topics…

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0:00.0	You're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.4	Hey, everybody. Welcome to The This Naked Mind podcast. I am Cole Harvey filling in for the
0:20.1	amazing Annie Grace. It is an honor and a pleasure
0:23.0	to be here to have a conversation today with Jennifer. Jennifer, thank you so much for being here.
0:28.2	Thank you so much for having me, Cole. This is truly an honor. Yeah, absolutely. I'm so glad
0:34.0	that you're just taking the time just to tell your story. And so why don't we do that?
0:38.6	Why don't you just take us back to kind of the beginnings where the journey with alcohol started for you?
0:44.7	Sure.
0:45.3	I kind of wanted just to start off.
0:47.2	I know everybody's got a different childhood, a different background, but I first just wanted to start off a little bit about my childhood.
0:55.2	And first start off by saying, I've always felt loved and cared for by my parents. But as far as maybe how things
1:03.0	progressed or how things started, my mom was, I grew up in a household where it was split. My mom
1:09.9	was not a big drinker. Still isn't. She can have one
1:12.9	drink a day and leave it at that, which I've never understood. But my dad was, he was quite a
1:20.6	heavy drinker. And my parents, they did divorce when I was two. And my dad quit drinking
1:27.4	shortly after my parents divorced, which I always really admired.
1:32.2	I've always looked up to my dad.
1:33.7	He's still my hero.
1:35.2	Always has been.
1:36.7	I'm my mom's only child.
1:38.4	I'm my dad's fourth.
1:40.1	So he has three children from a previous marriage.
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