EP 11: Naked Life Story: Michelle

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Michelle explores her relationship with alcohol giving an intimate look at how alcohol was all tied up in an unhealthy relationship with sex. Annie Grace and Michelle deep dive into the ties between drinking and sex and how life looks on the other side.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi everyone, my name is Annie Grace and this is the naked mind podcast with Annie Grace
0:33.0	and I am here today with Michelle and Michelle has graciously decided to come on and share
0:37.9	her story and I'm so excited. Welcome Michelle. Thank you. So Michelle, let's just dive into
0:44.4	this. When, you know, what was your life like really kind of before you started to question
0:50.6	your drinking? What were you doing? Who are you? Michelle, like, where were you in life? What was
0:55.3	happening? I was married for about 15 years and my ex-husband at the time was a recovering alcoholic
1:03.5	and when I met him, he was. So we never drank at all and I never drank growing up, not needing it
1:10.0	in college or participated in it in any way and so when I was married to him, we just never
1:17.0	drank and then towards the end of my marriage, I lost a lot of weight, I lost about 65 pounds
1:24.0	and so I didn't drink then as well but when I did choose to go outside the boundaries of losing weight,
1:29.8	I did drink smalcohol and I was very familiar with portion control so I would literally
1:36.1	weigh or measure out two ounces of alcohol and that would be a weekly treat if I let myself have
1:42.6	those two ounces. Well then I got divorced very suddenly. I was a stay-at-home mom for 10 years
1:49.0	and hadn't had a career in 10 years and then I found myself with no home, no career, two kids on my
1:55.2	own. So I quickly established a new career but with single parenting, it just, you know, it started
2:02.7	slowly and I didn't have a husband around who didn't so I was on my own, so I made my own
2:08.4	decisions, my own choices and with that being single, I started to date a lot and every single date
2:15.8	required you to go meet someone for drinks and it just became the norm and then every day after
2:21.4	work, it got more and more stressful as the years went on and my kids got older that it just became
2:27.1	were in the evenings I would drink and so I would, I remember measuring out two ounces and
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