EP 123: Naked Life Story: Sara

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Annie welcomes Sara to today’s episode of This Naked Mind. Sara delivers an honest, emotional interview about her path to freedom and the reasons she gave up drinking. Annie and Sara discuss the ‘mommy wine culture’, the emotional pain of miscarriage, and the benefits of living a naked life. Both Sara and Annie give some creative, fun tips on how to offer alternatives when hosting a holiday gathering and how to handle an alcohol-free mom’s night out!

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.6	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm coming to you from a very
0:33.6	chilly Colorado, but my guest today looks like it's quite warm where you are. Welcome, Sarah.
0:38.0	I'm so happy to have you here. I'm so excited to be with you. It's awesome. So why don't you just
0:45.2	start at the beginning, take us all the way back in kind of your journey and let us know where it all began.
0:51.5	Okay, great. I, when I was preparing for this, I was thinking back to my first sip of alcohol,
1:02.3	because that was such a pivotal part of the book for me. And you know, I happened to be 11 and it
1:08.8	was a complete mistake. It was a complete nutter mistake. I didn't intend to drink alcohol. I
1:14.4	didn't know what alcohol was out of family wedding. And my sister happens to be older than me.
1:19.2	She's 10 years older than me. So she had had a cocktail, I guess. And it was really hot.
1:26.7	And they give out these tiny, tiny little glasses at this wedding. And I was so hot and so thirsty.
1:33.8	And I just, you know, I finished my, my soda. I guess I was having a soda and I just took her glass
1:40.5	from the table and immediately was just stunned and scared because I knew, I knew what alcohol was,
1:50.1	but I never had it. And I remember, you know, I was very little and I just remember feeling grossed
1:57.2	and sick, but also scared about having had alcohol illegally. And my parents happened to be
2:04.8	tea toddlers. Tea toddlers, they never, they drank back in like their early days on the cocktail
2:12.2	started good. But I never, never knew them as drinkers and they didn't really approve of it.
2:17.9	So my sister was doing her own things. And I remember feeling awful and woozy, fast forward,
2:25.2	though, when I went off to college and I actually studied in Spain, alcohol just became part of my
2:31.4	life. And that's when I would say that I, I acquired the taste as you say in your book. I acquired the
2:40.5	taste during college. And then becoming a mom, I really felt like I started to drink more. And I
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