EP 127: Naked Life Story: Heather

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today, Annie welcomes Heather, a 34-year-old writer from California, to today’s podcast. Heather shares the story of her 3-phase drinking career and how she broke free! Heather talks about the importance of granting ourselves permission to question our relationship with drinking and the freedom that comes with being sober. She no longer feels exhausted from the mental toll that alcohol required and find out why Heather refers to this as ‘mental gymnastics’.

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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, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and today I have Heather
0:33.0	with me and Heather is going to share her story. Thank you so much for being here.
0:36.6	Heather, welcome. Thank you. It's a pleasure. Thanks for having me. That's awesome. So what
0:42.3	are you back way up for me and just sort of start like right at the beginning where did
0:49.5	all start for you? Yeah, so I like to think of my drinking career for lack of a better term,
0:57.0	kind of in like three phases or chapters. So I'm 34. I started drinking when I was 18 or 19. So I
1:06.0	was a bit of a late bloomer compared to my friends grew up in a Mormon household. So everything
1:13.7	was pretty much off limits. So there was really like no education around drugs. It was kind of like
1:20.5	of the dare generation. So that's where I got all of my education. But it was really just stay
1:27.2	away right abstinence only for drinking for drugs for premarital sex like all of that, all of that
1:34.6	stuff that you know you're introduced to as like a teenager. So I really didn't
1:42.8	I didn't miss it of course before I drank because I really didn't know that that world.
1:48.6	But I just breathed through high school. It was just something that I didn't do. I was fine with it
1:53.2	and then one day I was just like you know I'm just going to like go to this party and just see
1:57.7	what it's all about. So it was a very conscious decision to drink and I went to this party. I was
2:05.9	hanging out with this guy. We kind of like had a thing for each other and there's never the right
2:10.8	time. But I share the sannic dough because it's it's really important looking back but he kind of
2:15.8	like pulled me to the side and was telling me all these wonderful things right and I was just like
2:21.4	totally in the moment and just smitten and I was like wow you know and I told him like very
2:26.8	cheesy. I'm like you know you're only saying this because you're drunk and he said a drunk person
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