EP 133: Naked Life Story: Nate

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Annie welcomes Nate, who at one time was a happy-go-lucky, athletic college student who could enjoy life without even the thought of a drink. Find out how alcohol quickly wove a messy web that trapped him into a world of depression. Nate shares how he found his way out of the dark world of addiction and realized that drinking was robbing him of the quality of life he once knew. He now lives a ‘naked’ life – FREE from the lies of alcohol.

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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.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm really excited to have Nate here.
0:32.2	We just learned that we are both here in Colorado and that's really cool. So welcome Nate.
0:38.2	Thanks. That's my pleasure to be here. Thank you.
0:41.2	That's so cool. So why don't you just start sort of at the beginning for you?
0:45.2	Like, I don't know your first drinker, high schooler, earlier, where it all kind of started.
0:50.2	Sure.
0:52.2	I guess, I guess important background to know is that I didn't really drink much, maybe a drinker to like,
1:01.2	ever before I was 21. Like when I was in high school, I didn't drink when I was in college.
1:07.2	I wasn't really the person who would, who would go and get, get drunk on the weekends or on Friday night or whatever.
1:14.2	I was more the kind of person who would go and like hike a mountain in the middle of the night with my friends.
1:22.2	And I loved that.
1:24.2	I loved, I loved being that person that was, didn't have to be dependent on alcohol to have a good time.
1:31.2	And so, yeah, that's, that's really my background as far as that goes.
1:40.2	Yeah. My first, my first like real drink was in December when I turned 21.
1:48.2	I was in engineering school and my friends weren't about to let me study my way.
1:58.2	It was, it was finals week and they weren't allowed about to, to let me study my way through my 21st birthday.
2:03.2	They, they made me a cup of coffee with some babies in it. And that was my, that was like really my first drink, my first actual drink, which I think is hilarious.
2:14.2	And I thought.
2:18.2	Yeah. So,
2:22.2	I think that was really, really, really, really fun.
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