EP 149: Naked Life Story: Rachel

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today, Annie introduces Rachel from Rachel Hart Coaching. Annie and Rachel share the same passion, which is helping people find freedom from alcohol. In college, Rachel used alcohol to access the fun, confident version of herself. But it wasn’t a permanent solution - her love/hate relationship with alcohol finally had to change. Find out how she gave it up and how she is now using her experience to help others escape the grip of drinking.

Episode Links:

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Rachelhart.com

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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.
0:20.1	Welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm really excited. I was, but I'm really excited about
0:32.6	our guests today. I have with me Rachel Hart from Rachel Hart Coaching and Rachel, I have just
0:38.2	been kind of watching your work and the things you're doing online and it's amazing. So I thought,
0:43.8	it would be so cool to get you on and really have you kind of tell your story and then, you know,
0:48.7	we can get into all sorts of things. So welcome. Yeah, thank you so much. I'm really excited to be
0:53.5	here and share with your listeners. No, that's awesome. So what are you just like walk us back
1:00.2	like on a personal level? I always think that the best place to start is just kind of where it all
1:06.2	sort of began for you, you know, even to your first drink stuff that. Yeah. So I mean, I always talk
1:11.9	about how I really discovered alcohol in college and really that first week in college for me.
1:18.4	And so it was the first college party that I went to and I was so awkward and so insecure and so
1:26.0	uncomfortable. And I remember feeling like, please, I would do anything to get out of this situation.
1:32.3	Like, can I can I just run home and someone handed me a drink and all the sudden it was like, oh,
1:41.1	like this is how you deal with anxiety and insecurity. And this is how you feel confident and
1:47.5	outgoing and are able to approach people. And so from that moment, I mean, I immediately thought like,
1:54.2	oh, alcohol is fantastic. Where has it been this whole time? Now, that was that was kind of my
2:01.9	initial response to it. But of course, the more that I used it in life is a way to deal with that
2:09.1	anxiety and to feel more confident and to cope with negative emotions. The more not only did I
2:16.2	feel like I needed it, it felt like a crutch, but the more negative consequences were building up
2:20.9	for me because I wasn't actually figuring out how to feel that way in my own. So I really pretty,
2:27.8	pretty early on had a love hate relationship with it that I felt like I just can't like this is how
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