This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without

judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi friends, it's Annie Grace. Apologies if you just turned into that one. The

wind storm totally disconnected my sink door. So I'm gonna try this one again. So

the question today is what is a naked mind and Ned asked this question and I

think it's cool because I haven't actually been asked this before and I thought

really long and hard about how to title the book this naked mind. And of

course, you know at the crux of it, it originally came from I was actually

eating some baronnaked granola which is organic granola without preservatives

or chemicals and the idea of having a naked mind when I knew I had been putting,

you know, for years I had been putting so much well preservatives and

chemicals into my brain and in toxins and whatnot. The idea of having a naked

mind and just the idea of how good it felt to put something organic and

chemical free into my body and thinking, oh well I'm gonna be doing that with

my mind as well because I'm not gonna be putting in these neurotoxins. I'm not

gonna be putting things into my mind that change my thinking or change my

behavior or you know stuff like that. So that idea on its surface of just being

naked within your mind and really taking life with how you are born to take it,

you know, instead of believing that I needed all this other stuff, all these

other kind of cushions or self-medications or crutches to survive it had a

lot of appeal. I mean it's not the easiest idea and it can be terrifying at

times because if there's one thing, you know, that I would say if you asked me

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