EP 17: Naked Life Story: Jenn

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jenn tells her story without holding anything back. Wow! Thank you, Jenn, for your transparency and honesty.

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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. Today I have Jen with me and
0:34.0	we're just gonna hear Jen's story so I'm super excited so welcome Jen thank you for being
0:38.0	here. Thank you Annie I'm very happy to be here. And so Jen has yeah she has a story to tell
0:46.3	us why don't you just kind of start at the beginning like what what was what was your journey?
0:51.2	What was life like? Yeah so I don't gosh it's a long story everybody has one right? But I was I was
1:03.8	born in Mauritius which is an island in the Indian Ocean and as my dad was in the sugar industry so
1:13.1	we ended up moving to Malawi in East Africa when I was seven years old and at the sorry I was about
1:21.6	six years old at the age of seven I went to boarding school I was a weekly border and then I went
1:29.9	to boarding school in a different country at the age of 12 and I think that was really hard on my
1:36.7	mom I almost actually from Louisiana here in the States but she met my dad in college and
1:44.5	married him here and then in the States and then moved to the island before she even had her kids.
1:51.4	So anyway the point being is I think that both my brother and I being in boarding school was very
1:57.8	difficult for my mom and she turned to drinking and clearly she was an alcoholic because I mean I
2:09.9	didn't know that at a young age obviously but once I went to college I was like oh you know
2:17.0	starting to make the connections so I grew up with an alcoholic mother and drinking the drinking
2:25.9	culture in South Africa is pretty much like here in the States when I went to college the
2:33.9	freshmen spend a whole week just partying before everybody else arrives on campus I mean it was
2:40.5	crazy you know everybody wake up and start drinking for a whole entire week and I was a party girl
2:48.2	you know I went to an Orgals private boarding school so when I got to college and I had that
2:52.9	freedom you know I really turned to alcohol I was part of the culture I really didn't see like
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