EP 173: Naked Life Story: Monica

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Is it hard for you to imagine going to your lake home for the weekend or the Fourth of July and not drinking? Cruising on the pontoon with only bottled water and lemonade in the cooler? For Monica, she doesn’t have to imagine it – this is her reality – and her choice. Today, Annie and Monica discuss the emotional, physical, and mental benefits of choosing a life without drinking. Find out why setting non-negotiables can be a crucial part of a sober future and learn what 4 non-negotiables Monica has set for herself.

Episode Links:

The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

The Alcohol Experiment

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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 Monica with me to share
0:33.6	her story. Welcome Monica. How are you? I'm good. Thanks. Thanks for having me. That's great. Yeah,
0:39.2	thanks for being here. So why don't you just like walk me back to the beginning sort of where to
0:43.9	get all start for you in your drinking career? Oh gosh. Well, my drinking career probably started
0:49.7	in college and that was a long time ago, 1969 I started college. So I you know, I did I noticed
0:59.8	that I think my my journey was much the same as a lot of other people I had never had anything to
1:06.1	drink before college. Then I kind of started drinking my freshman year and then I would like binge
1:12.7	drink at parties and and then you know, that was kind of it. And then in my 20s kind of the same
1:20.0	thing in my 30s, I might start having a drink a little bit during the week, maybe go out to
1:26.0	dinner with people, usually didn't drink at home. And I was single all these years. I was single
1:32.0	till I was 43. So then in my 40s, after I got married, we started having a drink every night and
1:40.1	then we started having more drinks. And then the continual large amounts of drinking and weekends
1:47.6	and social events. And it's just been something for a while that I've been thinking, why am I doing
1:53.4	this? I need to not do this. So I actually heard about you and this naked mind through connect,
2:04.0	which is a weight watcher, it's like weight watchers version of Facebook. Oh, interesting.
2:10.5	Yeah. And I had said on that that, you know, I think if I could stop drinking, I could lose weight.
2:15.9	And somebody said, oh, you need to get to AA. And I said AA just doesn't sound like something I
2:21.0	want to do. And somebody else said, you should try this naked mind or hip sobriety. So that's how I
2:27.3	stumbled on this naked mind in you. And that was probably maybe mid December. And so I decided,
2:37.6	yeah, I'm going to do this 30 day experiment. And I actually started December 27th.
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