Ep 190: Reader Question – How to be alcohol free at a wedding?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Summer is wedding season and a summer wedding without booze is unthinkable! Or is it? Find out how to say no to the open bar and champagne toast as Annie gives us her best advice for dancing the night away without relying on liquid courage.

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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 friends, it's Annie Grace, author of this naked mind and I am answering
0:32.0	religious questions and today I have a question from Lisa. Lisa says, hi Annie, I'm
0:38.6	going to a wedding in mid-August out of binary. I'm 680 days into sobriety.
0:43.0	Congratulations Lisa, loving it but I'm apprehensive about the wedding. I don't
0:47.8	want to drink but I'm concerned about the added pressure of it being at a
0:50.8	winery. I'm also nervous because other than the groom and my husband, I
0:55.0	won't know anyone else there, no quote, Dutch courage. Any advice to help keep my
1:00.0	nerves and me on the path would be appreciated thanks. So Lisa, this is a great
1:05.2	question for me to answer in terms of timing because I literally last two
1:10.5	weeks ago went to my first alcohol free wedding and I guess people haven't been
1:14.2	to wedding in like three or four years probably so it's it was a new thing that
1:19.8	I hadn't had for a while and I actually took some like live video from the
1:23.1	wedding which I'm going to publish on YouTube. So when it's uploaded I will
1:27.2	upload that and then you can see kind of my reel in the moment responses
1:30.6	because I've said this before but every single thing I do that's the first
1:35.2	thing that's alcohol free it creates nerves for sure because you don't know
1:39.9	how it's going to be and because in our adult life I mean quite frankly I hadn't
1:43.7	been to a wedding without drinking in my entire adult life so I didn't I
1:47.0	didn't know what it was going to be like I didn't know how it was going to be. I'd
1:51.5	say a few things if you're worried about drinking I think you know it's it's
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