EP 191: Naked Life Story – Raegan

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Fancy bars near Capitol Hill. Cocktails with U.S. Senators and Congressmen. Annie welcomes Raegan, who can relate to the drinking culture that permeates not only corporate America, but also politics. How did Raegan go from being a non-drinker in high school and college to daily drinking and using any excuse to drink, subconsciously believing that alcohol was the answer to all her problems….UNTIL she found This Naked Mind.

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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.
0:28.9	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm here with Regan. Welcome,
0:33.3	Regan. Hi. How are you? I'm doing well. I hope I got yourself. I'm doing really good. So why don't
0:41.0	you sort of take me back to the beginning, sort of where it all started for you?
0:47.1	Okay. Yeah. Well, you know, I just like I wrote for the blog entry that you posted on
0:53.6	this naked mind, I did not grow up in a family where addiction was a problem. I didn't ever see it.
1:02.9	I, you know, was not around it. And I never thought anything of it. And when I was 13,
1:11.2	some school friends came over and gave me my first taste of beer. And I didn't like it. I
1:19.1	almost stood it out. It was so horrible. And it stuck with me that I never drank again.
1:25.7	Like throughout high school, I never drank and I was never like really pressured by my friends
1:31.6	or anyone too during. So it was just never an issue. And when I went off to college,
1:37.8	I think that entire four year period, I drank maybe 10 times. It's that. Again, it was never a problem.
1:45.8	When I now, after reading your book, look back on it. I see that in grad school, I went straight
1:53.6	into grad school right after college. I see that that's kind of when it started to creep up on me
1:59.6	a little bit. In the sense that for adding Saturday nights, I was always going to a friend's
2:06.1	house party and, you know, having drinks and so forth. And it became more of a routine like
2:12.1	every Friday and Saturday. But it never interfered with my school or anything like that. I
2:19.1	received a scholarship, a study abroad at Oxford University, and England, and did well. So, you know,
2:25.6	since I didn't really have a background in alcohol or addiction, I didn't know at the time that
2:32.4	it was starting to grow. And then after grad school, I went to work into the politics. And it was
2:39.5	just normal. And I can relate to you, saying that's kind of how it all really started for you in
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