EP 197: Naked Life Story - Nicole

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Come down under with Annie as she interviews Nicole, a participant from the January Live Alcohol Experiment. Like many countries, Australia has a drinking age of 18 and for Nicole, that's when the partying started. For her, drinking became synonymous with anything and everything she did - celebrations, happy moods, sad moods....etc. She decided something had to change and that's when she found The Alcohol Experiment and describes it as 'life changing'. Find out why and how life is different for her now.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.0	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. Today I have Nicole with me. Welcome Nicole.
0:34.0	Thank you. Hi, Annie. Hi, so good to have you here. So Nicole, you did the live alcohol experiment in January. Is that right?
0:43.0	I did. I did. Yes, and it was amazing. Such a life changing experience for me.
0:50.0	Oh, that's so cool. So, but why don't you start for, you know, our listeners like way back.
0:56.0	So why don't you go back to kind of the beginning early days for you first drink sort of thing? Where did it all begin?
1:03.0	Yeah, sure. So, I mean, the first drink was late teens in a park somewhere or something.
1:12.0	So in my local neighborhood with my with my girlfriend's and I hated it. It was, I don't, it was that 69.
1:20.0	I don't even know what sort of drink that is actually. It's like probably whiskey or scotch. I don't even know.
1:27.0	I was disgusting. But, but then really I sort of consider my alcohol journey to start like around the 18 19 mark.
1:40.0	And that was, you know, just going out with my with my friends, we finally hit 18, which is the legal drinking age here in Australia.
1:50.0	And we were able to go out to clubs and nightclubs and, you know, just just spend all night out with each other and partying.
2:01.0	And it was, it was good fun. I mean, I remember our weekends used to start on Thursday nights because we went to our local bowling club and there would be 40, 50 of us all there.
2:10.0	You know, that was like our traditional Thursday night out. And we would get so, so drunk on those Thursday nights to then get up and go to work on the Friday morning.
2:18.0	And it was, you know, every single week for years we did that.
2:23.0	And, and then of course the weekends. And as I, as we went into our into my 20s, you know, would sort of, we had this tradition of showing up at my, my friends house that was sort of all of our friends.
2:40.0	And, you know, to this I'm 41 and, and I still have, I'm still very, very close.
2:47.0	We have quite an unusual situation, I think that that is sort of a whole group of friends.
2:58.0	And, yeah, so, so we would, we would have this one house most of the time that we would all go to on the weekends. And we would just rock up there with a box of wine on Friday afternoon and, you know, without any plans other than just drinking our boxes of wine.
3:16.0	And, you know, and then we would get home sometime on the Sunday, you know, and get up and go to work on Monday.
3:24.0	And that was, that was just a routine. That was it for the first year, the decade, you know.
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