EP 198: Reader Question - Alcohol free drinks? Are they OK?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes it feels like an alcohol free beverage would take away the awkwardness of social situations. Other times, it feels like an AF beer would help erase some of our cravings. Is this okay? Find out what Annie has to say about this commonly asked questions.
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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. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi friends, it's Annie Grace and I am answering readers questions and today I have a question from Linda. |
| 0:36.1 | Linda says, Annie, what do you think on alcohol-free wine and beverages? They look like wine in a wine bottle, |
| 0:43.1 | but they're alcohol-free. I'm not sure if you've talked about this. It's interesting. I think |
| 0:49.7 | this question comes up a lot and at first came up, I was kind of like, that's a strange question, |
| 0:55.5 | but I think it's pretty prevalent in people wondering like, what's okay and what's not okay. |
| 1:00.8 | And I think for me, how I would answer it is that if you feel that they're fine for you, then I think |
| 1:08.8 | they're fine for you and so it really has to be an individual response and I think that's really |
| 1:13.8 | important here. And what I mean is this, like for me, once I stop drinking, I lost a taste for wine. |
| 1:20.5 | So I haven't tried any alcohol-free wine and it's not really that I'm opposed to it or anything. |
| 1:25.0 | It's just that I haven't had any desire or occasion to try it, so I just haven't. |
| 1:30.3 | There was once over this last summer where I was out of wedding and everybody was ordering a drink |
| 1:35.3 | or whatever and my great uncle always is drinking alcohol-free beers. He's not drunk beer in 40 years |
| 1:42.7 | or something crazy like that and so I joined him and I had now a gulf-free beer and it was weird |
| 1:48.7 | because it made me feel really disingenuous to myself. And this is because it looked like a beer. |
| 1:55.0 | Like it was in a beer bottle and everyone at the wedding, you know, was my family's wedding so |
| 1:59.2 | everybody knew that I no longer drank and that I had in fact written this book about no longer |
| 2:05.5 | drinking and so I felt like I needed to have this sign around my neck that said, this beer doesn't |
| 2:11.2 | have alcohol on it, it's alcohol-free and it left me feeling really uncomfortable. So personally, |
| 2:17.3 | instead of helping me fit in, it just made me feel awkward and like I wasn't being true to myself |
| 2:22.7 | and it like I needed to explain myself to people. Not to mention that the beer just gave me |
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