EP 201: Sober Bliss with Gayle Macdonald
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | This is Annie Grace and this is this naked mind podcast and today I am being interviewed by someone |
| 0:33.8 | named Gail from Sober Bliss and I'm really looking forward to speaking to her. She says she has |
| 0:38.8 | new, exciting, different and interesting questions for me. So I wanted to share this here as well because |
| 0:43.7 | I think it's going to be really great. So I hope you enjoy. Hi everyone and welcome to Sober Bliss. |
| 0:49.4 | Today I'm really, really excited and delighted because I've speaking to the wonderful Annie Grace. Hi, |
| 0:56.3 | Annie. Hi Gail. So wonderful to be here. You too. Thank you. So how's the weather where you are? |
| 1:03.7 | Looks lovely and sunny. It is sunny today. We've had snow up until recently but it's really, |
| 1:09.9 | I think it's turning a corner, hopefully. So yeah, lovely, lovely. Well, for those people who don't know |
| 1:17.9 | and I'm not sure there's many of those around but could you just introduce yourself and tell us |
| 1:24.0 | a little bit about you, please? Yeah, of course. So my name is Annie Grace and I've written two books, |
| 1:31.1 | this naked mind and the alcohol experiment and both books, specifically this naked mind as it |
| 1:36.5 | was my first came from, you know, really my own journey in finding myself in corporate life, |
| 1:41.5 | drinking far more than I ever intended and using it to cope even when I didn't really drink much |
| 1:46.9 | in high school or in college and really wondering why when I tried to cut back, it felt painful, |
| 1:53.2 | it felt like I was missing out or I was depriving myself of something, especially when I didn't |
| 1:57.2 | feel like that before when I had such vivid memories of having a great time with that alcohol, |
| 2:01.6 | it relaxing without alcohol and really my journey to say, okay, the big pivotal question was, |
| 2:07.2 | well, what changed and how did it change and what does that mean? And so I did something sort of |
| 2:13.5 | bizarre, I stopped trying to manage it and moderate and quit drinking. I just said, all right, |
| 2:19.9 | I'm going to let that kind of be for a minute because it had been causing me so much internal |
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