EP 203: Naked Life Story – Brittany

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Religion and alcohol can be an interesting topic of discussion, especially for those raised in the Mormon faith - where alcohol is strictly forbidden. Today, Annie chats it up with Brittany, a young mom of three and a former Mormon. Find out how Brittany separated from her faith, but quickly got entangled in the drinking culture. Learn how she was able to get back out with the help of 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 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. I'm here today with Brittany. Welcome, Brittany.
0:33.0	Hi, thank you so much for having me on today.
0:37.0	Oh, it's so awesome. So why don't you tell us about your story like back us up to the beginning where did sort of everything start for you.
0:45.0	All right, so I've been thinking about how to go about this. I've been wanting to, you know, share some background, I guess, just because my background has a lot of context to kind of what looks like catalyst into my drinking.
1:00.0	So I grew up Mormon member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day thing.
1:06.0	So alcohol wasn't a big part of my life all growing up, never had parents that drain, you know, if my friends parents did, I didn't know about it.
1:17.0	So it was very much a world I was not familiar with.
1:21.0	So it was also just kind of like that straight-a student, you know, never wanted to disappoint my parents. I never felt the need to experiment with anything drugs alcohol or anything because that's the way Mormon is kind of lived our life.
1:34.0	It's they call it their word is wisdom, which in full circle feels a little interesting to think about, but I also, you know, just wanted to be that good, good daughter. I didn't want to disappoint.
1:49.0	And I had a sister that experimented with alcohol in high school. She kind of showed her wild oats younger.
1:57.0	She got a big trouble for it. So I knew like there was this big umbrella of you're going to get in really big trouble if you mess around with stuff.
2:06.0	What does big trouble mean? Is it like grounded or prevalent like what did that mean?
2:11.0	Yeah, grounded like she got grounded for a month and it was over spring break.
2:15.0	I'm not going that direction because I like my freedom, right?
2:20.0	And I didn't want to be, you know, the disappointments my parents kind of share the middle, middle child thing with that sister.
2:28.0	And like with the four of us.
2:30.0	With the grounding and just out of care, I'm just curious because I think it does shape sort of how we view and think about things, but was there a lot kind of like, yeah, I'm really disappointed. You really ashamed like, you know, brought down.
2:43.0	Yeah, you know, I mean, not only from my parents, but from the church as well. There would be a lot of shame and guilt.
2:51.0	If you were to sin per se by participating in things that the church taught again.
2:58.0	So definitely a lot of shame and guilt for anything like that even, you know, you didn't have sex before marriage.
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