This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without

judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I am so excited because

I have a reader here today, his name is Scott and I cannot wait to hear Scott's story.

So Scott, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much. So tell me, tell me about

where did it all begin for you and who are you? Yeah, well, I live in Maine and I've got two kids

and a wife and I got sober about almost six months ago now, almost exactly six months ago now.

Oh, largely in part due to reading this naked mind. You know, I struggled for a while and I can get

into that a bit later, but I struggled for a while with wanting to stop and should I stop and all

of those questions that we all ask ourselves. But I did and you know, my drinking toward the end

of the time I was drinking, it was that I was a daily drinker for sure and it kind of got to the

point where it was whatever was in the house was what I had. That was during the weekend and in

the weekends, you know, it was all bets were off. So it was something I definitely, I guess I say

I remained responsible, but I wasn't super responsible, but I never gotten into trouble or had any,

you know, DUIs or any of these, you know, crazy stories that you can hear on this stuff. But I knew

what I was doing wasn't the right thing to do. And I have, you know, alcoholism runs in my family

and I have been aware of this since I was a teenager, but I always like, yeah, it's not me, right?

It's not me. Until one day it seemed like it was. Right. And I had to figure that out. And unfortunately

that day was like five years ago. And since then I lived in this like turmoil about what to do about

it and how do I handle it and do I go to a a like how do I do this? And yeah, so finally about,

like I said six months ago, I put it down for good. That's awesome. So yeah, let's talk about that.

Because I think that's one of the things that, you know, I have taken such an issue with. And the

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