EP 243: Naked Life Story - Gayle
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Last summer, Gayle from Sober Bliss interviewed Annie (EP: 201 - Sober Bliss with Gayle). In today’s episode, Annie interviews Gayle. A married mom of two sons who was raised in the northeast of England, Gayle was not exposed to alcohol until she was an adult. Currently living in Spain, Gayle attributes her progression into daily alcohol consumption to the Spanish drinking culture. She and Annie talk about the wake up call that helped shift Gayle into alcohol free living, what keeps her focused on remaining a non-drinker, and how her family dynamic has changed now that she and her husband have stopped drinking.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without |
| 0:15.2 | judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture. |
| 0:20.2 | Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and today I have Gail with |
| 0:32.1 | me. Welcome Gail, how are you? Hi Annie, I'm really good. Thank you. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:37.6 | Good. So we're talking Denver to Spain today. That's pretty cool. Yeah, today. So why don't you take me |
| 0:46.1 | back kind of to the beginning of your journey, like your drinking journey or where it all started |
| 0:51.0 | for you, even your first drink? Wow, wow, I was never a drinker when I was growing up teenager. |
| 1:00.2 | I had quite a strict upbringing so there was no alcohol in my house at all. |
| 1:06.2 | And then when I think comes about 21 and I got my first house with my boyfriend |
| 1:14.2 | and it was just kind of the grown up thing to do at the time, you know, a nice kind of wine |
| 1:22.1 | luck in the kitchen with all the wine on and he was a beer drinker so I started drinking beer |
| 1:29.6 | with him but it was never anything more than a couple of cans or something, nothing really, |
| 1:36.0 | even when I was at university, it didn't really bother me that much. But it was kind of when I |
| 1:43.2 | moved to Spain, I moved to here in... So where did you grow up? I grew up in the northeastern |
| 1:49.8 | England in your castle. Yeah, so I went from a big city to where I am now, which is a tiny village |
| 1:57.6 | in Andalusia and we moved to here in 2004 and it was it's part of this Spanish culture that they |
| 2:08.8 | have a beer with breakfast which we have at 10 o'clock, they have a beer with their lunch, they have |
| 2:13.8 | tapas and go now at nighttime and we just kind of got involved in that and fell into it and that's |
| 2:23.2 | when I would say the daily drinking started. But again, not a lot, you know, just a couple of beers |
| 2:30.7 | but we kind of fell into that habit of we have to have beer in the house, I have to have a beer |
| 2:37.9 | at the end of the day and and then it just sort of went from there, I did have a break when I was |
| 2:45.0 | broken in with my second son, so I had about a year off and then I think it was in about 2014, I had |
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