EP 251: Sober Curious with Ruby Warrington

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If you look up the definition of problem drinker, you won’t find a picture of Ruby Warrington. Yet, for as long as she can recall, she couldn’t ignore her numinous curiosity and the constant pull to examine her relationship with alcohol. Now living alcohol free, Ruby is the author of Sober Curious and the founder of The Numinous, as well as a speaker, book doula, curator, brand consultant, copywriter, and thought leader. In today’s episode, Ruby shares her journey and discoveries with Annie Grace.

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Episode Links:

Ruby Warrington’s website

Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington

The Numinous

Sober Curious Podcast: The Future of Sobriety with Annie Grace

Malcolm Gladwell interview

Transcript

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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 I am here with a special guest,
0:33.2	Ruby, author of Sober Curious. Welcome, Ruby, so good to have you here. Hi, Annie, it's so good to be here too.
0:39.8	Thank you for having me. So awesome. So I met Ruby because I was on her podcast and we're like,
0:44.4	oh my gosh, this is great. We had such a fun conversation. So much synergy. And I just was like, okay,
0:51.2	everybody needs to hear Ruby's story. So I'm going to do what I always do and have you just kind of like
0:56.8	back me way up to the super beginning, like your first drink, your childhood. Where did it all start for you?
1:03.4	Okay, right. I haven't gone that far back for a while on a podcast. This is great. Okay, so it's
1:10.4	interesting, right? I had two, two, one parent who drank a lot and one parent who really didn't
1:14.9	ever even think or talk about alcohol. My parents separated when I was just one year old and I was
1:20.0	raised and they made me find my mom, who was a seeker in many ways and wounded in many ways and,
1:26.8	you know, looking to medicate in some ways, I suppose, but alcohol was just not something she ever
1:33.0	kind of really engaged with. Maybe a glass of wine here and there. So the messaging I got from her
1:37.8	was very much about like, we heal through therapy, we heal through food. Like she was seeking all these
1:44.6	kind of alternative ways back in the 1970s, which were a little bit kind of out there, I suppose,
1:50.4	to heal herself and her own wounds. And she wasn't, you know, she wasn't necessarily running away
1:55.2	from things with alcohol. And on the other hand, my dad lived this very kind of a pain lifestyle. He
2:03.4	was a teacher of architecture at the university in London and alcohol was very much a part of his
2:09.6	world. I wouldn't say that he was like an alcoholic drinker necessarily. It wasn't ever perceived
2:15.4	as problematic in those ways. And yet it was kind of ever present, you know, there were lots of
2:20.9	dinner parties at our house. I do remember on a few occasions like, where's dad? Oh, he's fallen
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