EP 293: Naked Life Story - Julia

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A self-described “messy drinker” from the start, Julia grew up in the middle of nowhere on the England/Scotland border and had her first taste of alcohol around 14 years old. While she often worried about alcoholism and whether or not she was drinking too much, she easily calmed her fears and assured herself she was alright when she watched those around her drinking the same way she did. By the time she turned 40, Julia was living in a big loop of drinking, hangovers, and generally getting in her own way all the time. Since quitting drinking, she has gone from being convinced living without alcohol was going to be a boring, grey half-life without any friends or fun to writing a book about her journey and feeling safe and secure with the absence of alcohol as a rock underneath her.

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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 welcome to this naked mind podcast and I'm here with Julia. Hi, Julia, welcome.
0:33.6	Hello, I'd love you to be here. So good to see you. So why don't you kind of back me up and tell you
0:40.4	where did it all start for you? Where did your drinking career begin?
0:44.5	Okay, so as you can probably tell from my accent, I'm from England and from the North of England
0:51.6	to be exact and I grew up in a small town just kind of on the Scottish borders so right kind of
0:58.0	in the middle of nowhere really and I started drinking like most people do really as a teenager,
1:04.4	out with friends, out at parties and I was about 1415 and then I think I was always kind of,
1:13.2	I was always kind of a bit of like a binge drinker really and I was always kind of the one
1:18.7	who'd maybe have sort of no off switch, I was always the one who'd maybe take it a little bit too far
1:23.0	and was having to be looked after at the end of the night, that kind of thing. So I think I'm
1:26.9	right from the start really, I was always a bit of a kind of messy drinker if you like.
1:33.9	And then it kind of went on and it was not, my drinking wasn't really for really all of my
1:39.9	twenties and probably my only 30th, my drinking wasn't really that unusual in comparison to the people
1:45.9	around me. So though it worried me to the extent that you know I'd have, if I had a fall on a night
1:52.0	out or if I had kind of memory loss the next day and I couldn't remember what, what had happened
1:57.2	the night before I would start, I would feel quite a lot of anxiety about that and kind of wonder
2:03.0	have that kind of am I an alcoholic and have sort of those thoughts going through my mind but
2:08.6	I could, it was always far too easy for me to kind of look around me and I see other people
2:14.3	and see my peers doing pretty much the same thing. So it was kind of, then I'd have that reassurance
2:19.8	and then I'd carry on and then the cycle was carry on and I would end up in that situation again.
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