EP 294: Reader Question - How do you deal with the “romanticism” of the food/wine culture when you're alcohol free?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On today’s episode, Annie Grace answers a question from an alcohol free reader who recently found herself sipping sparkling water surrounded by people discussing and romanticizing the wine they were all drinking. How could she not feel uncomfortable and attacked? Is there any way to appreciate someone else’s passion when it doesn’t align with your own?
Have you tried The Alcohol Experiment? Okay, if not, drop everything and go to thisnakedmind.com/experiment. This free 30-day challenge is designed to interrupt your patterns and put you back in touch with the best version of you. You remember, it was that version of you that’s living your most joyful life, the version that doesn’t need alcohol to relax or to have a good time, and is having more fun than ever. Again, this is a totally free challenge that will change everything for you. So learn more and join me 100% free at thisnakedmind.com/experiment.
And as always, rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast, as it truly helps the message reach somebody who might need to hear it today.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, you guys. This is Annie Grace. Let me know if you're there. How is everybody doing? |
| 0:33.5 | Good to see you on a Saturday. Good to be here. So type if you can hear me. Let me know that you're |
| 0:38.3 | here. I've been having issues going live recently. So I never know if this is actually working or |
| 0:44.9 | not working. So type if you can hear me. And before I forget, if you haven't yet, you need to join |
| 0:50.4 | us at thealcoolexperiment.com. It is free. It will always be free. It is a mind blowing 3D day |
| 0:57.2 | experiment where all of these questions I'm answering, you find your own truth, you find your |
| 1:01.5 | own reality because there's no wrong answers in what you want with your relationship with alcohol. |
| 1:05.9 | It's totally and completely up to you. I don't know if you noticed, but you're an adult. So before |
| 1:10.6 | I forget, join me if you haven't yet at alcoholexperiment.com. And it's just it's a free 30 day |
| 1:16.9 | experiment where every day you get just new, cool, interesting information. So all right, you guys can |
| 1:22.3 | hear me. Thanks. Thanks for typing in. Hi, Chris. How are you? Hi, Sina. So good to see you guys. |
| 1:27.7 | So today I want to talk about, I'm an answer question that came in and I love this question. |
| 1:33.3 | So hello, I'm three months alcohol free. This snake in mind, I've lost all desire to drink. |
| 1:38.5 | However, at a business awards conference, we were in an award-winning restaurant in Bermuda. |
| 1:43.4 | I was attending with my husband. I know what others. The wine was flowing. I stuck with my |
| 1:47.5 | sparkling water. I was still in good spirits, but then all of a sudden the conversation turned |
| 1:51.0 | to focus on the wine itself. And I would have been delighted with all this talk before becoming |
| 1:55.0 | alcohol free. Mine was my drink of choice. And my husband and I would have been the wine connoisseurs. |
| 2:00.1 | We were wine connoisseurs for over two decades. But now I'm alcohol free and it just kept going |
| 2:06.4 | and going and getting worse and worse. At some point somebody said they owned a winery and it wasn't, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Annie Grace, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Annie Grace and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.