EP 295: Naked Life Story - Irene

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Annie Grace talks with Irene, a police officer, wife, and mum from England. Now more than a year into her life without alcohol, Irene talks about how her drinking went from nothing extreme as a teenager to a bad habit of big drinking sessions on her days off from work and, ultimately, progressed into a coping mechanism for dealing with sadness and grief after having a stillborn child. Irene and Annie talk about human pain and emotion and how we suffer as well as the awkwardness and fun of sober dancing.

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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.
0:21.0	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and I'm here with Irene. Hi, how are you?
0:34.0	Hi, I'm very well. Thank you. Thanks for having me.
0:37.0	I love your wallpaper back around that super pretty.
0:41.0	This is my bedroom.
0:42.0	I love it. So where are you?
0:46.0	I live in Bolton, which is just on the outskirts of great Manchester in England.
0:52.0	Brilliant. So you're you're recording this a little late, but thank you for helping on.
0:58.0	Yeah, the kids are in bed. So hopefully we'll stay that way.
1:02.0	Perfect timing. That's awesome. So why don't you kind of take me back to the beginning with your journey with alcohol sort of where did it all, where did all begin for you?
1:13.0	Okay, so I suppose I started off as a regular 17 year old, going to the pub on a Friday night, couple of glasses of cider, nothing extreme.
1:26.0	And and that was all fine. And if it could have stayed that way, that would have been grateful for that.
1:33.0	And then I'm a police officer and I joined the police when I was 23 and it was very much.
1:41.0	We were on a shift together. It was a young shift. We were all worked nights, worked after news.
1:48.0	So when we had our days off, generally, we're midweek. We'd all go out together and a big drink in sessions.
1:57.0	And I had a lot of times, which was fun at the time. A lot of the times I couldn't remember the end of the night.
2:05.0	I used to have this thing that people said was best drops of my whole face and sort of drop. But I thought that I was having a great time.
2:13.0	So things progressed from there. I suppose I was I was very previously.
2:22.0	So when I had days off during the week, they would be my weekend. And when my husband at the time had his days off at the weekend, that for his weekend.
2:31.0	So we ended up sort of drinking the four nights because it was both our weekends.
2:37.0	And it sort of steadily became a habit, a bad habit. And then I suppose I met my second husband.
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