EP 297: Naked Life Story - Rob

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From a very young age, Rob assumed drinking would be a normal part of his life forever. He drank socially and on special occasions, and from time to time he drank way too much. But, he never felt alcohol was a problem. Then, about eight years ago, he let down his guard. The idea of drinking more was presented to him and, combined with his feelings of disappointment and some pain and fear that had shown up, Rob began drinking to cover up and numb the stuff that didn’t feel good. After lots of searching for the right path to a different relationship with alcohol, he found This Naked Mind. A participant in the very first Live Alcohol Experiment, Rob went from having a constant and desperate desire to drink to having no interest in alcohol whatsoever. And, as a This Naked Mind coach, he now helps others make the same shift he did.

If you asked me about the one thing that makes This Naked Mind so different from anything else, I would have to say emotion. It is the emotion when people feel really ready to make a change, when they’ve had that mindset shift, when they’ve gone through all the materials and the methodology and they get this feeling that it’s not that they never get to drink again it's that they never have to drink again. And, interestingly, according to all sorts of new research, it is emotion, especially positive emotion, more than anything else that predicates how long a change will stick, how long it will last. It is emotion. When you feel excited about a change in your life. When you feel thrilled you’re making this new difference, instead of feeling deprived like you’re missing out, everything changes. And it really makes it that This Naked Mind can stick for the long term. If you want to know more about how to truly change your emotion around drinking, I want you to join me at nakedmindpath.com. It is the path to changing your emotion and changing your feelings and really finding freedom in your relationship with alcohol.

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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	Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and I'm here with Rob. Hi Rob, so good
0:32.1	to have you here. Hi Annie, it is so great to be here. You know, I've watched so many of your
0:36.6	podcasts and like when guests come on, oftentimes I feel like they're just like glowing because
0:42.3	they're so happy, happy to be with you. So this is me glowing. Oh, that's so awesome. So fun. So,
0:48.8	why don't you take us, take us way back even to your childhood, like where, where did your
0:55.6	story with alcohol begin? Absolutely. So, I would say that for most of my life, I was what you'd call
1:03.6	a normal drinker, right? So, so what do I mean by that? I drank for social occasions, I drank
1:09.5	to party, I drank at concerts and you know, I drank to have a good time and absolutely that meant that
1:16.8	I drank way too much on way many an occasion, you know, but it just, it really wasn't a problem for me.
1:23.8	So, and I'm really curious about that term, normal drinking because, well, so I'm actually a fan of AA
1:31.4	and I do go to meetings every week, but I do have some fundamental differences with AA philosophy.
1:36.0	And one of the ways I feel like, I feel like the fact that the conversation's been driven towards
1:43.3	this idea that there are normal drinkers and then there's the the the a word, right?
1:49.6	Doesn't necessarily serve us because I think there's a lot of normal drinkers who have
1:53.5	an issue with drinking and but they can always kind of say, but I'm not one of those people,
1:57.9	right? So, I think you even talk about like when your friend went to AA and you were still drinking
2:05.2	and then they came to you and said, oh no, no, I'm different than you, right?
2:09.2	was to kept you from even looking at that point. So, so I don't think that really serves us. So,
2:13.2	this whole idea of normal drinking, but the other thing about that term normal drinker is
2:19.9	listen to it like if you flip it around, it's like drinking is normal and that was absolutely the
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