EP 319: Naked Life Story - Emily

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Emily never had a problem giving up alcohol during her pregnancies. However, each time she started drinking again, she noticed she drank more than she used to. She made rules for herself and broke them. Again and again. Then she began having health issues and was arrested for driving drunk. Having to explain the breathalyzer in the car to her five children and answer their questions about her drinking was a turning point for Emily and she began her journey in AA. Today, Emily is a This Naked Mind coach and loves helping others find freedom from alcohol.

Hi. Super exciting news. So The Alcohol Experiment book is being released. Actually it got released just a few days ago with the expanded edition. What does expanded edition mean? It means that every single day throughout the book there are deep reflective journal entries that have been added with space to write which is so cool and so exciting. So you really make it your own. And, the reason I did this is because I truly believe that the deepest wisdom you will access throughout the 30 days of The Alcohol Experiment comes from within you. You know more about what’s best for you than anybody else in the entire world. And I know sometimes that can be hard to believe but when you really access your own wisdom it is so profound. So you can pick up your own copy at alcoholexperimentbook.com and check it out. It’s really powerful.

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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 podcast and here with Emily. Hi, Emily. Hi,
0:34.2	Annie, thanks for having me. So first you're going to have to tell me what the quote behind
0:38.3	you says because otherwise I'll be wondering this. Oh, it says the most important work you will
0:43.2	ever do will be within the walls of your home. Oh, I love that. Yeah. That's very special. That's
0:49.5	great. So true. It's amazing. So why don't you take me sort of back to the beginning with your
0:56.7	story? Where did your journey begin? Sure. So I got sober about three and a half years ago.
1:03.6	And alcohol was something that always came up for me. Something didn't happen every time I
1:08.9	drank, but anytime something bad did happen, alcohol was always involved. So I questioned
1:16.0	over the years whether my drinking was problematic. I had increasing blackouts. And yet any time
1:21.6	I would do that Google search, I could always rule out that I was not phoenix because there was
1:27.2	one or two questions that I could weed out of there. Like I don't come from the long line of
1:31.6	alcoholics. My parents really never drank. Even if I checked yes on every other question,
1:36.6	I gave myself a free pass for those couple of things. So I didn't feel like I sit the mold
1:41.9	that I believed. I thought it was very very black and white. And then the other thing that
1:47.1	led me to justify drinking to myself was I was able to quit many times. I quit, you know, five
1:53.8	times I've five kids. I quit every pregnancy for nine months. And so I justified to myself that I'm
2:00.4	not going to have a problem. But every time I went back to it, it was always as bad or worse than
2:06.4	it was before. So I started doing the thing where I made rules. I only drank a certain drink
2:11.3	or I only drank two or only on the weekends and all of those rules. And I always broke the rules.
2:17.1	And it just made my obsession over it even stronger. And finally, I couldn't, I just couldn't
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