EP 337: Naked Life Story - Leigh

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Leigh’s first experience with alcohol was in college where she became a binge drinker. She drank less as she transitioned to a career but after getting married and having kids, Leigh noticed her glass of wine at the end of the day turned into a bottle every night. After the death of her father, she found herself day drinking. At the same time, Leigh was also able to go for long periods of time without having any alcohol. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, with no rules for anything and the increased normalcy of drinking to deal with everything. After losing her grandfather to COVID in May 2020, Leigh finally found freedom from alcohol with This Naked Mind.

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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	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm here with Lee. Hi, Lee. Welcome.
0:34.2	Hi, good morning. Thank you for having me.
0:36.2	Oh, good morning. Yeah, it's great to have you. So why don't you kind of walk us back to the beginning with your journey and alcohol?
0:44.2	Did it all start for you? I think I didn't start drinking until college until around the age, you know, right around the age of 2021.
0:56.2	I didn't have, you know, any history of drinking in high school.
1:00.2	And definitely immediately after having that first drink, I felt that warm feeling of, you know, wow, this feels different.
1:13.2	And it was an immediate sense of what the draw is to alcohol.
1:21.2	And then through the rest of my college years, I, I benched, drank a lot.
1:27.2	That's kind of what my college drinking looked like.
1:31.2	And then as I transitioned from college to a career, it, it became less.
1:39.2	You know, I think part of that just came with having to get up in the morning and having greater responsibilities.
1:47.2	I don't know that I would consider myself a normal drinker, but it was definitely, it wasn't like it wasn't college.
1:54.2	And that continued throughout my adulthood and early into marriage and having children.
2:04.2	Something after having the kids, I think that, you know, we live in a culture in which drinking is so normalized.
2:13.2	It was a way to unwind and relax.
2:18.2	And it started out with a giant glass of wine at the end of the day, which turned into over time, a bottle of wine at the end of the day.
2:31.2	I really noticed a shift in my drinking in 2014 when my dad passed away.
2:38.2	Day drinking became more of a thing.
2:41.2	You know, be occasional glass of wine with lunch.
2:45.2	I would be wrapping up, I work from home. So I would be wrapping up my work day.
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