EP 347: Naked Life Story - Evelyne

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

There wasn’t much alcohol around when Evelyne was growing up, just some wine on special occasions. She began drinking in college, eventually becoming someone who could always drink more than her friends and always wanted more to drink. But, since she didn’t feel dependent on alcohol, did well at work, and had never gotten a DUI, Evelyne never questioned her drinking. It wasn’t until she was taking a Monday night wine class - something that kicked off her drinking each week - that she stumbled upon This Naked Mind. Today, living alcohol free allows Evelyne to be more authentic in her work in the integrative functional medicine field.

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.
0:29.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this Naked Mind Podcast and I'm here with Evelyn. Welcome Evelyn.
0:34.1	Hi, thank you so much for having me.
0:36.1	Oh, it's great to have you. Great to be here. So why don't you take us back sort of to the beginning
0:41.9	for you? Where did alcohol enter your life? Where did it all begin?
0:47.1	I would say I started drinking in college but not excessively then. I did study abroad one year,
0:56.4	almost a full year in Australia and Australians are very heavy drinkers. So I would say definitely
1:03.6	picked up then especially because I worked in a bar. So it was just part of my life there.
1:10.0	And then even throughout my 20s, you know, I lived with roommates and I remember some nights
1:17.8	wine and a plate of cheese and crackers would be our dinner. And you know, I didn't grow up in a
1:25.9	family that drink. My parents are not big drinkers. It just wasn't really a part of my life growing up.
1:36.2	It would be something that my parents only had wine really on very special occasions like holidays.
1:42.1	So it was not around. It's not in my family. And then I would say, you know, I just think as you get older,
1:52.9	you just a lot of people drink more, not everyone, but a lot of people do start to drink more. And
1:58.9	like you talk about your tolerance just goes up. And so I would say, well, do you want me to get
2:07.9	to the part about when I changed? Yeah. So what sort of happened? So you didn't drink a lot,
2:14.0	but your tolerance went up. And do you have any moments in that journey that were really
2:18.5	stick out for you? I think it was closer to when I stopped drinking. So I would say the last
2:25.0	couple of years I was drinking more. And I'm the kind of person who I would just be able to drink a
2:31.5	lot more than all my friends. And you talk about that too, you were able to do that too. And it's kind
2:36.8	of this point of pride. I'm not proud of that now. But I definitely was the kind of person who I
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