EP 35: Naked Life Story: Mary

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mary is the artist behind the cover of This Naked Mind. In her early twenties, she found herself living a blackout drunk life in New York City, but has been able to gain control, freedom and happiness as very occasional and moderate drinker. Annie and Mary discuss moderation and how it is not the answer for everyone, but how some can find success in moderation after putting in the work to shift the mindset. Mary’s story is one of honesty and freedom and we are excited to share it with you.

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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.
0:30.9	Hi, this is Annie Grace with this naked mind podcast and today I'm really excited because I have
0:35.9	somebody here who's kind of meant a lot throughout the journey of writing this naked mind. In fact,
0:41.5	the very first edition of this naked mind that came out, Mary was the artist behind the cover.
0:47.8	And so I'm really, really glad to have you here, Mary. Thank you for coming.
0:53.8	Thank you. I'm so excited to be here and talk to you. Yeah, it's awesome. So why don't you just start,
1:00.7	we'll get to kind of how you came to draw the cover and all that stuff, but why don't you just start
1:04.5	kind of in the beginning for you? I don't know if it goes back to sort of, yeah, sure. So I really
1:13.4	didn't start drinking until college. Actually, when I was like pretty close to legal and then after
1:19.2	I was legally of age, I started drinking a lot more and I lived in Los Angeles. So I would drink
1:27.2	mostly at home. I would go out sometimes like to clubs by myself as my friend, you know, or like
1:33.8	stay out later than my friends and drink. And when I moved to New York City, after like two years
1:41.0	after I graduated college, was when it really like amped up because in New York, you don't have to
1:48.1	drive. So you can, you know, you don't have to really watch yourself like I did in LA, you know,
1:52.5	in LA, I had to be sure that like I was sober enough to drive home by the time the clubs or the bars
1:57.5	closed. And in New York, it was like everything's open till 4 a.m. and I can take a cab or take the
2:04.2	train. I don't have to get behind the wheel. So, you know, easy, easy to get to get wasted as often
2:10.3	as I want to. That was exactly my experience in New York too. It was the same thing was like
2:15.7	all of this sudden, you know, subway is no problem. It was just, yeah, it was crazy.
2:21.8	And it's like when you start it, you're like, wow, this is amazing.
2:25.1	So, it's worth me about it. But then like a year later, I'm like, oh no, I'm really like,
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