This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,

pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hello everybody, I'm Scott Pinyard Head Coach of this naked mind and I am back with another edition of coaching questions.

I'm really excited because my co-host today is one of our fantastic coaches. Her name is Christy Wynn. How's it going, Christy?

I'm doing great. How are you doing? So good. And you know, one of the, I'm excited for a lot of reasons to talk to you today.

But one of those is I want to hear more about your journey in particular, but you use a phrase that I love and you said,

you like to help people learn radical self-care. So I'd love to just hear a little bit about your journey and what radical self-care is.

Yeah, it's my favorite term in the whole world. Yeah, there's a, you know, I think there's a confusion around what self-care really means.

And so I think it's a nice way to differentiate the self-care we often think of, which is, you know, like getting a manicure, a pedicure, like, you know, doing those sort of external things for ourselves.

And then really up leveling that into the radical space, which basically means, you know, how to give yourself, to teach yourself more agency, you know, how to take 100% responsibility for yourself.

And there are a lot of ways to do that. And so I love helping women in particular, find themselves again through that radical self-care and learning to kind of put themselves first.

So that's basically the short version of what radical self-care is. But, as far as my journey goes, I, you know, mine was sort of, it came on for, you know, many, many years of just sort of that inner voice kind of talking to me, just that inner knowing, but sort of ignoring it because I didn't really understand.

I knew that I didn't really want to be drinking anymore, but I also didn't really understand what that looked like.

And I had no one around me that was that had done it. And I grew up, you know, in Michigan, and a big kind of drinking environment and lots of drinking, you know, with my parents growing up.

And so, for me, I just truly didn't understand how to do it and how life could possibly be fun without it. And so, yeah, it was just sort of it came over a long stretch of really starting to kind of do that work with myself and with others in my medical setting practice that I was working in.

And so, I was helping a lot of women and just seeing it over and over again, there's struggles with the wine culture.

And how that was really stopping them from, you know, becoming their healthiest selves and being their best selves.

And so, it just, you know, it just took a while. I didn't really have any sort of major rock bottom. I definitely was going through some midlife, you know, challenges in my marriage and in general.

And just sort of spiraling in a little bit off the rails.

But I think that it was, you know, that was a huge contributor to it. And so once I was finally really ready to kind of look at it straight on and try to figure out, you know, how to do it and how to make the changes.

And so, that was the best thing I'd ever done for myself. And to me, that is radical self care right there. That's like the gift of, you know, giving yourself this huge change in your life that is really going to set you off on a trajectory that you could never imagine could be possible.

I love that. And, you know, it's funny you mentioned this idea of a lack of rock bottom. Because so many people, I mean, there's plenty of people that we work with that do have something they define as a rock bottom.

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