EP 355: Naked Life Story - Early

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Early shares their drinking story with Annie Grace. From their first drink at 10 years old to drinking box wine they found in a dumpster to the 12 years they spent trying over and over again to use willpower to control alcohol. Early describes themself as a person who's living on the margins of society, a punk and a queer who has spent most of their adult life hitchhiking and riding freight trains across the country and drinking and smoking crack with bums under bridges. Now, at 32 years old, Early talks about what finally changed, how they made alcohol a non-issue, and the tools they have put in place to keep it that way.

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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.
0:20.4	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm here with Early. Hi, how are you?
0:34.4	I'm good. How are you doing? Good. Really good. So I'm excited to hear your story. I've read a little bit
0:39.7	about from what you sent in and yeah, it sounds like it's been lots of twists and turns and effesandowns.
0:45.6	So I really, thanks for being here to share. It's great. Why don't you kind of started the beginning?
0:52.5	Why don't you walk us back to even your first drink? Where did it all begin for you?
0:57.2	Yeah, so I grew up in rural Wisconsin, just like a regular, normal, healthy childhood,
1:07.0	upbringing, loving parents and stuff like that. But for some reason, I started drinking when I was
1:12.8	10 years old. I remember me and my best friend at the time, stole Miller Highlife from her
1:20.6	parents' fridge and then dumped Kool-Aid into it because we were little kids and it was too gross to drink.
1:27.3	And looking back now, at the time, I didn't have any cognition of why I was drawn to substances,
1:35.9	but looking back now, I realized that it was probably in response to being sexually abused as a
1:39.9	child and not understanding those feelings and trying to get rid of them and stuff like that.
1:46.0	And then as time went on, as I was a kid, I would just steal alcohol from my friend's parents'
1:52.0	refrigerators as often as possible. And then getting into my teenage years, just kept drinking and
2:01.1	doing any drug I could possibly get my hands on just to kind of try to feel different and to fit
2:05.6	in and to make friends. So that's kind of the beginning, I guess.
2:11.6	Yeah, so when you first drink, did it feel just kind of like relief? Because a lot of times,
2:16.4	and there's some really good science behind this, when you have a history of intense trauma
2:21.6	and life just doesn't feel good. Life feels prickly. Life feels on edge and you have that first
2:25.7	drink because it does numb the brain a little bit and reduce how fast your brain can think.
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