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This Naked Mind Podcast

EP 362: Reader Question - Will I ever have fun without drinking alcohol?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Why do we think it’s alcohol that makes things fun? When we look back on our lives, most of us can remember times when we had fun without drinking. So, why do we believe we will be miserable when we remove alcohol? How can we change the way we feel? Annie Grace explains.

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Transcript

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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.

0:20.2

Hi, it's Annie Grace. I hope everybody's doing great. So hello, I am answering

0:34.7

readers questions and this question actually wasn't really a readers question. It

0:37.9

was just something that I saw on a Facebook post and it was basically like how

0:43.4

am I ever supposed to have fun without a drink and oh I remember feeling

0:50.1

this way. Like so I can literally put myself in the moment of feeling this way of

0:55.7

feeling like what's the point if I can't drink? What is the point of anything if

1:02.2

I can't drink? And I remember feeling this way lots of different times. I

1:05.3

remember feeling this way when I was pregnant with my son and it was my first

1:10.0

pregnancy so it was the first time that I'd really given up alcohol and I was

1:13.8

drinking quite a lot by then. Interestingly my drinking escalated after each

1:18.0

pregnancy. I started drinking more than I did before. I gave it up for the

1:21.3

nine months so there's some interesting dynamics and that about you know for

1:25.0

Bitton Fruit and how much I'd put alcohol and kind of a pedestal stuff like

1:28.2

that. But in any event I remember sitting at a barbecue and it was my good

1:32.2

friends 30th birthday and we were all in this park. It was beautiful. It was an

1:36.4

aspirin colorado. They were having they had all sorts of different drinks. It

1:41.4

was I think Mexican themed so we had like the best food carnitas and you know

1:46.8

refried beans and all of this stuff and I remember sitting there with this

1:50.5

group of girls that I'd known really my whole life. I mean I went to very small

1:55.1

school so we'd known each other from kindergarten all the way through high

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