EP 363: Naked Life Story - Kate & Mandy
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mandy and Kate are British mums whose journeys to change their drinking brought them together in an online sober community. After several starts and stops, they each found freedom from alcohol after reading This Naked Mind. The two became fast friends and have now co-authored a book and work together to help other women stop drinking. Today, they share their stories with Annie - from ditching perfectionism to empowering motherhood with radical self-care to accepting themselves, and more.
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I have a special treat today. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm here with two stories. We have Mandy and Kate. Hi guys, welcome. Hello. How are you guys? |
| 0:41.4 | I'm good. Yeah, it's seven in the evening. I'm in France, so I'm British, but I live in France. |
| 0:47.4 | So yeah, just just before dinner time for me over here. That's awesome. Yeah, and so I'm an |
| 0:54.0 | hour before, but you know, you can see that you're, you've got daylight going on, Annie. And we're |
| 0:59.5 | at the 11 a.m. It's still a little day. Yeah. So yeah, it's so good. Excited to talk to you. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, I'm excited too. So I would love to hear both of your stories and I don't know who, |
| 1:14.9 | who kind of wants to start, but just really walking, walking us back to the beginning of where it all |
| 1:19.6 | started for you. Well, I'm sure I go first. You usually, I usually sort of sit here and then wait |
| 1:26.9 | for you to start on time. So I'm going to dive in. Yeah, go on. I'm going to take the Olympic torch. |
| 1:33.9 | So I think I've been thinking about this. You know how you tell your story a few times, |
| 1:39.3 | and it kind of can really change depending on what mood you're in on the day. So I actually |
| 1:45.6 | was very organised and I've written some sort of notes of my key points. I'm seeing quite an |
| 1:50.3 | kind of organised frame for my interday, but I thought that was important because I think, |
| 1:56.8 | what's, as I've told my story a few times, what's come to the surface is this sense of everything |
| 2:04.8 | looking okay on the surface and there's a sense of me being a great pretender all the way through |
| 2:12.7 | and I can trace this really back to being a teenager and having a lot of anxiety just |
| 2:18.9 | feeling wrong in my own skin. And I know that's such a kind of common thing, theme for people, |
| 2:24.0 | for sober people and people in my country. So yeah, there was a lot of anxiety and there was a lot |
| 2:31.3 | of keeping up appearances and this sort of carried on. You know I was such a good girl. I kind of did |
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