EP 589: Naked Life Story - Meredith

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Meredith never thought she’d be the person fighting with alcohol and the need to drink. Not a single drink passed through her lips in high school but the wheels came off in college. Once she started drinking nothing could make her stop - not a career, cancer, children, or a global pandemic. Drinking became second nature. Amazingly it was a small and somewhat insignificant fight with her husband that made her realize she wanted to stop fighting with alcohol. Annie Grace and Meredith get into conversations around the lie of drinking in order to feel free, how rock bottom can be something others would consider small, how alcohol can manipulate even the shrewdest and most independent people, how to start small with taking control and so much more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to this naked mind with Annie Grace.
0:08.7	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and I'm here with Meredith.
0:19.9	Welcome Meredith, how are you?
0:21.8	I'm great.
0:22.8	Thanks for having me, Annie.
0:23.8	It's so good to have you.
0:26.0	And so why don't we go all the way back to the beginning with you?
0:30.8	Where did your relationship with alcohol begin?
0:34.0	Yeah, so unlike most people that I know, I did not start drinking in high school.
0:39.6	Like most people I know, most people in my friend group, I was actually a hold out for
0:45.9	so long.
0:47.3	I didn't want to drink because I was a very competitive athlete.
0:53.7	I went to boarding school for high school.
0:55.4	So I lived away and I wanted to play field hockey at a very high level in college.
1:02.4	And I knew that if I got in trouble in high school, it wasn't just getting in trouble with
1:07.0	my parents for doing something bad, maybe like sneaking a drink or going to a party and
1:13.4	staying out, but I actually had like repercussions with my school.
1:17.3	So because of that, I was always just terrified of getting in trouble.
1:21.8	So I didn't ever go to any parties, never snuck to other dorms and participate in anything.
1:27.8	I was like so straight edge and so focused on getting the offer to play field hockey in
1:33.8	college.
1:34.8	And that ultimately worked out for me.
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