EP 603: Naked Life Story - Kathleen Donnelly
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Kathleen joins Annie Grace to share her personal journey and experiences with alcohol, ultimately leading her to embrace a stoked and sober lifestyle. Growing up in a family with generational alcohol use disorder, Kathleen was exposed to alcohol from a young age. She also faced various challenges, including trauma and feeling unsafe in the world. Discover how Kathleen found solace in substances and the pivotal moment that made her realize the need for change. Join us as we dive into Kathleen's story and explore the transformative power of embracing a stoked and sober mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this naked mind with Annie Grace. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm here with Kathleen. Hi, how are you? |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, I'm great. |
| 0:22.0 | Great. So nice to be with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Why don't you take us sort of back to the beginning |
| 0:28.0 | of your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you? |
| 0:32.0 | You know, I love, I love our stories and I love our recovery stories. |
| 0:37.0 | It's something that I'm really fond of finding connection with other people in recovery around sharing our stories and finding connection in people who are really different from me, recognizing what they think and feel and how they behave and see myself in that. |
| 0:52.0 | So I really appreciate your podcast and the opportunity to share apart my story, but my story goes way back. |
| 1:00.0 | Definitely in my family, we have a generational alcohol use disorder issues and when I was born in the early 60s, like my mother was told to drink in order to treat anxiety and order to get the milk to come. |
| 1:19.0 | I was told everything. So I was exposed to it very young. |
| 1:23.0 | I was literally told that when I had my baby in 2008. |
| 1:27.0 | Oh wow. |
| 1:29.0 | It is to get my milk to come in. |
| 1:31.0 | So just carry on. I just felt like I could not not say something about that. |
| 1:37.0 | And also to treat a colicky baby, you know, they gave me whiskey in a bottle and there's no surprise that the full circle. |
| 1:44.0 | I ended my drinking career drinking whiskey from a bottle. So that full circle. |
| 1:50.0 | I also grew up in a family that was steeped in grief. |
| 1:54.0 | Like our culture, our society was in grief for president. |
| 1:58.0 | And you know, I just had been assassinated by the forest born, a series of world leaders and spiritual political leaders had been assassinated and like grief was heavy. |
| 2:09.0 | And my older brother had died just before I was born. My brother's twin suddenly in a very rural place. |
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