EP 607: Naked Life Story - Marcus Widblom

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in Sweden, Marcus found alcohol to be ever-present. From his first sip of wine at 11 to partying at 13, it seemed as if alcohol was the answer. And Marcus kept turning to it for fun, relaxation, comfort, and pain relief. However, his relationship with alcohol and with himself didn’t bring him peace. He joins Annie Grace to discuss his long journey to finding freedom from alcohol, his experience in overcoming alcohol-induced anxiety, and how curiosity can be the key to finding solace.

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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 Marcus.
0:19.2	How are you?
0:20.2	I'm good, Annie.
0:21.2	I'm good.
0:22.2	How are you?
0:23.2	Great.
0:24.2	I'm doing really good.
0:25.3	Thank you so much for joining and why don't you kind of take me back to the beginning with you like where did you where did your story with alcohol begin?
0:35.0	All right, and I and I thought about this and I'm actually going to I'm going to go to the beginning, but I'm going to start at the end or start at the middle, middle to end because like my story is that I quit drinking.
0:51.2	And then I had a couple of years where I like I realized that drinking was not the most difficult thing for me to quit.
1:02.5	It was like the start of a new journey for me and I felt like I had a depression.
1:06.9	I felt really bad for many years after that.
1:10.0	And I just wanted to read like a diary entry that I wrote a year after I quit just to let you know like get you in the frame of mind that I had back then because I just found this diary like a week ago and I read it and I was like, whoa, I did not know I was feeling like that.
1:34.0	So I'm going to stop by reading this and then I'm going to go back and start from the beginning and I'm going to translate this is written in Swedish.
1:39.9	So I'm going to translate it on the fly and hope hope it hope I don't miss it up too much.
1:44.7	But this is from the 16th of November 2020.
1:49.0	So I'm feeling so damn down today.
1:53.0	So many mixed emotions about everything and it's hard to find out exactly why this weekend or more specifically this Saturday evening.
2:03.5	I felt very strongly that I wanted to give up sobriety again.
2:08.9	It feels like I am a lone warrior fighting against an invisible enemy for a purpose that nobody around me understands.
2:19.0	I have started craving drinking again, which is a bad sign, but I'm feeling so damn bored with life.
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