EP 633: Naked Life Story - Kelly Johnson

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Annie Grace welcomes Kelly this week to share her Naked Life story. Kelly shares her powerful journey of retreating from alcohol, shedding light on the intricate relationship between her drinking and her career as a flight attendant. She opens up to Annie Grace about how the pandemic unexpectedly intensified her drinking habits and reveals a pivotal moment when an episode of Red Table Talk served as the catalyst for her transformative journey away from alcohol. Annie and Kelly discuss how retreating from alcohol ultimately leads us to discover the truest form of ourselves.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you’re ready to see how This Naked Mind can help you on your personal health and wellness journey and wanna learn more. Go to ThisNakedMindpodcast.com to learn more. Again, that’s ThisNakedMindpodcast.com. We have all of our free resources, programs, social links and more available for you there. Plus, if you have your own Naked Life Story, you can submit it there as well. Until next week, stay curious.

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0:00.0	You're listening to this naked mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.5	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast.
0:17.4	I'm here with Coach Kelly. Hi, Kelly. How are you?
0:20.3	Hi, Annie. How are you? I'm great. Thank you.
0:23.8	I'm good to see you. So why don't you take us back sort of to the beginning
0:28.4	in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you?
0:32.1	Yes. So I had to think over this really deeply because it's so funny.
0:37.5	I didn't start drinking until I was 18 years old. So I didn't even have my first drop
0:42.7	by alcohol until I went away to college my very first year. I was like the typical cliche
0:47.6	girl like oh I'm going to middle school like let me do all the things. So my first year
0:52.4	college I had that was the first time I smoke marijuana the first time I drink alcohol
0:58.1	the first time for everything. And that was I always had anxiety throughout my life but thankfully
1:04.8	I never had the tool of alcohol at the time. And then when I got to college and I experienced
1:10.0	that of course the first time I was just like where was this my whole life like what is this?
1:15.6	I didn't get too extreme. I did like the typical college party in the entire year but I was
1:20.6	never really a good student in school. So I actually ended up coming home after my first year
1:25.9	college. I had to come back home to New York and go to a community college my second year because
1:30.4	just things just got too out of control. I didn't even know how to balance partying with education.
1:37.0	And funny enough I came back home and that year I kind of went back to what I originally was.
1:43.0	So I wasn't drinking at all. I was so determined to like go back out to school that I was just
1:49.2	highly focused on my studies and I tapped into like a superpower I didn't even know I had.
1:54.0	And I'm bringing this up because that I didn't realize that I wasn't drinking that year and that
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