You're listening to this naked mind

is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and today I actually want to give you an update on all things this naked mind, like where we've been, where we're going, what the newest is, and so I wanted to take the opportunity to do that.

And to do that, if you are newer here

or you're unfamiliar with kind of how this naked mine

originated, I'm going to take a few minutes

to go all the way back in time

and give you kind of the brief brief overview. So this naked mind is solely from my own story. I do have a master's degree in science, but it has nothing to do with anything that I teach at this naked mind.

And what happened was I found myself drinking more than two bottles of wine and I feeling completely stuck and trying to do what you would logically think you should do,

which is drink less alcohol.

But here's the thing.

I didn't find that easy.

In fact, I found it incredibly difficult.

I would do things like make rules for myself

and break those rules and then beat myself up about that.

And I entered into this time of really a downward spiral of pain and shame and blame.

And it got to the point where I would look in the mirror and I couldn't even meet my own eye contact because I hated so much that this fermented liquid in a glass that I knew was just a drink, had so much control over me that I found myself

unable to or unwilling to not drink it. And I was able to take breaks for short periods of time,

but they felt like alcohol diets.

I felt deprived, I felt like I was missing out,

I felt like I was outside of all of society,

my friendship groups, my networking groups, and I would just feel constantly

depressed if I wasn't drinking. This was the most poignant during the two pregnancies

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