You're listening to this naked mind is Annie Grace, and welcome to this Naked Mind podcast. I'm going to share with you a mind-blowing interview. I was actually invited onto the Fit Mom Life podcast where we talked all about breaking free from diet culture.

We had just amazing conversation that I can't wait to share with you and this sort of intersection of the same mechanisms that are happening in our brain when it comes to alcohol, how alcohol impacts your body, how it impacts your health impacts your wellness and how these same mechanisms can be applied to food and to diet culture and just thinking through all of these things.

It was a mind-blowing conversation, so I'm so excited to share it with you here, and I hope you enjoy.

Welcome to the Food Code.

Liz and I are so excited.

We have Annie Grace on the podcast today,

who is the author of The Naked Mind,

which is a book about controlling alcohol.

And I think much more than alcohol.

I think it gives great insight into controlling your mind

around addictions and things that we normalize and things that maybe aren't great for our

our self, you know, and our life and things that we want to serve us. So we are so beyond excited. Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome.

Go. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Of course. Tell us a little bit, you know,

if you want to do the abbreviated version because I'm sure it's a very long story of how you got to this place, you know, where you started, how you started to realize that maybe it was something that wasn't serving you and how it turned into the naked mind and where you're at now.

Yeah, awesome. So I didn't I didn't actually drink much in high school or college because I grew up in a

unique remote situation where it was a one room log cabin without running water

electricity but basically just because my parents were hippies and they wanted to live off the grid

completely and so they didn't drink and when I went away to college I didn't

drink much then I got a job and my husband got a job in New York City we moved to

New York City and I remember it getting taken out to New York City and I remember getting taken out to the bar and ordering a drink and it was $25 and I was like, oh, this is ridiculous. I'm not going to do this anymore. But then a few months later my boss actually came to me and he's like, why don't you come to happy hour? And I was like, I don't really drink and he's like, well, it's not what it's about. It's about like getting your ideas showcased.

If you're serious about your career,

you need to be serious about, you know, coming out.

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