EP 661: Naked Life Story - Amy

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we welcome Amy, a former "party girl" turned alcohol-free advocate who broke free from a life dominated by alcohol. Amy walks us through her journey, from the early days full of social pressures and hangovers, to the pivotal moment of clarity that sparked her transformation. This Naked Mind, Annie's groundbreaking book, played a crucial role in opening Amy's eyes to the truth about alcohol's impact on her mind and body. But the story doesn't end there! Now a This Naked Mind Certified Coach, Amy empowers others to navigate their own paths to freedom, offering guidance on everything from managing cravings to navigating alcohol-free social situations and even mastering the art of travel without a drink in hand. Join us as Amy and Annie explore the challenges and triumphs of living alcohol-free, offering inspiration and practical tips for anyone seeking to rewrite their relationship with alcohol and discover the vibrant possibilities that lie beyond. Tune in for an insightful and empowering conversation!

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
0:14.4	naked mind podcast I'm here with Amy.
0:18.9	Hi Amy how are you?
0:20.3	I'm good how are you any?
0:22.0	Really good.
0:23.7	I'm so excited to be here.
0:25.9	Oh, I'm so glad that you're here. This is amazing. So why don't you sort of take us
0:30.6	back to the beginning in your journey with alcohol. Where did it all start for you?
0:35.6	Sure, so I feel like my story kind of sounds like a lot of people. I grew up in a small town in Arizona.
0:42.9	And I feel like kind of from high school on,
0:45.1	there was a drinking culture.
0:46.5	There wasn't a lot to do there.
0:47.9	So we did a lot of going out into the desert,
0:50.7	having a bonfire and having some beers and then going home. So I was definitely part of that all growing up. Although, you know, in high school and even kind of my freshman year of college, didn't drink that much but it was definitely
1:03.7	just all around me it felt really normal and then kind of my sophomore year of
1:08.9	college I had a boyfriend we broke up and I was just really down and I started going out without him and I realized like I could kind of
1:19.2	I started drinking a lot more than it was like that this more of adopting kind of that party girl
1:23.3	personality and that fun I'm going to go out and be one of the boys and hang out and all
1:28.1	of that stuff and I lived with my two-by-bets girlfriends and we just you know spend a lot of time doing I think just
1:35.0	really normal college stuff so going out going to the bars having parties all of that but you
1:40.9	know at that point it all felt really social and really normal to me.
1:44.8	I moved to Phoenix. I lived there for about 10 years and it just kind of it all felt the same.
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