EP 673: Naked Life Story - Denise W.

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Denise thought she had a normal relationship with alcohol. She drank two drinks a day, never got hangovers, and maintained a successful career. But deep down, she knew something was wrong. Her mixed feelings about drinking meant she felt guilty, ashamed, and secretly craved more. A middle-of-the-night internet search to get her life together brought her to This Naked Mind and The Path, a discovery that changed her relationship with alcohol forever. This week on the podcast, Denise shares her incredible journey from "responsible drinker" to alcohol-free and thriving. Annie Grace and Denise touch on the hidden costs of "moderation" and the science behind why it doesn't work for everyone, what helped her overcome doubts and cravings, and so much more. If you're feeling stuck or unsure, this episode is for you.

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. Hi this Naked Mind podcast and I'm here with Denise. Hi,
0:15.0	this is Annie Grace and welcome to this Naked Mind podcast and I'm here with Denise. Hi, Denise, how are you?
0:21.0	I'm fantastic Annie, how are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for coming on to
0:26.1	share your story. I really appreciate it. So why don't you sort of take us back to the
0:31.6	beginning in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you? Well, it started when I was young, experimenting with with alcohol. My parents drank and they had quite a bit of alcohol in the house and we would sneak
0:46.6	alcohol from their liquor stash and make what we called jungle juice. We'd take a little tiny bit from each
0:56.0	bottle and stick it into a glass and then drink it. It was horrible. And I drank
1:01.5	through college but I never considered alcohol to be a problem.
1:06.0	It was really not the most important thing in my life.
1:11.0	And what my real problem was back then was smoking. I smoke
1:15.2	cigarettes and I really I didn't know the word at the time but I had terrible
1:21.6	cognitive dissonance around cigarettes. I did not want to be a smoker. I saw myself as an athlete, a really energetic person and and yet I smoked and I couldn't run around the block and I struggled for a long, long time with it and I finally was able to quit and I made and I was still drinking at the time and I decided that I would stop drinking as well because I just thought if I had a drink I'd have a smoke. There's just no way I could drink and not smoke.
1:53.0	And so it was in my early 30s and I quit drinking entirely.
1:58.0	Quit smoking, quit drinking.
2:00.0	The way that I sort of stopped myself from smoking was to make sure that there was absolutely zero time in the day for cigarettes.
2:07.0	So I would ride my bike for two hours before work and I go jogging at lunch.
2:13.4	I'd swim after work, got to the point
2:16.6	where I'd be so exhausted that I just,
2:19.6	there was no time to go out to the store
2:21.6	and buy some more cigarettes. I ended up running marathons, doing cycling across Europe by myself, joining a swim team, and I felt so alive and so healthy and vital and energetic and it was one of the best parts of my life.
2:39.0	And why I started drinking again after 10 years of not drinking I could not tell you I don't
2:45.5	really know but I did I went out I went to the liquor store I bought a bottle of
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