EP 675: Naked Life Story - Susie P.

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever poured yourself a glass of wine to combat social anxiety? Felt an overwhelming pressure to "just have one drink" because everyone else is? This week on the This Naked Mind Podcast, we dive into the topic of overcoming societal expectations to drink alongside Susie, a life coach who shares her own raw and relatable story. From fitting in with the crowd, to easing those uncomfortable social anxieties, Susie paints a picture of how easily alcohol can seem like the solution. But, her journey is one of pivotal changes – the realization of a deeper issue and how choosing a life fueled by self-awareness, rather than the expectations of others, was her catalyst for true freedom. In a culture where drinking is so often normalized, this episode, inspired by the insights from This Naked Mind, explores a path often less traveled.

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 is Annie Grace, and welcome to this Naked Mind podcast and I'm here with
0:18.6	Susie. How are you, Susie? Hi, I am great, Annie. It is wonderful to connect with you. Oh, you too. So nice to see you. So why don't you sort of take us back to the beginning in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you? My relationship with alcohol really started with me doing it in terms of because everyone else was. It wasn't modeled in my house. My parents never, I cannot remember my parents ever having a drink
0:45.4	with dinner if it was just the five of us in the family.
0:48.3	Like it wasn't something that was done.
0:49.7	At times, they would have cocktail parties and, but it was very deliberate. So alcohol was not a part of my life
0:56.9	modeled for me growing up other than it was in the culture which it was very much
1:01.8	modeled and so then when I became I remember when I had my first beer I was 16 and it was just this sort of like well everyone else is doing it so okay wasn't even a conscious thought, which is so interesting to me.
1:13.4	I, when I looked back at my past,
1:15.2	I was very much a people pleaser at times
1:17.1	and, you know, and wanted to fit in and do what other people were doing.
1:21.1	So they're definitely with some of that. And it was just like, oh, okay, this is I guess what we do now. Like we're, you know, sophomores in high school and yeah, we sneak beers from our parents and that's it's just it was just a right of passage and just assumed that that's what I would do and I went along with that
1:37.6	assumption of this is what we do
1:41.6	really until I stopped drinking, which was four years ago.
1:46.0	But and it got, it just,
1:48.8	I never really sort of separated drinking
1:50.9	and why I was drinking.
1:52.6	Looking back, I had a lot of social anxiety
1:55.7	and I very much would drink in order to,
2:00.3	and you know, it's like, oh, we're going to a fraternity party at college.
2:03.1	Okay, well, let's get a buzz on.
2:04.4	Like it was it was just a I never I it was just a no-brainer for me.
2:09.2	Like I of course I'm gonna drink and of course and it helped me, you know, feel better about what I was doing about the people I was around everything. So that's where it all starts that your first question.
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