EP 697: Naked Life Story - Danielle F.

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ever wake up with a fuzzy memory and a pounding headache, wondering what happened the night before? Our guest Danielle knows that feeling all too well. In this episode, Danielle opens up about her experiences with alcohol, including one too many incidents of blacking out while drinking. But Danielle's story is also about so much more. Join us as she shares her journey to a healthier relationship with alcohol, exploring topics like navigating the pressure to drink working in the hospitality industry, finding freedom and strength during pregnancy, and the surprising joys of living alcohol-free.

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 podcast and I'm here with Danielle. Hi,
0:15.0	this is Annie Grace and welcome to this Naked Mind
0:17.1	podcast and I'm here with Danielle.
0:18.7	Hi Danielle, how are you?
0:20.4	Hi, I'm really good.
0:22.0	Thanks, Annie. I'm so glad. So why don't you kind of take us back to the beginning in your journey with alcohol? Where did it all start for you? Oh, wow. Well, I mean the beginning. Sorry. I started drinking when I was 15. I got a job the summer of grade 9, like literally wrote my last exam and went to my first shift and it happened to be in the hospitality industry and yeah it was thrown into this whirlwind of working with older people who
0:58.6	partied all the time and really getting into that just party. and I grew up in a
1:05.0	grew up in a family that was always partying.
1:10.0	So there was a lot of alcoholism in my household and you know my my mom and my dad were both heavy drinkers growing up and yeah, so I think it was just kind of natural that I would also drink heavily.
1:28.7	You know I was I'm I part Irish and Scottish so that also kind of adds to that mentality of thinking about yourself like owning the identity of drinker.
1:46.8	And yeah, I just always grew up with like my mom being kind of a big influence and she, you know,
1:51.5	she was really just a big drinker.
1:54.8	So I grew up with it being like kind of a
1:58.8	just a natural progression of life.
2:01.2	Like I never thought I was never around people that didn't drink. I didn't have anybody in my life that didn't drink. So it was just like natural that I would pick it up as well.
2:15.0	And so when you were when you were 15 and you went out or was it like at a job and
2:19.6	you got offered your first drinks?
2:21.4	Yeah, I would say it was really quickly like I was always around alcohol but I don't really remember really being
2:29.0	interested in drinking it like I don't remember sneaking it like obviously I was 15 so I was still
2:35.3	underage but before that I don't remember really wanting to you know sneak it and steal it or anything like that.
2:45.0	But then once I hit, you know, that 15, then you're in high school and you're starting to get
2:50.0	pressured by some of the older kids in school and I was a big hospital
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