EP 699: Naked Life Story - Mary F.

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like you’re too old and too set in your ways to change your relationship with alcohol? Maybe you've tried cutting back in the past, but nothing seems to stick. Well, our guest today, Mary, is here to tell you it's absolutely possible to find freedom from alcohol, no matter your age! Mary discovered the power of spontaneous sobriety with This Naked Mind at 70, and she's here to share her inspiring story. We'll hear about the hidden costs of drinking that Mary uncovered, the surprising reasons why we turn to alcohol in the first place, and the amazing health benefits she's experienced since quitting. If you're looking for encouragement and inspiration to break free from alcohol, 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 podcast I am Coach Cole Harvey a
0:19.7	certified this naked mind coach and sitting in today for the amazing anti-grace.
0:25.0	And today I am here with Mary who will be sharing her story of her alcohol freedom
0:31.0	journey with us. Mary, thank you so much for being here and it's so
0:35.2	great to have you here with us. Thank you Cole, it is a pleasure. It is my
0:40.4	journey began in December of 2022, and it was what Annie calls spontaneous sobriety.
0:48.4	I woke up on a Monday morning and I was truly fed up with myself and somebody was coming to visit and it was somebody from whom I'd been thinking I was so clever to hide that I was hung over, hide that I was, you know, it had another rough night.
1:05.2	And it always resonated with me
1:06.8	when Annie talks about the 3 a.m. wake-ups
1:09.0	that I would have that as well.
1:10.1	3.30 wake up and think, oh God, you know, and you have to change this and then you just repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. It's a, it's a rough place to be and I don't, I couldn't tell you specifically what made that Monday be the day that I said okay enough but I did and I found my niece actually recommended the book.
1:36.2	She also had gone,
1:38.8	in the family we struggled with alcohol
1:41.1	and certainly the world struggles with alcohol and I was very delighted to read what Annie has written because I felt
1:51.2	alcohol is, my first drunken experience was when I was 18 months old and my parents were, you know, World War II. My dad was a veteran and they were the classic, we were baby boomers, you know, they came home, they all settled in a part of Detroit where all the houses were Navy veterans and so they were all, know love to tell the story that I was
2:15.4	drinking my father's beer on a hot day and that I was tipsy and you know and that
2:20.4	was all comical and it was that way that society embraces you know if you're
2:26.4	going to have fun you got to be drinking if you're going to be if you're going to be
2:30.4	glib you're going to be drinking if you're going to be an author you need to drink. People who
2:35.0	drink are more entertaining, more lively. All of my life, that's what I've heard. So I wasn't a party type kid. I was really a nerdy kid. So my drinking would have been in a household filled with people that drink my parents were into the cocktail hour, you know, certainly five o'clock drinking and
2:57.8	ultimately when I married I
3:14.1	Actually at one point was in therapy and one of the things the therapist said is that you two are drinking buddies and when you step back and you start examining that you realize that you know alcohol is a whole big part of
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