EP 71: Naked Life Story: Sasha Tozzi

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Sashi Tozzi started drinking at 15 years old as a way to overcome her shyness and social anxiety. By the time she turned 20, things had escalated to the point where her family staged an intervention with her about her drug and alcohol use. After 6 more years of heavy partying, she made the decision to give sobriety a try and hasn’t turned back since. Now, Sasha is a writer, recovery coach and rapid transformational therapist who wants nothing more than to help others find the same “joy, passion, love, and purpose” that she found. Sasha shares her story with Annie and they discuss how she is now able to function in social settings without the crutch of drugs or alcohol. Sasha also gives some great advice on how to talk to a loved one who might be drinking too much from the perspective of her own personal journey. Episode Links: Sasha's Website Follow Sasha on Instagram Follow Sasha on Facebook Private Facebook Group

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.1	Hi and welcome to this naked mind podcast. Today I'm really excited because I am here with
0:33.0	Sasha Tozi and Sasha and I sort of met through mutual friends and it's just awesome.
0:40.0	But Sasha, thank you so much for coming on and joining me. Annie, thank you so much for
0:45.5	having me. It's great to be here. That's awesome. So what I love to do is just kind of start,
0:51.2	you know, really with your story. So, you know, as far back as you want to go, I'd love to hear it.
0:57.4	Sure, my story. So how long do you want my story to be? I don't know, 15 minutes or something.
1:04.4	I don't want the details. Cool. So, yeah, I, so let's see. So I'm 32 now and I, it came to my
1:18.0	intention that I had a problem. I had problematic drinking habits and behaviors from like the first time
1:26.8	I ever drank at like 15 and when I was 20 years old, I, my family sort of staged like an informal
1:39.2	intervention on me for really my cocaine use, but the alcohol was in the mix, of course.
1:47.9	And every time I drank, I wanted to use drugs. So it was, it was both of them and a bunch of people
1:56.8	were trying to like, would confront me about like, you have a problem, you know, you need to,
2:03.1	you need to like get a hold of this. And I was 20 years old and I just thought to myself like,
2:08.4	I'm too young, like I'm too young to have a problem. This is what kids my age are doing. This is
2:15.1	what people in college do. They binge drink because I was a binger, like I was a partier and a
2:21.4	binger and I could go days without doing anything. So I just didn't, it wasn't in my definition of
2:29.8	like what an alcohol. Well, if you even use the term alcoholic, what an alcoholic looks like.
2:38.7	And so I wasn't convinced that I had an issue. I was convinced that I could control it and that
2:45.7	you know, I really, I grew up in a Catholic Italian family and it was all about like my dad was very
2:57.7	strict and very where there's a will, there's a way. And so I thought that I just had to try harder
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