EP 725: Naked Life Story - Sally M.

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What if you could find a way to cope with life's stresses without relying on alcohol? In this episode, Sally, a woman working in the male-dominated construction industry, shares her journey of overcoming stress drinking and finding freedom from alcohol. Hear about her experiences with embarrassing incidents, the challenges of moderation, and how the Alcohol Experiment helped her see a different path. Sally also opens up about the devastating impact of losing a loved one to drunk driving, offering a powerful reminder of the importance of responsible choices. And don't miss Annie Grace's surprising revelation about her own experience with a breathalyzer during her drinking days. 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.
0:07.0	Hi this naked mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.0	Hi this naked mind naked mind podcast and I'm here with Sally. Hi Sally how are you?
0:20.0	Hi Annie I am great it's so great to here. Thank you so much for having me.
0:24.7	Oh, it's great. It's great to meet you and see you. So why don't you sort of take us back to the beginning
0:30.9	in your journey with alcohol? Where did it all start for you?
0:33.5	Yeah, I'd be happy to kind of start from the beginning, like you said. Gosh, Annie, I've listened to so many of these
0:39.2	podcasts. I know this is how we start them all. This is how you start them all and yet I feel really nervous kind of going
0:46.2	back to the beginning but I will certainly you know I was I was thinking about kind of
0:52.2	how to start this and I wasn't like a big childhood drinker I kind of didn't start drinking until my late teens probably 16 17 18 was the like first time I ever tasted alcohol.
1:04.6	And didn't drink very much in high school, with one exception.
1:10.0	I remember very vividly getting kind of drunk on peach snops, not peach
1:14.8	wine coolers at a fish concert so that kind of dates me a little bit. But that was
1:21.4	just kind of one little minor blip.
1:23.3	I drank a bit in college, just kind of as, you know,
1:28.0	quote, normal college students do kind of getting
1:31.0	into that college scene. It might be important to note I'm a woman in a male
1:36.9	dominated field. I've an engineering background. So I kind of always felt a little bit out of place and that kind of continues into my whole life story to be honest just being a male in a dominated field. I working in the construction industry and I set a female in a male-dominated field, right?
1:57.0	And I want to make sure I didn't screw up my work.
1:59.0	Okay, okay.
2:00.0	And anyway, kind of moving through my 20s, I really didn't drink super heavily.
2:07.4	I actually was in the peace course.
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