EP 77: Naked Life Story: Jenna Sinclair

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jenna Sinclair spent much of her childhood in pubs observing her mom drinking too much and being carried home by some of the locals on a regular basis. It didn’t take too long before Jenna realized she was following in her mom’s footsteps and wanted to make a change. Jenna tells Annie her story and describes that “aha moment” that has helped her to find freedom and increased her desire to help others in any way possible.

Episode Links:

Jenna’s Website

Jenna’s Food Blog

Alcohol Explained by William Porter

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:29.0	Hi and welcome to this naked mind podcast. This is Annie Grace and today I'm excited to be here with Jenison Claire. Welcome Jenna. So good to be here.
0:36.0	Hi Annie. Yeah.
0:38.0	So, um, Jenna is, I love this title of positive existential, like positive psychology, existential life coach, which is just so cool.
0:47.0	But you know me, I always like to start with the story. So I'd love to, you know, start there like back up and why don't you give us your personal story.
0:56.0	Thanks Annie. Yeah. So, um, I guess it all started when I was a child as my stories do and I grew up in pubs with my mom.
1:08.0	And she was a single mom and it was kind of normal for me to hang around in pubs and think Coca-Cola and be friends with all the people there.
1:17.0	And she would be drinking and that was normal and then you know, slowly I would kind of see her crying.
1:27.0	At the end of the night and she'd have to be kind of carried home by some of the local people and then I kind of started to realize around nine or 10 that drinking had a bit of a dark side.
1:38.0	But as a as a kid, you know, it was still kind of normal.
1:43.0	And then I got to about age 13 and I started to smoke weed and that was great.
1:50.0	It was like an escape and a relief and my mom was still drinking and I was thinking, I just don't want to be that.
1:59.0	I don't want to drink because that is what drinking looks like. So I just smoke.
2:05.0	And this is cool. I still know what I'm doing, but I'm still fairly out of it. So that's that's nice.
2:12.0	And then I got to 17, 18 and everyone was going to college and going out, you know, and I started drinking.
2:21.0	And then that was it really. Blackout started from there.
2:25.0	I was the one who people were having to look after quite a lot, you know, and oh my god, you remember what you did last night?
2:34.0	No, tell me.
2:37.0	And then, you know, just that dreading, what are they going to say? And that carried on for about, well, I don't know until I was and tell us about 24.
2:49.0	And then I met someone who I really liked and I decided that it was time that I sorted it out because the drinking was causing problems in the relationship.
3:01.0	And finally enough, I was turning into my mom and I was coming out with quite a lot of horrible things when I was drunk.
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