From Shutting My Brain Off With Booze To Tuning Into My Life | Glenn's Naked Life | EP 874

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Do you find yourself wondering how to shut your brain off without alcohol when social situations feel overwhelming? Glenn spent decades believing alcohol was essential—from watching his parents' basement bar parties to using beer as a social crutch in college. By COVID, weekend-only drinking had become daily drinking, and he was hiding bottles from his wife. Traditional counseling focused on willpower and substitution didn't work. The therapists hadn't experienced what he was going through, and Glenn felt like they were silently judging him: "Why can't you just stop?" When he discovered The Path, everything shifted. Instead of demanding he quit immediately, the program invited him to experiment, gather feedback instead of facing failure, and explore his emotional relationship with alcohol. It took a full year, but three weeks before his membership ended, Glenn had his aha moment. Glenn joins Coach Cole to share his journey from childhood exposure to genuine freedom, proving that awareness and curiosity can accomplish what willpower never could. In this episode, Glenn and Cole discuss: Learning that alcohol equals fun from parents who met working at a brewery Being the shy introvert who always held a beer to avoid conversation Boundaries that worked until COVID turned the house into a bar Why therapists who never drank couldn't relate to the struggle Skipping the book and joining The Path for coaching and community support Reframing drinking as data points and feedback instead of failures Discovering how to shut your brain off without alcohol through journaling and awareness The aha moment that came three weeks before his year-long Path ended Building real social confidence without pre-drinking or hiding bottles And more breakthroughs on the journey to freedom... Episode links: nakedmindpath.com Related Episodes: Calming the Type A Mind Without Alcohol - Jennifer’s Naked Life - E804 - https://thisnakedmind.com/how-to-turn-your-brain-off-without-drinking-e804/ The Path to Inner Clarity - Alcohol Freedom Coaching - E748 - https://thisnakedmind.com/the-path-to-inner-clarity-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e748/ Why Willpower Fails: Cracking the Code to Emotion-Driven Behavior Change - Reader Question - E668 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-668-readers-question-why-willpower-fails-cracking-the-code-to-emotion-driven-behavior-change/ Ready to take the next step on your journey? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious! Hungryroot: Get 40% off your first box + a free item for life at ⁠⁠https://www.hungryroot.com/mind Shopify:Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at ⁠⁠Shopify.com/mind⁠⁠ Quince:Go to ⁠⁠Quince.com/naked⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns BetterHelp:BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/nakedmind

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0:00.0	You're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:12.3	All right.
0:16.2	Hey, everybody, and welcome to The This Naked Mind Podcast.
0:19.5	I am Cole Harvey, filling in for the amazing
0:22.5	Annie Grace. And today we have the privilege to listen to Glenn as he shares his story around
0:29.6	alcohol and his journey with alcohol. Hey, Glenn, how you doing? Hey, good, Coach Cole. Thanks for having
0:35.9	you on the show. Yeah, absolutely. It's our pleasure. Glad that you are open and vulnerable enough to share your story with folks. We really appreciate that.
0:45.6	And speaking of which, why don't you just take us back to the beginning of your journey with alcohol and just tell us all about that.
0:52.9	Okay. Yeah. So my journey started, I would say before I was even born, my parents, they met while
0:59.6	working at a brewery and alcohol was always around when I was growing up.
1:03.5	My dad used to collect beer cans and stuff like that.
1:06.3	So a lot of that was all over the house.
1:09.0	My dad drank, I'd say pretty much every weekend. And sometimes during the week, if he had like a softball or a basketball game with his buddies. And I remember he would, one of the models for his softball team was that if they lost on the field, they would beat up in the parking lot. Meaning, you know, they would out drink the other team. And I used to go to the games
1:27.7	and, you know, watch them and watch all his friends and stuff. I mean, my brother would play around.
1:32.1	So it was just kind of always around. And yeah, my parents also had like a restaurant caliber
1:36.5	bar in their basement. So they would have a lot of friends over, a lot of parties. And usually alcohol
1:42.6	was the first ingredient they would you know think
1:45.8	up for the party and it was just always around and so i i think i learned from that point that
1:51.5	alcohol it was kind of a fundamental ingredient um to having a good time that's what you know kind of
1:56.1	that's what grown up stood so the um i'd say the first tastes of alcohol I had. When I was little, I would
2:03.8	fetch beers from my dad out of the fridge. He would shake the can. He was like,
2:07.4	whose turn was it to get me beer, either my brother? And we would take little sips out of it.
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