How Coaching Helped Me Change My Drinking | JiAna's Naked Life | EP 906

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What if the thing you thought was holding your life together was actually pulling you under? JiAna spent years reaching for alcohol not because she wanted to drink but because she was living in relentless pain and nobody had anything better to offer her. Between a chronic illness that left her on the floor and a culture that pushed wine at baby showers and playgroups, it made a terrible kind of sense. But slowly, joy started disappearing. The glimmers faded. That's when she knew something had to change. JiAna describes how coaching helped her change her drinking not through shame or rigid rules, but through curiosity, community, and the kind of compassion she'd never been shown — or shown herself. In this episode, JiAna and Coach Cole discuss: Familial drinking culture and alcohol being normalized from childhood Endometriosis, chronic pain, and why alcohol felt like the only option Losing the ability to find joy — the quiet signal that something was wrong Why shame-free support felt strange at first and transformative over time The ACT technique: awareness, clarity, and turnaround in practice Community in The Path and the bonds that lasted beyond the program Becoming a certified Women's Health Coach and being named one of the Most Influential Women of 2025 And more on self-love, hope, and turning pain into purpose… Episode links: endo-ease.comnakedmindpath.com Related Episodes: Overcoming Using Alcohol as a Pain Reliever | Reader Question | EP 656 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-656-readers-question-overcoming-using-alcohol-as-a-pain-reliever/ How can I break free from Mommy Wine Culture? | Reader Question | EP 430 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-430-reader-question-how-can-i-break-free-from-mommy-wine-culture/ Learning To Love Yourself Unconditionally | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | E875 - https://thisnakedmind.com/learning-to-love-yourself-unconditionally-afc-e875/ 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! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, Green Chef, OSEA, Quince, and Shopify. BetterHelp: BetterHelp is offering our listeners 10% off at betterhelp.com/nakedmind Green Chef: Green Chef is offering 50% off your first month, then 20% off for two months at greenchef.com/nakedmind use code NAKEDMIND. OSEA: Get 10% off of your first order sitewide with code NAKEDMIND at OSEAMalibu.com Quince: get free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/naked Shopify: Sign up for $1 month trial at shopify.com/mind

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0:00.0	You're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.4	Hey everybody. Welcome to The This Naked Mind podcast. I am Cole Harvey and I'm filling in for the amazing
0:20.1	Annie Grace as today we get to
0:21.8	listen in to Gianna and her story and journey around alcohol. Hey, Gianna, welcome to the podcast.
0:28.7	Hi, Cole. Thanks so much. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, well, it's a pleasure to have you.
0:33.4	Glad you're able to get on and share your story. Yeah, why don't you just introduce yourself?
0:39.0	Tell us a little bit about you and tell us your journey, your story with alcohol.
0:42.8	Well, I am Gianna Dollar Hyde and I am a woman who came into the alcohol journey after years of
0:53.3	battling and dealing with endometriosis and chronic health
0:56.2	issues. I grew up with alcohol being a prime function in our family, and there was some very deep
1:03.1	ancestral aspects to that. With my health, I never felt inclined or the alcohol was something
1:10.6	that was a huge benefit in my younger life,
1:14.0	even though starting at 12 years old, you know, I was allowed to have it at family functions,
1:18.6	holidays, those type of events.
1:21.4	It was never something I had to hide.
1:23.6	I could always drink as much as I wanted at home with my family.
1:27.2	So this type of taking the anticipation and the excitement out of it was a parental
1:34.1	technique that my parents tried to use.
1:36.3	And for a while, it felt like it was a benefit, definitely how we openly talked about
1:41.5	alcoholism, alcohol use disorder. I intimately watched several members of
1:49.0	my family erode from alcohol use. I watched several of them climb out of the depths. And so it was
1:56.9	something I was very in tune to, something that never scared me. And so I'm sharing that
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