I wanted to talk about all these past fuck-ups because I think our brutally honest stories can help people feel less alone and feel less shame.

Because shame is what keeps us drinking.

Oh, and I also want to find that guy that gave me Chimidio in 1997, Lucy. Did that really happen? Let's move on to the next part. Do you think he might be listening? Let's move on to the next part of the podcast. If you're listening. Steve. Oh, so you knew his name. Well done. Of course I didn't know his name. Anyway, Vic's email address is

Vic at drunkmummiesovermummy.com. But look, we are going to start our discussion today with a

fact because Rick's done some research around why alcohol makes us feel invincible, because

after all, it's that invincibility that gets us

doing all these ridiculous things so tell us your fact well fact is lucy it's all to do with

gabber gabber is a major neurotransmitter in the brain which controls much of the anxiety we feel

when our brain cells get overly excited gabber is released into the brain to calm these cells down

when alcohol binds with these certain gabber receptors it affects the transmission from our overly excited, GABA is released into the brain to calm these cells down. When alcohol

binds with these certain GABA receptors, it affects the transmission from our brains. In other

words, something that makes us nervous in a normal situation can be altered with alcohol,

thus giving us a sense of relaxation and a false mindset of security. So not only do we not have

a stop button, but we don't have a nervous button either. You know, that feeling where we should think, hold on, this is the wrong thing to do. So yet again, you know, there is a scientific reason why we do these things when we drink. Yeah, we shouldn't feel so bad about ourselves because that's naturally what's going to happen if you drink. Oh, I'm glad we've said that because this is a really uncomfortable podcast for me. We are going to talk about things we're not proud of, which we do do a lot. But we don't mind. We don't mind because everybody's been there. Yeah, well, not everyone. Well, everybody's been here. We are talking about promiscuity, of course. Yes, we are

starting with probably, we're diving in at the deeper end here, aren't we? Because this is a really

uncomfortable one for me, and I'm sure it is for you as well. Well, I must say it was all before I got

married, of course, and I was drunk. So I wasn't capable of making great decisions. And when I traveled the world,

I could sleep with someone one night and move on to another town the next day. I never had any

repercussions to sleeping with people, even if I didn't really like them that much, which probably

I didn't because I'd met them in a bar in a blackout. But yeah, I do have a history of being

quite promiscuous when I was younger.

When you'd had a drink as well. And the drink made me feel invincible. So I didn't really

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