How Unresolved Trauma Leads To Drinking | Sammie’s Naked Life | E802

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Why do we keep drinking even when we know it’s hurting us? For Sammie, the answer lay beneath the surface—in the pain she hadn’t faced. Her story shows how unresolved trauma leads to drinking and how ignoring what hurts often feels safer than healing. Until it doesn’t. In this episode, she opens up about what it took to stop numbing and start living fully. In this raw and real conversation, Annie and Sammie unpack how unresolved trauma leads to drinking and what it means to finally feel your feelings without fear. From parenting through grief to starting over at 49, Sammie’s story is a powerful reminder that it’s never too late to break old cycles. In this episode, Annie and Sammie discuss: Early alcohol exposure and teen drinking Losing both parents in 19 days Why drinking became her emotional escape What grief looked like in real life What made her stop for good The power of The PATH and the community Experiencing her first alcohol-free festivals Using nursing experience to help others detox safely Finding meaning in coaching and service How unresolved trauma shows up in everyday choices Why it’s never too late to change And other topics… Episode links: Sammie’s Sober Heroes - https://www.sammiessoberheroes.com/Start reading This Naked Mind - https://thisnakedmind.com/bookJoin The Path - https://go.tnmprograms.com/the-path-from-this-naked-mind

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0:00.0	You're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.4	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast, and I'm here with Sammy.
0:18.8	Hi, Sammy.
0:19.3	How are you?
0:20.4	Hi, yeah, I'm good. A bit nervous,
0:22.3	but okay. Glad to be here. Good. Oh, I'm so glad you're here. It's so good to talk to you.
0:28.4	So why don't you sort of take us back to the beginning in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all
0:33.4	start for you? So it's kind of always been part of my life, really, certainly from early
0:40.0	teenage years. It was, my dad, was, you know, liked to drink. My mum didn't really drink much
0:47.7	at all. She was always the driver if they, when they used to go out. Yeah, it was just something we
0:52.4	grew up with really. By the time I was
0:54.1	15, it was, we just went to the pub every weekend, every Friday, Saturday, Sunday. All my friends
0:59.7	drank and it was just our way of life, I suppose. Didn't really think much about it. It was, yeah,
1:07.4	it's just what we used to do to socialise and we had a local pub in the village and that's where
1:12.4	everybody went every weekend so it was a real kind of community thing you know that's where we all met up
1:17.8	and that's what we did um i mean there was some do you remember your first drink i think my first ever
1:26.1	drink was a baby sham i don't even know if they're
1:29.0	still about, but I used to have a friend, a best friend that used to come and stay every weekend.
1:33.4	My mum would buy us like a four pack of baby sham. They'd go out, my dad was a golfer, so they'd go to
1:38.2	social evenings at the golf club and we would be allowed these little box of baby sham sort of a pack of four between the two. Is that like a baby champagne?
1:46.1	I don't, I'm not familiar.
1:47.2	Yeah.
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