Redefining Our Relationship With Alcohol ft. Amelia Glum, Khadi A. Oluwatoyin, and Mélanie Masarin

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Episode Description: As many of us jump into the new year with high hopes of reevaluating and shifting our daily habits, my relationship with alcohol has been top of mind. While drinking has always been in the background of my social and professional life, its side effects have never been particularly enjoyable. And after moving to LA, now more than ever, I’m questioning its necessity. If you find yourself in a similar boat, this conversation with three women navigating their relationship to alcohol and creating spaces and alternatives to allow us all to do the same may be just what you need. Tune into my conversations with Amelia Glum, Khadi A. Oluwatoyin of Sober Black Girls Club, and Mélanie Masarin of Ghia to discuss:

Being mindful of your alcohol triggers
Breaking out of the relationship you’ve established with alcohol in college
Reframing what “drinking” looks like without alcohol
…and more!

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0:00.0	Don't be shame to cry. You gotta be.
0:04.0	Hello, it's Brooke de Vard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty
0:07.8	podcast. Everyone around me is drinking less.
0:11.8	And I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or I've moved to the
0:15.1	West Coast or people are just becoming more aware of the health impact of alcohol.
0:19.6	It's likely a combination of all three but more and more people are opting out.
0:25.0	They're deciding that alcohol does not serve them.
0:27.8	They're skipping happy hours, they're passing on the wine with dinner,
0:31.0	and a Gallup poll released in August supports this trend at least in the US.
0:35.0	62% of adults under 35 say that they drink.
0:39.0	When they first did this in the early 2000s, 72% of adults said that they drank. So that's a 10% decrease, which is significant.
0:47.0	Gen Z is drinking less and less. The data also supports this. And so what we're seeing is that people have simply decided that alcohol is not for them.
0:55.2	And the reasons vary.
0:57.2	Alcohol is a toxin, and I'm not sharing this fact with you to urge you to drink less because I drink.
1:04.8	My husband just made me a delicious cocktail last night, a whiskey sour, he did a cherry
1:09.4	bourbon whiskey sour, which is like my favorite. but I've never really been a big drinker.
1:15.6	I'm one of those people that drinks when presented with alcohol or when the
1:19.7	social occasion calls for it. Team drinks. a birthday party, a dinner party. You also begin to
1:26.1	realize how much socializing as an adult is constructed around drinking, even
1:31.2	professional culture is constructed around drinking. Now I know I just said that
1:35.5	alcohol is a toxin which is a fact, but in reasonable amounts and those amounts vary from
1:40.5	person to person. Alcohol can also make you happy. It produces endorphins. It can help you relax.
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