You Are Not the Problem, Alcohol Is - Naked Life Story | EP 733

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What if the first step to freedom is realizing that you are not the problem? Kayla’s journey with alcohol started long before her first sip. With a father who became unpredictable when he drank and a mother with unresolved trauma, she grew up hating alcohol. When she started drinking to fit in with the college crowd, she justified it by telling herself she wasn’t like her dad. But each time she drank, she felt guilty and ashamed because it felt like she was betraying her younger self. In an unexpected twist, her father stopped drinking, inspiring Kayla to reevaluate her own relationship with alcohol and ultimately embrace her power over it. In this moving episode, Kayla shares her journey to accepting the liberating truth that alcohol was the problem, not her or anyone else. In this episode, Annie and Kayla will discuss: - How generational trauma shaped her relationship with alcohol - Her struggle with social drinking and self-judgment - The mental chess game of moderation - Social drinking as a mask for deeper issues - Using self-compassion and inner work to heal - The cognitive dissonance that kept her stuck - Realizing alcohol, not the person, is the problem - Cravings as a brain reaction, not a moral failure - Taking responsibility to change without shame - The truth about numbing emotions - Embracing sobriety without isolating from others - Living authentically to inspire curiosity and change - And other topics… Related Episodes: Episode 27: Naked Life Story – Jamie: https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-27-naked-life-story-jamie/ 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!

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0:00.0	You're listening to this'm here with Kayla. Hi this is Annie Grace and welcome to
0:17.2	This Naked Mind podcast. I'm here with Kayla. Hi Kayla how are you? I'm doing
0:21.3	well. How are you doing? Really good.
0:24.0	So thank you so much for being here and taking the time.
0:27.0	I really appreciate it.
0:29.0	It's awesome.
0:30.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:31.0	I've been looking forward to this conversation for a long time and I'm just a really big fan of your work. So I'm really excited.
0:38.1	Well, it's so cool because these stories are so powerful for people. Every person has the guts to share their story. I really think
0:44.8	it's just an amazing gift. Why don't you take us back to the beginning for you? Where did your
0:50.6	journey with alcohol start? This is a complicated question for me because I think my journey that alcohol started as far back as I can remember because my dad is an alcoholic and my mother had a lot of trauma surrounding
1:07.7	alcohol and so just because of their trauma and how I was raised.
1:14.6	Alcohol really affected me from day one pretty much
1:18.6	as far as I can remember.
1:20.1	So I have a happy ending with this and a happy story because my dad has since recovered and my mother has her own successes and so I'm so grateful for that but it wasn't always that way. My dad really
1:37.6	struggled, my mom really struggled and my brother and I had a lot of collateral trauma with alcohol.
1:45.9	So I guess for me, when I was a child, really, it was a lot of uncertainty with knowing if my dad was going to be happy and
1:58.0	we were going to have a good evening or if it was going to be filled with fighting and alcohol was always around but it was hidden too and I would find it in certain areas that my dad had hidden where he was drinking. And my mom, every time he would drink, she had her own unresolved
2:17.2	trauma with that regarding her own family. I remember she told these stories about her family fleeing her dad and he was very
2:27.5	violence and when my dad would drink it would spark that and fight or flight would kick in and it would get
2:34.8	violent in my home a lot and I hated alcohol when I was little it caused so much
2:41.8	trauma in my life and in my family's life.
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