This Naked Mind Podcast

The Job That Almost Kept Her Drinking

How do you quit drinking when your job is getting other people to drink? For years, that was Kelly's daily reality. She sampled wine and liquor with retailers all day, th

How Honest Can You Be?

Trigger warning: This episode mentions disordered eating and self-harm. “You either drink, or you don’t,” Kelly’s husband actually said to her. If only it were that simp

I Am Not Drinking Again

Twenty-four hours of food poisoning on an all-inclusive holiday, and Helen's body made a decision before her mind caught up. She'd been drinking that week too, the way sh

I Never Gave Myself a Chance

What does it take to stop shaming yourself for drinking again? Sarah and Katie are trying to figure that out. It's easy to say that you need to change through compassion,

How to Quit Drinking as a Mom

Six years ago, Payal looked in the mirror the morning after a blackout and finally had enough of herself. She's back on Where Are They Now to talk about how to quit drink

Regular Drinkers Don't Exist

Learning how to stop feeling left out when you quit drinking starts, for Brenda, with a very specific list: people who can supposedly drink like it's nothing and never se

Drinking Out of Boredom

Trigger Warning: This episode includes mentions of a medical emergency and a homicide. Sunday morning, and Brenda can't get out of bed. Her head is pounding hard enough

When You Quit and They Don't

Trigger warning: This episode contains references to disordered eating and the death of a parent following a medical complication. “I'm actually on day twenty-six alcoh

The Drink Responsibly Myth | Interview - The Shift

Annie Grace grew up in a cabin with no running water, no electricity, and a dad who never drank. A decade later, in a corporate job in New York City, she was pouring clos

Why One Drink Never Stays One Drink

Why can’t I just have one drink? For Pamela, that question comes from her struggle to moderate her drinking, and for Claude, it sits in her fear of never being able to dr

Twenty-Five Years Trying to Quit Drinking

Judd never considered that he would quit drinking before turning forty. After all, for twenty-five years he would pick the idea up and put it down as regularly as if it w

Stop Borrowing Confidence From a Glass

What does it take to figure out how to stop relying on alcohol for confidence? Amy needed eleven months alcohol-free, followed by more stops and starts than a city bus ha

62 Wasn't Too Old to Stop Drinking

Deb's Naked Life | EP 920 If you're thinking about stopping drinking in your 60s but keep telling yourself you're too old, too set in your habits, or too far gone, Deb's

Who Am I Without Alcohol?

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode contains references to domestic violence and a mental health crisis. Who am I without alcohol? Does that question sound eerily familiar?

The Life You Stop Needing to Escape

What does building a life you don't want to escape from actually take? Donna joined The Path in March 2021 after a COVID grocery store moment she couldn't unsee and hasn'

How to Give Yourself Grace About Drinking

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode contains references to childhood abuse, parental alcoholism, and the death of a parent from alcohol-related illness. Most of us were nev

When Using Alcohol to Self-Soothe Stops Working

Trigger warning: This episode contains references to drunk driving, DWIs, and thoughts of not wanting to live. Zita was in her kitchen in 2017, working up the nerve for

The Real Reason You Drink

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode contains references to psychological and emotional abuse in a marriage.  The answer to "why I use alcohol to cope" is rarely what you ex

How Grief Built Perfectly Made AF

Trigger warning: This episode contains references to the alcohol-related death of a family member. Is it possible to build something meaningful out of the worst loss of

Are You Drinking To Escape?

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of traumatic brain injury.  Are you drinking to escape your life? Catherine was. She called it the escape room. Rachael