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...
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This Naked Mind Podcast
Bestselling author Annie Grace invites you, without rules, pain, or judgement, to explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
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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 t...
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...
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...
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 actu...
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 Y...
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...
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 i...
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...
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 h...
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 qu...
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 momen...
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...
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 20...
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...
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 meaning...
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...
I Was A Functional Drinker For 32 Years
For 32 years, Travis was a functional drinker who never got a DUI, never missed a day of work, and never fit the picture most people hold wh...
Why You Drink To Fit In
Andrew and Adele both know why they need alcohol to socialize — or think they do. For Adele, 64 and living in a New Zealand wine region, it...
Summer of Love
In Summer of Love, Kerri Maher writes about wine country glamour, shame that runs across generations, and the woman at the center who can't...