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Épisodes 959
She Stopped Beating Herself Up
LaCinda joined The Path hopeful, but scared it would be one more thing that didn't stick. Hear how learning self-compassion helped alcohol become small and irrelevant in her life, and what freedom means to her …
Notes de l’épisode
LaCinda joined The Path hopeful, but scared it would be one more thing that didn't stick. Hear how learning self-compassion helped alcohol become small and irrelevant in her life, and what freedom means to her now.
How do you stop beating yourself up about drinking? LaCinda was hard on herself for years before she learned how. She grew up in a strict, religious home, found what felt like freedom drinking in college, and later drank every night in a marriage that had lost its connection. After her divorce, she came across Annie Grace and joined The Path. In this conversation with Coach Cole, she talks about learning self-compassion, her last drink, and the connection she feels now with the people in her life.
What You'll Hear
• Why drinking in college felt like freedom and connection, and why it was neither
• How nightly drinking took the place of connection in her marriage
• The “what if this could work?” moment that led her to The Path
• The weekend that became her last drink
• The simple self-compassion practice she still uses when hard feelings come up
• What freedom means to her now
“Alcohol served its purpose, but it’s not my friend.”
Episode page: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/stop-beating-yourself-up-about-drinking-lacindas-naked-life/
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
About Your Host
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. For years, he felt lost and used alcohol to cope, until he decided to go alcohol-free and focus on finding his purpose. Through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure, he transformed his life. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps young men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
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Done Fighting the Urge to Drink?
What if the urge to drink isn't an enemy to fight, but a part of you trying to help with the only tool it knows? In this Alcohol Freedom Coaching episode, two Path members discover what shifts when they stop …
Notes de l’épisode
What if the urge to drink isn't an enemy to fight, but a part of you trying to help with the only tool it knows? In this Alcohol Freedom Coaching episode, two Path members discover what shifts when they stop battling cravings and hard emotions and get curious instead.
Coach Cole works with Tim, three months into The Path, who can go out with friends without drinking but finds the urge waiting for him on his daily trip to the market. Tim is tired of white-knuckling and wants to get back to the clear-headed, energetic person he knows he is. Then Coach Zoë talks with Jannie, who noticed that once she stopped fighting and resisting her emotions, she began to feel more peaceful. She shares the night she had a strong craving next to a bottle shop and simply drove home, and why checking in on an evening coaching call has become her way of celebrating each alcohol-free day.
What You'll Hear
Why fighting the urge to drink can make giving in more likely, and what Tim notices on the days it isn't a fight
A new way to see the voice that says "have a drink": not as an enemy, but as something with good intentions and bad tools
The small change to Tim's daily routine that takes the wine aisle out of the equation
Why Jannie realized that resisting her emotions only kept them coming back
How Jannie learned to receive support and offer herself the compassion she gives others
Celebrating each alcohol-free day as practice in celebrating yourself
"What I'm after is freedom." — Tim
Episode page: https://thisnakedmind.com/done-fighting-the-urge-to-drink-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-957/
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
About Your Host
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. For years, he felt lost and used alcohol to cope, until he decided to go alcohol-free and focus on finding his purpose. Through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure, he transformed his life. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps young men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Zoë Ewart is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life’s big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol so you can feel better physically, mentally, and spiritually. Zoë taught Pilates for 15 years. She has four adult children and more animals than the Ark ever had.
Learn more about Coach Zoë: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/zoe-ewart/
This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration, Quince, AG1, and Primal Queen:Quince: Get free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/naked
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Does Alcohol-Free Life Get Better?
Does alcohol-free life get better, or does the early glow eventually fade? Martha spent 25 years in the wine business, and she's back to share why her alcohol-free life has never once felt ho-hum. Martha first …
Notes de l’épisode
Does alcohol-free life get better, or does the early glow eventually fade? Martha spent 25 years in the wine business, and she's back to share why her alcohol-free life has never once felt ho-hum.
Martha first shared her story on EP 267 Naked Life Story – Martha. Now she sits down with Coach Hayley to talk about what's happened since. She explains how one better question changed everything, how she brought her love of food, wine and hospitality into the world of alcohol-free drinks, and why people from inside the industry now reach out to her for coaching. She also takes us to her first all-night rave in Paris, explains why sensory pleasure turned out to be a form of mindfulness, and shares the question she'd invite anyone starting out to ask.
Why losing her identity as the go-to wine resource was Martha's biggest fear
The question that replaced "Do you think I drink too much?" and changed everything
How she doubled down on what she loves about food, wine and hospitality, without the alcohol
What an all-night rave in Paris taught her about how often our brains get it wrong
Why paying attention to your senses is a form of mindfulness that can help with cravings
Why a break from drinking should feel like a pleasure, not a punishment
"I have not stopped for one minute being in love with this freedom." — Martha
Episode page: https://thisnakedmind.com/does-alcohol-free-life-get-better-where-are-they-now-ep-956/
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Hayley Scherders is a certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Drawing from personal experiences, Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported. She believes that with the right mindset, anyone can change their life at any time.
Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration, Quince, AG1, and Primal Queen:
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Why Can't I Sit With Discomfort?
Trigger warning: This episode mentions an eating disorder and a childhood shaped by a parent's drinking. What if the craving you keep fighting isn't your enemy? In this episode, two members of The Path stop …
Notes de l’épisode
Trigger warning: This episode mentions an eating disorder and a childhood shaped by a parent's drinking.
What if the craving you keep fighting isn't your enemy? In this episode, two members of The Path stop running from hard feelings and learn to sit with them instead.
Karen grew up the youngest of eight, in a house where no one could make a sound for fear of setting off her father. With Coach Zoë, she sees how wine became a secret way to cope almost the moment her eating disorder ended, and she meets the little girl who never got the care she needed. Amy's witching hour starts mid-afternoon, and the back-and-forth in her head can last for hours. With Coach Cole, she tries something new: getting curious about the discomfort instead of battling it. If you may be physically dependent on alcohol, please speak with a medical professional before cutting back or stopping.
What You'll Hear
Why Karen's daily wine started almost the same moment her eating disorder ended
How a childhood spent bracing for danger can keep you running as an adult
The two-chair exercise that helps Karen connect with her younger self
A simple way to disrupt the drinking habit by changing what you drink and how
Why fighting a craving for hours can make giving in feel like relief
How Amy uses curiosity and compassion to sit with sadness, and what it told her
"I've never really sat with a discomfort on that deep of a level. So it just… it's giving me hope." (Amy)
Episode page: https://thisnakedmind.com/why-cant-i-sit-with-discomfort-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-955/
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
About Your Host
Zoë Ewart is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life’s big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol so you can feel better physically, mentally, and spiritually. Zoë taught Pilates for 15 years. She has four adult children and more animals than the Ark ever had.
Learn more about Coach Zoë: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/zoe-ewart/
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. For years, he felt lost and used alcohol to cope, until he decided to go alcohol-free and focus on finding his purpose. Through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure, he transformed his life. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps young men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration, Quince, AG1, and Hungryroot:Quince: Get free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/naked
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Letting Go of Drinking as Her Identity
For Nan, drinking started young, as a way to prove she was grown up and could handle anything. Decades of nightly wine later, she found that letting go of drinking also meant letting go of an identity, and it …
Notes de l’épisode
For Nan, drinking started young, as a way to prove she was grown up and could handle anything. Decades of nightly wine later, she found that letting go of drinking also meant letting go of an identity, and it gave her a quiet mind.
Nan built a financial advisory practice she loved, and for decades a glass or two of wine closed out every evening. It was how she wound down, and it felt like who she was. A 10-day break with her partner felt like pure deprivation. Then a colleague asked Nan to support her through a 30-day alcohol experiment, and Nan started reading along. Her sleep improved, and she later joined The Path, where the nonstop chatter about drinking finally went quiet. If you may be physically dependent on alcohol, please speak with a medical professional before cutting back or stopping.
What You'll Hear
Why drinking became Nan's way of proving she was grown up and could handle anything
Why a 10-day break felt like deprivation, and what made a 30-day experiment feel different
The afternoon chatter about drinking, and what finally made it go quiet
Why a year of “firsts” changed her mind about a 12-month program
What her first alcohol-free holidays with family were like
What Nan would say to someone a few days into their first break
“I don't think they're talking about the inner peace that comes from that first drink every evening.” – Nan
Episode page: https://thisnakedmind.com/letting-go-of-drinking-as-her-identity-nans-naked-life-ep-954/
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
About Your Host
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. For years, he felt lost and used alcohol to cope, until he decided to go alcohol-free and focus on finding his purpose. Through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure, he transformed his life. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps young men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration, Quince, AG1, and Hungryroot:
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Feeling Your Feelings Without Alcohol
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 953 Trigger warning: this episode contains references to the death of a child and suicidal thoughts. The lawn is mowed. The garden is weeded. And the stress is still there, with a …
Notes de l’épisode
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 953
Trigger warning: this episode contains references to the death of a child and suicidal thoughts.
The lawn is mowed. The garden is weeded. And the stress is still there, with a voice in Sharon's head getting louder by the minute. Just have a couple glasses of wine. You'd feel better. Vera's voice says something else. You'll be boring. You won't fit in. For two years after her daughter died, a drink was the only way she could cry. Feeling your feelings without alcohol is scary when a drink has always been the thing that made them bearable. So what happens if you let the feeling stay? Coaches Cole and Hayley offer curiosity as the first step, and a way to feel safe taking it.
Sharon discusses:
- The work travel and family stress behind her loudest cravings
- Why "This will pass" works some days and not others
- How scary it feels to stop pushing the stress away
- What she finds under her heart when she finally looks
Vera discusses:
- Grieving her daughter without a drink
- The "romantic idea" of moderating that her heart won't let go of
- The kid in the house on wheels who still feels left out
- What it would feel like to fit in with herself
- And more…
Ready to take the next step?
Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported.
Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Episode links:
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/feeling-your-feelings-without-alcohol-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-953/
Related episodes:
How I Stopped Using Alcohol For Stress Relief | Naked Life Story | EP 715 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-715-naked-life-story-allison-b/
Is Life Boring Without Alcohol? | Reader Question | EP 342 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-342-reader-question-is-life-boring-without-alcohol/
Finding Your True Self and Building Genuine Connections Without Alcohol | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 821 – https://thisnakedmind.com/building-genuine-connections-without-alcohol-e821/
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Rebuilding Your Life After Drinking
Paul spent years drinking every day and waking up with harsh words for himself. In this episode, he shares how he stepped out of that cycle, filled his days with yoga, music and coaching, and found a life that …
Notes de l’épisode
Paul spent years drinking every day and waking up with harsh words for himself. In this episode, he shares how he stepped out of that cycle, filled his days with yoga, music and coaching, and found a life that feels like freedom.
What happens after the last drink? For Paul, stopping was only the start. Rebuilding your life after drinking, he says, takes more than removing the alcohol. Paul is a certified This Naked Mind coach in England who started drinking at 14. He talks with host Cole about weekends that turned into daily drinking, moderation rules that stopped working, and self-talk that wore down his self-esteem. Then he shares what came next: a yoga retreat weeks after his last drink, a creative outlet in music, and a life that feels like freedom.
What You'll Hear
How hotel stays for work turned weekend drinking into an everyday habit
What happened when the rules of an online moderation group stopped working
How a daily cycle of promises and self-criticism wore down his self-esteem, and how it lifted
The yoga retreat, weeks after his last drink, that brought him to tears on a beach
Why stopping drinking was only the first step for Paul
The two-column exercise Paul would hand his younger self
“You realize you're giving up nothing.” -Paul
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This Naked Mind Coaching: https://thisnakedmind.com/coaching/
Episode page: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/rebuilding-your-life-after-drinking-pauls-naked-life/
Ready to take the next step?
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About Your Host
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. For years, he felt lost and used alcohol to cope, until he decided to go alcohol-free and focus on finding his purpose. Through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure, he transformed his life. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps young men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration, Quince, AG1, and Hungryroot:Quince: Get free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/naked
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When Doing Better Still Feels Wrong
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 951 Angie puts Visine in every morning before anyone sees her eyes. Andrea has done everything right for seventy-six days and still can't shake the feeling that something's wrong …
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Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 951
Angie puts Visine in every morning before anyone sees her eyes. Andrea has done everything right for seventy-six days and still can't shake the feeling that something's wrong with how easy it's been. The same question plagues them both: why do I think I have to suffer to quit drinking? Coaches Hayley and Cole ask the hard questions to uncover why they feel they still need to punish themselves for their drinking.
Angie discusses:
The nightly habit that starts long before the first drink
Why "I can't do it" became a self-fulfilling loop
The data point that changed how she sees a slip
A new way to start the morning that has nothing to do with willpower
Andrea discusses:
Seventy-six days alcohol-free that felt almost too easy
The old belief that success has to come from struggle
What she realized about the difference between work and suffering
Why she finally feels like she's earned where she's at
And more…
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported.
Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Episode links:
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/does-quitting-drinking-have-to-be-a-struggle-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-951/
Related episodes:
Shifting Mindset for Lasting Change | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 783 – https://thisnakedmind.com/shifting-beliefs-changing-habits-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e783/
Naked Life Story – Ginelle T. | EP 693 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-693-naked-life-story-ginelle-t/
Reader Question – What is a data point? | EP 520 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-520-reader-question-what-is-a-data-point/
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This Might Just Possibly Work
Pam's Naked Life | EP 950 A beer holder isn't a standard feature on a lawnmower, but Pam made it one. From grass-cutting buddy to personal therapist, she gave alcohol dozens of jobs, starting at age seven, when …
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Pam's Naked Life | EP 950
A beer holder isn't a standard feature on a lawnmower, but Pam made it one. From grass-cutting buddy to personal therapist, she gave alcohol dozens of jobs, starting at age seven, when a sip of her mother's wine felt like "the elixir of life." Figuring out why moderation doesn't work took Pam the better part of a decade. Willpower didn't work, rules were made to be broken, and the way out wasn't about trying harder; it was about testing her beliefs one by one.
Pam and Coach Cole discuss:
Calling alcohol "the elixir of life" at seven years old, and the job she gave it as a teenager just to fit in
The moderation rules that never survived a single week, and disguising her voice to order This Naked Mind from her hometown bookstore
Why AA didn't stick, and not yet knowing alcohol is an addictive drug
The lawnmower insert built to hold a beer, and the small, deliberate tests that took it out of her hand
Walking past a cooler of beer at the airport, months into an alcohol-free life, on a solo trip built to test herself
And more on flying to Denver for the very first class of TNM coaches, and what Annie Grace said the day Pam tried to thank her…
Ready to take the next step?
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Pam McRae is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach, Master Life Coach, and Gray Area Drinking Coach. Pam empowers others through her Freedom Connection group coaching, where people support each other in their alcohol journeys.
Learn more about Coach Pam: http://thisnakedmind.com/coach/pam-mcrae/
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Episode links:
More on this episode: This Naked Mind Institute: https://www.thisnakedmindinstitute.com/tnmi-home
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How I Quit Drinking Without AA | Bo's Naked Life | EP 555 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-555-naked-life-story-bo/
Is Drinking in Moderation Possible? | Reader Question | EP 08 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-08-reader-question-moderation-possible/
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Why We Drink To Cope
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 949 Alcohol and emotional regulation. For a long time, they were basically the same thing for Gwen and Cynthia. Gwen can feel sure she doesn’t want to drink, then find herself …
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Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 949
Alcohol and emotional regulation. For a long time, they were basically the same thing for Gwen and Cynthia. Gwen can feel sure she doesn’t want to drink, then find herself wavering in a grocery store parking lot when her husband asks if she wants wine. Cynthia has spent decades on a farm she calls Never Done, 26 of them alone, pouring wine from a box because for much of her life, drinking was the only way she knew how to cry. Coaches Cole and Hayley help them start figuring out what alcohol has been doing for them, and what might work instead.
Gwen discusses:
Making it four or five days without alcohol, then hitting the weekend
Why alcohol in the house is fine until her husband asks if she wants some
Wine as permission to lower the walls she keeps up almost everywhere else
The one boundary she realizes she needs to say out loud
And more...
Cynthia discusses:
Why she calls alcohol an anesthetic
Living alone on a farm called Never Done and when solitude started feeling like loneliness
The losses she could not cry about for years
What being told to “ignore it” as a little girl taught her to do with hard feelings
Learning to ask for help after a lifetime of being fiercely independent
And more...
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Episode links:
More on this episode:
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Can You Really Forgive Yourself for Your Drinking Past?
Lisa’s Naked Life | EP 948 Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to domestic conflict, impaired driving with a minor in the vehicle, and a cancer diagnosis. Six beers in, Lisa drove her …
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Lisa’s Naked Life | EP 948
Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to domestic conflict, impaired driving with a minor in the vehicle, and a cancer diagnosis.
Six beers in, Lisa drove her fifteen-year-old son to a friend's house. It wasn't the first time she'd driven after drinking, but something about that night finally scared her. By then, she was drinking about two bottles of wine most nights. Her marriage was falling apart, and she'd been sleeping in the guest room. That night, she admitted to herself that she couldn't keep living this way. She stopped drinking the next day and started wrestling with a bigger question instead: How do I forgive myself for the things I did while drinking?
Lisa and Coach Cole discuss:
● Why she still resists calling her father "an alcoholic," even after decades of watching him drink and drive
● What her father's own DUI and forced AA meetings taught her about shame, and why she built her coaching style in the opposite direction
● Being six months alcohol-free before an unexpected stage 3 cancer diagnosis, and what forgiveness had to do with getting through it
● The real difference between therapy and coaching, and why Lisa refuses to blur the two even though she's licensed in both
● And more on Dr. Joe Dispenza, meditation, and how Lisa finally forgave the woman she used to be…
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Using Alcohol To Cope With Trauma | Naked Life Story | EP 723 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-723-naked-life-story-julie-c/
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Facing the Fear of Change
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 947 Trigger Warning: This episode mentions a pregnancy loss and substance abuse. What if it’s not giving up the substance that you fear? Deb and Rosie are both finding success in …
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Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 947
Trigger Warning: This episode mentions a pregnancy loss and substance abuse.
What if it’s not giving up the substance that you fear? Deb and Rosie are both finding success in their breaks from alcohol and THC, respectively. They don’t realize it until Coaches Cole and Hayley ask the right questions, but both women are now facing the fear of change. Are they ready for all the ways life might look different (and maybe even better) now that they are fully living it?
Deb discusses:
● The moment Coach Cole names her fear of changing, and she agrees
● What her “dopamine tiger” has to say once a calmer part of her takes the lead
● The internal earthquake that told her something was already shifting
● The one small, doable step she commits to for her Path group
Rosie discusses:
● Why she picked the word rise, and what almost stopped her from living up to it
● The belief that she doesn’t deserve good things, traced straight back to her parents
● Two losses she’s never let herself grieve
● Learning to hold a hard feeling instead of numbing it
● And more…
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Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. Drawing from personal experience, Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, judgment-free space where clients feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: http://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
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An Ultimatum to Stop Drinking
Where Are They Now? | EP 946 "I had to pick one life or the other." That's how Sabrina describes the ultimatum to stop drinking her husband gave her two years ago. Sabrina is back to catch up with Hayley and …
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Where Are They Now? | EP 946
"I had to pick one life or the other." That's how Sabrina describes the ultimatum to stop drinking her husband gave her two years ago. Sabrina is back to catch up with Hayley and explore what happens in that time between learning to live alcohol-free and truly living an alcohol-free life. Her key takeaway for other moms? Quitting doesn't clear out the mental space alcohol used to take up all on its own, you have to notice what's still empty and actually fill it, on purpose.
Sabrina and Coach Hayley discuss:
Why the ultimatum wasn't actually the hardest part, and what came after it was
What "mental real estate" means once alcohol stops taking up space in your head
What finally convinced Sabrina to give up marijuana completely
How villainizing alcohol, instead of herself, rewrote the story she tells about her past
What it's like watching four daughters grow up without ever seeing their mom drunk
And more on letting one person all the way in, and what it really means to find your own path to alcohol freedom…
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Are You Drinking To Check Out?
Five o'clock. It's like an internal alarm that goes off for Sandra. The day goes from manageable to get me the heck out of here as soon as the clock flips. For Lucy, it usually hits mid-afternoon: the …
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Five o'clock. It's like an internal alarm that goes off for Sandra. The day goes from manageable to get me the heck out of here as soon as the clock flips. For Lucy, it usually hits mid-afternoon: the realization that today won't be Day 1 alcohol-free after all. Drinking to check out is so normal that most people will tell you it isn't a problem at all, but that isn't for anyone else to decide. It's up to Sandra and Lucy to choose what role alcohol will have in their lives.
Lucy discusses:
The two voices in her head, arguing again
Why she thinks she “deserves” a drink every night
Her father's death, her husband's cancer, and the return to the Path
What her relationship with wine has to do with her closeness to her brother
Sandra discusses:
Expectation: the thing she didn't know she was addicted to
The kindergarten memory Coach Zoe keeps circling back to
Golf, Mahjong, and why staying busy matters more than she thought
Wise adult, adaptive child, wounded child: the three Sandras
And more…
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Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. Drawing from personal experience, Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, judgment-free space where clients feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: http://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Zoe Ewart is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life's big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol. Learn more about Coach Zoe: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/zoe-ewart/
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The Empty Bottles She Couldn't Stop Hiding
5 a.m., and the bottles go out before anyone's awake. A soft clink of glass against the can, quick hands, quicker steps back inside. For years this was Michelle's ritual, drink alone, hide it, wake up and do it …
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5 a.m., and the bottles go out before anyone's awake. A soft clink of glass against the can, quick hands, quicker steps back inside. For years this was Michelle's ritual, drink alone, hide it, wake up and do it again. A DUI didn't stop it. A year and a half without a drink during COVID didn't stop it. One sentence, heard on a commute to work, finally put a stop to her cycle of drinking alone and hiding it.
Michelle and Coach Cole discuss:
Growing up with a mother whose drinking shaped a lifelong anxiety Michelle didn't understand until years later
Why marijuana, not alcohol, came first, and what changed in her mid-twenties
The private ritual of disposing of empty bottles before dawn, and what it revealed about the shame she was carrying
A DUI, a year and a half alcohol-free during COVID, and why neither one was the real turning point
The one unexpected concept that finally undid years of moderating, relapsing, and starting over
And more on shame, self-trust, and what it means to finally feel like one whole person instead of two…
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Why Do I Think Something Is Wrong With Me?
Trigger Warning: This episode mentions death by suicide and death from alcohol use. Something is wrong with me. Five words, but they can resonate in your brain over and over again for decades. That's the …
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Trigger Warning: This episode mentions death by suicide and death from alcohol use.
Something is wrong with me. Five words, but they can resonate in your brain over and over again for decades. That's the reality Lisa and Michelle have been living with day in and day out. To the point where drowning that voice out with wine was the only way to find peace. Or so they thought. Coaches Cole and Zoe offer a new perspective and a pathway to healing.
Lisa discusses:
The list of 15 friends who disappeared from her life, and what she'd decided it meant about her
The one letter her father ever wrote her, sent the year before he died of alcoholism
Why "people just lose touch" was the hardest reframe she'd ever been asked to try on
The difference between giving from love and giving to keep someone from leaving
Michelle discusses:
The exact age she started drinking, and what it gave her that nothing else did
Why "turn that frown upside down" became the rule that shaped her whole childhood
Becoming a people pleaser, and what it cost her to keep speaking up
Learning to re-parent the little girl who never got to just be herself
And more…
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Cole Harvey is a certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Zoe Ewart is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life's big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol. Learn more about Coach Zoe: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/zoe-ewart/
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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, then went out drinking with her coworkers …
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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, then went out drinking with her coworkers once the samples were done, and some nights she couldn't drive home afterward. She kept a tablecloth in the back seat of her car for exactly those nights, climbing back there to sleep it off instead of getting behind the wheel. Quitting drinking while working in alcohol sales meant unlearning her entire job description, and almost ten months later, she no longer needs that tablecloth.
Kelly and Coach Cole discuss:
Growing up with wine treated as a nightly ritual, and how that shaped her first years of drinking
Losing her senior season and her team captaincy after one night out with alcohol
What working in alcohol sales and distribution did to her drinking, and what daily industry culture looked like from the inside
Tracking her drinks in an app and mistaking a lower number for freedom
Learning to treat a slip as a data point instead of a reason to quit trying
Naming her drunk self "Kelly Lynn," and what it took to stop holding her at arm's length
And more on rediscovering travel, music, and finding her way back to who she was before alcohol took over…
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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 simple, like there’s a switch you can just …
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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 simple, like there’s a switch you can just flick and the desire to drink evaporates. While that might be true for some people, most of us find the path to freedom much harder. Jules knows that, and she knows how hard being honest with the people you love about your drinking can be. When you’re stuck in the loop between blame, shame, and guilt, honesty seems hard to come by. Coaches Zoe and Cole help Kelly and Jules find peace with what was and hope for what’s to come.
Kelly discusses:
Realizing her drinking was a way to make an unsustainable marriage feel sustainable
How her husband’s “black and white” view of quitting fed a cycle of shame and blame
The one idea from The Path that reframed everything for her, and what changed once she stopped drinking alone in her bedroom
Renaming herself from “Blackout Kelly” to “Clear Kelly,” and what created that shift
Jules discusses:
Fearing she’s already failed her kids as a mother because of her drinking
A memory from a backyard badminton game with her daughter that she can’t shake
Coach Cole’s reframe of shame and guilt
What having the alcohol conversation with her kids might look like
And more…
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Zoe Ewart is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life's big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol.
Learn more about Coach Zoe: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/zoe-ewart/
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Episode links:
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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 she always did with her sister, and …
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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 she always did with her sister, and somewhere in the middle of being violently sick she found herself pleading with her own stomach: no more, nothing else toxic, please. She got home and never drank again. You don't need an excuse not to drink once your body has already made the case for you, and two years later, she still describes the moment as a decision made in an instant.
Helen and Coach Cole discuss:
● Sneaking sips of wine and gin as a kid, and how alcohol felt like the ultimate grown-up, exciting thing
● Getting so drunk on her 18th birthday that her parents thought she'd been spiked with something worse than alcohol
● Needing “a valid reason” not to drink once her kids weren't little anymore, and how strange that felt to admit out loud
● The bout of food poisoning on holiday with her sister that made the decision for her, in an instant
● Why reading This Naked Mind felt like confirmation instead of a wake-up call
● And more on finding an alcohol-free music festival and what she'd tell her teenage self about dancing…
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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, self-love, and empathy, but putting …
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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, self-love, and empathy, but putting that into practice is a much different story. Coach Hayley and Coach Cole use their training and their own experiences with drinking again to help Sarah and Katie use curiosity instead of blame and shame.
Sarah discusses:
- Why over 100 days alcohol-free hasn't erased the fear that one bad day could send her back to hair of the dog
- Trusting the tools she's learned instead of the shame and blame she used to reach for first
- Bartending without missing the version of herself who used to drink through her shifts
- The intervention her sister and best friend staged, and why she couldn't hear it at the time
Katie discusses:
- The "why" she keeps circling back to after relapsing months into a daily wine habit
- Reframing withdrawal agitation as her body healing instead of a sign something's wrong
- The 90 percent of her negative thoughts that turn out to be rumination, not fact
- Why being a "fixer" makes it harder to get curious about her own drinking pattern
- And more from both guests…
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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 to talk about how to quit drinking as a mom when mommy wine culture …
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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 drinking as a mom when mommy wine culture makes it feel normal, and what six years actually built: a dad and two sisters who gave up alcohol right along with her, and two boys who have never once seen their mom drunk.
Payal and Coach Hayley discuss:
Growing up believing a drink was the only way to build real confidence, and what she knows now that she didn't then
The four-pack of small wine bottles hidden at the bottom of the trash, and the mommy wine culture that made it feel normal
Why she could never just have one, and the single therapist conversation that finally connected the dots
What it actually looks like to quit drinking as a mom when your spouse still drinks
Learning how to have fun without alcohol again, after believing for years it wasn't possible
And more on the "playing the tape forward" trick she still uses today, and finding your own path to alcohol freedom…
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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 seem to pay for it. Kate's experience …
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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 seem to pay for it. Kate's experience looks different: a friend in recovery who stopped getting invited to things, and a dinner this weekend she's already rehearsing lines for. Listen as our coaches help Brenda and Kate separate fact from fiction and learn why regular drinkers don’t exist.
Brenda discusses:
Why "regular drinkers" turned out to be a myth she was ready to test
A "party with a price tag," and what that persona actually cost her
Three years in a weight loss program, and the math she'd never done
The two rooms Coach Zoe asks her to choose between, and which one she picks
Kate discusses:
Why she'd rather say "I'm taking a break" than let anyone use the word "problem"
The word "stigma," and why it fits alcohol in a way it never fit quitting smoking
The specific tactics for a dinner, a band, and zero big announcements
The two truths Coach Hayley asks her to hold at the same time
And more from both guests…
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Zoe Ewart is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life's big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol.
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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 that she genuinely believes she might die …
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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 that she genuinely believes she might die from it, so she turns over and doesn't get up again until one in the afternoon. She'd been retired for years by then, a daily schedule and routine filled with wine instead, and what she labeled relaxing was really drinking out of boredom. A couple of glasses had turned into a full box, then a bottle most nights, one more way to use up hours a twenty-year police career used to take up on its own. A week later, she threw that box of wine in the trash.
Brenda and Coach Cole discuss:
Starting the police academy, getting married, and quitting drinking, all in the same month, years apart
Why retiring in 2013 removed the one thing that had kept her drinking in check
Naming the voice in her head Dave, and talking back to him out loud in the car
The pink cloud moment driving home along the lake six weeks after her last drink
The Sunday morning hangover that convinced her she was dying, and why it became her turning point
Why she filled her newly empty days with sewing for her local theater and mornings back at the SPCA
And more on rebuilding her marriage and finally learning to put herself first…
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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 alcohol-free right now, the first time since I …
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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 alcohol-free right now, the first time since I was pregnant with my daughter,” Bethany says. Bev has been counting differently: hers started January 13th, and her husband hasn't missed a single one of his own drinking nights since. Bethany and Bev work with Coaches Hayley and Cole on how to quit drinking when your spouse still drinks.
Bethany discusses:
• The exact moment four years ago that changed everything, and the nights she still can't escape it
• Why she calls herself a “cheater” when it comes to quitting, and what she means by it
• The one word she used to describe what alcohol really was to her
• What Coach Hayley asked her about her father, and what Bethany said back
Bev discusses:
• A resentment she didn't know she was carrying, until the alcohol was gone and there was nowhere left to hide it
• Living with a cancer diagnosis that makes quitting drinking a matter of life and death
• The one sentence about her marriage she's never said out loud, not even to her husband
• What Coach Cole told her to do about a husband who won't quit too, and why it wasn't what she expected
• And more…
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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 close to two bottles of wine a night, buying …
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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 close to two bottles of wine a night, buying the boxed kind so nobody would notice when one ran out. In this episode, she sits down with Mike Marshall, CEO of the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance, on his podcast The Shift, to talk about what the alcohol industry doesn’t want you to know, and why “drink responsibly” was never really about you.
Annie and Mike discuss:
- Annie’s own story, from a childhood with no drinking in the house to two bottles of wine a night, and the moment that finally stopped her in her tracks
- Why “drink responsibly” sounds helpful but was never really written with the drinker in mind
- What a former alcohol industry executive admitted about targeting the heaviest drinkers, and building the alcopop to hook teenagers
- Why alcohol has carried a carcinogen label for decades, and why most of us never got the memo
- Annie’s “grace first” approach to changing your relationship with alcohol, and why shame just isn’t the answer
- And more on policy, parenting, and what real freedom from alcohol’s grip actually feels like…
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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 drink again. Same question but from two …
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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 drink again. Same question but from two very different perspectives. Coaches Cole and Hayley work with Pamela and Claude to discover what sits behind these questions and to find out why one drink never stays one drink for most of us.
Pamela discusses:
Fifty-three easy days, then a Friday night phone call from friends that flipped the switch
Why the third night lined up with the anniversary of her ex-husband's death
Why she uses alcohol to "let go of what's heavy," and what it's really protecting her from
Coach Cole's question about her daughter that undid six years of believing she had to handle things alone
Her real commitment for the next time the Ferris wheel comes back around
Claude discusses:
Why the idea of "never again" feels like free fall and grief, not relief
Tracing the "glitter" back to cocktails, galas, and a stressful career, and finding it elsewhere
An experiment with an untouched glass of wine, left behind on an Adirondack chair
Why a firm 30-day non-negotiable feels lighter than deciding fresh every single day
The question Coach Hayley keeps circling back to: what if there's no such thing as failure?
And more…
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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 were his morning coffee. But one day he …
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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 were his morning coffee. But one day he picked up a receipt for a book he'd bought two years earlier yet never read. Suddenly the countdown was on, and he was no longer willing to keep the idea of quitting drinking before forty on the shelf. It was now time to change.
Judd and Coach Cole discuss:
How buying The Alcohol Experiment in January 2020 and not reading it for months planted the seed that eventually took hold
Why turning quitting into a 30-day, then 90-day, then six-month goal made an impossible habit feel achievable
The moment his now-wife suggested he aim for a year instead of six months, and why he said yes
How he used the rawness of his first alcohol-free months to write a novel exploring AI, free will, and addiction
Why naltrexone and other medications raise real questions about free will, even when they work
What it was like to travel internationally alcohol-free for the first time, from Sydney's hidden NA bar scene to San Juan's early morning joggers
How realizing most people at parties were not drinking as much as he assumed changed the way he saw every social event
And more on goal-setting, dating after quitting, and what it really means to find your own path to alcohol freedom…
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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 has, to decide something needed to change …
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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 has, to decide something needed to change. For Dee, it was an entire wedding weekend and the fear of being the only one without a drink in her hand that made her realize alcohol was holding way too much headspace for her. Coaches Zoe and Cole help both women discover the confidence that was already inside them all along.
Amy discusses:
Going 30 days alcohol-free, then 11 months, then letting red wine back in "on a limited basis" and watching it unravel
The cognitive dissonance between her morning self and her evening self, and why they actually want the same thing
An ADHD diagnosis at seventeen and a lifelong feeling of being unpredictable to herself
A snowy backyard, a hot tub, and proof that an urge really does pass if you outlast it
Dee discusses:
An entire wedding weekend built around alcohol, and the fear she hadn't said out loud yet
Why a glass of wine became her stand-in for confidence since college
The shift from "I'm not allowed to drink" to "I'm choosing not to," and why that one distinction changed everything
Visualizing the wedding ahead of time, the same way she used to visualize a swim race
And more…
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Zoe Ewart is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life's big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol.
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Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
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Drinking Less in Wine Country – Alcohol Freedom Coaching – https://thisnakedmind.com/drinking-less-in-wine-country-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-740/
Feel Like Yourself Again – Alcohol Freedom Coaching – https://thisnakedmind.com/feel-like-yourself-again-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e756/
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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 story is the one you need to hear. She …
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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 story is the one you need to hear. She was a registered nurse who had directed a hospital addiction recovery program and still didn't see herself in it. She was caring for a dying parent, married to a heavy drinker, and drinking three to four glasses of wine every night before a single book changed the entire frame. She became alcohol-free at 62 and hasn't looked back once.
Deb and Coach Cole discuss:
Growing up alcohol naive, not drinking until her late 20s, and watching it quietly become a nightly habit, she barely chose
Directing a hospital addiction recovery program and still telling herself she wasn't like the patients in it
Reading This Naked Mind cover to cover with wine in hand, crying at the parts that felt like her own story
Stopping drinking while caregiving for her mother with dementia, and finding she could finally be present in those visits
Staying alcohol-free while her husband continued to drink, kept trying to pull her back, and what the honest reckoning that followed looked like
Talking herself out of the This Naked Mind coaching program four years in a row before finally committing at 62, after years of retirement
Why a slip isn't a relapse, it's a data point, and the language of growing and evolving versus changing
And more on curiosity, caregiving, and what it means to build a life you don't want to escape from…
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Related episodes:
Self-Awareness Around Alcohol | Dr. Gina Slejko - Naked Life Story | EP 535 — https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-535-naked-life-story-dr-gina-slejko/
I Quit Drinking But My Spouse Has Not — Any Advice? | EP 48 — https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-48-reader-question-i-quit-drinking-but-my-spouse-has-not-any-advice/
Using Alcohol Over 60: Lorna Wilson | EP 418 — https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-418-coaching-questions-with-scott-pinyard/
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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? Steph and Nicole both find themselves …
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⚠️ 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? Steph and Nicole both find themselves grappling with that very idea and wondering what the answer will mean for them. Steph is 55, and alcohol has been by her side and has helped define her for most of her adult life. Nicole looks to alcohol for the answers and to smooth the rough edges, and isn’t sure if she’s capable of being herself with a glass in her hand. Coaches Cole and Hayley help provide guidance and hope in this week’s episode.
Steph discusses:
Why "loss of identity" became the real subject of her coaching call, not just the drinking
The belief that she'd failed herself and her friends, and how that belief kept her stuck
Why chasing a "finished" identity by a deadline backfires
The threshold metaphor, and why stepping into the unknown feels safer than staying somewhere familiar but unwanted
Her plan to resign from teaching by May 1st, and what she's choosing to let go of first
Nicole discusses:
How alcohol became tangled with her identity before she ever turned 21
The seven-year relationship and the night that ended with her in a hospital for three days
November 5, 2025: the day she sat in her car and decided something had to change
Why grace and curiosity did more for her than willpower ever did
What she calls her "2D glasses" moment, and what she sees now that alcohol's gone
And more…
Ready to take the next step?
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Until next week, stay curious!
Cole Harvey is a certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a certified TNM Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
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Related episodes:
How To Uncouple Alcohol and Identity | Naked Life Story | EP 549 -https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-549-naked-life-story-andrew/Who Am I Without Wine?: Identity & Sophistication | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | E801 - https://thisnakedmind.com/creating-a-new-identity-after-quitting-drinking-alcohol-freedom-freedom-coaching-e801/Why Do I Feel Detached When I’m Not Drinking? | Reader’s Question | EP 122 - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-122-reader-question-feel-detached-im-not-drinking/
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This episode is sponsored by Quince, Hungryroot, and BetterHelp
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