62 Wasn't Too Old to Stop Drinking
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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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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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