EP 209: Naked Life Story: Ken

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Join us for today’s interview, where Annie sits down with Ken – who thought he had achieved spontaneous sobriety…until one relapse, which ultimately led him to find This Naked Mind. Ken was then able to do things his way, avoiding the industrialistic feel of rehab and the labels associated with AA. For Ken, this allowed him to take ownership over his journey to a naked life.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I am so excited to have
0:32.3	Ken here today. Hi, Ken. Hey, how you doing, Annie? I'm great. How are you? I'm doing well.
0:37.9	It's a little cloudy here in my home, but you know, spring's coming in. It's been a nice spring
0:44.9	Yeah, we are having our, you know, end of spring snow storm yesterday and today,
0:50.4	that always happens that way. It's like one last hurrah. You have mud disease and coming up soon,
0:56.1	right? Yes, mud, runoff, flooding, the whole thing. Yep. But I'm in Virginia. We don't
1:02.9	we don't quite get that. It's just green as everything here. I've mowed the grass like a dozen
1:07.4	times already. Beautiful. Love it. So why don't you kind of walk us back to the beginning for you,
1:13.4	like where, you know, where did it all start for you without the hall? What was it like
1:17.9	growing up, stuff like that? Well, you know, I grew up in a time when in the 70s where, you know,
1:26.7	it wasn't uncommon to, you know, get to get with the guys, get in the car, stop at the convenience store,
1:31.9	and you know, pick up those courts of brands of beer that are not even made anymore, you know,
1:38.0	like a little bit of a slits iron city, things like that. And I grew up in West Virginia at the
1:45.8	time, the drinking age was 18. So it was easy to, you know, fudge it a little bit and get a head
1:52.8	start on things. You know, I went to college and, you know, school, I went to have, you know,
1:57.9	hard-parting reputation and, you know, I did my part to keep up with that. But, you know, I got
2:04.7	through all that in good shape, just pretty much the normal college binge drinking and such.
2:12.4	And then, you know, settled in so late, but moved along and probably, I'm 60 now, it's probably
2:19.5	about 10 years ago, I started to detect it like, you know, I may be, maybe drinking a little more
2:26.1	than I need to, you know, just having a beer or two each night. But then it's pretty soon,
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