Ep. 282: Gray Area Drinking and Our Relationship with Alcohol
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Natalie chats with wellness coach (and former Baggage Reclaim student) Jolene Park about gray area drinking and understanding our relationship with alcohol.
How we consume and discuss alcohol has shifted dramatically over the last decade or so and more of us are reflecting on our relationship with alcohol but also sometimes unaware of how much the past - our emotional baggage - influences how and why we drink.
Learn about what gray area drinking is, why our relationship with alcohol, including how it affects us, doesn't fit neatly into the two buckets of 'those who can handle alcohol' and 'those who can't', and discover some first steps for reflecting on your own relationship with alcohol.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Lou, and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions. |
| 0:18.4 | Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? I have been wanting to have today's conversation |
| 0:27.0 | for what feels like the longest time, probably from around the time I started the podcast, |
| 0:32.8 | but it had never really been the right time and of course I used to do the episodes all on my own before. |
| 0:38.8 | And then, of course, I took a big break from the podcast. But there was also another reason. |
| 0:44.5 | So the episode that we are in today is about our relationship with alcohol. And I've had so many |
| 0:53.2 | conversations with friends, family, readers, listeners, clients over the years. And I've had so many conversations with friends, family, readers, listeners, |
| 0:56.1 | clients over the years. And alcohol has come up again and again in stories, but also just in |
| 1:01.7 | the shifts that people are making in their lives and the realizations that they're having about |
| 1:05.6 | themselves. As much as I was wanting to have this conversation, and despite all of that dodgy timing, |
| 1:11.6 | I'll be honest and say that the subject of alcohol felt a little too close to home sometimes, because I'm an adult child of an alcoholic. |
| 1:22.9 | I think when I first started thinking about wanting to delve into this subject, |
| 1:28.7 | I was estranged from my father. |
| 1:32.0 | When I thought about it again, we had reconciled, we had repaired our relationship, |
| 1:37.5 | and he had also died from bowel cancer in March 2017. |
| 1:42.1 | Here's something I've rarely said out loud and to not that many people. |
| 1:46.5 | I can recall being a young child, so around five years old, |
| 1:49.6 | and understanding what was happening with alcohol, |
| 1:52.6 | understanding that my father's relationship with alcohol, |
| 1:59.9 | I guess on Facebook you call that complicated. I am was a daddy's |
| 2:06.5 | girl and the knowledge that he was struggling was burdensome but it also created conflicting |
| 2:15.8 | feelings of wanting to protect him. |
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