Finding Peace Within: Cindy’s Naked Life | E786

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What if everything you’ve been searching for has been within you all along? Cindy had a traumatic childhood, with a violent father who was in and out of her life and a mother who coped by drinking. As a child, she cared for her younger brother, took on adult responsibilities, and learned to suppress her emotions. As she got older, alcohol became her escape from stress and emotional pain. She searched for peace in achievements, relationships, and self-improvement, but nothing brought lasting joy. After losing her brother, she knew something had to change. In this episode, Cindy joins Annie to share her powerful journey of self-discovery and how she rebuilt trust in herself, set boundaries, and embraced emotions instead of avoiding them. In this episode, Annie and Cindy will discuss: - Growing up in a chaotic, violent home - Taking on adult responsibilities as a child - Coping with childhood trauma and an absent father - Struggling with trust and emotional disconnection - Seeking belonging through partying and drugs - Dealing with a complex relationship with her mom - Navigating loss, custody battles, and divorce - Searching for peace in self-help and retreats - Facing anxiety, exhaustion, and deep unhappiness - Finding support and clarity through The PATH - Discovering inner peace, self-love, and joy - Setting healthy boundaries with loved ones - Embracing emotions instead of numbing them - And other topics… Resources Mentioned: The Path Website: www.nakedmindpath.com Related Episodes: EP 158: Reader Question – How Do You Deal with Stress Without Alcohol? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-158-how-do-you-deal-with-stress-without-alcohol/ EP 689: Interview with Dr. Melissa Kalt https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-689-interview-with-dr-melissa-kalt/ EP 744: Is Alcohol Blocking Your Peace?: Alcohol Freedom Coaching https://thisnakedmind.com/is-alcohol-blocking-your-peace-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e744/ Ready to take the next step on your journey? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!

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0:00.0	You're listening to This Naked Mind with Annie Grace.
0:14.8	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast. I'm here with Cindy. Hi, Cindy. How are you?
0:20.7	Hello, Annie. So nice to meet you. Oh, so good to meet youaked Mind podcast. I'm here with Cindy. Hi, Cindy. How are you? Hello, Annie. So nice to meet you.
0:23.2	Oh, so good to meet you too. Thanks so much for coming on to share your story. So why don't you
0:28.7	take us back to the beginning? Where did your journey with alcohol start? I think alcohol
0:34.8	was just always infused in my life since I was born.
0:39.9	I was born into a home where both my parents liked to party.
0:46.3	And I was born in the late 60s.
0:48.4	I was born in 1967.
0:50.7	And my first memories as a young child, I probably don't have a lot of memories up until when my brother was born, I was three at the time.
1:00.4	And I do remember when he was born. I remember him being there as an infant.
1:04.6	But I just remember a lot of the chaos going on in the home, lots of fighting between my parents.
1:11.1	There was some violence in home. lots of fighting between my parents. There was some violence in home.
1:12.9	It was mostly between my parents, but sometimes I would get caught in the middle
1:18.7	trying to protect my mom.
1:21.7	My father, he was a super happy guy half of the time, but the other half of the time, something would just
1:29.3	take him off and he would just go off. And my mom took the brunt of that. So I witnessed a lot of
1:37.5	things as a small child and did get in the way at times. I would try to protect my mom and be kind of shoved across the room to go take care of my crying infant brother.
1:50.9	So that's what I did, basically, you know, at a very young age as I became the caretaker for my brother.
1:58.5	My father was in and out of my life a lot when I was young until I was probably
2:04.4	about eight or nine years old. He would leave before that. He would leave. He'd be gone for a
2:09.3	couple of days or even a couple of weeks. I was so young, I didn't have concept of time.
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