How to Stop Daily Drinking: Finding Happiness and Healing After 35 Years | Pierre’s Naked Life | E790

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Can you really learn how to stop daily drinking after decades of alcohol use? Pierre's 35-year "drinking career" began at age 9 when adults first gave him alcohol in the Alps, a region where drinking is deeply woven into the cultural fabric. Despite recognizing his daily three-beer habit as problematic in his twenties, it took decades and multiple attempts before he successfully broke free. After discovering Annie Grace's approach, Pierre developed a long-term strategy to stop daily drinking and now celebrates a year of sobriety. In this episode, Pierre shares his journey from European drinking culture to peaceful sobriety, explaining how alcohol-induced depression lifted, why social pressure made quitting difficult, and how he finally created a life so beautiful he refuses to let alcohol steal even a day of it. In this episode, Annie and Pierre will discuss: First exposure to alcohol at age 9 in Europe's drinking culture The progression from social drinking to daily alcohol consumption Working in industries where drinking is normalized and accessible Multiple failed attempts at moderation and sobriety How to stop daily drinking with This Naked Mind How alcohol-induced depression and anxiety disappeared Developing a toolbox of coping strategies for life without alcohol The challenge of socializing sober in drinking-centric environments The power of curiosity in creating sustainable change Creating a life that doesn't require escaping through alcohol Finding self-love and self-understanding without alcohol The realization that "there is no love in that bottle" And other topics... Related Episodes: EP 244: Reader’s Question – Do other countries have as much of a problem with alcohol as we do in the U.S.? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-244-do-other-countries-have-as-much-of-a-problem-with-alcohol/ EP 578: Reader’s Question – Why is it hard to imagine being happy after going alcohol-free? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-578-readers-question-why-is-it-hard-to-imagine-being-happy-going-alcohol-free/ EP 737: Cole’s Naked Life - Healing Through Self-Love https://thisnakedmind.com/healing-through-self-love-coles-naked-life-e737/ 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.
0:13.7	Hi, this is Annie Grace, and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast. I'm here with Pierre. Hi, how are you?
0:19.1	Hello, Annie Grace. My name is Claire, and I'm happy to be with you.
0:22.6	Thank you. Oh, I'm so glad to be here with you too. So why don't you take us back to the beginning
0:27.8	in your relationship with alcohol? Where did it all start for you? The first time I came in contact with
0:32.6	alcohol was quite early. I guess it was when I was around nine, maybe 10. Adults gave it to me. I mean, I have to say
0:39.4	that I grown up in the Alps and the Bavarian Alps. So there is a really long tradition of drinking.
0:45.9	This is the country of the October Fest. So drinking is quite common. When I was 14, 15, I went
0:52.4	all in. I used it at the beginning, I have to say, I used it as a tour to be part of the group, to be accepted.
0:59.3	It was easier to drink than not to drink.
1:01.6	And the social drinking.
1:03.7	Then when I was 15, 16, every weekend at the beginning of the 90s,
1:09.4	raves came to Europe, all the drugs came. So drinking, doing drugs, it was part of the 90s, a race came to Europe, all the drugs came.
1:12.4	So drinking, doing drugs, it was part of the life.
1:15.4	The first time I recognized that there is something with it is when I was around, let's say,
1:19.9	1920, when I recognized, okay, it's not anymore a weekend or binge drinking.
1:25.5	It kind of sneaked into, yeah, why not after the work having a drink.
1:29.8	So in the 90s, it was alcohol was the last problem you had. It was as common as food. I mean,
1:37.2	you had to drink, especially when you then in an environment where drinking is just the normal.
1:42.6	It's part of daily life.
1:44.4	The brewing tradition in Germany is about over thousand years old.
1:48.8	So drinking is normal.
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