One Brave Choice: Brent’s Naked Life | E769

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can one brave choice give you the strength to transform your relationships? Brent turned to alcohol in high school to cope with his parents’ divorce. This choice hurt his grades, led to car accidents, affected his health, and nearly ended his marriage. After undergoing major surgery and realizing the impact of his habits on his family, he decided to make a tough but necessary change. He worked hard to rebuild his marriage and has now been happily married for 42 years. In this episode, Brent shares with Annie how making intentional choices allowed him to strengthen his family relationships and inspire others. Today, he feels healthier and enjoys being fully present for moments like cheering on his grandson at baseball games. In this episode, Annie and Brent will discuss: - Drinking to cope with parents’ divorce as a teenager - Rebuilding his marriage after alcohol’s impact - How society’s view on alcohol shapes our choices - Facing health issues and undergoing surgery - Rethinking his habits after discovering This Naked Mind - New research on alcohol's effects - Why education about alcohol leads to better choices - Enjoying holidays and special occasions in new ways - Recognizing positive changes among friends and family - Inspiring change without being forceful - Being fully present for his grandson - And other topics… Related Episodes: EP 396: Reader Question – How Can I Tell My Family the Truth About Alcohol? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-396-reader-question-how-can-i-tell-my-family-the-truth-about-alcohol/ EP 682: Reader’s Question – What Are The Health Benefits of Drinking Less? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-682-readers-question-what-are-the-health-benefits-of-drinking-less/ EP 733: You Are Not the Problem, Alcohol Is – Naked Life Story https://thisnakedmind.com/you-are-not-the-problem-alcohol-is-naked-life-story-ep-733/ 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.
0:15.0	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to This Naked Mind podcast. I'm here with Brent. Hi, Brent. How are you?
0:20.5	Hey, doing good. Thank you.
0:22.4	Great. So glad to have you on. Why don't you take us back to the beginning in your journey?
0:28.4	Where did it all start for you? Oh my gosh. How far back do I go? In my teenage years, when my parents
0:35.8	divorced, I ended up turning to alcohol and it took me
0:40.5	in some bad places and almost ruined my marriage 20 years ago. We've married 42 years now and
0:47.7	got back together and that worked out well, but alcohol still stayed in my life. And then during the
0:53.1	pandemic, it got real deep because
0:55.2	I became my own bartender, staying at home, and the only place open was the liquor store.
1:01.7	And it was getting really bad. In 2011, I had an esophageal perforation, so my esophagus is
1:08.6	modified and stomach wrapped, long story short drinking was terrible
1:13.8	for me and I went to vodka and hot buttered rums and it was at every night thing and I tried
1:21.7	to get away from it and it was affecting my relationship again and it was just impossible
1:26.6	and I tried to find a way out and I stumbled
1:29.1	across your book and oh I think I'm so thankful for that because nothing else would help it
1:37.7	didn't matter what I did and I just started listening to your book and it was just amazing with the information I got that I
1:48.0	wasn't aware of. The unconscious mind stuff was like, gosh, you're right. Every show I watched,
1:54.6	the heroes, they sit down and have a beer afterwards or a drink. it was just like really why i mean that's terrible
2:02.8	and and i just kept listening and learning and it was amazing and then i was getting your everyday emails
2:10.3	and that was very helpful because i would learn and i still read them every day you send them to me. Thank you. I love it.
2:19.6	And it was just, the book just helped me so much. I still, to this day, listen to it.
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