What Signs Are You Ignoring? Jane’s Naked Life | E773

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What if the signs you’ve been ignoring are leading you toward change? Alcohol was a big part of Jane’s first marriage, with weekend get-togethers and drinks shared with her husband and friends. After her divorce, her drinking gradually increased. As a medical rep, drinking often felt like the norm, but over time, she noticed more anxiety and a shorter temper, which affected her relationship with her daughter. Then, on two separate occasions, she fell and hit her face after drinking. Those moments left her embarrassed and questioning her habits. In this episode, Jane talks with Annie about gaining confidence in her choices, feeling more at ease in social settings, and taking on new challenges like running a marathon. She’s learning to manage anxiety in healthier ways and create a more balanced life. In this episode, Annie and Jane will discuss: - Growing up with alcohol as a normal part of life - Drinking socially in her first marriage - Turning to alcohol more after her divorce - Navigating the drinking culture as a medical rep - Drinking in secret to manage stress - Noticing increased anxiety after drinking - The comments that made Jane rethink her habits - Feeling embarrassed after falling due to drinking - Rebuilding her relationship with her daughter - Joining This Naked Mind and shifting her mindset - Becoming more confident in social settings - Learning to say “no” without feeling guilty - Understanding how alcohol affects health - Managing anxiety with self-compassion - And other topics… Related Episodes: EP 406: Reader Question – How Do You Deal with Shame and Embarrassment Around Drinking? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-406-reader-question-how-do-you-deal-with-feeling-ashamed-or-embarrassed-about-drinking/ EP 480: Reader Question – What is the Correlation Between Alcohol and Anxiety? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-480-reader-question-what-is-the-correlation-between-alcohol-and-anxiety EP 534: Reader Question – How Do You Say No to a Drink Without Over-Explaining? https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-534-reader-question-how-do-you-say-no-to-a-drink-without-over-explaining/ 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 Jane. Hi, Jane.
0:20.1	Oh, hi, Annie. How are you?
0:22.7	I'm great. Thank you. Are yourself? Yeah, really good, really good. So, why don't you take us back to the beginning in your
0:29.9	journey with alcohol? Where does it all start for you? Oh, gosh. I think alcohol has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember from being a child, really.
0:42.5	I think my parents, they drank quite a lot, but they're not alcoholics per se,
0:48.0	but they've always drunk quite a lot.
0:50.2	And it's always been associated with me with fun times, with my family, and also with
0:56.3	if you need a coping mechanism.
0:58.5	My dad was in business and had a lot of stress.
1:02.0	So if he needed to cope, he'd drink quite a bit.
1:06.4	But again, not really in the day or anything, so it was always kind of acceptable.
1:11.7	As a child, really, my parents, they went away on booze runs to fans and got a lot of alcohol
1:19.7	and came back with these sophisticated bottles of wine and we'd have certain wines with certain meals
1:27.0	that were quite ceremonial, you know, on a Sunday
1:29.3	lunch or it would be we're having prawns, so we're having fast garcy with the prawns and things like that.
1:35.3	So yeah, it's always been a part of my life and I can't really, in all honesty, remember having my first drink, Annie.
1:43.3	I do remember my dad educating me and saying,
1:46.2	you know, wine and olives, have olives with alcohol. It was always very sophisticated. So
1:51.7	I don't remember a particular first drink. I remember drinking. Well, so my dad was a big football
1:59.9	fan and now and then he'd take me with him to the matches to watch a match and we'd have a in cold weather, we'd have a hot drink with a bit of brandy or something in it.
2:11.3	So yeah, it was just a normal part of life just growing up. I can't remember ever it not being there. I've just always had a relationship
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