I’m so excited to speak today with Annie Grace, the founder of “This Naked Mind” — a book and a large community dedicated to helping people change their relationship with alcohol, or quit all together.
I found Annie after I sought a resource for finding a healthier relationship with alcohol. Since I started drinking my senior year of high school, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the substance. And a substance it is — as Annie points out the major health downfalls of drinking.
After quitting drinking, digging into the science behind the substance and realizing there were a lot of people out there who didn’t quite feel like a program like AA was for them, she started her 30-day challenge. The program has morphed into a massive Facebook group, live support groups, a yearly conference, training programs & more. Annie says:
After quitting drinking, digging into the science behind the substance and realizing there were a lot of people out there who didn’t quite feel like a program like AA was for them, she started her 30-day challenge. The program has morphed into a massive Facebook group, live support groups, a yearly conference, training programs & more. Annie says:
“The thing I hear most is, why didn’t I do this sooner?”
I’m so impressed by how Annie turned this simple transformation in her own life into an entire career — and only because she was so enthusiastic about sharing how positively her life changed when she quit drinking. She also frequently tackles the dicey issue of the “mommy drinking culture,” where wine brands, memes and jokes tell moms they need alcohol to deal with the stress of parenthood.
I did the 30-day challenge in December — and since then have cut my drinking back by probably 10 times. I had gotten to the point of drinking wine almost daily for stress relief and I was feeling gross, but struggling to stop. I thought of all the experiences I’ve had with alcohol over the years an realized the lies I’d been telling myself about why it was so great.
I appreciate Annie’s approach and that she makes “normal” people like me realize we are not alone in feeling uncomfortable with relying on a substance for stress relief. Also for me, I felt it was a barrier to my relationship with God and ultimately increased anxiety in the long run.
What We Talked About:
- This Naked Mind Website
- This Naked Mind Book
- The Alcohol Experiment
- This Naked Mind Coaching
- The Exchange Group Support
- This Naked Mind podcast
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