In today’s episode, Annie welcomes Christine. Despite having a family history of alcoholism, Christine took a “take-it-or-leave-it” attitude when it came to alcohol for most of her life. Subscribe to This Naked Mind on YouTube - https://goo.gl/ZJQAZ8.
However, when boredom led to over-eating and drinks starting at noon, she started to slide down that slippery slope where alcohol started to take control. Today, though – she’s recovered! Totally recovered. Find out how she found her way to a naked life.
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In 2009 my husband and I moved with my son Ethan to Oregon, where I live now. I was doing social science research as an assistant and I traveled quite a bit. When I wanted to relax in the evenings at the hotel room, I'd get a glass of wine or two. But then the next day I'd be working and busy doing things and so it wasn't really a problem to me yet. I could still control alcohol. I continued to work in a gym. In 2016 my husband and I moved to our property now. We have five acres that's rural. In addition, I had a job in town in a gym. When I worked at the gym I became dissatisfied after a while because I just wasn't happy with the focus that a lot of the older people had on intensity still. I had done crossfit training, all kinds of weight training and things for years and I knew that as you get older you need to kind of listen to your body. Listen to your instincts of what it's telling you. But I saw the gym atmosphere just wasn't what I wanted anymore, this pressure. So I quit.
During that year I drank more. When you're not working anymore and you have time on your hands, the drinking can start earlier. So it was at noon when I would have my first glass of wine. Having been a counselor I knew all the criteria in the DSM-IV for alcohol problems and one of them is drinking often before noon. I told myself, "I don't drink before noon so I can't have a problem." I was able to at least wait until noon, and then I would end up finishing off a bottle by the time my husband got home from work about 5:30. That was my way of proving I could control alcohol use. The reason I was drinking during the day, I realized, was because I wanted to soften the edges of my small life.
The dissonance inside me where I knew I had a problem, I wanted to quit but couldn't, I ended up drinking that bottle of wine that I'd buy from the store in one day. I knew I was right back to square one. Although I was accepting where I was with my drinking, I didn't know how to stop.That's when I shared with my husband, who I'd kept it kind of secret from before. He still drank a beer sometimes at night once in a while and he'd also have NA beer, which he enjoyed. Because he didn't like how beer affected him. He'd be tired and kind of lazy and not want to do anything at night. Every once in a while he'd have a real beer, but most of the time NA beer. I just didn't want him looking at me with judgment.
Spiritually I knew who I was and all that meaning of life, all that stuff. So I didn't really need the higher power stuff and all that. I already knew that I believed that source energy is my higher power. I didn't need to find something that I'd turn over to. What I wanted to know was why can't I stop when I want to? So Nate, my husband, bought your book. The way he found it is he's an avid reader of The New Yorker. There was a review of your book in there. This was I think July or so. He saw the book and the thing that stood out to him is when you said, "You will continue to drink while you read the book." The reason he loved that is because he said, "Now I know that Chris isn't going to now think I'm judging her if I give her a book that says she can drink while she's reading it." He gave it to me on Kindle. Honestly the first time I looked at it Annie, I thought, "Oh god, here we go. A book."
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