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Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 953
Trigger warning: this episode contains references to the death of a child and suicidal thoughts.
The lawn is mowed. The garden is weeded. And the stress is still there, with a voice in Sharon's head getting louder by the minute. Just have a couple glasses of wine. You'd feel better. Vera's voice says something else. You'll be boring. You won't fit in. For two years after her daughter died, a drink was the only way she could cry. Feeling your feelings without alcohol is scary when a drink has always been the thing that made them bearable. So what happens if you let the feeling stay? Coaches Cole and Hayley offer curiosity as the first step, and a way to feel safe taking it.
Sharon discusses:
- The work travel and family stress behind her loudest cravings
- Why "This will pass" works some days and not others
- How scary it feels to stop pushing the stress away
- What she finds under her heart when she finally looks
Vera discusses:
- Grieving her daughter without a drink
- The "romantic idea" of moderating that her heart won't let go of
- The kid in the house on wheels who still feels left out
- What it would feel like to fit in with herself
- And more…
Ready to take the next step?
Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported.
Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Episode links:
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More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/feeling-your-feelings-without-alcohol-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-953/
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How I Stopped Using Alcohol For Stress Relief | Naked Life Story | EP 715 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-715-naked-life-story-allison-b/
Is Life Boring Without Alcohol? | Reader Question | EP 342 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-342-reader-question-is-life-boring-without-alcohol/
Finding Your True Self and Building Genuine Connections Without Alcohol | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 821 – https://thisnakedmind.com/building-genuine-connections-without-alcohol-e821/
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Rebuilding Your Life After Drinking
Épisode 952
samedi 24 octobre 2026 • Durée 49:01
Paul spent years drinking every day and waking up with harsh words for himself. In this episode, he shares how he stepped out of that cycle, filled his days with yoga, music and coaching, and found a life that feels like freedom.
What happens after the last drink? For Paul, stopping was only the start. Rebuilding your life after drinking, he says, takes more than removing the alcohol. Paul is a certified This Naked Mind coach in England who started drinking at 14. He talks with host Cole about weekends that turned into daily drinking, moderation rules that stopped working, and self-talk that wore down his self-esteem. Then he shares what came next: a yoga retreat weeks after his last drink, a creative outlet in music, and a life that feels like freedom.
What You'll Hear
How hotel stays for work turned weekend drinking into an everyday habit
What happened when the rules of an online moderation group stopped working
How a daily cycle of promises and self-criticism wore down his self-esteem, and how it lifted
The yoga retreat, weeks after his last drink, that brought him to tears on a beach
Why stopping drinking was only the first step for Paul
The two-column exercise Paul would hand his younger self
“You realize you're giving up nothing.” -Paul
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About Your Host
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. For years, he felt lost and used alcohol to cope, until he decided to go alcohol-free and focus on finding his purpose. Through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure, he transformed his life. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps young men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
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When Doing Better Still Feels Wrong
Épisode 951
mardi 20 octobre 2026 • Durée 01:01:58
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 951
Angie puts Visine in every morning before anyone sees her eyes. Andrea has done everything right for seventy-six days and still can't shake the feeling that something's wrong with how easy it's been. The same question plagues them both: why do I think I have to suffer to quit drinking? Coaches Hayley and Cole ask the hard questions to uncover why they feel they still need to punish themselves for their drinking.
Angie discusses:
The nightly habit that starts long before the first drink
Why "I can't do it" became a self-fulfilling loop
The data point that changed how she sees a slip
A new way to start the morning that has nothing to do with willpower
Andrea discusses:
Seventy-six days alcohol-free that felt almost too easy
The old belief that success has to come from struggle
What she realized about the difference between work and suffering
Why she finally feels like she's earned where she's at
And more…
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported.
Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Episode links:
nakedmindpath.com
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/does-quitting-drinking-have-to-be-a-struggle-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-951/
Related episodes:
Shifting Mindset for Lasting Change | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 783 – https://thisnakedmind.com/shifting-beliefs-changing-habits-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e783/
Naked Life Story – Ginelle T. | EP 693 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-693-naked-life-story-ginelle-t/
Reader Question – What is a data point? | EP 520 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-520-reader-question-what-is-a-data-point/
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This Might Just Possibly Work
Épisode 950
samedi 17 octobre 2026 • Durée 58:46
Pam's Naked Life | EP 950
A beer holder isn't a standard feature on a lawnmower, but Pam made it one. From grass-cutting buddy to personal therapist, she gave alcohol dozens of jobs, starting at age seven, when a sip of her mother's wine felt like "the elixir of life." Figuring out why moderation doesn't work took Pam the better part of a decade. Willpower didn't work, rules were made to be broken, and the way out wasn't about trying harder; it was about testing her beliefs one by one.
Pam and Coach Cole discuss:
Calling alcohol "the elixir of life" at seven years old, and the job she gave it as a teenager just to fit in
The moderation rules that never survived a single week, and disguising her voice to order This Naked Mind from her hometown bookstore
Why AA didn't stick, and not yet knowing alcohol is an addictive drug
The lawnmower insert built to hold a beer, and the small, deliberate tests that took it out of her hand
Walking past a cooler of beer at the airport, months into an alcohol-free life, on a solo trip built to test herself
And more on flying to Denver for the very first class of TNM coaches, and what Annie Grace said the day Pam tried to thank her…
Ready to take the next step?
Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Pam McRae is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach, Master Life Coach, and Gray Area Drinking Coach. Pam empowers others through her Freedom Connection group coaching, where people support each other in their alcohol journeys.
Learn more about Coach Pam: http://thisnakedmind.com/coach/pam-mcrae/
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning.
Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Episode links:
More on this episode: This Naked Mind Institute: https://www.thisnakedmindinstitute.com/tnmi-home
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How I Quit Drinking Without AA | Bo's Naked Life | EP 555 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-555-naked-life-story-bo/
Is Drinking in Moderation Possible? | Reader Question | EP 08 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-08-reader-question-moderation-possible/
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Why We Drink To Cope
Épisode 949
mardi 13 octobre 2026 • Durée 01:17:04
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 949
Alcohol and emotional regulation. For a long time, they were basically the same thing for Gwen and Cynthia. Gwen can feel sure she doesn’t want to drink, then find herself wavering in a grocery store parking lot when her husband asks if she wants wine. Cynthia has spent decades on a farm she calls Never Done, 26 of them alone, pouring wine from a box because for much of her life, drinking was the only way she knew how to cry. Coaches Cole and Hayley help them start figuring out what alcohol has been doing for them, and what might work instead.
Gwen discusses:
Making it four or five days without alcohol, then hitting the weekend
Why alcohol in the house is fine until her husband asks if she wants some
Wine as permission to lower the walls she keeps up almost everywhere else
The one boundary she realizes she needs to say out loud
And more...
Cynthia discusses:
Why she calls alcohol an anesthetic
Living alone on a farm called Never Done and when solitude started feeling like loneliness
The losses she could not cry about for years
What being told to “ignore it” as a little girl taught her to do with hard feelings
Learning to ask for help after a lifetime of being fiercely independent
And more...
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Cole Harvey is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach with training from the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, and judgment-free space where her clients can feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Episode links:
More on this episode:
Join The Path: nakedmindpath.com
Related episodes:
Feeling Your Emotions Without Alcohol | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | E799 – https://thisnakedmind.com/understanding-the-urge-to-drink-e799/
Breaking Free From Secret Drinking and Emotional Disconnection | Kate's Naked Life | E806 – https://thisnakedmind.com/how-alcohol-keeps-you-from-feeling-emotions-e806/
Reader's Question – Healing Emotional Pain Without Alcohol | EP 706 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-706-readers-question-healing-emotional-pain-without-alcohol/
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Can You Really Forgive Yourself for Your Drinking Past?
Épisode 948
samedi 10 octobre 2026 • Durée 57:02
Lisa’s Naked Life | EP 948
Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to domestic conflict, impaired driving with a minor in the vehicle, and a cancer diagnosis.
Six beers in, Lisa drove her fifteen-year-old son to a friend's house. It wasn't the first time she'd driven after drinking, but something about that night finally scared her. By then, she was drinking about two bottles of wine most nights. Her marriage was falling apart, and she'd been sleeping in the guest room. That night, she admitted to herself that she couldn't keep living this way. She stopped drinking the next day and started wrestling with a bigger question instead: How do I forgive myself for the things I did while drinking?
Lisa and Coach Cole discuss:
● Why she still resists calling her father "an alcoholic," even after decades of watching him drink and drive
● What her father's own DUI and forced AA meetings taught her about shame, and why she built her coaching style in the opposite direction
● Being six months alcohol-free before an unexpected stage 3 cancer diagnosis, and what forgiveness had to do with getting through it
● The real difference between therapy and coaching, and why Lisa refuses to blur the two even though she's licensed in both
● And more on Dr. Joe Dispenza, meditation, and how Lisa finally forgave the woman she used to be…
Ready to take the next step?
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Episode links:
Join The Path - nakedmindpath.com
Related episodes:
Why Do I Drink To Escape My Problems? | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | E780 – https://thisnakedmind.com/real-relief-when-life-gets-hard-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e780/
Using Alcohol To Cope With Trauma | Naked Life Story | EP 723 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-723-naked-life-story-julie-c/
How To Stay Sober Under Stress | Reader Question | EP 314 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-314-reader-question-how-do-i-stay-sober-in-trying-times/
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Facing the Fear of Change
Épisode 947
mardi 6 octobre 2026 • Durée 01:05:23
Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 947
Trigger Warning: This episode mentions a pregnancy loss and substance abuse.
What if it’s not giving up the substance that you fear? Deb and Rosie are both finding success in their breaks from alcohol and THC, respectively. They don’t realize it until Coaches Cole and Hayley ask the right questions, but both women are now facing the fear of change. Are they ready for all the ways life might look different (and maybe even better) now that they are fully living it?
Deb discusses:
● The moment Coach Cole names her fear of changing, and she agrees
● What her “dopamine tiger” has to say once a calmer part of her takes the lead
● The internal earthquake that told her something was already shifting
● The one small, doable step she commits to for her Path group
Rosie discusses:
● Why she picked the word rise, and what almost stopped her from living up to it
● The belief that she doesn’t deserve good things, traced straight back to her parents
● Two losses she’s never let herself grieve
● Learning to hold a hard feeling instead of numbing it
● And more…
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!
Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach. As a habit change and mindset coach, Cole helps men understand themselves, build better habits, and find meaning. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. Drawing from personal experience, Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, judgment-free space where clients feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: http://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
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More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/facing-the-fear-of-change-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-947/
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Using Alcohol to Cope with Trauma | Naked Life Story | EP 723 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-723-naked-life-story-julie-c/
Why Is It So Hard to Become Alcohol-Free? | Reader Question | EP 646 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-646-readers-question-why-is-it-so-hard-to-become-alcohol-free/
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An Ultimatum to Stop Drinking
Épisode 946
samedi 3 octobre 2026 • Durée 01:01:29
Where Are They Now? | EP 946
"I had to pick one life or the other." That's how Sabrina describes the ultimatum to stop drinking her husband gave her two years ago. Sabrina is back to catch up with Hayley and explore what happens in that time between learning to live alcohol-free and truly living an alcohol-free life. Her key takeaway for other moms? Quitting doesn't clear out the mental space alcohol used to take up all on its own, you have to notice what's still empty and actually fill it, on purpose.
Sabrina and Coach Hayley discuss:
Why the ultimatum wasn't actually the hardest part, and what came after it was
What "mental real estate" means once alcohol stops taking up space in your head
What finally convinced Sabrina to give up marijuana completely
How villainizing alcohol, instead of herself, rewrote the story she tells about her past
What it's like watching four daughters grow up without ever seeing their mom drunk
And more on letting one person all the way in, and what it really means to find your own path to alcohol freedom…
Ready to take the next step? Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
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What if My Marriage Is Dependent on Alcohol? | Reader Question | EP 222
https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-222-reader-question-what-if-my-marriage-is-dependent-on-alcohol/
Are You Doing It for YOU? | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | E750 - https://thisnakedmind.com/are-you-doing-it-for-you-alcohol-freedom-coaching-e750/
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Are You Drinking To Check Out?
Épisode 945
mardi 29 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:04:50
Five o'clock. It's like an internal alarm that goes off for Sandra. The day goes from manageable to get me the heck out of here as soon as the clock flips. For Lucy, it usually hits mid-afternoon: the realization that today won't be Day 1 alcohol-free after all. Drinking to check out is so normal that most people will tell you it isn't a problem at all, but that isn't for anyone else to decide. It's up to Sandra and Lucy to choose what role alcohol will have in their lives.
Lucy discusses:
The two voices in her head, arguing again
Why she thinks she “deserves” a drink every night
Her father's death, her husband's cancer, and the return to the Path
What her relationship with wine has to do with her closeness to her brother
Sandra discusses:
Expectation: the thing she didn't know she was addicted to
The kindergarten memory Coach Zoe keeps circling back to
Golf, Mahjong, and why staying busy matters more than she thought
Wise adult, adaptive child, wounded child: the three Sandras
And more…
Ready to take the next step?
Visit https://learn.thisnakedmind.com/podcast-resources for free resources, programs, and more. Until next week, stay curious!
Hayley Scherders is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach. Drawing from personal experience, Hayley understands how tough change can be and provides a safe, compassionate, judgment-free space where clients feel supported. Learn more about Coach Hayley: http://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
Zoe Ewart is a Certified This Naked Mind Senior Coach who brings her experience and understanding to help with the tricky parts of life's big changes. Her coaching gives you an enjoyable, light-hearted, and safe environment to effortlessly take back control of alcohol. Learn more about Coach Zoe: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/zoe-ewart/
Episode links:
Join The Path - nakedmindpath.com
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/drinking-to-check-out-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-945/
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How I Stopped Using Alcohol For Stress Relief | Naked Life Story | EP 715 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-715-naked-life-story-allison-b/
Why Did I Start Drinking Again? | Reader Question | EP 360 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-360-reader-question-i-am-drinking-again-and-cant-stop/
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The Empty Bottles She Couldn't Stop Hiding
Épisode 944
samedi 26 septembre 2026 • Durée 54:25
5 a.m., and the bottles go out before anyone's awake. A soft clink of glass against the can, quick hands, quicker steps back inside. For years this was Michelle's ritual, drink alone, hide it, wake up and do it again. A DUI didn't stop it. A year and a half without a drink during COVID didn't stop it. One sentence, heard on a commute to work, finally put a stop to her cycle of drinking alone and hiding it.
Michelle and Coach Cole discuss:
Growing up with a mother whose drinking shaped a lifelong anxiety Michelle didn't understand until years later
Why marijuana, not alcohol, came first, and what changed in her mid-twenties
The private ritual of disposing of empty bottles before dawn, and what it revealed about the shame she was carrying
A DUI, a year and a half alcohol-free during COVID, and why neither one was the real turning point
The one unexpected concept that finally undid years of moderating, relapsing, and starting over
And more on shame, self-trust, and what it means to finally feel like one whole person instead of two…
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Cole Harvey is a Certified Naked Mind Senior Coach who helps people build better habits and find meaning through curiosity, self-compassion, and adventure. Learn more about Coach Cole: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/cole-harvey/
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