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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/
Episode links:
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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
Episode 946
Saturday, October 3, 2026 • Duration 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?
Episode 945
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 • Duration 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
Episode 944
Saturday, September 26, 2026 • Duration 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…
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 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/
Episode links:
nakedmindpath.com
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/drinking-alone-and-hiding-it-michelles-naked-life-ep-944/
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Why Do I Think Something Is Wrong With Me?
Episode 943
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 • Duration 01:04:56
Trigger Warning: This episode mentions death by suicide and death from alcohol use.
Something is wrong with me. Five words, but they can resonate in your brain over and over again for decades. That's the reality Lisa and Michelle have been living with day in and day out. To the point where drowning that voice out with wine was the only way to find peace. Or so they thought. Coaches Cole and Zoe offer a new perspective and a pathway to healing.
Lisa discusses:
The list of 15 friends who disappeared from her life, and what she'd decided it meant about her
The one letter her father ever wrote her, sent the year before he died of alcoholism
Why "people just lose touch" was the hardest reframe she'd ever been asked to try on
The difference between giving from love and giving to keep someone from leaving
Michelle discusses:
The exact age she started drinking, and what it gave her that nothing else did
Why "turn that frown upside down" became the rule that shaped her whole childhood
Becoming a people pleaser, and what it cost her to keep speaking up
Learning to re-parent the little girl who never got to just be 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 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/
Zoe Ewart is a Certified 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/something-is-wrong-with-me-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-943/
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How Do You Deal With Feeling Ashamed or Embarrassed About Drinking? | Reader Question | EP 406 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-406-reader-question-how-do-you-deal-with-feeling-ashamed-or-embarrassed-about-drinking/
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The Job That Almost Kept Her Drinking
Episode 942
Saturday, September 19, 2026 • Duration 45:30
How do you quit drinking when your job is getting other people to drink? For years, that was Kelly's daily reality. She sampled wine and liquor with retailers all day, then went out drinking with her coworkers once the samples were done, and some nights she couldn't drive home afterward. She kept a tablecloth in the back seat of her car for exactly those nights, climbing back there to sleep it off instead of getting behind the wheel. Quitting drinking while working in alcohol sales meant unlearning her entire job description, and almost ten months later, she no longer needs that tablecloth.
Kelly and Coach Cole discuss:
Growing up with wine treated as a nightly ritual, and how that shaped her first years of drinking
Losing her senior season and her team captaincy after one night out with alcohol
What working in alcohol sales and distribution did to her drinking, and what daily industry culture looked like from the inside
Tracking her drinks in an app and mistaking a lower number for freedom
Learning to treat a slip as a data point instead of a reason to quit trying
Naming her drunk self "Kelly Lynn," and what it took to stop holding her at arm's length
And more on rediscovering travel, music, and finding her way back to who she was before alcohol took over…
Ready to take the next step?
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Episode links:
Read This Naked Mind: thisnakedmind.com/book
The Alcohol Experiment: https://www.alcoholexperiment.com
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/quit-drinking-while-working-in-alcohol-sales-kellys-naked-life-ep-942/
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How Honest Can You Be?
Episode 941
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 01:18:48
Trigger warning: This episode mentions disordered eating and self-harm.
“You either drink, or you don’t,” Kelly’s husband actually said to her. If only it were that simple, like there’s a switch you can just flick and the desire to drink evaporates. While that might be true for some people, most of us find the path to freedom much harder. Jules knows that, and she knows how hard being honest with the people you love about your drinking can be. When you’re stuck in the loop between blame, shame, and guilt, honesty seems hard to come by. Coaches Zoe and Cole help Kelly and Jules find peace with what was and hope for what’s to come.
Kelly discusses:
Realizing her drinking was a way to make an unsustainable marriage feel sustainable
How her husband’s “black and white” view of quitting fed a cycle of shame and blame
The one idea from The Path that reframed everything for her, and what changed once she stopped drinking alone in her bedroom
Renaming herself from “Blackout Kelly” to “Clear Kelly,” and what created that shift
Jules discusses:
Fearing she’s already failed her kids as a mother because of her drinking
A memory from a backyard badminton game with her daughter that she can’t shake
Coach Cole’s reframe of shame and guilt
What having the alcohol conversation with her kids might look like
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!
Zoe Ewart is a Certified 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/
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/
Episode links:
Join The Path - nakedmindpath.com
More on this episode: https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/being-honest-with-the-people-you-love-about-drinking-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-941/
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I Am Not Drinking Again
Episode 940
Saturday, September 12, 2026 • Duration 42:22
Twenty-four hours of food poisoning on an all-inclusive holiday, and Helen's body made a decision before her mind caught up. She'd been drinking that week too, the way she always did with her sister, and somewhere in the middle of being violently sick she found herself pleading with her own stomach: no more, nothing else toxic, please. She got home and never drank again. You don't need an excuse not to drink once your body has already made the case for you, and two years later, she still describes the moment as a decision made in an instant.
Helen and Coach Cole discuss:
● Sneaking sips of wine and gin as a kid, and how alcohol felt like the ultimate grown-up, exciting thing
● Getting so drunk on her 18th birthday that her parents thought she'd been spiked with something worse than alcohol
● Needing “a valid reason” not to drink once her kids weren't little anymore, and how strange that felt to admit out loud
● The bout of food poisoning on holiday with her sister that made the decision for her, in an instant
● Why reading This Naked Mind felt like confirmation instead of a wake-up call
● And more on finding an alcohol-free music festival and what she'd tell her teenage self about dancing…
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Episode links:
thisnakedmind.com/book
More on this episode - https://thisnakedmind.com/podcast/you-dont-need-an-excuse-not-to-drink-helens-naked-like-ep940/
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I Never Gave Myself a Chance
Episode 939
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 01:06:37
What does it take to stop shaming yourself for drinking again? Sarah and Katie are trying to figure that out. It's easy to say that you need to change through compassion, self-love, and empathy, but putting that into practice is a much different story. Coach Hayley and Coach Cole use their training and their own experiences with drinking again to help Sarah and Katie use curiosity instead of blame and shame.
Sarah discusses:
Why over 100 days alcohol-free hasn't erased the fear that one bad day could send her back to hair of the dog
Trusting the tools she's learned instead of the shame and blame she used to reach for first
Bartending without missing the version of herself who used to drink through her shifts
The intervention her sister and best friend staged, and why she couldn't hear it at the time
Katie discusses:
The "why" she keeps circling back to after relapsing months into a daily wine habit
Reframing withdrawal agitation as her body healing instead of a sign something's wrong
The 90 percent of her negative thoughts that turn out to be rumination, not fact
Why being a "fixer" makes it harder to get curious about her own drinking pattern
And more from both guests…
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 TNM 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 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/stop-shaming-yourself-for-drinking-again-alcohol-freedom-coaching-ep-939/
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Progress Over Perfection, Learn to Embrace Self-Compassion | Alcohol Freedom Coaching | EP 730 – https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-730-coaches-podcast-coach-ellie-with-lauri-m-tina-m/
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How to Quit Drinking as a Mom
Episode 938
Saturday, September 5, 2026 • Duration 56:26
Six years ago, Payal looked in the mirror the morning after a blackout and finally had enough of herself. She's back on Where Are They Now to talk about how to quit drinking as a mom when mommy wine culture makes it feel normal, and what six years actually built: a dad and two sisters who gave up alcohol right along with her, and two boys who have never once seen their mom drunk.
Payal and Coach Hayley discuss:
Growing up believing a drink was the only way to build real confidence, and what she knows now that she didn't then
The four-pack of small wine bottles hidden at the bottom of the trash, and the mommy wine culture that made it feel normal
Why she could never just have one, and the single therapist conversation that finally connected the dots
What it actually looks like to quit drinking as a mom when your spouse still drinks
Learning how to have fun without alcohol again, after believing for years it wasn't possible
And more on the "playing the tape forward" trick she still uses today, and finding your own path to alcohol freedom…
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Coach Hayley Scherders is a certified TNM Coach trained through the Canadian Addiction and Mental Health Association. Learn more about Coach Hayley: https://thisnakedmind.com/coach/hayley-scherders/
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