About this episode

Deb shares her journey of becoming alcohol-free at 62, challenging the notion that age is a barrier to change.

Deb's Naked Life | EP 920 If you're thinking about stopping drinking in your 60s but keep telling yourself you're too old, too set in your habits, or too far gone, Deb's story is the one you need to hear. She was a registered nurse who had directed a hospital addiction recovery program and still didn't see herself in it. She was caring for a dying parent, married to a heavy drinker, and drinking three to four glasses of wine every night before a single book changed the entire frame. She became alcohol-free at 62 and hasn't looked back once. Deb and Coach Cole discuss: Growing up alcohol naive, not drinking until her late 20s, and watching it quietly become a nightly habit, she barely chose Directing a hospital addiction recovery program and still telling herself she wasn't like the patients in it Reading This Naked Mind cover to cover with wine in hand, crying at the parts that felt like her own story Stopping drinking while caregiving for her mother with dementia, and finding she could finally be present in those visits Staying alcohol-free while her husband continued to drink, kept trying to pull her back, and what the honest reckoning that followed looked like Talking herself…

People in this episode

Host: Annie Grace

Guest: Deb

Topics covered

• alcohol-free living
• personal transformation
• caregiving
• addiction recovery
• self-discovery
• age and change

Keywords

• alcohol
• recovery
• self-improvement
• caregiving
• This Naked Mind
• personal growth
• addiction
• transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: This Naked Mind, hospital addiction recovery program

Places: 60s

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