How Alcohol-Free Living Improves Anxiety | Brooke's Naked Life | EP 898

How Alcohol-Free Living Improves Anxiety | Brooke's Naked Life | EP 898

From This Naked Mind Podcast by Annie Grace

April 18, 2026 · 41 min · Episode 898

About this episode

Brooke shares her journey of overcoming alcohol use and how it positively impacted her anxiety and self-awareness.

What does it take to finally walk away from drinking when you love the party, love your people, and have never once thought of yourself as someone with a problem? Brooke was a high-functioning extrovert running a business and raising a family when a quiet voice in her head kept telling her something was off. Once she found The Path and started doing the real work, she discovered how alcohol-free living improved her anxiety in ways she never anticipated, and two and a half years later she has not looked back once. Brooke discusses: The brain scan that first linked her alcohol use to her health and sparked a decade-long journey toward change Taking 10 months alcohol-free, returning to drinking after a family trip, and why she never judged herself for it How COVID neighborhood happy hours quietly accelerated her relationship with alcohol Joining The Path in August 2023 and the hungover weekend trip that became her last Discovering she was an extrovert living with social anxiety and how that reframed everything she thought she knew about her drinking How alcohol-free living improved her anxiety by removing the daily double whammy of hangxiety and giving her space to actually feel and…

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