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EP 11: Naked Life Story: Michelle

This Naked Mind Podcast

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Alcohol and Sex

I was very great about eating well exercising I'm great at parenting I enjoy my job but I kept being very sexually active with people when I would go on date to them and that was always because I was drinking. After two years of calling my counselor and saying look I think I'm addicted to sex which really wasn't the case it was that I started drinking so much. Every time I went out with someone that was my go to I would drink and have sex and then feel guilty, he says. It's incredibly isolating and it's so funny with the knowledge that you know we kind of have now to like oh well of course it was progressive because you were building a tolerance right?

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