Savage Self-Awareness: Numbing With Alcohol
Alcohol. For many, it’s marketed as celebration in a glass—clinking champagne on New Year’s Eve, beers at the game, cocktails to “take the edge off.” But what happens when that edge never really goes away? What happens when alcohol becomes less about fun and more about escape?
In this bold and unfiltered episode of the Let’s Get Naked Podcast, Anne launches the Savage Self-Awareness mini-series with a raw conversation about alcohol—the so-called “liquid escape hatch” so many of us use to mute emotions. This isn’t about judgment. It’s about honesty. It’s about getting curious with ourselves and asking: What am I really trying not to feel when I drink?
The Myth of Glamour vs. The Reality of Escape
Society loves to dress alcohol up in sparkles—commercials of laughter, freedom, and sophistication. But as Anne points out, the reality is often messier. For countless people, alcohol doesn’t create connection—it disconnects us:
From our feelings
From our relationships
From our goals
Instead of releasing stress, alcohol numbs it. Instead of building connection, it builds walls. And rather than bringing joy, it often brings hangovers, regret, and missed opportunities.
A Personal Journey to Sobriety
Anne doesn’t just talk about alcohol—she gets real about her own sobriety journey. With raw reflections, she shares how drinking became a coping mechanism, a way to push down emotions she didn’t want to face. Like so many, she reached for the glass not out of celebration, but out of avoidance.
Her story is not one of shame—it’s one of awakening. By choosing sobriety, Anne reclaimed the clarity, connection, and freedom that alcohol had slowly eroded. And she challenges listeners to take their own honest look at what role alcohol plays in their lives.
The True Cost of Numbing
Beyond the emotional toll, alcohol carries hidden costs—financial, relational, and spiritual. Drinks add up in dollars, yes, but also in energy drained, opportunities missed, and intimacy avoided.
The episode makes a critical point: buried feelings don’t disappear—they leak. Whether through irritability, disconnection, or cycles of regret, what we refuse to feel always finds its way out.
The invitation is to stop patching over emotions with alcohol and start building the resilience to face them head-on.
Curiosity Over Defensiveness
What makes this conversation especially powerful is the reminder that the goal is not condemnation—it’s curiosity. Instead of defensively insisting, “I don’t have a problem,” Anne challenges us to ask:
What am I reaching for when I pour a drink?
What emotions am I avoiding?
What would it look like to sit with those feelings instead of numbing them?
This simple shift—from defensiveness to curiosity—creates the space for honest reflection and lasting change.
Savage Self-Awareness: A Call to Inventory
This episode is the first in a series that cuts through the noise and gets straight to the truth. Savage self-awareness means being brave enough to take inventory: not just of how much we drink, but why.
It’s a call to stop outsourcing comfort to alcohol, to face our emotions directly, and to embrace the growth that comes with sobriety—or even just with more mindful choices around drinking.
