Is your life mostly intact — job fine, marriage okay, responsibilities covered — and yet you're drinking every single night and can't quite picture stopping? That's exactly where Tim Knapp was for years, and he was also, at the same time, one of the people other people called in a crisis. He spent over a decade working inside addiction recovery programs, walking men out of homelessness and incarceration, understanding the neuroscience of dependency from the inside out. High-functioning doesn't mean fine, and Tim's story is one of the most honest, clear-eyed accounts of what it actually looks like when the two things are true at once.
Tim and Coach Cole discuss:
Growing up in small-town Oklahoma and discovering the buzz at age 12 — including a homemade raisin wine operation that launched a decade-long love affair with the altered state
Why Tim loved the buzz itself more than the taste, and how that distinction became the key to his freedom
Working at the Bowery Mission in New York City while his own drinking quietly escalated in the background
The painful intersection of conscious and subconscious mind: knowing something is hurting you and still wanting it anyway
How reading This Naked Mind led to an afternoon of rereading, a conversation at the kitchen bar, and the first honest talk he'd ever had with his wife about his drinking
Why you don't have to lose everything before you're allowed to ask for help — and why high-functioning drinkers are often the least likely to reach out
The photo of his childhood self on the fridge, and what it means to welcome that person back
Tim's coaching style: asking questions that get to the why, not just the what, and his conviction that you already have everything you need to change
Episode links:
https://thisnakedmind.com/bookhttps://www.timknappcoaching.com/
Related Episodes:
Healing Through Self-Love: Cole's Naked Life | EP 737 — https://thisnakedmind.com/healing-through-self-love-coles-naked-life-e737/
Find the Courage to Choose Yourself: Patrick's Naked Life | EP 735 — https://thisnakedmind.com/find-the-courage-to-choose-yourself-patricks-naked-life-e735/
EP 20: Reader Question – What do You do about Missing the “High” from Drinking? - https://thisnakedmind.com/ep-20-reader-question-what-do-you-do-about-missing-the-high-from-drinking/
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