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Live Naked AF: A Joyful Approach to Living Alcohol Free
The author of This Naked Mind provides a guide to navigating what’s next after you find freedom from alcohol
Annie Grace started her journey to sobriety by asking herself a simple Why was she drinking so much despite wanting to stop? Ultimately, her science-based approach revealed that she had powerful, subconscious ideas around alcohol, which were shaped by her own experiences as well as cultural messaging. Once she was able to unpack this programming and see how it was keeping her stuck, she was able to effortlessly change her relationship with alcohol. In This Naked Mind and The Alcohol Experiment, Annie shared her insights and ignited a movement, transforming the lives of hundreds or thousands of readers.
As Annie has experienced firsthand, life starts on the other side of the bottle. It becomes a joyful discovery of who you really are and what you really want. Live Naked AF helps readers understand their own unique programming and introduces a powerful framework for habit and behavior change called Affective Liminal Psychology.™ Annie’s approach is based on the idea that our habits are wired into our subconscious mind and tied to our emotions, and so how we feel about an unhealthy behavior is a major driver of our success in removing it from our life. Live Naked AF proposes the radical idea that we have the power to reprogram our subconscious – and go from loving alcohol to leaving it behind. You will
How to be Social AF, including how to handle conversations about your sobriety, maintain a fulfilling social life, and turn down a drink.Why your drinking, no matter how bad it was, does not mean you were broken.How the term ‘alcoholic’ may be causing more harm than good in our society’s battle against addiction.Practical exercises for processing emotions and developing emotional resilience without numbing or escapingHow to truly, scientifically, find joy beyond the bottle.
This inspiring book is an essential guide to creating lasting change and will prove that being AF can create a life of deep happiness, complete freedom, and joy.
Annie Grace started her journey to sobriety by asking herself a simple Why was she drinking so much despite wanting to stop? Ultimately, her science-based approach revealed that she had powerful, subconscious ideas around alcohol, which were shaped by her own experiences as well as cultural messaging. Once she was able to unpack this programming and see how it was keeping her stuck, she was able to effortlessly change her relationship with alcohol. In This Naked Mind and The Alcohol Experiment, Annie shared her insights and ignited a movement, transforming the lives of hundreds or thousands of readers.
As Annie has experienced firsthand, life starts on the other side of the bottle. It becomes a joyful discovery of who you really are and what you really want. Live Naked AF helps readers understand their own unique programming and introduces a powerful framework for habit and behavior change called Affective Liminal Psychology.™ Annie’s approach is based on the idea that our habits are wired into our subconscious mind and tied to our emotions, and so how we feel about an unhealthy behavior is a major driver of our success in removing it from our life. Live Naked AF proposes the radical idea that we have the power to reprogram our subconscious – and go from loving alcohol to leaving it behind. You will
How to be Social AF, including how to handle conversations about your sobriety, maintain a fulfilling social life, and turn down a drink.Why your drinking, no matter how bad it was, does not mean you were broken.How the term ‘alcoholic’ may be causing more harm than good in our society’s battle against addiction.Practical exercises for processing emotions and developing emotional resilience without numbing or escapingHow to truly, scientifically, find joy beyond the bottle.
This inspiring book is an essential guide to creating lasting change and will prove that being AF can create a life of deep happiness, complete freedom, and joy.
336 pages, Paperback
Published December 30, 2025
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January 9, 2026
2.5 stars (rounded up for GR) - This book has some genuinely helpful ideas around examining our relationship with alcohol, and I can see why it resonates with people who are sober-curious. Unfortunately, a lot of that gets lost for me in the Mel Robbins vibes..... motivational, repetitive, and heavily branded.
What stayed with me most was the tone. Even when there were valuable nuggets, it often felt like the message was, “just do this, it’s easy.” And maybe some of these tools are more accessible for people casually cutting back, but that wasn’t my experience of getting sober. For me, this work was anything but easy, and at times the tone felt a little minimizing of how hard recovery can be.
She uses the science of ALP (affective liminal psychology) and repeatedly reminds readers that ACT (awareness, clarity & transformation) can be used for any habit which is where I think some of the disconnect comes in. Treating alcohol like just another habit to optimize misses the complexity of addiction for many people.
I also struggled with the chapters “Relapse,” and “Switches.” Framing drinking again as “curiosity” and suggesting you can simply pull back if it goes too far didn’t sit right with me. For someone who has struggled with alcohol, pulling back isn’t always an option once that switch is flipped.
There are some useful ideas here, but I’d approach this one with a bit of caution, especially if you’re early in sobriety or your path has been hard-won.
What stayed with me most was the tone. Even when there were valuable nuggets, it often felt like the message was, “just do this, it’s easy.” And maybe some of these tools are more accessible for people casually cutting back, but that wasn’t my experience of getting sober. For me, this work was anything but easy, and at times the tone felt a little minimizing of how hard recovery can be.
She uses the science of ALP (affective liminal psychology) and repeatedly reminds readers that ACT (awareness, clarity & transformation) can be used for any habit which is where I think some of the disconnect comes in. Treating alcohol like just another habit to optimize misses the complexity of addiction for many people.
I also struggled with the chapters “Relapse,” and “Switches.” Framing drinking again as “curiosity” and suggesting you can simply pull back if it goes too far didn’t sit right with me. For someone who has struggled with alcohol, pulling back isn’t always an option once that switch is flipped.
There are some useful ideas here, but I’d approach this one with a bit of caution, especially if you’re early in sobriety or your path has been hard-won.
January 8, 2026
QuitLit is great reminder of the harms of alcohol and to discern why I was leaning on alcohol. The beginning chapters is information found in other Annie Grace books. Starting at Chapter 16 is the content that I was most interested in-Building a Joyful Life-switches and then seeds. Lots of resources for substitutes for alcohol and ways to calm your brain without numbing it with a substance. Annie is so positive and able to flip the script that I was surprised to see in Chapter 21 a new order of operations that she falls into that same old trap that many women do: "I am hopeless when it comes to high school math." I hate that message that mothers send out to their children. You are smart, you could relearn it, as your father said, you can do anything!
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