You made This Naked Mind what it is today

Reddit has been the most powerful force in helping people find This Naked Mind over the past decade. Not ads. Not influencers. You—leaving honest comments in threads at 2am when someone asks "how do I stop drinking?" or "what helped you?"

I work with TNM (full transparency), and I see it constantly: someone fills out our story submission form and writes "I found this because of a Reddit thread three years ago." Or "Someone mentioned it in r/stopdrinking and I bought it that night."

Your recommendations have changed THOUSANDS OF LIVES.

People trust real-life experiences more than anything else. It's why we ask neighbors who their mechanic or handyman is. And why we ask reddit for help on how to stop drinking.

Then something magical happens. We use what we learned—whether from a book, the Alcohol Experiment, or through those lessons life gives us—to help other people navigate their drinking. We become the Reddit commenters who helped us in the first place.

We feature Naked Life stories every week on the blog and podcast. Real people, real struggles, no guru BS. The goal is to take the shame out of choosing to live alcohol-free by showing how many different paths there are.

If Reddit and This Naked Mind played a role in your journey, we'd love to feature your story—so the next person searching at 2am sees themselves in it.

To everyone who's ever left a thoughtful comment recommending something that helped you: thank you. You're not a ripple - you're the tsunami!