Hello! I‘m Allison Barber. I grew up in St. Louis, MO, along with my 4 sisters. While they swam competitively, I loved gymnastics, competing successfully at the collegiate level. Grounded by my parents’ hard work ethic, there was pressure to succeed on and off the floor mat. This intensity was offset by occasionally drinking with friends and teammates.
During high school, I found my Christian faith. This newfound faith provided additional perspective regarding how I valued myself and the purpose of my life.
By the age of 30, I married my high school sweetheart. We had three girls who are now young adults.
Along with the stress and joys of parenting, I also worked for my mother, who founded B & B Aquatics. The increased pressure juggling married life, parenting, and working for a family business ramped up my wine consumption. This quickly became the punctuation mark for each day.
I became internally conflicted by my frequency and quantity of my wine consumption. I couldn’t figure out how to successfully moderate & there were always seemingly good justifiable reasons to drink.
By January 2020, I had ruptured a cervical disc, subsequently having surgery on March 4th, right before the pandemic hit. I was incredibly depressed at where my life was with a difficult turned destructive marriage. Coupled with the inability to exercise to decrease my stress, something had to change.
But how? All the rules I created & broke, the white knuckling to control my drinking, I eventually found a breakthrough in Annie Grace and This Naked Mind book. This new learning and growth around the fundamental truths about alcohol and my relationship with it gave me hope and opened up a new path forward.
With her Path program, I challenged long-held thoughts and beliefs. From a nightly heavy drinker to a non-drinker by June 21, 2020, I can confidently say this methodology works! I went from being chained to the intense urge to drink to FREEDOM from it. You can too!
As a certified This Naked Mind Institute coach, I’d be honored to come alongside you to find the same lasting freedom from alcohol.
It all happens from The Inside Out!