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It often begins quietly, the tired heart, the heavy body, the loneliness that no one sees. The pressure, the unspoken trauma, the responsibility that never seems to end. And for so many women, the nightly glass of wine becomes the fastest way to silence what hurts… not because they want to escape life, but because they’ve been surviving it alone.
In this episode of The Dimple Bindra Show, we explore a truth many women are living in silence: Drinking to Numb Your Pain Here’s the Self-Love Talk No One Gave You.
Today’s conversation is raw, spiritual, and deeply honest.
My guest, Gina Kunadian, is a wife, mother, massage therapist, TEDx speaker, host of the Shine Within Podcast, and a woman who has been sober for over seven years. But her story began in the darkest corners of trauma, addiction, relapse, and a hospital visit that became her divine turning point.
Together, we talk about:
- Why women drink to numb emotional pain
- How childhood trauma, especially sexual trauma, wires the brain toward coping through substances
- The moment alcohol transforms from “casual” to “dependency”
- Relapse cycles, functional alcoholism, and why willpower alone doesn’t work
- The truth about “entities,” blackout behavior, and spiritual vulnerability during addiction
- What surrender actually looks like — emotionally, physically, and spiritually
- How Gina rebuilt her life, her identity, her femininity, and her faith after hitting rock bottom
- The steps women can take if they suspect alcohol is becoming their coping strategy
This episode is not just about addiction.
It’s about self-abandonment, self-soothing, spiritual awakening, and the moment a woman finally decides: I’m done breaking myself to survive my life.
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