Told story about drinking whiskey to relax

'relax' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'told story about drinking whiskey' is the wordplay.
'told story' becomes 'lied' (I've seen this before).
'about' becomes 'on' (as in a book 'on' a certain topic).
'drinking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'whiskey' becomes 'W' (alpha bravo charlie delta ...).
'on' going around 'w' is 'own'.
'lied'+'own'='LIE-DOWN'

'to' is the link.