One for the Road: The Quit Drinking Podcast
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Five Years Sober. Then One Drink. Abby Burrows's Story
10 januari 2025 · 1 uur 6 min
Abigail Burrows had her first sip of champagne at nine years old, at a concert at the Dorchester. She topped up her own glass when the teacher's back was turned. She has never, in her own words, been a healthy drinker. Lees meer
By 19 she was drinking herself into psychosis at the Royal College of Music and dropped out. By her mid-twenties she'd hit a rock bottom serious enough to make her stop. She didn't drink for five and a half years. Then one glass of champagne to celebrate the milestone unleashed a decade of drinking that nearly cost her everything: her marriage, her career, her dad to alcoholism, and a job she'd dreamed of since childhood.
Abby is now over a year sober, back in the West End pit at Les Mis, and credits her recovery to the charity Music Support.
You'll hear about: the first drink at nine that lit her up; why moderation after years sober is a fantasy; what really happens when one glass of champagne breaks a five-year run; how the music industry hides addiction in plain sight; why getting back into Les Mis is the most beautiful chapter of her sober life.
If you've ever told yourself "I can have just one," this one's for you.
https://www.instagram.com/abbieflutes
www.abigailburrows.com
Music Support is a registered charity that helps anyone who works in the UK music industry experiencing substance use, addiction and/or mental health challenges. Find out more about their work at www.musicsupport.org. The charity is hosting “Understanding Addiction and Embracing Recovery: The Classical Edition,” a webinar in partnership with the Royal Society of Musicians on Blue Monday, 20th January, from 6pm – 730pm. It will feature Abbie and Music Support Trustee and cellist, Rachael Lander (a previous guest on my podcast). This special session that will also include a workshop on the neuroscience of addiction and pathways to recovery is suitable for anyone who works in the UK music industry (and their family and friends). Find out more and register to join at http…
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Donna Francis: Quitting Drinking, Mum Wine Culture + Throwing Up at Claridge's
3 januari 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
Beauty editor Donna Francis spent 30 years drinking white wine through her career, motherhood and perimenopause before quitting drinking last July. In this episode of One for the Road, she tells Sober Dave the story most mum-wine-culture women never say out loud. Lees meer
Donna grew up in an Islington family where pub culture was love, where pouring someone a drink was how you showed up. She married young, built an award-winning beauty editor career, raised her son, moved to Florida, and slowly noticed the white wine was no longer optional. There was the night she threw a tuna steak at her husband. The 40th birthday she ended throwing up in the lobby of Claridge's. The pool lilo she fell asleep on at a family pub party at 47.
Donna talks perimenopause and alcohol, gray area drinking, hidden family trauma, and what quitting drinking actually feels like when wine has been your love language.
Sober journey, beauty industry, mum wine culture, perimenopause sobriety.
https://www.instagram.com/thebeautyed/?hl=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@thebeautyed?lang=en
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/smiling-gives-you-wrinkles/id1725957283
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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How to Stay Sober at Christmas: William Porter's Survival Guide
20 december 2024 · 35 min
Christmas mornings used to start with a Bucks Fizz at 10am and a turkey carved with a few fingers missing from the bird. Not anymore. In this bonus Christmas special, Sober Dave is joined by William Porter, author of Alcohol Explained, for a proper survival guide to the festive season without booze. Lees meer
They cover how to handle Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, how to say no to a drink without over-explaining yourself, why family arguments go better when you're the sober one in the room, what to do if you're spending Christmas Day alone, how to fill the dead zone between Boxing Day and New Year, and how to actually make Dry January stick instead of imploding on February 1st. If you're sober curious, on day one, or just nervous about the holidays, this is the episode to keep on your phone.
You can also look at Williams website here https://alcoholexplained.com/
Thanks for all your support throughout the year, and I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Dave
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Will Gordon Drank a Litre of Vodka a Day. Then He Got a Liver Transplant.
22 november 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
Will Gordon was a teacher. He had a wife, a family that loved him, a job he was good at when he showed up. He also drank a 750ml bottle of vodka most days, hid it from his wife in water bottles around the apartment, and parked on a side street in the mornings pretending to drive Uber so he could drink alone in his car. Lees meer
By 36 his skin was yellow, his stomach was full of seven litres of fluid, and a doctor sat his parents down and told them he had two weeks left. He needed an emergency liver transplant. The rule said he had to be six months sober. He wasn't even close.
What followed was an 18-hour surgery, a colon that ruptured days later, half a year on a stoma bag, dialysis, and finally a kidney transplant too. Will is now sober, back in the classroom, and using whatever time he's been given to talk openly about how it happened.
You'll hear about: drinking through a 125-day relapse window; what alcohol withdrawal in the morning really looks like; why willpower alone isn't enough; what life is like after a transplant; why a clear head matters more than a "fixed" body.
If you're questioning your drinking, this one's for you.
If you feel so inclined, please subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration, insights, and a reminder that you're never alone in this fight.
- YouTube: [The Willpower Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@TheWillpowerPodcast)
- Instagram: [@thewillpowerpodcast](https://www.instagram.com/thewillpowerpodcast/)
Thank you @sobedave for letting me share my story. I am forever grateful.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagr…
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Daughter of an Alcoholic, Paralytic Every Weekend: Jo Preston Hart's Story
15 november 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
Jo Preston Hart's dad was an alcoholic who died falling down the stairs drunk when she was 18. For years she told herself she was nothing like him. He drank every day, she thought. She only drank at weekends. Three months into sobriety, her mum sat her down and told her the truth: he didn't drink every day either. He was the life and soul of the party, just like her. He got violent, just like she sometimes did. That conversation broke something loose. Lees meer
Jo's drinking had started at 15 in a backstreet South East London pub, waking up in a police cell three weeks before her 16th birthday. Then raves, pills, cocaine to stay awake so she could drink longer, blackouts every weekend, bottles hidden in the boot of the car clanking for weeks, and a broken arm from a night she still can't fully remember.
In this conversation, Jo opens up about growing up with a violent alcoholic father, her first sober Florence and the Machine concert, the Christmas she woke up with an egg on her head after head-butting a wall, hitting the f-it button a week before her one year sober anniversary, and the voice that told her don't tell the sober group — you want to drink.
Nearly two years alcohol free and stronger for the relapse, not weaker. Jo's story is for anyone who has ever wondered whether one slip means it's all over.
https://www.instagram.com/jo.prestonhart/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberd…
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Mommy Wine Culture to Sober New Yorker: Melissa McGovern's Story
8 november 2024 · 58 min
She started drinking at 14 with peach schnapps and orange juice. At 51, her liver enzymes were 322. In between, Melissa McGovern was a Wisconsin theater kid turned New York actress turned mom of two, deep in mommy wine culture, grey area drinking her way through a pandemic and the death of her best friend T. Scott from alcohol-related liver failure. Lees meer
In this episode, Melissa tells Sober Dave the full story. The first drink. The "no off switch" she felt from day one. The four months sober she gave up the day COVID hit New York. The "just order a pizza button" she pressed for 15 months after losing her best friend. And the bloodwork that finally stopped her cold.
What followed was an epic comeback. Now sober, 30 pounds down, and host of The Sober New Yorker podcast, Melissa shares what it took to actually break up with alcohol for good.
https://www.instagram.com/thesobernewyorker/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sober-new-yorker/id1751183180
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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From 90-Day Breaks to 5 Years Sober: Todd Kinney's Story
1 november 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
Todd Kinney is an attorney in Omaha, a husband, a dad of four. From the outside, his drinking was completely normal. The right job. The right house. Weekend drinking only. No mornings, no shakes, no real consequences anyone could point at. Lees meer
Inside it was a different story. He drank faster than everyone else. He had no off switch. He was hiding empty beer cans in different trash cans so his wife wouldn't see how many he'd had. He cycled through the same shame loop every Saturday morning, and he genuinely thought he was the only person on Earth feeling it.
Then his 14-year-old son asked him a question at a baseball game that he couldn't shake for weeks. A few months later, his wife whispered something at a dinner table in Arizona that changed everything. Todd is now nearly five years sober.
You'll hear about: why high-functioning drinking is its own kind of trap; the 450 attempts at moderation that never stuck; the question his son asked that wrecked him; what really sat underneath the shame; why none of the bad things he feared about sobriety actually happened.
If you're a parent quietly questioning your drinking, this one's for you.
My website:
https://www.toddkinney.com/
The Book:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=i+didn%27t+believe+it+either+book&crid=2299C4Q69JNMC&sprefix=i+didn%27t+believe+%2Caps%2C156&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_17
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/tkinney111/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sobe…
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From Three Bottles a Night to 6 Months Sober at 54: Phil Briggs Story
25 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
Phil Briggs was 54 years old, drinking three bottles of wine and two double gins a night, mostly alone, mostly in front of the television. He called it the party for one. His friends never saw the worst of it because by the time he got home from the pub he'd already mastered the art of looking normal in public. Then he'd open the second bottle. And the third. Lees meer
In the last week before he quit, he drank 200 units. On his last night he drank 51. By then his mum had died on a hospital bed in front of him, his marriage had ended, his work had dried up in the pandemic, and he could have wine delivered to his door in eight minutes.
Phil is now six months sober. He talks to Dave with brutal honesty about how hard the first few months really were, the nights he sat on the sofa cuddling his dog and sobbing, and what finally turned it around.
You'll hear about: how grief and lockdown collided into the heaviest drinking of his life; the moderation games that never worked; the wine delivery apps that finished him off; the sober community that pulled him through; what changes when you finally just stop.
If you're sitting on the fence, this one's for you.
Phil’s websites:
www.camouflageconsultations.com
www.philbriggsmakeup.com
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Growing Up With An Alcoholic Mother: Carrie Anne Stephens' Story
18 oktober 2024 · 54 min
Carrie Anne Stephens was 19 when her mum died of alcohol addiction. Her mum was just 47. The earliest memory Carrie Anne can recall from childhood is hiding under a coat, aged four, while chaos played out at home. Outwardly, the family was well-kept. The house was perfect. The kids were always turned out properly. Inside, it was something else. Lees meer
In this episode, Carrie Anne tells Sober Dave the full story. The forced loss her mum suffered at 19 that she never recovered from. The hypervigilance that became second nature. The bolshie teenager who moved in with friends to do her GCSEs. The hospital room where she had to sign a do-not-resuscitate at 19. The 28 years of caring for her dad. And the moment after he died when she finally asked, what about me?
Now a NACOA volunteer, fitness coach, and mental health worker, Carrie Anne is opening a recovery hub and starting to live as herself for the first time.
https://www.instagram.com/carrie_annstevens/
https://www.instagram.com/mindbodybalanceacademy/
https://mbbhub.co.uk
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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She Sold Alcohol For A Living. Then She Quit Drinking.
11 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
Anna Donahay spent 15 years in Soho ad agencies, falling in and out of bars from 6pm to 9pm every night, then stopping at Tesco's for a bottle of wine on the way home. She was the woman building campaigns that sold alcohol to women just like her. Lees meer
Then her youngest daughter looked across the kitchen during a family game and said, "Daddy, why is Mummy behaving so funny?"
Coming up to four years sober, Anna now hosts The Big Drink Rethink and uses her insider perspective to call out exactly how the drinks industry hooks young mothers, teenagers, and exhausted professionals. She quit without AA, without rehab, through a slow-burn approach of blips, restarts, and tiny commitments to herself.
You'll hear about: drinking on the manufacturing track at Rover in her early twenties; the maternity grief that pulled her back in; texting her husband to come home earlier so she could start the wine; and the philosophy that finally worked, making alcohol irrelevant.
If you've ever wondered how a "good drinker" finally stops, this one's for you.
You can listen to The Big Drink Rethink podcast on all podcast platforms – or through this link: The Big Drink Rethink
And you can connect with Anna via:
Website: thebeliefscoach.com
Instagram: instagram.com/bigdrinkrethink
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/annadonaghey
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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How Kate Bailey Quit Drinking Without AA
4 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Kate Bailey was sweating alcohol on a bus, too shaky to take the tube home. She'd just spent her sister-in-law's 40th dancing drunk in a garden until 3 a.m. By morning, she felt like a ghost. That was her last day one. Lees meer
Eight years later, Kate is one of the leading voices in British sobriety. Co-founder of Love Sober, podcaster, author, and coach for midlife women rebuilding their lives without alcohol. The road there ran through a childhood with an alcoholic father, a bleak attempt at AA at 28, a 13-month sober streak that ended with a bottle of fortified liqueur, and a promise she's kept ever since.
You'll hear about: hiding behind the "good girl" mask; what happens when motherhood collides with wine culture; perimenopause and relapse; the inner child work that finally cracked her open; and the moment she said "I will never leave myself again."
If you've ever wondered what eight years sober actually feels like, this one's for you.
https://www.instagram.com/mskatebaily/
Facbook: https://www.facebook.com/lovesober.cic
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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I was hiding my drinking from my family | This is how I quit - Simon Maguire
20 september 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
At 15 years old, Simon Maguire lost his mom and alcohol became how he coped. Lees meer
What started as relief slowly turned into years of drinking, weight gain, and hiding how bad things had become.
By 38, everything was catching up and something had to change.
Story-Based Episode Summary
Simon’s story begins with loss. After his mother passed away, alcohol quickly became more than something social. It became a way to numb emotions he did not know how to process.
Through his teens and into adulthood, drinking became a constant. On the outside, life looked normal, but behind the scenes it was escalating. Alcohol, food, and later painkillers all became ways to cope. By his late 30s, he was drinking heavily, taking codeine, hiding it from those around him, and feeling the impact on his family, especially his kids.
The turning point came from a moment he did not expect. A simple comment from someone at work forced him to face the truth. That led to a conversation with his wife that changed everything.
What followed was not instant, but it was real. Step by step, he began to quit drinking, rebuild his habits, and take control of his life. From early mornings in a boxing gym to completing an Ironman, his journey shows what is possible in sobriety.
This is a real story of alcohol addiction, recovery, and choosing to live alcohol free.
Key Topics Covered
Using alcohol to cope with grief and trauma
How alcohol addiction develops over time
The connection between drinking, food, and emotional coping
Hiding alcohol use and recognizing the signs
The moment that leads to quitting drinking
Early sobriety challenges and building new habits
Fitness and transformation in recovery
Life after alcohol and building an alcohol free identity
More information and connect with Simon:
www.simonmaguire.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/keynotemaguire/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or v…
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The Teenage Drinker Who Saved Her Own Life: Lauren White
10 juli 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Lauren White had her first drink at 11. By 18, she was modelling for Abercrombie at a size zero, drinking, using MDMA and cocaine, throwing up after every meal, and hiding all of it behind makeup, university, and a "perfect" Hertfordshire upbringing. Lees meer
She walked into Charter House rehab in a belly top, ego intact, certain she didn't really belong there.
Four months later, she walked out a different person. She's now 11 and a half years sober, an addictions counsellor, NLP practitioner, and transformation mentor based in Bali, where she runs workshops and one-to-ones for people doing the same hard work she did.
You'll hear about: growing up as the parent in her own family; the bulimia she hid for years because the shame felt worse than admitting to alcohol; the second rehab stay at 21 after work addiction nearly killed her; how AA, the 12 steps, and trauma work fit together for her; and why she now lives in flip-flops without a scrap of makeup.
If you've ever wondered whether anyone really gets sober that young and stays that way, this one's for you.
https://www.laurenwhitespeaker.com/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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What Alcohol Really Does To Your Body: Dr. Brooke Scheller
3 juli 2024 · 55 min
Dr. Brooke Scheller spent years collecting nutrition degrees, a bachelor's, a master's, and a doctorate, while privately drinking herself into anxiety, depression, and the kind of double life only a high-functioning health expert can pull off. The wellness conferences ended in bars. The shame ran underneath everything. Lees meer
Then in June 2021, she stopped. She's now coming up on 1,000 days sober.
Brooke is the author of How To Eat To Change How You Drink and the founder of Functional Sobriety, a nutrition and root-cause approach to supporting an alcohol-free life. She and Dave dig into the science most doctors never mention: how alcohol depletes B vitamins, magnesium, and zinc; why blood sugar crashes drive afternoon cravings; how alcohol wrecks the gut microbiome that produces your serotonin and dopamine; and why some drinkers literally can't moderate.
You'll hear about: the protein and snack strategy that kills the 5pm urge; the supplements that support early sobriety; why sleep regulates within weeks; and the genetics question every drinker asks.
If you want the science behind why your body feels the way it does, this one's for you.
For further insights and guidance on your journey to wellness, connect with Dr. Brooke Scheller on Instagram (@drbrookescheller) or visit her websites at brookescheller.com and functionalsobriety.com.
Website: www.functionalsobriety.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrookescheller/?hl=en
Book Website: www.functionalsobriety.com/book
Amazon: How to Eat to Change How You Drink – https://a.co/d/6hjCXTE
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.inst…
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The Wine Runs That Nobody Knew About: Barbara Williams Sobriety Story
26 juni 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Barbara had two to three bottles of wine most nights by the end. Not in pubs, not at parties — at home, on the sofa, and then on a dark walk around the corner to the shop in her coat and flip-flops to buy another bottle before it closed. She wouldn't remember doing it in the morning. Lees meer
She grew up in Cambridge in a Jamaican family of five sisters, had her daughter at 17, and barely drank through her 20s while raving instead. Alcohol came for her properly in her 30s — dinners, wine, the ladette era, Sex and the City parties every Wednesday night. Then lockdown arrived, and a weekend habit quietly became an every night one.
In this conversation, Barbara opens up about the 14 year old who drank paralytic and had to be picked up by her dad, waking up to find she'd driven home and didn't remember, the Sunday her husband started hiding bottles from her, and what it actually felt like to stand at the bar at four months alcohol free and have friends say, you're still exactly the same.
Three years sober, newly qualified as a sobriety coach, and about to launch a community for women of colour in recovery. Barbara is one of the warmest voices in the UK sober spac
IG @sober_in_colour
She is soon to be launching a Facebook group exclusive to women of colour www.facebook.com/groups/soberincolour
Viva Coaching with Barbara, where she is helping people who have already made the decision to quit alcohol or are thinking about it https://vivacoaching.co.uk/bookings/
https://www.instagram.com/sober_in_colour/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
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She Quit Drinking At 20. Now She's 22 Years Sober. | Jess Lopez
19 juni 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
Jess woke up shaking on a Saturday morning at 20 years old. One of the guys handed her a drink and told her it would make the shakes go away. It did. And in that moment, something clicked. This can't be good. Lees meer
She'd had her first vodka at 12. By 20, she could out-drink every guy in the room and still remember her own name. She was in an abusive relationship with her high school sweetheart, weaving her way out of one bad situation while alcohol pulled her into worse ones. Then she met the man who would become her husband, and he sat with her while she stopped.
That was 22 years ago.
You'll hear about: the two-glass-a-night dad who later died from cirrhosis; surviving sexual assault while drinking; the genetic load of three family members lost to alcohol; how she quit without rehab or AA; and why she's still a single drink away from losing it all.
If you've ever thought you were too young to have a drinking problem, this one's for you.
You can find Jess on IG: @mysobersunrise and at mysobersunrise.com
https://www.instagram.com/mysobersunrise?igsh=dTlzbGRwMnA2ZHp1
https://mysobersunrise.com/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
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The ADHD Drinker Who Swam The English Channel Sober: Andy Stone
12 juni 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Andy Stone was driving a 15-mile round trip every night. Headlights broken, full-beam or none at all, pissed and on his way to pick up cocaine, then back to a rented room with a four-pack and a bottle of wine. His dosage was 12 pints of Stella. His marriage was over. His suicidal thoughts were daily. Lees meer
Then his parents drove up the motorway and told him he was going to rehab.
Nine years sober as of yesterday. Andy is now a Guinness World Record holder for completing 70 half-iron triathlons in 75 days, training to swim the English Channel this September, and planning to be the first person to officially swim across the Atlantic.
You'll hear about: getting expelled from school with undiagnosed ADHD; how chef kitchens run on speed and brandy; the moment his stomach lining gave out; what actually happens inside a 12-step rehab; and how late-diagnosed ADHD and autism became the missing piece that made his sobriety stick.
If you've ever wondered why nothing worked until it did, this one's for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
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The Entrepreneur Who Quit Drinking With His Wife: Jason's Story
5 juni 2024 · 57 min
Jason was a 13-year-old kid on the Hatfield Mead estate in Morden when he washed his first car for £7 and used the money to buy another bucket and sponge. Within four weeks he had four mates washing cars while he made the sales. By forty-two he was an angel investor and twenty-six months sober, having quit drinking with his wife. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a self-made entrepreneur from a south London council estate who stopped drinking because he wanted his life back. Jason tells Sober Dave about being babysat by a Kray-era gangster, the depressive 3am thoughts that followed every drinking night, and the calculation that finally tipped the scales.
You'll hear about: how poverty mindset drives drinking; productivity and sobriety; the maths of seventy-five lost days; quitting drinking with your partner; and why escape is just a sign you have not built the life you actually want.
If you have ever wondered if drinking is holding your life back, this one's for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Allie Bailey on Quitting Drinking, Ultra Running + The Wall That Wasn't Real
29 mei 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Ultra runner Allie Bailey ran 100-mile races, crossed deserts in Namibia, ran across frozen lakes in Mongolia and presented the whole thing on social media. She was also drinking two bottles of wine the night before her first 100-miler and downing pints at mile 22 of marathons. She is the author of There Is No Wall and joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking after 24 years as a functional alcoholic. Lees meer
Allie's drinking started at 11 in the pubs of 80s Bournemouth, escalated through a Goldsmiths degree and a music industry career in Soho, and ran in parallel with her endurance career until it nearly killed her. In this episode she opens up about her dad leaving on her 16th birthday, two suicide attempts, the Soho cave she couldn't leave, and why running was therapeutic but never therapy.
Quitting drinking, ultra running, There Is No Wall, functional alcoholism, depression and alcohol, gray area drinking, sober journey.
Instagram: @ab_runs
Website: www.alliebailey.co.uk
Book links:
Publisher: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/there-is-no-wall-allie-
Tour: https://www.speakersfromtheedge.com/theatre-tours/2024/allie-bailey-rwsy
This weeks episode is sponsored by https://www.ethicalcontent.co.uk/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Matt Willis on Quitting Drinking, Busted Fame + The Day He Almost Lost It All
22 mei 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
Busted singer and bassist Matt Willis was famous at 16, in rehab at 21, and sober for eight years before one tray of champagne sent him back to six grams of cocaine a day. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking, the music industry that fed his addiction, and the morning his wife Emma told him "we're not doing this anymore." Lees meer
Matt grew up in a chaotic London household, started drinking at 11, and was at Sylvia Young Theatre School with Amy Winehouse before Busted exploded. By 18 he was drinking on photo shoots. By 21 he was having seizures if he didn't drink by 11am. This conversation goes everywhere most fame-and-addiction interviews don't.
In it: the Lucozade he bought instead of a pint, the daughter he almost let down, the eight-year relapse, and what real recovery looks like.
Quitting drinking, Busted, Matt Willis sober, music industry addiction, On The Mend.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0n5EkuynTmtA3ZckiZ5C7J?si=4f0XYCpMT9WT5sMqnJZOUQ
https://www.musicsupport.org/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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18 Years Sober: Lucy Bruce on Childhood Trauma and Healing
21 februari 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
Lucy Bruce was twenty-four when she sat across from an alcohol counsellor and stopped drinking. Eighteen years later, she has weathered childhood abuse, domestic violence, divorce, postnatal depression and intrusive thoughts that almost broke her. And she is still sober. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a woman who refused to pass her trauma on to her children. Lucy tells Sober Dave about growing up with an alcoholic father, watching her mother be beaten, the abuse she endured at the hands of her grandfather, and how she finally found the courage to stop at twenty-four.
You'll hear about: drinking to numb childhood trauma; getting sober alongside her ex-husband; the postnatal intrusive thoughts that nearly took her under; how MDMA assisted therapy helped her release decades of pain; learning to forgive; and being a sober mum to two daughters.
Trigger warning: this episode contains discussion of childhood abuse and suicidal thoughts.
www.lucybrucelifecoach.com
https://www.instagram.com/lucybrucelifecoach/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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The Gavin Sisters on Quitting Drinking, Autoimmune Disease + Plant-Based Healing
14 februari 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
The Gavin Sisters, Sharon and Loretta, are a comedy double act, plant-based wellness coaches and the founders of the Detox Barn. They join Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking together as two single mums after Sharon was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease that put her in a wheelchair at 30. Lees meer
Sharon was six weeks pregnant when she woke up with a chronic rash, then lost the ability to walk, dress herself, or get up off the sofa. Doctors put her on heavy immunosuppressant drugs and told her there was nothing else she could do. She and Loretta moved in together with their babies, gave up alcohol, went plant-based, and slowly rebuilt her health.
Sharon is now off all medication and running again. Inside: gray area drinking, why moderation fails, the toxic marriage that triggered it, and the Detox Barn retreats they run in Suffolk and Portugal.
Quitting drinking, autoimmune disease, plant-based healing, gray area drinking.
www.gavinsisters.co.uk
Insta: @gavinsistersuk
TIKTOK:@gavinsisters
Facebook: @TheDetoxBarn
You Tube: @gavingavin
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Matt Busbridge on Quitting Drinking, Cocaine + the Fashion Industry Spiral
7 februari 2024 · 56 min
Matt Busbridge has been a male model agent in London for 12 years. He spent most of those years quietly in the grip of alcohol and cocaine, drinking at lunchtime, racking up lines after work, and hiding it from everyone including his own parents. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking cold turkey on his 33rd birthday and what year one of sobriety in the fashion industry actually looks like. Lees meer
Matt grew up the chubby kid in Kent. Alcohol at 17 gave him confidence for the first time. Cocaine at 22 took him the rest of the way. By his 30s he was missing flights, hiding bags of gear, and labelling lunchtime pints as normal. After his fiancée wrote him a list of six occasions he'd messed up, he stopped completely.
Inside: low self-esteem, the cheat code that skipped his development, lockdown spiral, going sober without AA, and his new podcast High Sobriety.
Quitting drinking, fashion industry, gray area drinking, cocaine recovery, sober journey.
https://www.instagram.com/highsobrietypodcast_?igsh=bGs0NDUzbDc0c3Zr&utm_source=qr
https://anchor.fm/highsobrietypodcast
https://youtu.be/CfAyZfbdWBs?si=-3i2kcCamFK-2cSb
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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From Camden Carnage to Sober Mum: Emily Horwood on Quitting Drinking
31 januari 2024 · 1 uur
Emily Horwood grew up in the noughties carnage of Camden Town and the Primrose Hill set, where she says you were either selling drugs or taking them. Most of her old crowd are now either sober or no longer here. She joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking after 30 years, and the 15-month slip that taught her what real sobriety actually means. Lees meer
Emily's drinking moved from teenage bus-stop cider to a decade of what she calls the "gray-out years" — two and sometimes three bottles of wine a night, alone on the sofa, single-parenting two small children. She got sober at 42 in lockdown, slipped over a man at 15 months, and came back in December last year ready to do it properly.
Inside: the hole in the soul, emotional sobriety, AA plus online community, and why moderation never worked.
Quitting drinking, mum wine culture, gray area drinking, AA, sober journey.
http://www.emilyhorwood.com/
http://www.womensaid.org.uk/
http://www.thespeedomickfoundation.org/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Tonya Bardsley on Quitting Drinking, ADHD + the Cheshire Housewives Years
24 januari 2024 · 47 min
Tonya Bardsley starred in The Real Housewives of Cheshire for almost a decade. From the outside it looked like champagne, glamour and laughs. From the inside, she was self-medicating undiagnosed ADHD with alcohol, taking diazepam to sleep, on antidepressants she didn't need, and crying on her sofa on Christmas Day 2022 thinking her family would be better off without her. Lees meer
She joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking, four weeks of rehab in Thailand, and what life looks like one year on.
Tonya was painfully shy as a kid, bullied so badly at 13 she tried to take her own life, and used alcohol from her teens as a confidence drug. Add ADHD, perimenopause, and a TV career soaked in champagne, and the spiral was inevitable.
Inside: the breakdown, rehab, why she came off all the medications, and how her four kids are thriving.
Quitting drinking, ADHD, perimenopause, sober journey.
https://www.instagram.com/tanyabardsley7/
https://transformwithtanyabardsley.com
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Kim Ballas on Quitting Drinking, Her Son's Epilepsy + Sober Is The New Cool
17 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Kim Ballas, founder of Sober Is The New Cool, joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to celebrate 11 years alcohol-free and tell the story of the moment that changed everything. Lees meer
Kim grew up in Montreal with a Slovak father she adored and a culture of wine at lunch, wine at dinner, and brandy after. She drank her way through her teens, her twenties, a cancelled wedding, two miscarriages and a marriage. Then her 13-year-old son Matthew was diagnosed with epilepsy. The day she stood in her kitchen with a large glass of red wine in her hand, telling him nobody needs alcohol to have fun, she felt a lightning bolt hit her. She put it down for three months for him. She hasn't picked it up since.
Inside: the social anxiety that drove her drinking, the hypocrite moment, why she loved her son more than herself, and how a kitchen-table Facebook page became a global movement.
Quitting drinking, sobriety for your kids, 50s sober journey.
Only by giving can we receive more than we already have.
https://www.instagram.com/sober.is.the.new.cool/
https://www.facebook.com/soberisthenewcool.org/
https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FSoberitnc
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_tmHjBMjRmRj-HECQ3_Feg
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave
https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Love Island's Scott Thomas on Quitting Drinking After a Decade of Partying
10 januari 2024 · 1 uur
Scott Thomas, Love Island star, founder of one of the UK's most high-profile PR agencies and host of the Learning As I Go podcast, joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for an unusually honest conversation about quitting drinking, identity, and the cost of being the life of the party. Lees meer
Scott was the golden child academically, the smart one in a family where both his brothers became famous at 16. He drank quarter-litres of vodka and Fanta on the streets at 13. By his 20s he was throwing parties for a living, getting chucked out of his own nights, and earning the nickname Scotty Special. Then a Mayfair Hotel chairman's luncheon nearly cost him his biggest client and his business partner.
Inside: living up to a reputation, trying moderation and finding it empty, ADHD and fight or flight, and why he's still figuring out what sobriety means.
Quitting drinking, Love Island, sober journey, ambition, sober entrepreneur.
https://www.instagram.com/scott.thomas/?hl=en
https://www.f4t.com/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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From Tsunami Survivor to Two Years Sober: Susannah on Quitting Drinking
3 januari 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
Susannah, known to many in the sober community as Sue's Sober, joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for one of the most quietly powerful conversations on the show. Lees meer
Susannah lost her mum suddenly at 23. Three months later, on Boxing Day 2004, she was on Koh Phi Phi when the tsunami hit. She helped triage survivors, made impossible decisions, and came home to a London life of late nights, drink spiking, and assault on the tube — and a 20-year freeze response nobody named until she was diagnosed with complex PTSD in 2021.
Her drinking became a problem in her 30s after two traumatic births. Her GP didn't ask about it. Her therapist told her everyone has wine at night.
Inside: grief, freeze response, mum wine culture, the help she couldn't get, and how AA quietly saved her.
Quitting drinking, complex PTSD, grief, sober mum, sober journey.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Hiding A Drink Problem In Plain Sight: Harrison's Recovery Story
29 november 2023 · 1 uur
He was drinking 20 pints a day and brushing his teeth with alcohol when he picked up the payphone to say goodbye to his mum. Lees meer
From the outside, Harrison Ward had it sorted. Hotel manager. Relationship. The badge of honour for being the bloke who could put it all away. Behind the mask, he was self-medicating clinical depression he'd carried since he was 13, weighing over 22 stone, blacking out nightly, and quietly working out how to stop existing.
Then one morning, after losing the relationship that meant everything to him, four words came out at work: "I don't drink anymore, John."
This week on One for the Road, Harrison tells the full story. How he walked away from 12 years of drinking overnight, came clean to his family for the first time, lost 7 stone, ran his first marathon 11 months later, and built a whole new life as The Fell Foodie cooking restaurant-quality meals on a camp stove in the Lake District.
His debut cook book, ‘Cook Out’ has been published by Vertebrate Publishing in 2023.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fellfoodie/
Website – https://www.fellfoodie.co.uk
Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cook-Out-Foodies-gourmet-outdoors/dp/1839811986/ref=zg_bs_g_279450_sccl_19/261-0854685-2334816?psc=1
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Sophie B Hawkins *Bonus Episode*
25 november 2023 · 30 min
Welcome to my bonus episode Of One For The Road with Sophie B Hawkins. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated, RIAA Platinum-certified singer-songwriter has announced her first UK headline performance in almost two decades, set for Sunday, November 26 at London’s The Forge (3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town, NW1 7NL) For more than three decades, Sophie B. Hawkins has been a chart-topping, award-winning superstar. The New York-based artist dropped “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” upon an unsuspecting world in the summer of 1992, earning instant attention for its raw energy and unforgettable confession of lust and longing. The groundbreaking track struck a chord around the world, reaching the top 5 on Billboard’s “Hot 100,” the top 15 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart, and the top 10 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, New Zealand, and Norway. Indeed, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” remains a classic rock ballad more than 30 years after its initial release, featured on countless film and TV soundtracks as well as a multiformat radio staple around the globe. On todays bonus episode Sophie B Hawkins shares with us the journey through her childhood that made her decide at the age of 14 after reaching her rock bottom to choose a life of abstinence to both alcohol and drugs. Lees meer
Links to her show at the Forge Sunday 26th November
https://theforge.seetickets.com/event/sophie-b-hawkins/the-forge-camden/2805177
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information a…
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Why Women Drink To Cope With Narcissistic Abuse: Caroline Strawson
22 november 2023 · 57 min
She was the smiliest mum at the school gates, lovely four-bed detached house, two children, a husband who worked away. From the outside, she had it sorted. Behind closed doors she was sitting on the bathroom floor each morning trying not to have a panic attack, self-harming, and drinking a bottle of wine every night just to fall asleep. Lees meer
Caroline Strawson is an award-winning trauma therapist and narcissistic abuse survivor, and the link between the two is the conversation Sober Dave has been waiting to have.
This week Caroline shares the whole story. Marrying a covert narcissist in her late 20s. Finding out he was having an affair while she was six months pregnant. Four miscarriages. The house repossessed at 40. Wine o'clock with the school mum friendship group that turned into a bottle a night to numb the gaslighting, the financial abuse, the silent treatment. And then how she got out, broke the trauma bond, healed her nervous system, walked away from alcohol, and built the life and work she has now.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-narcissistic-abuse-trauma-recovery-podcast/id1527479270
https://www.facebook.com/carolinestrawson
https://instagram.com/carolinestrawson?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thetraumainformedcoachingcollective/?ref=share_group_link
https://instagram.com/carolinestrawson?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
https://schooloftraumainformedpositivepsychology.com/elevate-your-earning/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on…
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Laurie Haynes On Growing Up With Alcoholism, Trolling, And Therapy
15 november 2023 · 59 min
Laurie Haynes had three father figures before he was ten years old. He left school at 14 with no GCSEs after setting the art corridor on fire. He spent most of his twenties partying, working hard, ordering a rope off Amazon one night, and walking away from a relationship with his own mum. Lees meer
Laurie is a NACOA ambassador, entrepreneur, and mental health advocate building a wellbeing platform called Shara. He grew up a child of alcoholism in Portsmouth, name-changed more than once, watching his mum cycle through partners while social services circled the family.
This week on One for the Road, Laurie opens up about it all. The chaos at home. The teachers who quietly kept him in their offices because home was worse. The press story that broke him at his lowest. The therapy that rebuilt him. The decision to cut his parents out so he could break the cycle for his own kids.
A raw conversation about what childhood does to a man, and what it takes to refuse to pass it on.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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The Side Of Alcoholism Nobody Talks About: A Widows Story
8 november 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
We hear a lot about the people who quit drinking and rebuild their lives. We hear far less about the people they leave behind when they cant. Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Lucy Norfolk, who lost her husband Dan to alcohol last year. This is one of the hardest conversations on the podcast and Lucy is sharing it for one reason. She wants other families going through the same thing to know they are not alone, and she wants the system to wake up.
Please note this episode contains content some listeners will find extremely difficult, including alcohol-related illness, seizures, and end of life. Take care of yourself when you listen.
Lucy shares the full story. Meeting Dan in a London theatre and falling for the funny one everybody loved. The first signs that something was wrong. The progression from wine and beer to vodka. The first time he was told by a doctor he wasn't bad enough to be helped. The seizures. The broken hip. The osteoporosis. The rehab and the relapses. The kidney failure. The yellow skin. The Tuesday morning the life support was switched off. And the saving grace that Dan's organs went on to save three other people.
Lucy also shares what she wishes she had known sooner, the charities that helped her family (NACOA, Wives of Alcoholics, With You), and what every partner of someone struggling with alcohol needs to hear.
If you love someone who cant stop drinking, or you have lost someone to alcohol, this conversation is for you.
If you have been affected by this podcast here are some links to support you.
https://www.cruse.org.uk/?s=alcohol
https://al-anonuk.org.uk/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norf…
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How To Quit Drinking When Alcohol Is Your Medicine: Rachel Landers Sober Story
1 november 2023 · 58 min
How do you quit drinking when alcohol is the only thing that stops your panic attacks? When you have been drinking vodka out of a water bottle since music college just to get on a tube, attend a lecture, or walk onto a stage? Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Rachel Lander, a session cellist who has performed with London Grammar, George Michael, Elton John, and Roger Waters. She is also 16 years sober and a trustee of Music Support UK.
Rachel shares the full alcohol story. The first panic attack at seven. The cello as her first addiction. The Royal Academy of Music scholarship at 18. The discovery that vodka could silence the anxiety roaring up her throat. The bottle in the bag at the Bridgewater Hall. The DTs by 23. The day a therapist finally named it. The seven months of negotiating in meetings before the relapse that broke her denial. And the 16 years of sober life that followed: marriage, divorce, two children, a career back on stage, all without picking up a drink.
If you drink to manage anxiety, if alcohol feels like medicine, or if you are sober curious and trying to make sense of why you drink the way you do, this conversation will hit hard.
I’m proud to be releasing this episode during #AddictionAwarenessWeek2023 when Music Support, alongside other amazing organisations (including@actiononaddiction and my friends at @nacoauk) come together to call for addiction to be treated as a serious mental health condition and seek access to treatment, support and care so recovery can be possible for everyone.
You can find Rachael on her Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/rachaellander84/
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniel…
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The Producer Who Started Questioning Her Own Drinking: Danny Martinez
25 oktober 2023 · 53 min
100 episodes. Hundreds of stories. One conversation Dave has been wanting to have for a long time. Lees meer
For the 100th episode of One for the Road, Sober Dave sits down with the woman who has been there since episode one. Danny Martinez is the producer behind the show, and over the past two years, working on every single episode has quietly changed her own relationship with alcohol.
In this special episode, Danny opens up for the first time about her own drinking. The bottle of wine in the early 20s. The lockdown years when wine became a bottle plus several large whiskeys every night. The husband gently asking if she was drinking too much. The chronic illness that turned out to be stage four endometriosis, undiagnosed for decades. The pain she was numbing. And the slow, uncomfortable awakening that came from editing hundreds of hours of sober conversations.
Dave and Danny also share their favourite guests, the bloopers, why this show has no mid-roll ads, and what they hope the next 100 episodes will bring.
If you have ever drunk to cope, drunk through pain, or wondered if your wine habit is more than just a habit, this conversation will hit hard.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveone…
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The Science Of Why You Cant Stop Drinking: Professor David Nutt
18 oktober 2023 · 46 min
Why can some people stop after one drink while others can't stop drinking at all? Why do you wake up at 3am after a heavy night feeling like the world is ending? Is alcoholism genetic? And what is alcohol actually doing inside the brain? Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Professor David Nutt, one of the world's leading neuropsychopharmacologists and author of the books Drink and Psychedelics. Professor Nutt has spent decades researching how alcohol affects the brain, and he breaks the science down in a way anyone can understand.
In this conversation, Professor Nutt explains exactly what alcohol does to GABA, dopamine, endorphins and glutamate, why some people binge while others sip, why 15% of drinkers develop a problem and it has nothing to do with willpower, what really happened to Amy Winehouse, why losing tolerance makes relapse so dangerous, and why social anxiety is one of the biggest drivers of problem drinking.
He also talks about the future of treatment, including the role of psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD in helping people quit drinking for good, the history of Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous, and his alcohol alternative Sentia.
If you have ever wondered why your brain reacts to alcohol differently to other peoples, this is the episode for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.yellowkitebooks.co.uk/titles/david-nutt/drink/9781529398014/
https://www.yellowkitebooks.co.uk/titles/professor-david-nutt/psychedelics/9781529360530/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with …
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How To Quit Drinking After Years Of Hiding Vodka: Jim Weir Sober Story
11 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 12 min
How do you quit drinking when alcohol has been your best friend for 25 years? When you've been hiding vodka in the toilet cistern, drinking in your car before work, swigging mouthwash to cover the smell, and still nobody around you really knows how bad it has got? Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave sits down with Jim Weir. Born in Glasgow, now living on the Isle of Man, three years sober and rebuilding his life from the ground up.
Jim shares the full alcohol story. The first vodka and orange at 14. The diamond white and Smirnoff teenage years. Drama school in Aberdeen. Three bottles of wine a night in Cambridge that didn't touch the sides. The flat that became party central. The drink driving ban. The relationships built on co-dependent drinking. The pub landlord night that ended in police, smashed windows, and a sacking. The car drinking. The hidden bottles. The rehab. The relapse. And the moment in a field on the Isle of Man, screaming and crying alone, when he finally decided enough was enough.
If you're a secret drinker, a functioning alcoholic, or someone questioning your relationship with alcohol, this conversation will land hard.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sob…
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From Watching Alcoholism Kill My Best Friend To Sobriety: Heather's Story
4 oktober 2023 · 54 min
Content note: this conversation discusses bereavement and the loss of a best friend to alcoholism. Lees meer
Nicky was the fiery little redhead who lit up every room. Manager of half the shops in town. Mum of two. Knew everyone. The friend you couldn't miss when she walked in.
By her early 30s she couldn't walk. By her late 30s she was incontinent, losing her sight, in so much pain she couldn't be touched. She was ordering wine to her front door at 2am so her family wouldn't see. She died at 41, the weekend of her son's 18th birthday.
Heather sat with her as she took her last breath. Then she drank for six weeks to cope. Then she stopped. She's 451 days sober now and using her account to tell Nicky's story so other families recognise what's coming before it's too late.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice
https://www.instagram.com/dear_niknak/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Sober Curious After A Lifetime Of Caretaking: Jess Frost's Story
27 september 2023 · 48 min
Jess Frost grew up in a beautiful Leicestershire village, in a nice house, in a family everyone called the party couple. Behind the door it was different. Her dad cycled through psychosis, hospital admissions, a cult, then alcoholism. Her mum drank to cope. Jess and her sister tiptoed on eggshells. Lees meer
At 18, three of her four grandparents had died by suicide. Jess was the one telling her mum to leave her dad. She became his carer. She drank on her own, ran obsessively, smiled at work. In New York at 27, she broke down.
Six years on she's sober-curious, building toward dry-before-40, running her own coaching business for adult children of alcoholics, and one of the brightest voices in NACOA's community.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and links for Jess.
Follow me on Instagram here
Follow me on Facebook here
Follow me on Linkedin here
Visit the website herewww.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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19 Years Sober And The 4 Year Old Who Saved Him: Jim Sonefeld's Story
20 september 2023 · 58 min
Jim Sonefeld is the drummer for Hootie and the Blowfish. He wrote Hold My Hand. He has been sober for nearly 19 years. Lees meer
He takes Dave through it. The Chicago suburbs. Five kids in a religious household. The 14-year-old summer where he tried alcohol, threw up in the bushes, and scored it like a competitive sport. Six years to finish a four-year degree at South Carolina. The soccer dream dying. Meeting Mark, Darius and Dean. The Letterman appearance that sent Hold My Hand up the charts and changed everything. Number one albums. Then the slow turn. Cocaine to keep up with the drinking. An overheard intervention he hid from. Four years of lies and isolation in a backyard studio while his family slept inside.
Then a Sunday morning. His four-year-old daughter climbing onto his chest and asking why he wasn't in the house with them. He couldn't answer.
This conversation goes into all of it. The fame, the fall, the 12-step path, and the 19 years that followed.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swimming-Blowfish-Hootie-Healing-Hell/dp/1913172791?crid=20BG4XI8FBO28&keywords=swimming+with+the+blowfish&qid=1692291259&sprefix=swimming+with+the+blowfish,aps,83&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=imperfectlyna-21&linkId=336e763a7a78d32c7ad0042b0d9dae27&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://ww…
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Georgie From 3 Bottles a Night to 4 Years Sober: Georgie Humphrey's Story
13 september 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
She was getting ready for a champagne lunch when her hands started shaking so badly she couldn't put her mascara on. It was 10 in the morning. She poured a drink to steady herself. Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Dave sits down with Georgie Humphrey, the Liverpool-born mum behind Painting The Town Sober. Georgie shares the full arc, from rave culture at 14, to working as a "drinks specialist" for the biggest alcohol brands in London, to drinking three bottles of wine a night while raising three kids under four.
She talks about the three phases of her drinking (party, prescription, prison), the wine o'clock culture that almost kept her stuck, and the New Year's Eve she finally chose differently. Four years on, she's funny, honest, and free.
If you've ever wondered whether your drinking is a problem, this one's for you
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
@Painting_the_town_sober
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Quit Drinking After 25 Years: Trevor Toohig, Ex Bar Owner
6 september 2023 · 55 min
Trevor Toohig was the bar owner pulling his own pints. Ten a day. Sometimes more, with spirits on top. Lees meer
He started at 13. Diamond White and Thunderbirds in the park. Stella in his bedroom by 16. By his late twenties, nine pints in a Sutton pub ended with his bright green Nissan in the Carshalton Ponds and a drink driving charge that almost ended his teaching career.
Marriage. Divorce. A second chance. Then a bar in Folkestone where it all kicked off again. The turning point came at a Beyoncé concert, getting thrown out drunk in front of his wife.
Now in recovery, diagnosed with ADHD, and running Liquid Choices, a campaign pushing UK pubs to offer real alcohol-free options, Trevor talks to Dave about the long climb back, slip-ups included, and what 25 years of drinking actually costs.
www.liquidchoices.com or follow liquid_choice on Instagram
For Don't Look Back Hungover and other books:
www.trevortwohig.com
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Gray Area Drinking And Quitting Wine: Janey Lee Grace's Sober Story
30 augustus 2023 · 46 min
She was the queen of natural health. Coconut oil. Kale. Five books on clean living. And a bottle of wine most nights. Lees meer
Janey Lee Grace was a backing singer with Wham, co-hosted Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2 for 24 years, and looked, by every external measure, fine. But she was waking at 3am most days asking herself how she'd ended up there again. No rock bottom. No prison cells. Just years of stepping around the elephant in the room.
Her GP told her to have an alcohol-free day. A therapist told her to switch the wine to vodka because it's less fattening. None of it worked. What did was Claire Pooley's book, The Sober Diaries, handed to her over Christmas to prep for a radio interview.
2,000 days sober later, Janey runs The Sober Club and talks to Dave about gray area drinking, shame, and finding yourself again.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Sam Harrison on Quit Drinking, Rugby, and Getting His Life Back
23 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
He played 178 games at scrum half for Leicester Tigers. From the outside it looked like the dream. Inside, he was planning his week around how many beers he could get away with. Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Dave sits down with Sam Harrison, former Premiership rugby player turned carpenter, now sober on the Gold Coast. Sam shares the full arc, from making his mum's gin and tonics as a four-year-old, to the drinking culture that runs through rugby, to a night he doesn't fully remember and the wife who came home and refused to let him pretend it was a one-off.
He talks about the year off that didn't stick, the relapse that was worse than what came before, and the lightning-bolt moment he chose differently for good.
If you've ever tried to stop and gone back, this one's for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Sam.
https://www.instagram.com/everymansam/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Brad McLeod on Quit Drinking, Recovery, and Sober Motivation
16 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
He spent his days trying to find $15 in his pocket. That was enough for a case of beer, two packs of menthols, and another afternoon outside himself. He slept on his brother's floor. He'd already done time. He couldn't stop. Lees meer
This week on One for the Road, Dave sits down with his good friend Brad McLeod, host of the Sober Motivation podcast. Brad shares the full arc, from a kid moved across countries, to a teenager locked in a residential treatment unit, to a young man running through a beehive to escape rehab transport. He talks about heroin, jail, deportation, and the airport moment that finally cracked him open.
Today Brad's an addiction counsellor, a husband, a dad of three, and a voice thousands of people in recovery rely on.
If you've ever felt like you can't stop, this conversation is for you.
Check out SoberMotivation: www.sobermotivation.com
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Brad.
Sober Motivation Podcast https://link.chtbl.com/sobermotivation
Instagram.com/sobermotivation
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Alex Norwood-Hill: How A Rock In Ibiza Made Him Quit Drinking
9 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
He'd polished off a bottle of Calvados and woken up on the kitchen floor. Four in the morning, lights still on. His wife found him there. Lees meer
That wasn't the moment Alex Norwood-Hill quit drinking. The real turning point came months later on a stag do in Ibiza.
Alex spent three decades in hospitality. London. Miami. Restaurants for Michael Caine. Cocaine to mow the lawn. He made martinis for three James Bonds and built a glittering life that looked like everything from the outside and felt like nothing inside.
Then he touched a rock off the coast of Ibiza and heard a voice telling him to purify. Six years sober and counting.
Today Alex is the Sober Sommelier. Reiki master. Crystal healer. Maker of an alcohol-free drink called Cordus. This is the story of how he went from rock bottom to the rock that saved him.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Alex.
https://linktr.ee/alexnorwoodhill
www.sobersommelier.co.uk
www.instagram.com/sobersommelier/
www.facebook.com/thesobersommelier
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Sober After 15 Years of Wine O'Clock: Susan Christina
2 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
Susan Christina is Irish, lives in Madrid, and for fifteen years drank a bottle of wine a night while running a family, a career, and three boys. Nobody knew. She walked through the door, dropped her bag, opened the wine before her coat was off, and was three and a half glasses in by dinner. Lees meer
She had no big trauma. No rock bottom anyone could see. Just a slow, quiet erosion of the woman she used to be.
She got sober in October 2018. She now runs Hola Sober, an online magazine and community for women questioning their drinking. Recently she drove 4,000 miles across America with her best friend, because she could.
In this conversation Susan and Dave talk about wine o'clock as a lie women tell themselves, why doing it for the kids isn't enough, and what sobriety actually gives back.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Susan.
https://sassysobersisters.com/
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.
email: info@helenbennett.co
website: https://www.helenbennett.co/
TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram: @coachhelenbennett
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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From 10 Years of Failed Moderation to Sober: Louisa's Story
12 juli 2023 · 58 min
Louisa Evans drank a bottle of wine a night, alone, watching Coronation Street. She was also the therapist helping other people quit their habits. Lees meer
She first tried to stop in 2012. Lasted five days.
For the next ten years she had rules. Pretty little glasses. Four sober nights a week. None of it worked, because alcohol doesn't play by anyone's rules.
Louisa tells Dave what finally cracked it. The hypocrisy of sitting opposite clients who wanted to talk about their drinking. The depression that hit when she stopped, not when she drank. The shift from hoping sobriety would work to deciding it would. Six months in, she's lost two and a half stone, her IBS has gone, and her 12-year-old proudly tells strangers her mum doesn't drink anymore.
If you've spent years trying to moderate, this one's for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Louisa.
Training | Sober Dave davidwilsoncoaching.com Online course
Louisa Evans (@stepping_into_sobriety) • Instagram photos and videoswww.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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From a Psychiatric Ward to Sober: Laura Dockrill's Story
5 juli 2023 · 54 min
Laura Dockrill thought new motherhood would glow. A week after giving birth to her son Jet, she was hearing voices in the radio and convinced the teddy bears were filming her on CCTV. Lees meer
That was postpartum psychosis. It hits one in 1,000 women. Laura ended up sectioned in a psychiatric ward, separated from her newborn for three weeks.
She came home on antipsychotics, antidepressants, and two types of sleeping tablet. Her psychiatrist suggested a nip of whiskey to help her relax. She drank for nearly two years, telling herself a drink in her hand made her look normal again.
Three years ago, she quit. Laura tells Dave why books, therapy, medication, and finally sobriety saved her life.
If you're a new mum questioning your drinking, this one's for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Laura.
Laura Dockrill (@lauraleedockrill) • Instagram photos and videos instagram.com
Zombiemum Broccoli Productions
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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Quit Drinking, Started Again, Then Quit for Good: Mandy Manners
28 juni 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Mandy Manners siphoned her parents' homemade wine at six years old. By her late twenties she was a French university teacher in heels and a suit, picking up her toddlers stinking of Belgian beer. Lees meer
She had a year sober in 2013. Then she convinced herself she was "fixed" and could drink like a normal person. Three more years of moderation rules, dry Januaries, and summer holiday car crashes followed.
The moment that finally cracked it? A glass of wine in her hand by a Spanish pool while her son hit his head on the metal cover. Her husband said, "Thank goodness we didn't have a drink."
Six years sober now, Mandy walks Dave through the trauma underneath, the complex PTSD diagnosis, the mummy wine culture that almost swallowed her, and what sustainable sobriety actually looks like.
If you've ever quit for a year and started again, this one's for you.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/ or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice for Mandy.
Website https://www.mandymanners.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mandy_manners_ Sobriety Sisterhood 2024 Bali Retreat Books : Love Yourself Sober & Love Your Sober Year Free Recovery resources for women - She RecoversLatitude Festival events created by The Zen Project
www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/
www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/
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Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad
More information about Sober Dave's 1:1 Coaching: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/
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