One for the Road: The Quit Drinking Podcast
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Sober spring special with Richard Piper
9 maart 2022 · 32 min
Thanks for joining me for this bonus sober spring special of One For The Road. Lees meer
Today’s episode is with Richard Piper, CEO of Alcohol Change UK.
We discuss Stigma, Sober shaming and the start of Sober Spring, and of course my 24 hour Liveathon on the 26th of March.
Alcohol Change UK work to end the harm caused by alcohol. Helping tens of thousands of people take control of their drinking and provide vital advice for families desperate to help a loved one. They are not anti-alcohol; they are for a future in which people drink as a conscious choice, not by default. They want those who drink too much, and their loved ones, to have access to high-quality support whenever it’s needed, without shame or stigma.
They help people to find alcohol services in their area and support tens of thousands of people and their families online via our peer support groups and advice hub. Over 200,000 people used their Try Dry app to monitor their drinking this year alone, and many of them were able to successfully reduce or stop drinking.
Through their Blue Light programme they work with some of the UK's most vulnerable people, who are too often considered to be ‘beyond help’. They train local services to support them, saving the NHS and other frontline services money, and more importantly changing and saving lives.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Alcohol Change UK.
https://www.facebook.com/AlcoholChangeUK
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholchangeuk/
https://twitter.com/AlcoholChangeUK
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
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From Trauma To Sober Coach: Johnny Lawrence's Story
23 februari 2022 · 58 min
Content note: this conversation discusses childhood abuse and domestic violence. Lees meer
Johnny Lawrence called alcohol his best friend of 20 years. He met it at 16, alone in a council flat after leaving home to keep his mother safe.
Born in Islington to a Nigerian father and a white British mother, Johnny grew up in 80s Hertfordshire as a survivor of physical child abuse. He worked four jobs as a teenager, came close to giving up, then found 20 quid on the pavement.
The drinking carried on into fatherhood, where holding his newborn son cracked something open he couldn't put back. Lockdown forced it. A therapist named Maliki named it: if you want to know why you drink, stop drinking.
Now sober and working as a self-development coach in Cornwall, Johnny talks to Dave about trauma, fatherhood, and turning a curse into a superpower.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Johnny.
Instagram @Theselfdevelopmentcoach
Facebook-The self development coach
YouTube-Theself development coach
Website-www.schoolofselfdevelopment.com
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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Sobriety Built My Whole Life Back: Jamie Klingler
16 februari 2022 · 54 min
Jamie Klingler was drinking two bottles of wine a day, sometimes more, working the London bar circuit six or seven nights a week. By the end she was buying five-litre wine boxes. Two at a time. The party girl who cried in the corner. Lees meer
She quit on Easter weekend, April 2020. Then she lost 100 pounds. Then a woman named Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving Met officer, and Jamie co-founded Reclaim These Streets, sued the police, and ended up debating policing at Cambridge Union.
None of it would have happened if she was still drinking. She is brutally clear about that.
This is what it sounds like when a woman stops numbing, starts running, and uses every minute alcohol stole back from her. For anyone wondering whether their drinking is theirs to question.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Jaime.
https://twitter.com/jamieklingler
https://www.instagram.com/photogirluk/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez
@GrownupHustle
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The Bottle a Day Mum Who Wrote Sober Diaries: Claire Pooley
9 februari 2022 · 56 min
Claire Pooley drank a bottle of wine a night for years and nobody knew. Three kids, a husband, a working life. The wine witch in her head from the moment she woke up. A whole life functioning, just about, around it. Lees meer
Then one morning after her own birthday party, she poured the last two inches of wine from a bottle into a mug so the kids wouldn't see. The mug said World's Best Mum. That was her last drink.
In this conversation Claire and Dave talk about gray area drinking, the lie of rock bottom, the wine witch, getting a breast cancer diagnosis eight months sober, and why she wrote The Sober Diaries to answer the questions nobody else would.
For anyone wondering if their wine habit has quietly become something else.
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If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Clare.
https://www.instagram.com/clare_pooley/
https://twitter.com/cpooleywriter
https://www.facebook.com/clare.pooley.58
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle`
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Nine Months Sober After Drinking Herself to Death's Door: Michelle Heaton
2 februari 2022 · 54 min
Michelle Heaton was a Liberty X singer with a husband, two kids, and a two-litre vodka bottle on repeat order from Amazon. By the end she was drinking neat vodka at seven in the morning, being sick, then drinking again. Her liver readings were so high doctors couldn't understand how she was still alive. Lees meer
Her friend Katie Price showed up and asked one question: do you want what I've got? Forty eight hours later Michelle was in the Priory. She had a seizure on the way in.
In this conversation Michelle and Dave talk about drinking against your will, the Priory detox ward with bars on the windows, the four months of psychosis before she asked for help, and what nine months of sobriety has given back.
For anyone who can't stop and is too scared to say it out loud.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
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 Michelle.
https://www.instagram.com/wonderwomanshel/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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He Drank Through the Grief of Losing His Son: Matt Pink
26 januari 2022 · 46 min
In April 2013, Matt Pink's four and a half month old son Rocco died in his sleep. Someone told Matt that time is a healer. So Matt decided he'd drink his way through two years and come out the other side fine. He didn't. Lees meer
Five years went by. The drinking got heavier. The grief stayed where it was. His marriage ended. The house went. He was sofa surfing through the West End with a bag of his life when a stranger walked up outside a pub and told him to stop.
He stopped. He met Kirsty. He went sober in April 2020. Now he runs Better Life and writes about what actually works.
For anyone using alcohol to outrun something it can't outrun.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
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 Matt.
Instagram @better_life_guy
Facebook better life guy
www.betterlifeguy.com
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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From Rock Bottom To 12 Years Sober: Kortney Olsen's Story
19 januari 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Kortney Olsen is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion, an Australian arm wrestling champion, a bestselling author, a TV personality, and the woman who crushes watermelons between her thighs. Lees meer
She's also 12 years clean and sober from meth, oxy, pills, and alcohol.
In this conversation with Sober Dave, Kortney walks back through the whole story. The mum who was an alcoholic in active addiction. The Kate Moss ad that lit her body image obsession. The bullying that made her a doormat. The 17-year-old straight-A student who got introduced to a "mentor" boxing coach by a drug counsellor, and what happened in his house that she spent years blaming herself for. The alter ego she built to survive it. The blackouts. The car crash. The rock bottoms that kept not being enough.
And then, eventually, the work. The steps. The marriage four months sober. The clothing brand built around one pledge: I am an equal amongst my peers.
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 Kourtney.
instagram.com/kortney_olson
TikTok.com/kortneyolson
facebook.com/konfidencebykortney
www.kortneyolson.com
twitter.com/kortneyolson
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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From a Crate of Beer a Night to Sober Rock Star: Jack Fowldry's Story
12 januari 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Jack Fowldry was a functioning alcoholic at eighteen. He was drinking a crate of beer and a bottle of Bailey's a night and convincing himself it was just what musicians did. By the time he stopped at twenty-six, he had been drunk every day for forty-eight days straight. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of the lead singer of UK alt-rock band Tova. Jack tells Sober Dave about being a functioning alcoholic in his teens, the drinking schedule he built around going on stage, the moment a friend casually said "yeah, it's because you're an alcoholic," and the day he sat in a pub garden and cried instead of finishing his pint.
You'll hear about: drinking culture in the music industry; the anger and grief that hit when you stop; what four years sober actually looks like; building a band sober from scratch; ADHD, mental health, and addiction; and why his EP is called Happy Music for Sad People.
If you've been wondering whether you can be sober and still rock, this one's for you.
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If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Jack.
https://tovaband.com/about/
https://www.instagram.com/tovamusic_/
https://www.facebook.com/tova2020
https://twitter.com/tova_music
https://www.youtube.com/tovamusic
https://www.tiktok.com/@tovaband
https://snd.click/HappyMusicForSadPeople
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/tova-support-o2-academy-islington-tickets/11315535?pl=hotvox
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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Ollie Ollerton: Special Forces Soldier on the Day He Quit Drinking
5 januari 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Ollie Ollerton was 10 years old when a 50-pound chimpanzee pinned him to the floor of a circus enclosure and tried to kill him. He fought it off. Nearly lost his arm to gangrene. Then spent the next thirty-something years chasing danger to feel something close to that adrenaline again. Lees meer
Royal Marines. Special Forces. Iraq, where he drove drunk through Baghdad on his own with an AK-47 in the back of an armoured Mercedes. Steroids. Valium. A bottle most nights to muffle whatever was underneath. He was the life and soul of every party. He was also barely keeping it together.
Ollie is now sober, runs his company Breakpoint, hosts SAS Who Dares Wins, and uses his platform to talk honestly about what alcohol actually cost him.
You'll hear about: the chimp attack that shaped 30 years of his life; "personality rental" and why none of it was ever really him; the moment in Baghdad when he realised he was knocking on death's door; why he had to dip back into drinking to be sure; what it actually means to choose short-term discomfort for long-term gain.
If you've been telling yourself you've got it under control, this one's for you.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Ollie.
https://ollieollerton.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ollie.ollerton/
https://twitter.com/ollie_ollerton
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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Andy Ramage On Navigating Your First Alcohol-Free Christmas
17 december 2021 · 30 min
The Christmas season is the hardest stretch of the year if you're sober, sober-curious, or just trying to drink less. Office parties. Family pressure. Christmas Eve in the pub. Boxing Day boredom. New Year's Eve hype. And the trap of telling yourself you'll fix it all in Dry January. Lees meer
In this Christmas special, Dave sits down with Andy Ramage, co-founder of OYNB and author of Let's Do This, to walk through every pinch point of the festive period and give you a practical playbook for getting through it intact.
You'll hear about: how to handle Christmas parties when you're not drinking; the truth about waking up sober on Christmas morning when the kids are bouncing off the walls; honest moderation tips for people not ready to stop; how to actually enjoy New Year's Eve sober (and why it's overrated anyway); and why starting January 1st minus 10 from a December bender sets you up to fail.
Andy and Dave also dig into the awareness piece — that the slip-ups, the Never Agains, and the moderation attempts aren't failures. They're feedback.
If Christmas is the part of the year you dread, this one's for you.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Andy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyramage/
https://www.instagram.com/andyramageofficial/
https://www.facebook.com/AndyRamageOfficial
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownu…
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From 4 Bottles A Night to Sober Mum: Leanne Baylis's Story
1 december 2021 · 57 min
Leanne could drink a bottle of wine in six seconds. By the time her daughter was born with a 4% chance of survival, she was hiding everything. The pregnancy. The bottles. The nights spent crying in intensive care. Lees meer
This is how a self-described "Winehouse" became a sober mum. Leanne Baylis tells Sober Dave about being adopted, finding wine at nine, dancing on cocaine at half five in the morning, and the goodbye letter she once wrote to her daughter before a friend stepped in.
You'll hear about the 10 minutes she had to decide her baby's fate; what "functioning alcoholic" really looked like; the "I'm sober but I'm not an alcoholic" lie she told herself; rebuilding life as a single mum to a medically complex daughter; and how she found the sober community that saved her.
If you've ever wondered if it's too late to quit, this one's for you.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
You can also access further content and shows on my Patreon account by clicking the link below.
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or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Leanne.
Instagram- @soberlittlemotherred
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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From a Bottle of Vodka a Weekend to BBC Radio 1: Dean McCullough's Story
24 november 2021 · 47 min
Dean McCullough was drinking a litre of vodka in a weekend during lockdown. He was hosting a breakfast show, presenting Manchester Pride on TV, and falling apart on the inside. A year later, he was sober and behind the desk at BBC Radio 1. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a Belfast boy who got the Radio 1 job he had wanted his entire life, but had to quit drinking first. Dean tells Sober Dave about lockdown despair, the entertainment industry drinking culture, the dark thoughts that crept in during the pandemic, and the visit from his late mum that he believes guided him into sobriety.
You'll hear about: the pandemic breakfast show that nearly broke him; drinking through grief and pressure as a young presenter; the night he opened a bottle of vodka and knew he was in trouble; one year sober at 29; and what your soul really wants from you.
If you're sober curious, this one's for you.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
You can also access further content and shows on my Patreon account by clicking the link below.
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or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Dean.
https://www.instagram.com/thedeanlife/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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Millie Gooch: From Pub Crawls To Sober Girl Society
17 november 2021 · 55 min
Millie Gooch is the founder of Sober Girl Society, author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook, and one of the loudest voices in the UK sober community for women in their twenties. Lees meer
But four years ago she was a blackout drinker.
She didn't drink at all until 18, then went to uni, took three bar jobs, got paid in alcohol, and came out the other side a four-or-five-night-a-week binge drinker. PR and journalism after that. Free Bar Fridays. Ending up in Dover at 4am because she'd fallen asleep on the train. Three weeks in Thailand spent almost entirely drunk or hungover. A six-year relationship breakup at 24 that sent her head-first into another year of going out and getting hammered.
She read a Stylist magazine interview with Catherine Gray on the tube one hungover morning. Took a photo of the article. Did nothing about it. Then in February 2018, after a night she couldn't remember at all, she downloaded the audiobook and listened to it for eight straight hours on the worst hangover of her life.
That was her last drink.
In this episode she walks through how Sober Girl Society started by accident, the trap of becoming "the sober person" instead of just a person, and what changes between year one and year four.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
You can also access further content and shows on my Patreon account by clicking the link below.
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62824759&fan_landing=true
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 Millie.
Instagram.com/sobergirlsociety
Instagram.com/milliegooch
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sober-Girl-Society-Handbook-empowering/dp/1787634124/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1636881084&sr=8-1
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
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Why Addiction Is Different For Women: Jenny Valentish
10 november 2021 · 49 min
Jenny Valentish is a British-Australian journalist and author. Her book Women of Substances is an addiction memoir that uses her own story as a case study to explore the gendered way women experience trauma, mental health, eating disorders, and addiction. She's also a board director of SMART Recovery in Australia and has written four books in total, the most recent on people who push their bodies to extremes. Lees meer
She started drinking at 13 the day her grandmother died. Got a key cut for her dad's drinks cabinet. Filled a Body Shop shampoo bottle with mixed spirits and got the train into London at 14 to drink her way through Camden, Kensington and Portobello markets on her own. The drinking masked sexual abuse she'd experienced as a child, something she wasn't allowed to get help for because her mum didn't want people knowing.
She stopped at 34 after one final blackout where she woke up with nothing on the paper and nothing in her head. She stayed sober for eight years. Four years ago, in London with friends, she had a cocktail and chose to moderate rather than spiral into shame.
This conversation gets into territory most sobriety podcasts avoid: harm reduction, the biopsychosocial theory of addiction, and why "Choose Your Own Adventure" might be a more honest framework than abstinence-or-bust.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.
You can also access further content and shows on my Patreon account by clicking the link below.
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62824759&fan_landing=true
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 Jenny.
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else
Woman of Substances
Jenny's writing coaching
Jenny on Instagram
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://ww…
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The Welshman Who Quit Drinking After His First Breakup: Charlie Owen
3 november 2021 · 54 min
Charlie Owen was twenty-three when his seven-year relationship ended, his Asia trip got cut short by COVID, and he found himself stranded in Brisbane with no idea who he was sober. He started drinking five beers before every date just to feel good enough. Lees meer
This is the recovery story of a Welsh farmer's son who quit drinking at twenty-five. Charlie tells Sober Dave about growing up in a 2,000-person town in North Wales, escaping to Australia when borders closed, the breakup that broke him open, and how he used alcohol as a crutch for confidence on dates and nights out.
You'll hear about: drinking through a breakup; using alcohol to fake confidence; the moment meditation actually worked; what real connection looks like without drinks; instant gratification, social media and young men; and why his Instagram page Lads Search for Meaning is hitting a nerve.
If you're a young man wondering if you can quit drinking and still have a life, this one's for you.
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https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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Courtney Carver on Quitting Drinking, Minimalism + Meditation at 1000 Days
27 oktober 2021 · 45 min
Courtney Carver, author of Soulful Simplicity and Project 333, spent decades quietly managing her relationship with alcohol before she stopped on a hungover morning in January 2019. Nearly 1000 days later, she joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking the simplest way she knows how. Lees meer
Courtney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006 and started stripping stress out of her life. She paid off debt, decluttered her home, built a minimalist fashion challenge, and changed careers. The thing that simplified her life most, she says, was finally letting go of wine. Inside, she shares why she never labelled herself, how transcendental meditation killed the craving, and the line that's become her sober mantra: alcohol removed her, so she removed it.
Quitting drinking, minimalism and sobriety, gray area drinking, transcendental meditation, Project 333, simplifying your life, sober journey at 1000 days.
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https://www.instagram.com/bemorewithless/
https://bemorewithless.com/books-and-courses/
https://bemorewithless.com/project-333/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soul-and-wit/id1489742667
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober: Catherine Gray
20 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
Catherine Gray woke up in a Brixton police cell at 27 years old. When the officers handed back her belongings, the only thing she had on her was a tiny pink glittery hairbrush that wasn't hers. No phone. No keys. No purse. Just a child's hairbrush she'd picked up off a dirty floor at some point during the night. Lees meer
You'd think that would be the moment she stopped. She drank for six more years.
Catherine is the bestselling author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober and Sunshine Warm Sober. She's almost eight years alcohol-free, and she's one of the most clear-eyed voices on what nobody tells you about long-term sobriety. The slumps. The advertising propaganda. The boundary work. The friends who don't remember your soberversary. The corruption inside the alcohol industry.
You'll hear about: the failed moderation experiments that ate six years of her life; the litre of vodka a night Dave was drinking; what AA gave her even though it wasn't her path; and why year six of sobriety nearly broke her.
If you've ever told yourself you'll just have one more, this one's for you.
Her first book The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober was published by Aster Books on the 28th of December 2017. A tri-brid of a read, it mixes up memoir details of how Catherine quit alcohol in 2013, along with Buzzfeed-style listicles, illuminating interviews with top experts, and over-arching cultural comment. She hopes her book will help reinvent how Britain thinks about being alcohol-free.
Her latest new book Sunshine Warm Sober is out now- Link below.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/sunshine-warm-sober/catherine-gray/9781783253395
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Cherry Healy on Mum Wine Culture, Gray Area Drinking and Sobriety
13 oktober 2021 · 55 min
Cherry Healy was drinking a bottle of wine a night by the time lockdown lifted. She had a brilliant career as a BBC presenter, a partner who barely drank, two kids she adored, and "wine o'clock" creeping into every evening. Lees meer
This is the story of a woman who caught herself in the gray area before it got worse. Cherry tells Sober Dave about being raised by an alcoholic father, watching her drinking escalate through her thirties, the lockdown bottle of wine that became normal, and the Christmas her dad got pancreatic cancer and she finally said enough.
You'll hear about: drinking at home as a working mum; the danger zone between five and eight pm; what three months sober actually does to you; how she handled her hypersensitivity without alcohol; the mum wine culture problem; and what gray area drinking really looks like up close.
If you've been wondering whether you're drinking too much at home, this one's for you.
You can also access further content and shows on my Patreon account by clicking the link below.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Cherry Healey.
https://www.instagram.com/cherryhealey/
https://twitter.com/cherryhealey?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/CherryHealeyOfficial/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifest-that-shit-tickets-175421609757
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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Growing Up With an Alcoholic Dad: Emmerdale's Liam Fox Tells His Story
15 september 2021 · 53 min
When Liam Fox was 12, he started taping his dad. He'd plug in a little radio cassette recorder, hit play and record, and capture his dad coming home drunk and talking through his backside. The next morning he'd play it back. His dad would be mortified. He'd swear he was never drinking again. A few months later, the cycle would start over. Lees meer
That cycle lasted 40 years. Liam's mum finally kicked his dad out in 1995, when scaffolding went up the back of the house, a window got opened, and a £2000 video camera went missing. By the end, his dad was drinking two litres of vodka a day, losing three stone in a fortnight, and waking up with stab marks in his hands.
Liam's dad died in February. Two weeks before, he'd promised his son this was the last time.
You'll hear about: growing up with an alcoholic dad; why his school work collapsed and he blamed the teachers; the morning his mum had finally had enough; what really sat underneath his dad's drinking; what it feels like when the parent you've fought for finally goes.
It has been another incredible season, and thank you so much for all of your ongoing and continued support.
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https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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Pop Stars, Cocaine, and Psychosis: Taner Hassan's Road to 15 Years Sober
8 september 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
Taner Hassan was 19 when 12 million people watched him audition on Pop Stars. He made the final 14 but didn't get the job. What followed was cocaine, nightclub work, and a slow collapse. By 24 he had drug-induced psychosis. His parents said: get help or get out. Lees meer
Taner grew up in Southend, oldest of three, chasing a music career through reality TV and boy bands. Rejection and fame without the job behind it sent him into five dark years in the nightclub industry, masking everything with drugs and alcohol. When his parents drew the line, he got sober. That was 15 years ago.
Today he's a psychotherapist and head of NHS mental health in Suffolk. His wife and daughter have never seen him drink.
You'll hear about: reality TV fame and rejection at 19; cocaine and alcohol in the nightclub industry; drug-induced psychosis at 24; rebuilding a career from scratch in recovery; the stranger whose life he saved without knowing it.
If you think your past disqualifies you from a meaningful future, this one says otherwise.
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tanertherapy/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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6 Months Alcohol-Free After 25 Years of Drinking: Kate's Story
1 september 2021 · 51 min
Kate Rohan spent 25 years drinking, starting at 14 when alcohol gave her a way out of the bullying and eating disorders that marked her teens. By her late 20s she was a daily 5pm drinker who could never stop at one, finishing a bottle of rosé after running a half marathon in 1:35 and throwing up on her own shoes on a ski season in Verbier without slowing down. Lees meer
As perimenopause hit, alcohol made everything worse: sleep, anxiety, recovery, all of it. She tried quitting on her own multiple times, making it 21 days, then 28, then relapsing every time. A light bulb moment at the end of December led her to Dry January through Sober Dave's community, and she hasn't looked back. Six months alcohol-free, she competed in a turf games fitness competition and says her body and mind have transformed.
You'll hear about: wine mom culture and the 5pm habit; menopause and alcohol; eating disorders as a gateway to drinking; the "suitcase in the loft" metaphor for putting alcohol away; fitness after sobriety; and why she couldn't stop at one glass for 25 years.
If you're a woman questioning what alcohol is really doing to your body, especially through perimenopause, this one's for you.
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/katerh_fitness
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/392640002016219/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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Alcohol, Grief and Self-Worth: Lisa Riley's Sober Story
25 augustus 2021 · 48 min
Lisa Riley was drinking a bottle and a half of wine a night after losing her mum. She used alcohol to numb grief, fuel the party, and fill a void she didn't yet understand. On this episode of One for the Road, the Emmerdale actress and TV presenter opens up about what finally made her stop and why she never looked back. Lisa shares how she went from being the last one standing at every gathering to embracing a quieter, simpler life built on self-acceptance. Six years sober, she talks about the smell test that keeps her honest, the restaurant moments that still feel awkward, and why drink never actually defined her personality. You'll hear about: grief as a drinking trigger, the blame game in relationships, sober holidays that changed everything, and why owning your truth is the first real step. Listen now and share with someone who needs to hear this. Lees meer
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Instagram - @Lisajaneriley.
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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From Abandoned at Two to Sobriety Coach: Simon Chappell's Story
18 augustus 2021 · 58 min
Simon Chappell was drinking two to three bottles of red wine a day, plus beer on top, when his marriage started falling apart. He thought he just had a drinking problem. What he actually had was decades of toxic shame from a childhood he'd been quietly numbing out since he was 12. Lees meer
His biological father walked out when he was two. His stepdad drank red wine every night and became Simon's template for what a grown man looked like. At 13, he was sexually abused by an older neighbour, a secret he carried for nearly 30 years before he could say it out loud.
In this conversation, Simon opens up about the abandonment wound, the permissive-and-controlling mother dynamic, the school run driving over the limit, and the five years of painful wondering before he finally quit. He talks about the second phase of sobriety, the inner child work that actually heals the root, and why he believes toxic shame sits under every addiction.
Now a bestselling author of The Sober Survival Guide and How to Quit Alcohol in 50 Days, a This Naked Mind sobriety coach trained personally by Annie Grace, and soon to publish How to Heal Your Inner Child, Simon is one of the most thoughtful voices in modern recovery.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Simon Chapple.
www.joinbesober.com
www.soberlive.co.uk
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram - @GrownupHustle
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Alcoholism Killed My Dad at 59: Sarah Drayge's Fight Against Stigma
11 augustus 2021 · 46 min
Sarah Drayge lost her dad Steve to alcoholism in 2017, exactly one week before his 60th birthday. She believes the shame and stigma around his disease kept him from getting the help that could have saved his life. In this episode of One for the Road, Sarah shares what it was like growing up with a father she adored, watching him slowly disappear into dependence after a life-changing trauma. She opens up about the guilt she carried for years, the things she said that she wishes she could take back, and the moment two surgeons told her there was only a 10 percent chance he would survive. You'll hear about: the signs she missed as a teenager, the family ultimatum that led to 12 months of sobriety, how paramedics responded with eye rolls instead of empathy, and the charity Warrior Kind she built in her dad's honor. Listen now and share with someone who needs to hear this. Lees meer
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Instagram-sarah_drage
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www.warriorkind.co.uk
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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Anita Chellamah on Getting Sober at the Top of Her Career
4 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
Anita Chellamah was on Top of the Pops with Legs and Co. She fronted the rock band the Cherry Bombs, supported Poison on tour in America, and played the legendary CBGBs in New York. By 28 she was drinking champagne to start the night and Night Nurse to end it. Lees meer
Then in April 1988, she stopped. She has not had a drink or a drug since. That is 33 years of sobriety.
In this conversation Anita tells Dave the whole story honestly. The first thimble of champagne at 14 in the West End. The drugs that came in with the 80s. The diet pills with speed in them prescribed by a private doctor. The day she finally walked into recovery with debts, no career, and a shoebox of receipts. And the slow, beautiful work of building a real life from scratch — eventually becoming an addiction counsellor, working in HIV care during the worst of the 90s, marrying her husband, raising her son, and going back to writing and singing.
You'll hear about: the 80s music scene from the inside; why career success made her drinking worse not better; the moment of surrender that changed everything; what 33 years sober actually feels like; why she calls it "discovery, not just recovery."
If you've been telling yourself you've gone too far to come back, this one's for you.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Anita Chellamah.
Twitter- @ChellamahAnita
https://www.facebook.com/anita.chellamahnurse
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
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From The City Pubs To 7 Years Sober: Sean and Lee (Rok Soba)
28 juli 2021 · 56 min
Sean and Lee are brothers. They started in the City of London at 16. They sat next to each other on trading floors. They drank lunches at NatWest's wine bar. They earned big money and burned through it on red wine, hidden bottles, and eventually a pub fight that landed them on the front pages and almost in prison. Lees meer
Lee got sober in October 2014. Sean followed three months later, after collapsing on his girlfriend's kitchen floor on New Year's Eve and waking up in a police cell.
That was nearly seven years ago.
You'll hear about: lifelong battles with OCD and depression that the drinking only made worse; how a two-year suspended sentence saved their lives; what it's like watching your brother get sober before you do; and how a 4am dream gave Sean the words "Rocksobar" in lights and turned into a brand, an alcohol-free beer line, and a foundation now helping others rebuild their careers in recovery.
If you've ever thought you couldn't stop because of who you'd lose, this one's for you.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Rok Soba.
www.roksoba.com
Instagram-@Roksoba
Facebook-@Roksoba
Twitter-@Roksoba
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
@GrownupHustle
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From Mummy Wine Culture To Sober In Australia: Vic Vanstone
23 juni 2021 · 52 min
Vic Vanstone has been stealing wine since primary school. By 14 she was passed out in cider comas in farmers' fields. By her twenties she was around the world on the lash, chucked out of nightclubs, waking up in hotel rooms with strangers, and once blew her own finger off lighting a firework on the Millennium. Lees meer
She kept drinking through it all because she could not see herself outside the party.
Then a pregnancy test the morning after her hen-do, three months along, made her stop. She started again six weeks after the baby was born. It took a second child, a Sunday hangover that made her think she was going to die, and a long stretch of therapy before she finally walked away from drinking for good.
You'll hear about: the diary entry from 2007 that she'd forgotten she'd written ("I want to go to AA"); the truth about mummy wine culture and the lie of "I just want the old me back"; what grey area drinking actually looks like from the inside; and why she now runs the podcast Sober Awkward and is writing the book A Thousand Wasted Sundays.
If you've ever been told you're "just a party girl," this one's for you.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click subscribe to be notified of the release of our next episode.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Vic.
Podcast - Sober Awkward (available everywhere iTunes, Spotify or on my website)
Website - www.drunkmummysobermummy.com
Facebook group - The Sober Social for sober curious women - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesobersocial
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drunkmummysobermummy
@Alcoholexplained
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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The Alcohol Stopped Working: Josh Connolly's Sobriety Story
16 juni 2021 · 53 min
When most kids were saying they wanted to be doctors or firefighters, Josh Connolly used to say he just wanted to have kids and not be a drunk. He grew up walking on eggshells, hearing his mum scream "you'll wake the boys up" while everything got smashed up downstairs. He squeezed his eyes shut and learned to disappear. That trick got him through childhood. It also got him thrown out of every classroom he ever sat in. Lees meer
Josh found alcohol at 12. It worked. By 24 he was nine and a half stone, four kids, marriage gone, sleeping on a fold-up bed at his mum's house, drinking himself into the ground. The day Aguero scored that famous goal for Man City was the day he realised drink had stopped working.
Now nine years sober, Josh is a NACOA ambassador, a resilience coach, and one of the most emotionally honest men Dave knows.
You'll hear about: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel; the four layers of denial; what the first nine months sober really felt like; what happens when alcohol is the solution, not the problem; why being sober isn't the finish line.
If you grew up around drinking, this one's for you.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click subscribe to be notified of the release of our next episode.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Josh.
@josh_ffw
https://www.instagram.com/josh_ffw/
@Alcoholexplained
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram-@GrownupHustle
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Burn Survivor Terry Dunnage on Alcohol, Grief, and the Night He Nearly Ended It
9 juni 2021 · 1 uur 11 min
Terry Dunnage was 12 years old, locked in a bedroom for days at a time, talking to a plastic keyring he kept in a matchbox with a tissue for a blanket. That was his only friend for three years. Lees meer
At 28, his uncle walked into his kitchen with a jerry can of petrol and a yellow lighter. Terry survived 48 percent burns. While he was in a drug-induced coma, his daughter died. He woke up not knowing.
Years later, sitting in his car with a sawn-off under his chin and one cartridge in the chamber, alcohol nearly finished what the fire could not. His mates pulled up just in time.
Terry is a burn survivor, a mental health advocate, and one of the most resilient men Dave has ever interviewed. He doesn't drink. He doesn't dwell. He spends his life now trying to be the man he wishes had been sitting beside his hospital bed.
You'll hear about: a childhood spent in solitary confinement at home; what really pushed him to nearly take his own life; why he gave up drinking for good; how he learned to walk, talk and box again; the goal-setting mindset that brought him back.
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Terry.
@Terrydunnage
https://www.instagram.com/terrydunnage/
@Alcoholexplained
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram-@GrownupHustle
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9 Years Alcohol-Free: How Denise Welch Quit Drinking for Good
26 mei 2021 · 43 min
Denise Welch used to drink four or five bottles of wine in a night, get two hours of sleep and walk onto a TV set like nothing happened. She'd tell herself she was functioning. Inside, she was falling apart. Lees meer
In this episode, Denise sits down with Dave and tells the full story. A happy childhood in the North East. A wanted pregnancy at 31 that was followed by crippling postnatal depression nobody saw coming. Years of self-medicating with alcohol and cocaine while holding down Coronation Street, Loose Women and a family. Complete blackouts she still can't remember. And the night she smashed up the flat and realised she was about to lose the man she loved.
You'll hear about: postnatal depression and how it triggered her drinking; the 13 years of living a double life; getting sober as a couple with Lincoln; why she still gets depression but no longer compounds it with alcohol; and what life looks like at 62 with three jobs and zero hangovers.
If alcohol is making you more unhappy than happy, this one's worth your time.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-unwelcome-visitor/denise-welch/9781529384543
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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Denise.
@Alcoholexplained
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram-@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 5-Day Binges to 7 Years Sober: William Porter's Story
19 mei 2021 · 53 min
William Porter woke up alone in his house with no memory of what happened. His wife had taken the kids and left during a five-day binge that started at a business lunch on a Tuesday. Her ultimatum was clear: stop drinking or I'm gone. She wasn't removing the wine from the house. This was his problem to fix. Lees meer
William spent his twenties binge drinking through the Parachute Regiment and a tour of Iraq. When he got married and had kids, the binges got worse. Friday nights bled into Mondays. Morning beers became the only way to function with toddlers running around. He quit in February 2014. Seven years sober, he wrote "Alcohol Explained," a science-based look at what alcohol actually does to your brain and body.
You'll hear about: military drinking culture in the Paras; the morning he started drinking before Iraq; why moderation never works; how understanding the science helped him quit for good.
If you've been telling yourself you just need to cut back, this one's worth a listen.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click subscribe to be notified for the release of our next episode.
You can also connect with me via Instagram @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 also contacts for William.
@Alcoholexplained
https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram-@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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Sober at 25: How Katie Quit Drinking After 19 Nights Out in a Row
12 mei 2021 · 47 min
Katie McNichol was a shot girl, a podium dancer, and the one who never said no to a night out. By her first year at university in Newcastle, she'd gone out 19 nights straight and ended up with alcohol poisoning. At 23, she did 100 days sober, including a girls' holiday to Palma completely alcohol-free, proving to herself she could do it. Then she went back to drinking for another 10 months. Lees meer
Her last drink was champagne at a London steak restaurant on 13 November 2019. The next morning she flew to Ethiopia for charity work, and she never looked back. She was 25. Now 18 months sober and known as This Sober Girl on Instagram, Katie shares what it's like to get sober when your entire social life is built around drinking.
You'll hear about: alcohol poisoning at uni; doing 100 days sober then relapsing; growing up with a dad who's 33 years sober; the final night that changed everything; building a sober identity in your 20s.
If you're young and questioning your drinking, this one's for you.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click subscribe to be notified for the release of our next episode.
You can also connect with me via Instagram @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 also contacts for Katie.
@thissobergirl
https://www.instagram.com/thissobergirl/
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
Show producer- Dani Attanasio
https://www.grownuphustle.com/
Instagram-@GrownupHustle
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From Blackouts at 14 to 16 Years Sober: Mark Adderley's Story
5 mei 2021 · 54 min
Mark Adderley stood at the bar of his favourite pub staring at the taps, unable to order. Not because he was spoilt for choice. Because he didn't want any of it but wanted all of it. That moment became his altar. Lees meer
Mark grew up in chaotic 1970s London with a single mum who drank, used drugs, and came out as gay when he was seven. Left alone for huge stretches of childhood. By 14 he was drinking in pubs. By 25 the drinking cost him his first family. By 30 he had two daughters he wasn't living with. When his wife told him he was about to lose a third daughter, he walked into a rehab centre and booked himself in. He's been sober 16 years.
You'll hear about: childhood trauma and benign neglect; the shame of a first blackout at 15; how alcohol fuelled infidelity; self-referring to rehab; parenting sober after years of chaos.
If you're wondering whether it's too late to stop, listen to this.
If you enjoy One For The Road, then click subscribe to be notified for the release of our next episode.
You can also connect with myself via Instagram @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/
or my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/
Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.
https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/
https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services
https://nacoa.org.uk/
https://alcoholchange.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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29 april 2021 · 1 min
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