111: Why does stopping drinking feel so hard?
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We hear this all the time 'but getting sober is so hard!' Chip and Veronica explain that it feels hard because of our perception about drinking and sobriety and it's actually having an alcohol problem that is hard.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.5 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello there. |
| 0:29.2 | Welcome to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.8 | My name is Veronica Valley. |
| 0:34.1 | And my name is Chip Summers. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you so much for listening to us. We get so many nice |
| 0:39.2 | messages and emails and comments about the podcast. I think we've been doing this like, I think |
| 0:44.1 | it's two and a half of years. Does that sound right? No. No. No. We're on episode 110 or something. |
| 0:51.2 | I suppose it could be two years. Yeah, it would be about two years because we |
| 0:54.7 | haven't done an episode every week. No, we've had a few little breaks. So it's over two years. It's incredible. Yeah. And we have people who listen to every single episode and it's amazing. Like, I don't know how long I thought it would be. I didn't know if any, you know, you always have the doubt if anyone's going to listen and it's so great when you tell us you like the show. |
| 1:12.5 | We love hearing that. |
| 1:13.9 | Yes. But anybody who ever wants to say anything nice, please say it. Yeah, because I will be very pleased to hear that. We like all of that, yeah. Especially as I got trolled this week. Did you get trolled? |
| 1:25.1 | Did you get trolled? |
| 1:26.1 | Was it your troll or was it a new troll? |
| 1:29.1 | It was a new trolled? Was it your troll or was it a new troll? |
| 1:28.9 | It was a new troll who said that it was absolutely unacceptable that anybody who had had a |
| 1:35.5 | problem should ever be able to be put in a position of helping other people with alcohol |
| 1:40.1 | or drug problems. |
| 1:41.5 | It was unacceptable. |
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