241: Fear, Breast Cancer and Alcohol with Lucy Rocca
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Lucy Rocca from Soberistas joins Veronica to discuss how she got through the fear of her breast cancer diagnosis. She shares how exercise, mindfullness and meditation helped her keep the fear at bay and how she made a choice to respond to cancer from a place of empowerment.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.2 | that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:28.8 | And welcome back to the Soap Before podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | I am really pleased to welcome a returning guest and friend of the show, Lucy Rocker. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi, Lucy. |
| 0:40.3 | Hi. How are you? I'm good. |
| 0:48.8 | Thank you. Thanks for having me. You're always welcome. Lucy is author of many books and the founder of soberistas in the UK, which I know lots of people have benefited from and been on. |
| 0:55.3 | And God, you just said you celebrated 10 years. |
| 0:58.7 | I know. |
| 0:59.6 | I can remember when it started. |
| 1:01.8 | I remember seeing it pop up because I remember the name. |
| 1:05.2 | I was like, oh, that's a cool name. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, it seems like an eternity ago. |
| 1:09.7 | Such a lot has changed. |
| 1:12.6 | So what has changed? |
| 1:14.7 | Well, I think kind of the conversation around sobriety and alcohol has changed. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.8 | The normalisation of not drinking has changed. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.5 | And just kind of the, I think mental health generally, the whole sort of landscape of mental health awareness has changed. Yeah. And just kind of the, I think mental health generally, the whole sort of |
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