242: Hyper-independence, Loneliness and Connection
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the follow-up to a popular episode on hyper-independence. Chip and Veronica discuss how hyper-independence is a perfect storm that leads us to be lonely, and loneliness leads us to drink. They give suggestions on how to break out of that cycle.
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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 |
| 0:21.8 | I could touch but never hold |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, welcome back to the Soberfall podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Veronica. |
| 0:32.3 | And I am Chip. |
| 0:33.6 | How you doing, Chip? |
| 0:34.7 | I am doing very, very well. |
| 0:37.2 | Do you know what? |
| 0:37.8 | I sat the other day and I thought, I'm really content. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm really content. |
| 0:44.5 | I've got so many things in my life. |
| 0:47.1 | Just good at the moment. |
| 0:49.1 | Just, you know, nothing spectacular. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm not going on any huge holiday or anything. |
| 0:53.6 | But just I've got, yeah, |
| 0:55.7 | everything seems to be very easy for me at a moment. I mean, no doubt something dramatic will |
| 1:01.8 | happen very shortly, but right now I feel really content and it's, yeah, it's lovely. It's |
| 1:09.3 | lovely. I mean, I've got a nice bit of work balance. I'm doing in |
| 1:12.5 | relationships in good shape. My money's all right. The house is okay. Everything, it's just really, |
| 1:19.6 | feels really nice at the moment. I bet, and you're getting excited for the holidays, right, |
| 1:24.0 | Christmas, getting geared up for that. Oh, the preparations that Heidi and I are doing our, I mean, we've all restarted earlier, |
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