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Soberful

249: Going Public With Your Sobriety With Ann Dowsett Johnston

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How do you go public with your sobriety? What if everyone warns you it will be the end of your career if you do? Ann and Veronica discuss how they went public with their sobriety and the confusion between anonymity and secrecy.

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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

And we are back with the Soberfall podcast.

0:30.8

I'm Veronica Valley

0:31.7

And I'm joined with Anne Dousset Johnston again.

0:34.8

Hi, Anne.

0:35.8

Hi, Veronica.

0:37.0

Hope you've enjoyed this just little stint of

0:39.4

co-hosting episodes that Anne and I have done. And we look forward very much to seeing you guys

0:46.8

in our five-day masterclass that is coming up very, very soon. Next week starts Monday the 22nd of January. It's a masterclass for women

0:57.9

who want to know how to be sober, how to get sober, and how to more importantly be emotionally

1:03.3

sober. It starts Monday, 22nd of January, five days. There's a bonus Q&A actually on the

1:09.5

following Monday, and it's going to be 1pm

1:11.8

Eastern Time, which is 6pm in the UK. And I've worked on this for a long time. It took us a long

1:16.8

time to try and get our diaries together. And it's been an ongoing conversation. It's a one-off

1:23.2

thing. It will be recorded. So if you can't make it live sign up and come to, you can get the

1:28.9

recording. But we bring considerable experience and backgrounds to this work. So I think it's something

1:36.0

that you don't want to miss. Okay. So what we're going to talk about today, Anne, this is an

1:41.7

interesting conversation. This is not one I've thought about for a long

1:44.4

time, but I think it was a really good idea to do it on going public with your sobriety. So there's

1:51.1

kind of different levels of that. There's this sort of just, you know, beginning to tell the people

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