Hi guys, welcome back to Adelting. Today I am joined by Africa Brooke. Hello. And we are

going to be talking about sobriety, sexuality and feminism. Yes. So I think we'll dive straight

in and start with sobriety because I'm currently doing dry jaanery. Yeah. Which I'm actually really

enjoying. But prior to having done, I did say a bit, but before that I didn't know I'd ever had

like a prolonged stretch of not drinking. And especially in the UK, it's kind of hard to avoid.

Yeah. What can you tell me about your sobriety journey? How you ended up here?

So mine kind of wasn't trying dry jaan or sober October or anything like that. I was actually

forced to get sober because of the way that I was drinking. So I was a blackout drinker for nearly

a decade. I started drinking when I was 14. Wow. And from the very first time that I drunk, it was

to get drunk. It wasn't because I was hanging out with friends and the intention was to get drunk.

Then that created a pass in for how I drank for a decade. And I thought everyone blacked out.

I thought that was common. I thought it was just a part of drinking. And in the beginning, it was fun.

As it always starts. It's always fun in the beginning. But then you get older and then the

situations you put yourself in start to get even more dangerous. You start to lose people. There

was more to lose jobs. I've lost so many jobs. I've lost friends. I've lost partners. My family

came to a point where they wanted to move themselves from me. So I was forced. I was forced to get

sober. I tried to moderate, but I just never worked. I was never like a one drink sort of person.

I once I had one, I just couldn't start. How often were you going out drinking? Not that often.

I was also not a solo drinker. So it was very hard to identify that there was an issue because

I was a social drinker. And what tends to happen is that we keep people around us that make it

easier to carry on with this way of living. And it's normalized because when you're in your

teens or early 20s, people tell you that it's a right of passage. Right. Right. And yeah, so it was

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