272: The Fear of Missing Out

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

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

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The biggest obstacle to getting sober is the Fear Of Missing Out (or FOMO). But what are we scared of missing out on? In this episode, Chip and Veronica explore how feelings of missing out are very human because we are programmed to belong and connect. When we analyse what we are afraid of missing out on if we stop drinking, it is very undefinable. We have a fantasy in our heads about how we think drinking is going to be, but the reality is very different. Chip and Veronica also explore how alcohol makes us miss out on so much in life. That you don't miss out on the sobriety you gain.

To stay sober, we have to shift our perceptions. When we perceive that alcohol is the best way to have fun, relax and reward ourselves, stopping will feel hard. But if our perception shifts and we see that the cost of our drinking far outweighs any benefit, we no longer feel like we are missing out. We see that alcohol is causing us to miss our lives.

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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	Hey, everybody, and you are listening to the Soberful podcast. I'm Veronica.
0:32.2	And I'm Chip.
0:33.1	So we are continuing a series here that we have started of subjects that we actually can't believe
0:38.2	that we haven't talked about yet. Yeah. And when you said that this was going to be the title, I scroll, I said, no, no, no, we've done that. We've done that. And I scroll through the list of things over and over again. I thought, I must have missed it. I went back again. No, it's not there, couldn't believe it. But FOMO it is. No. So we're going to be talking about FOMO and the
0:38.6	fear of missing out.'re going to be talking about
0:55.9	phomo and the fear of missing out now to be fair we have talked about it in multiple episodes
1:01.6	we've just not done a whole built a whole episode around it so it's not that we've not mentioned it
1:07.4	but no i i was the same and i was like, we have to have done that. Yeah.
1:11.8	You know, this podcast has been running for over six years, and we have guests and stuff,
1:15.2	but like, I did wonder if we would run out of topics to talk about, but no, not only we're
1:20.9	not run out of them, we actually haven't covered all the, like, really important ones.
1:25.2	Yeah. So I want to say that the biggest reason people give for not wanting to stop drinking is the fear of missing out.
1:35.5	I've heard that over and over and over and over.
1:38.4	Yeah.
1:38.6	And I'm sure you have to.
1:39.9	Yep.
1:40.1	And it was definitely, that was a big thing for me because I was in my 20s.
1:44.7	And it wasn't a fear of missing out.
1:46.9	I was completely convinced I would miss out.
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