28: Getting Through The Holidays Sober
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The holiday season provides a unique opportunity to abuse alcohol in a way that is socially acceptable. 'Legitimate Christmas drinking' is where standard rules no longer apply and it can be hard in early recovery to even consider not drinking alcohol in December. This season not only provides lots of triggers to drink it can also trigger to feel loneliness and feelings of isolation. Plus there is having to spend time with family members who compromise our mental health. The marketing we are bombarded with can make us feel like our lives just don't measure up. We discuss how you can get through the season by changing your thinking and mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | At Matalan, the one you've been waiting for is here. |
| 0:03.6 | The big sale is now even bigger, with up to 70% off in the final reductions. |
| 0:09.7 | It's your chance to save big across women's men's kids and home. |
| 0:14.2 | Shopping store now or online at matelan.com.uk. |
| 0:18.7 | Season C's apply. |
| 0:21.6 | I've dream that that you were twisting |
| 0:23.8 | through seven suns of gold |
| 0:27.3 | and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:30.2 | their story must be told |
| 0:33.0 | I came two in the morning |
| 0:35.8 | but I took it as a warning. |
| 0:39.8 | There you might be a treasure. |
| 0:42.6 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:47.7 | Hi there, everybody. |
| 0:48.9 | This is Veronica Valley. |
| 0:50.2 | And this is Chip Summers. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome back to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | It's so great to have you here. |
| 0:56.0 | Because of the time of year, which is in America, it's just coming up to Thanksgiving and the holiday season, as it's called, we thought we really need to talk about how to stay sober through the holiday season, which goes on for weeks now. |
| 1:13.3 | It goes on for practically, I think it goes on for at least two weeks. If you include Thanksgiving, |
| 1:20.1 | it obviously goes on for longer. But in England now, everybody shuts up shop for a couple of weeks |
| 1:25.4 | completely. And that's become sort of regular. |
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