I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. I could touch but never hold.

Hello and welcome to the Soberful podcast. I hope you're doing okay and having a good week.

I am going to be talking today about emotional sobriety. So if you

have listened to this podcast or any of my stuff, you'll know that this is probably my number one

favorite topic. It's the hill that I will die on. Getting sober is 10% not drinking alcohol and 90% emotional sobriety. And I want to

do a deep dive into what is emotional sobriety. Why do we need emotional sobriety and how can we

get emotional sobriety? And how can we get emotional sobriety?

Because stopping drinking alcohol is just not enough.

It's not enough to just have a problem with alcohol and stop.

And that's it. You're all good.

It just doesn't work like that.

And that's really because in many ways alcohol, our problematic

drinking, our problematic relationship with alcohol is because it's really just a symptom.

It's a symptom because alcohol is a really, really effective anesthetic.

It just numbs feelings really, really well.

So let's kind of go back.

When we start drinking at whatever age that is,

typically we're young people, teenagers, early 20s,

the number one motivation for drinking alcohol is because

it's fun, right? We believe it's fun. We've been told it's fun. We've been shown it's fun.

And who doesn't want to have fun, right? Especially when you're a young person. We drink alcohol because we believe we have been told by our peer groups,

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