293: Using Alcohol to Fix Being Neurodivergent With Ali Press

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

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

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ali Press is a counsellor who specialises in helping neurodivergent people get sober. Ali didn't realise until she got sober that a lot of her struggles were because of being neurodivergent and how understanding this can provide great clarity and relief while navigating the sober world.

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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	Hi, everybody.
0:28.8	You are listening to The Soberful Podcast.
0:31.1	I'm Veronica Valley, and I'm joined today by Ali Press in London.
0:35.9	Welcome, Allie.
0:36.9	Hi there. Hello. So this is a second episode really on
0:41.3	I wanted to do more about sobriety and being Eurodivergent. And Ali reached out to me and I was like,
0:47.8	oh, you're perfect. I'd love to kind of hear your story and stuff. So just just tell us a little bit
0:52.5	about who you are and what you do first of all. And then I want to hear your story. Sure. So just just tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do first of all
0:54.3	and then I want to hear your story. Sure. So yeah, I'm Ali. I live in South London. I work as a
1:02.2	counsellor and coach. And within that, the areas that I specialize in are neurodivergence and
1:09.5	changing your drinking and then also the intersection of changing your drinking whilst neurodivergence and changing your drinking and then also the intersection of
1:12.8	changing your drinking whilst neurodivergence and all the things that go around with living well
1:18.8	whilst neurodivergent. I quit drinking, oh, it's going to be eight years in April of next year,
1:25.7	which feels like such a long time now. It's quite amazing. Yeah, it's
1:31.1	incredible, isn't there? Congratulations on that. That's amazing. Thank you. Tell us a little bit
1:35.8	about your drinking story then. Wow. So I started in my teens. I was probably about 14, something like that. And, you know,
1:47.8	sort of back in those days, it was a bit of fun. It was a bit naughty. It was like escaping from
1:52.7	home and going to the pub with my mates. 14, I've got to the pub. And sort of that sort of
1:59.0	continued through 16, 18. But I think even 18, probably actually before then, 17 and a half, I knew that my drinking was above average. It was certainly more than my mates when I was hanging out with them. And I remember somebody suggesting to me
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