297: Sobriety Is the Journey Back to Yourself
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When we have an alcohol problem we leave ourselves by degrees. One day, we wake up and realise that we have become someone we don't recognize. Sobriety is about the journey back to who you really are.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | their story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.5 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, and welcome back to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.8 | Happy 2025. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:35.3 | I feels like 10 minutes ago we were celebrating the millennial and now we're 25 years into this new century. |
| 0:41.6 | How did it go for you? |
| 0:43.2 | Was it your first sober Christmas and New Year's? |
| 0:46.1 | I think it was my, well, it would be my 25th. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.6 | Holidays are always better not drinking. |
| 0:51.2 | Okay. |
| 0:52.6 | Today I'm going to talk about how sobriety is the journey |
| 0:56.7 | back to yourself. This is one of the most important subjects that I teach my clients because, |
| 1:04.5 | okay, let's start with here. Getting sober, stopping drinking is 10% not drinking, 90% emotional sobriety. And I've talked a lot about |
| 1:13.0 | what the work of sobriety is specifically. You can find YouTube videos and other podcasts where I |
| 1:19.6 | specifically talk about that. And that's what I teach in all of my programs, how to be emotionally |
| 1:25.2 | sober. It's not just a vague concept. It's specific things that you do |
| 1:30.9 | in order to be emotionally sober. And the journey of emotional sobriety is the journey back to |
| 1:40.1 | yourself. And I want to explain what I mean by this. When we have an alcohol problem, |
| 1:46.0 | when we drink too much, when alcohol dominates our thinking, our thoughts, our actions, |
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