327: A 6 day alcoholic coma DIDN'T stop her drinking! with Kate Lewis
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
At 32 years of age, Kate Lewis was grappling with alcohol withdrawal, and she had a severe alcohol fit. This led to her being placed in a medical coma for six days. Surprisingly, this didn't halt her drinking. It was the subsequent events that finally put an end to her alcoholism. Kate, now a published author, joins the podcast to share her story and discuss the two books she wrote. These books, a testament to her journey, offer hope and guidance to women struggling with alcoholism, inspiring them to embark on their own path to recovery.
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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 | that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning |
| 0:19.1 | that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.5 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi there. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Veronica Valley and I'm joined here by Kate Lewis. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi, Kate. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, Veronica. |
| 0:35.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:36.8 | You're welcome. |
| 0:39.3 | Kate is joining us today because she's the author of two books, addiction and alcoholism recovery skills for women. And then you've just |
| 0:46.7 | released a workbook to go with it. Is that correct? Yes, I did. About two or three weeks ago, |
| 0:52.4 | it launched. Okay, wonderful. Well, I want to learn about |
| 0:56.0 | the books, but I'd love to kind of get a bit of your story first. Can you tell us a little bit |
| 1:00.6 | about your drinking and how you got sober, like what it was like? Yes, I can. So I started drinking |
| 1:08.5 | in high school and through college. |
| 1:12.5 | I also smoked a lot of pot. |
| 1:14.6 | Luckily, something in me never said yes to the harder stuff. |
| 1:17.7 | I think that just there was some angel there with me because I do not think I would be here today. |
| 1:24.3 | Although alcohol is a pretty hard drug and just partied and all the way through |
| 1:30.5 | school. I went and I studied abroad in London, my senior year of college, and partied very |
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