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

that his 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, you're listening to the soberful podcast

And I'm Veronica Valley

And today the topic is the truth about emotional sobriety

That nobody tells you I am going to go in depth

into some truths, some facts about emotional sobriety and why it's basically my favorite topic

and I talk about it all the time. Because, you know, I just see everywhere all the time, all these like quick, like,

fixes and like 30 days and challenges. And it's really only a small part of the story.

Because stopping drinking is the easy part. It's staying stop. That's the problem. Now,

if you think about it, how many times, if you're listening to this, right, how many times have you stopped drinking?

I'm sure you've tried multiple times.

I'm sure you've stopped for days, weeks, months, maybe even years.

Stopping drinking is the easy part.

It's the staying stopped that is the challenge and the key, the solution to staying stopped is emotional

sobriety. And that's why people keep going back to day one. It's nothing to do with willpower.

It's because sobriety is 10% not drinking alcohol and 90% emotional sobriety. And I'm going to go into that in today's episode. And I just want to,

in case you're not aware of my story, so I've been sober before 26 years now. I got sober in May 2,000.

I was 27 years old. Pretty much almost half my life, right? And I kind of poodleed along for three years.

Life was so much better, right? I'm just going to tell you, for me, my drinking was really chaotic.

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