352: The Summer Sessions
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Soberful podcast, Veronica Valli discusses the challenges of staying sober during the summer, a season often associated with fun and drinking. She shares personal experiences and insights on how to navigate the summer without alcohol, emphasizing the importance of understanding the difference between the fantasy of drinking and the reality. Valli encourages listeners to embrace the gifts of sobriety and to focus on the positive aspects of a sober summer.
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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 |
| 0:21.8 | I could touch but never hold |
| 0:25.6 | Well, hello, you're listening to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Veronica Valley, and I'm really pleased to be here. |
| 0:34.4 | So a couple of updates in this episode. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm going to be talking about the summer. So today's topic is, is summer the hardest season to stay sober and what |
| 0:47.3 | actually works to get through your sober summer? But before I get into that, I just want to go |
| 0:52.3 | over a couple of things with you guys. So I want to give an update on Chip and I want to give you an update of some podcast episodes |
| 0:59.3 | that are coming up. |
| 1:00.7 | So lots of you have reached out and asked, you know, where's Chip? |
| 1:03.5 | We haven't seen Chip. |
| 1:04.4 | So Chip has been dealing with some health issues. |
| 1:07.6 | Very pleased to say that he is on the mend and things are looking much better. |
| 1:12.3 | And we have been trying to schedule an episode together, but that's just been a bit hard |
| 1:18.1 | with time difference and his schedule and that kind of stuff. But very much hoping that Chip |
| 1:23.9 | will be back in the fall. So I know you guys have missed him and I've missed him. So we're hoping that Chip will be back in the fall. So I know you guys have missed him and I've missed him. |
| 1:29.3 | So we're hoping that Chip will be back with us to do some episodes in the fall. We have a few |
| 1:34.2 | planned there. So I am taking a little break over the summer, but the Sober Full podcast will be |
| 1:40.1 | here. What we're doing is we're re-releasing some much, much older episodes and a couple of the episodes, and I think you guys, maybe you guys will be interested in this, maybe not. When we first started this podcast over eight years ago, I kind of think we may be the longest running, So it's a sobriety podcast. I don't know. What do you guys think? I think we're close to it consistently. Like a lot of people |
| 2:01.8 | have stopped and started. We've kind of been pretty consistent. Anyway, right at the beginning, |
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