43: Soberistas Talk with Lucy Rocca
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Lucy Rocca is the founder of Soberistas website in the UK. Eight years ago Lucy woke up from a terrifying blackout in hospital where she swore she was never going to drink again. Lucy discusses her relationship with alcohol, how she got sober and started the website Soberistas. We also discuss how she has stayed sober for eight years, the British relationship with alcohol and how to parent kids in sobriety.
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| 0:47.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:48.8 | This is Veronica Valley from the Soap Before podcast. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm really excited about today's guest. |
| 0:54.0 | I have somebody from the UK |
| 0:55.4 | who I've been following quite closely because I really love what she's doing to shake up |
| 1:00.5 | how the British people look at their relationship with alcohol. So I'd like to welcome Lucy |
| 1:06.8 | Rocker to the show. Lucy is the author of The Sober Revolution, the A to Z of Binning the Booze, |
| 1:13.7 | and the founder of the Soberistas website. Lucy, I'd like to really start with your story. |
| 1:21.4 | And I want to hear a lot about soberistas and why you started it. But I want to start really by |
| 1:25.6 | hearing about how you developed an alcohol problem, what your relationship was like with alcohol when you're growing. But I want to start really by hearing about how you developed an alcohol |
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