5 Year Podversary Q&A (E286 Part 2)

Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober

Gillian Tietz, MS, CPRC

Science, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Join me for a special Q&A episode. We talk about my story, my work, my gaming history, book writing, what I've noticed in the sober community, and more! Thanks to everyone who submitted questions Work with me: Community & Meetings: Living a Sober Powered Life https://www.soberpowered.com/membership Sober coaching https://www.soberpowered.com/sober-coaching Weekly email: You’ll hear from me on Fridays https://www.soberpowered.com/email Free resources https://www.soberpowered.com/free Courses: The non-negotiable mindset https://www.soberpowered.com/mindset-course Don’t try harder, try different https://www.soberpowered.com/willpower Support the show: If you enjoyed this episode please consider buying me a coffee to support all the research and effort that goes into this podcast https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberpowered Thank you for supporting this show by supporting my sponsors https://www.soberpowered.com/sponsors Sources are posted on my website Disclaimer: all of the information described in this podcast is my interpretation of the research combined with my opinion. This is not medical advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special five-year podversary Q&A episode. I hope that you listen to episode
0:08.1	286 first because that's all about the journey, what I've learned, all that stuff. And now I'm
0:15.6	going to answer some questions that I collected for my community members and the people on my email list.
0:22.2	And we have a very interesting mix of questions. There's stuff about my journey of quitting
0:28.6	drinking, there's stuff about work, there's stuff about my personal life, something for everyone.
0:37.0	So let's get to it.
0:39.2	I spend a lot of time thinking about the difference
0:42.9	between people who successfully stay sober and those who do not.
0:47.8	One major difference that I've observed
0:50.6	is that people who do not stay sober,
0:53.7	or those who flip-flop back and forth, they rely on willpower
0:58.1	or tips and strategies that are just disguised willpower. And people who stay sober long-term,
1:05.6	they do life differently. Powering through is not a long-term strategy. It's not that I have more discipline or
1:13.7	self-control than you. It's that I don't rely on discipline or self-control for the most part to stay
1:20.6	sober. And it's not easy to know the difference between when you're using willpower and
1:25.6	white neckling versus when you have an actual appropriate
1:28.9	strategy. And that's why I created Don't Try Hard or Try Different. It's a course about how to take
1:34.8	willpower and turn it into strategies that work. The course is only $29, and if you want to grab it,
1:41.6	please visit soberpowered.com slash willpower. That visit soberpowered.com slash willpower.
1:45.4	That's soberpowered.com slash willpower because willpower is not a long-term strategy.
2:09.0	Okay, our first question is, what specific event triggered you to quit drinking?
2:18.7	Well, if you listen to episode 164, I talk about the 90-day break that I took to try to cure myself.
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