60: Can I Drink In Moderation?
Soberful
Veronica Valli & Chip Somers
4.8 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Holy Grail of anyone with an alcohol use disorder is moderation. In this episode, Chip and Veronica look at why moderation (or social drinking) is very rarely achievable. We discuss the energy and effort that people put into trying to achieve it. The reason that we struggle with moderation is because of the perception that alcohol can benefit us when the reality is very different.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.2 | that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:29.2 | This is Veronica Valley. |
| 0:30.6 | And this is Chip Summers. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome back to the Sober Full podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | It's great to be back with you. |
| 0:36.9 | I think this is our second week back after our little summer break. And I know some people have been messaging me saying they've missed the podcast. We've missed it too. Good. We're pleased to be back. Yeah. So what's on the agenda today. One thing we're going to talk about is I asked the Sober Full Facebook group, what would you guys like us to talk about? And one of the things that came up was, can I drink in moderation? |
| 0:58.2 | So that is the subject we're going to be talking about today. But before we get started, a couple of things I want to let you know. I want to let you know about the sober kickstart. |
| 1:07.9 | The sober kickstart is a one-off workshop that Chip and I conduct. It's going to be on |
| 1:12.0 | Saturday the 21st of September and you can attend live or you can receive the replay and it's a two |
| 1:18.1 | and a half hour workshop, but you get a workbook with it. Who is this for? This is for people who've |
| 1:23.8 | been thinking about stopping drinking or at least slowing down, maybe not stopping |
| 1:27.8 | for good, maybe just for a while. You can't imagine your life without alcohol, but you think you need |
| 1:32.7 | a break. It's also for people who have already stopped. They're still in their first year and they just |
| 1:38.6 | feel really, really stuck. They don't want to go back to drinking, but they're just not moving forward. Does this |
| 1:45.8 | sound like you? Do you wake up more mornings than you care to admit, feeling less than |
| 1:50.6 | stellar because you drank too much the night before? You roll out of bed with regret and a |
| 1:54.5 | headache, swearing you won't drink for a while or maybe ever, only to make it to the evening |
| 1:58.9 | when you decide you'll just have one drink to take the |
| 2:01.5 | edge off until your five drinks in or two bottles in maybe are making the same mistakes you regretted |
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