66: The Four People You Meet When You Stop Drinking

Soberful

Veronica Valli & Chip Somers

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

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When we get sober, the world takes it personally. There are four types of characters you may meet when you stop drinking: 'The overnight addiction expert, 'the drunk persuader, the 'moving the goalposts friend,' and the 'fun police.' Chip and Veronica talk you through how each one will approach you, what they will say, and how you can deal with them.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.2	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.
0:22.4	I could touch but never hold.
0:28.1	Hello, everybody.
0:29.4	This is Veronica Valley.
0:30.9	And this is Chip Summers.
0:32.6	Welcome to the Soberful podcast.
0:35.7	We are really excited to be with you today. I think this is going to be a
0:39.1	pretty fun episode. Aren't they all? No. Sometimes they're serious. Yeah. Sometimes they're serious.
0:46.0	Yeah. I mean, sometimes we do talk about quite difficult, serious things. And unnecessary
0:52.7	interruption. Continue. Yeah. Sorry. But unnecessary introduction. Continue.
0:55.3	Yeah, sorry.
1:00.9	But we do also like to have fun and manage to have fun when appropriate.
1:04.5	And I think this one is going to be a fun and interesting episode. We're going to be talking about the four, well, there may be more than four as we talk,
1:10.0	but the four standard characters that you meet when you stop drinking.
1:17.6	So I kind of distilled them down into this kind of description.
1:23.1	And I think you will recognize these people in your journey when you stop drinking.
1:28.6	So that's what we're going to be talking about today.
1:30.3	Before we get started, we just want to let you know about the Foundations of Sobriety Program
1:35.9	that's going to be starting.
1:37.6	The Foundations of Sobriety, it's a small group coaching program that Chip and I both facilitate. It runs for three months. We're going to be
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