Alcohol helped Gill cope with life, until it didn’t.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we have Gill, who struggled early on in life with a lot of anger, and she would occasionally have friends growing up but because of being bullied so much in her youth, Gill's self-esteem and confidence were suffering. She focused a lot of her energy on her studies and excelled in the classroom. At home, things were also a struggle, and she is grateful for her close relationship with her brother and her love for video games. It wasn't until graduate school that Gill really became drawn into drinking alcohol as a way to cope with how life was playing out. This is Gill’s story on the Sober Motivation podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season three of the Subur Motivation podcast. Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share |
| 0:06.1 | incredible, inspiring, and powerful sobriety stories. We are here to show sobriety as possible |
| 0:11.3 | one story at a time. Let's go. In this episode, we have Jill, who struggled early on in life |
| 0:19.2 | with a lot of anger, and she would occasionally |
| 0:21.5 | have friends growing up, but because of being bullied so much in her youth, Jill's self-esteem |
| 0:26.6 | and confidence were suffering. She focused a lot of her energy on her studies and excelled in a |
| 0:31.7 | classroom. At home, things were also a struggle, and she is grateful for her close relationship |
| 0:36.9 | with their brother |
| 0:37.7 | and her love for video games. |
| 0:40.2 | It wasn't until graduate school that Jill really became drawn into drinking alcohol |
| 0:44.8 | as a way to cope with how life was playing out. |
| 0:48.1 | This is Jill's story on the Sober Motivation podcast. |
| 0:51.7 | How's it going, everyone? |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome back to another episode of the show. |
| 0:55.1 | If you want to support the show, here's three options and three ways you could do so. |
| 0:59.8 | Head over to the t-shirt, merchandise shop, sober motivation shop.com, worldwide shipping, |
| 1:06.4 | cheap shipping. |
| 1:07.1 | We also have the ever-famous custom sober date sweatshirt where you can type in your |
| 1:11.8 | sober date and you get it printed on the sweatshirt when you get it sent to you. You can also |
| 1:16.1 | check out the Subur Motivation Gratitude Journal that I put together, putting in some of the things |
| 1:21.2 | that help me stay sober and get to where I am today. I put all that in there. It's a digital |
| 1:26.1 | print. It's five bucks. |
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