Are you Blaming Others for Your Bad Choices?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Blame Game...We call it a game but it isn't all that fun really.
'It's not my fault I drink this much - I do it because...'
Enter one of a thousand possible answers:
- My parents
- My upbringing
- My job
- My partner
- My mother-in-law
- I live above a pub
- Society
- TV and Media and Mr Blobby
- Etc. etc. etc
You name it, we have probably blamed one of these things for our over drinking at some point!
But what purpose does passing the buck play in helping us get sober?
Is it instead diverting the attention away from the fact that you might have a alcohol use disorder?
In this episode, Vic and Hame dive into some of the factors they blamed in the past and explore healthier and more efficient ways to get sober!
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The kettle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:34.9 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 0:59.9 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety |
| 1:12.0 | in mental health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. |
| 1:16.5 | Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Hamish Adams |
| 1:23.5 | Cairns. And this is Sober Awkward. So Vic, how's this week been? Yeah, not bad. I took |
| 1:33.8 | little Sandy to dog groomers yesterday. Rock and roll. Yeah, she is rock and roll my life. She has gone from |
| 1:40.0 | a drunk dog to sober dog. Explain? Well, she just looks kind of like a bit disheveled when she's got long hair. |
| 1:45.8 | And then she goes into the groomers and she comes out and she just looks slick. And young, right? Dogs after haircuts are like years fallen off of them. Yeah, they're so sweet because you can see their little faces again. They look so happy. And I had Freddy with me. We're in the posh stylish canine, it's called, in the posh dog groomers. |
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