Catherine Gray on the Joy of Being Sober

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Catherine Gray is an award-winning writer and editor. Her most recent book is called, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober. What a brilliant title and what a brilliant book. In it - and in this interview - Catherine offers so many good ideas, phrases, and pearls of wisdom to take away and keep close by. She shares a bit about her journey to and through sobriety with Eric and the critical "ah ha" moments along the way that really helped her build the life she's living today. If you don't have a revelatory moment when listening to her in this interview, we'll be surprised.

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In This Interview, Catherine Gray and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
Her book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
The challenge of training our brains to look for the good stuff in life
The question: Would my life be better sober? instead of Am I an alcoholic?
Rock bottom being a different place for different people at different times
The challenge of moderation
The beautiful clarity of zero
The limbic system in distress with indecision
Controlling vs Enjoying drinking
Alchohol being like a cheat code in a video game when it comes to inhibition
That no one regrets being sober
The awful feelings at the beginning of getting sober are what you feel like because of the drinking, not the getting sober
Learning the skills to enjoy life sober
Addictive voice recognition
Negative Thought Patterns:
B&B
Children in a car
Bird watching
That there are many different ways to get sober
How expectations are resentments under construction
Day counting in being sober
I don't vs I can't

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0:00.0	When I was living in active addiction, I would nurture resentment, I would feed them, I would exercise them as if they were a dog.
0:16.6	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:18.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:23.2	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:28.8	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:33.1	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:37.8	We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:44.1	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:47.6	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:52.4	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:56.8	how they feed their good wolf.
1:13.6	Thanks for joining us.
1:14.8	Our guest on this episode is Catherine Gray, an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared in almost every newspaper and magazine you can think of.
1:24.0	From the Guardian to Cosmopolitan to the Daily Mail and short list to the Sun.
1:29.0	Catherine also works as a travel writer for Google and is a contributing editor for the Lifestyle Library.
1:35.1	Her book is the unexpected joy of being sober.
1:39.0	Stress happens to everyone, it's one of those facts of life.
1:42.8	I'm sure you can think of a time recently when you were very stressed.
1:47.0	We're working on helping people to better manage their stress.
1:50.1	If you're signed up for our email list already, you know that we recently sent something to you about stress in your life.
1:57.3	And we're going to be continuing on this topic and we've got a new resource that's coming out soon called Eliminating Stress.
2:03.8	Two smart strategies to keep you calm and confident.
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