Catherine Gray on The Lasting 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

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Gray is a Sunday Times Bestselling author of five books, including debut smash hit The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober. She’s sold well over a quarter of a million books and her books have now been translated into nine languages. She’s been sober since 2013. Catherine has also written about being single later in life and learning to appreciate the ordinary.

Eric and Catherine discuss her latest book, Sunshine Warm: Unexpected Sober Joy That Lasts

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Catherine Gray and I Discuss The Lasting Joy of Being Sober and…

Her book, Sunshine Warm: Unexpected Sober Joy That Lasts
The power of getting more specific with your gratitude lists
Being several years removed from addiction and in the advanced stages of recovery
Understanding that addiction doesn’t have to define you, but that it’s always there
No longer defining herself as an alcoholic after several years of sobriety
Addiction can be the difference between what you intend to do and what you actually do
How addiction is a spectrum and not black or white
The issues with labeling yourself as an addict
What matters most is asking yourself if your life would be better without the substance or behavior
The challenge with addictions that are considered socially acceptable
How most experts agree there isn’t such a thing as an addictive personality
Some people may have addictive tendencies based on various traits
Understanding that our perception of ourselves is what shapes our reality

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0:00.0	I think no matter what lexicon you use around your addiction, whether you say that you're sober or clean or alcohol-free or tea-total or drug-free, whatever you want to use,
0:10.0	the only thing that matters is remembering the darkness, the place you found yourself and never wanting to go back there.
0:18.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:28.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:38.0	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:42.0	We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:47.0	We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:53.0	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:57.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:01.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:21.0	My father was a block star. It was like Biddlemania.
1:25.0	But not here in America. Dean Reed criticized the American government from behind the Iron Curtain. He had lots of enemies.
1:31.0	He wanted to come back home and then the unthinkable happened.
1:37.0	Dean Reed died. Come with me, Ramona Reed, to learn more about the extraordinary life and mysterious death of revolutionary.
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1:52.0	Truth is stranger than fiction. And reality TV stars know this better than anyone.
1:58.0	But what you may not know about them or even believe is actually criminal behavior.
2:03.0	I'm Kaelin Miller-Kees, and on my new podcast True Crime Reality, I will be joined by reality TV stars as they dive deep into the details of a crime they have a direct connection to.
2:14.0	Listen to True Crime Reality on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
2:22.0	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Catherine Gray, who is one of very few guests to ever be on the show three times.
2:32.0	Maybe she'll be the first to be on four times. We don't know what the future holds.
2:37.0	But Catherine Gray is a writer and author who lives in the UK, her first book, which we interviewed her about, was the unexpected joy of being sober, which is so great it became a bestseller.
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