Catherine Gray: Sobriety, Rejection and Hobnobs

Angela Scanlon's Thanks A Million

Angela Scanlon

Mental Health, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Irish, Ireland, Rte, Scanlon, Anxiety, Angela Scanlon, Uplifting, Thanks, Anxious, Grateful, Wellbeing, Positivity

4.8 • 803 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times Bestselling Author of the ‘Unexpected Joy of’ series on sobriety, being single and the ordinary knows a thing or two about gratitude. After finding herself drinking, in her own words, “a life-endangering amount of alcohol”, Catherine became sober and wrote about her experience, now hoping to reinvent how Britain thinks about being alcohol-free. Her impressive CV includes Cosmopolitan, GLAMOUR, Fabulous, The Guardian, Women’s Health, the list goes on. Here Catherine shares about failures and rejection, how she learnt to say no and the dangers of giving alcohol to children. Oh and for the love of god stop apologising for everything!

But what is Catherine thankful for today? Angela finds out…

You can order a copy of Catherine’s latest book ‘Sunshine Warm Sober’ here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunshine-Warm-Sober-Blooming-long-lasting/dp/1783253398/ref=nodl_

As well as being a riposte to ‘stone cold sober’ propaganda, this book is about creating unexpected sober joy that lasts and being a very happy ‘retired wreckhead’.

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0:00.0	A nip in the air. Dips in the lido even though it's Baltic and walks with the three major.
0:06.0	There are a million things I'm thankful for today, but what is my guest thankful for?
0:10.0	The big thank you would be society in general, because the way that people have changed their attitudes towards non-drinkers is really remarkable.
0:20.0	I'm Angela Scanlan and welcome to Thanks a Million, where we explore our guests, perfect. attitudes towards non-drinkers is really remarkable.
0:21.1	I'm Angel Scanlon and welcome to Thanks a Million where we explore our guest's personal
0:25.3	gratitude lists to find out the things that have shaped their lives.
0:30.7	This week you have the pleasure of hearing from the Sunday Times best-selling author Catherine
0:34.6	Grey.
0:35.6	She's written five books including The Unexpected Joy of series on sobriety, being single and The Ordinary.
0:41.7	Who better than to talk all about gratitude? I mean, she literally writes books about finding joy in stuff and some pretty bleak stuff, let's be honest.
0:50.5	Catherine previously worked for magazines such as cosmopolitan, glamour and fabulous for nearly a decade before going freelance herself and being published pretty much everywhere from The Guardian to Women's Health.
1:01.5	After finding herself drinking, in her own words, a life-endangering amount of alcohol, she decided to become sober and wrote about her experience in her books, the hope to reinvent how
1:11.3	Britain thinks about being alcohol-free. She was also never single from the ages of 18 to 33
1:17.4	and the few weeks she was, were spent interviewing future potentials. But as with sobriety,
1:23.6	Catherine is now very thankful for time on her own. But what three things are you thankful for?
1:29.8	Lauren Oxy, adding an extra half mile to my run this morning because I was enjoying your Joel
1:35.0	Domit.
1:35.2	I'm a podcast so much.
1:36.4	Good job.
1:37.0	Wasn't he great at the NTAs as well?
1:39.2	Fleetwood Mac, love it, was just listening to do,
1:41.3	and the world we love.
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