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Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober

E306: The Sobriety Audit: What Changed This Year (And What Didn’t)

Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober

Gillian Tietz, MS, CPRC

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Science

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It’s almost New Year, New Me time and before you make plans and goals for 2026, I’d love to walk you through a sobriety audit to evaluate how far you’ve come over the past year. In this episode I’ll guide you through an audit of your identity shift to becoming a person who doesn’t drink, you’re emotional growth and skill development, and help you recognize any signs of drifting backwards to relief and comfort seeking. What to listen to next: E267: resources vs support: how to set yourself up for success Work with me: Community & Meetings: Living a Sober Powered Life https://www.soberpowered.com/membership Sober coaching https://www.soberpowered.com/sober-coaching  Weekly email: You’ll hear from me on Fridays https://www.soberpowered.com/email Support the show: If you enjoyed this episode please consider buying me a coffee to support all the research and effort that goes into this podcast https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberpowered Thank you for supporting this show by supporting my sponsors https://www.soberpowered.com/sponsors Sources are posted on my website Disclaimer: all of the information described in this podcast is my interpretation of the research combined with my opinion. This is not medical advice.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's almost New Year, New Me time, and before you make plans and goals for 2026, I would love to walk you through a sobriety audit to evaluate how far you've come over the past year.

0:17.9

In this episode, I'll guide you through an audit of your identity shift to

0:22.1

becoming a person who doesn't drink, your emotional growth and skill development, and help you

0:27.9

recognize any signs of drifting backwards to relief and comfort seeking. And before we dig in,

0:34.2

I'd like to take a moment to thank my sponsors who made this episode possible.

0:39.2

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0:45.7

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1:12.8

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1:18.3

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1:24.6

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code power. Welcome back to the Silver Powered podcast. I'm your host Jill, and today we are doing

2:08.0

a sobriety audit. And this will be in three parts. So part one is your identity shift. When people

2:15.7

think about progress in sobriety, they almost always look at behavior,

2:20.9

how many days they have, how consistent they were, what they stopped doing, what they started doing.

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