Guest Kate Bee, Creator of The Sober School

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On April 6, 2013 journalist Kate Bee quit drinking and created a blog to chronicle her experiences. The first comment came from another sober blogger, UnPickled (Bubble Hour host, Jean!). Now, over four years later, the two sober bloggers will speak for the first time in this episode of The Bubble Hour. Kate will share her story and explain a program she has created to help other women shift to alcohol-free living, The Sober School. http://thesoberschool.com/

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0:00.0	I own it, I did that, not proud that was me, and when I face it, a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power
0:22.6	weakness head on me
0:24.6	Free, free, free, free, free
0:27.6	free, free Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Gene McCarthy.
0:45.1	You may know me from my blog Unpickled, which chronicles the last six years of life after alcohol,
0:51.3	and what a life it has been.
0:53.1	I thought sober living would make me boring, maybe lonely, but instead it's cracked
0:59.0	open my world and connected me with an international realm of amazing men and women in recovery.
1:05.0	Other bloggers, speakers, advocates, coaches, therapists, plus readers and listeners who are always so warm and gracious.
1:13.3	It never ceases to amaze me how much we all have in common.
1:17.2	And something cool is about to happen on our podcast today because this guest is a really
1:24.0	good example of that.
1:25.8	In April 2013, Kate B wrote her first blog post,
1:30.0	The Soberjournalist.com, about the sobriety thing she was going to try out.
1:34.7	And I happened to be one of the first readers who commented back to her,
1:40.8	encouraging her to keep going and to stick with it. And that blog follows her first 18 months
1:48.2	of recovery, after which she turned her efforts to a new project called the Sober School,
1:53.7	a six-week online program for recovery. So Kate joins us today to share her story and tell us
1:59.8	what prompted her to create this program
2:02.6	and give us some good strategies.
2:04.8	But mostly, I am just excited because after four years of cheering each other on through the
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