Hearing 100 Sober Stories: Here is what I, Brad, learned.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this short (12-minute) but powerful episode, I share 11 things I learned from hearing 100 sober stories here on the Sober Motivation Podcast and what I believe to be the most powerful one of the entire process.
Some examples 👇
1. Get connected to support
2. It is never too late to get sober
3. One Day at a time helps
4. Moderation is tough to manage
5. A "Rock Bottom" is not required.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone, to another episode. |
| 0:02.5 | This is going to be a lot different than our regular episodes. |
| 0:06.0 | I want to share 11 things I've learned from hearing 100 sober stories here on the show. |
| 0:14.2 | Let's start off with the first one. |
| 0:16.7 | What we consider a rock bottom is not required to get sober. |
| 0:22.8 | A lot of people understand a rock bottom as an external consequence of some sort. |
| 0:28.7 | Drinking and driving and getting caught. |
| 0:30.9 | Getting in an accident. |
| 0:32.3 | Maybe getting arrested for something. |
| 0:34.6 | Losing your job, destroying relationships. |
| 0:37.7 | Although all of those things are very real and can be a great motivator for getting sober, |
| 0:42.8 | what I heard a lot of people share about on the podcast was a mix of those things. |
| 0:48.6 | But also, once they were able to get honest with how they felt on the inside about their drinking, |
| 0:57.5 | that really seemed to provide them some clarity and motivation that things needed to change. |
| 1:03.9 | And some people didn't even have any of those external type consequences in their life. |
| 1:10.4 | And they decided to give up alcohol and get sober anyway. |
| 1:14.0 | Number two is that alcohol and drugs will kill you. |
| 1:17.7 | We know this, hopefully. |
| 1:21.2 | Several guests on the show shared stories about how consistently drinking, |
| 1:26.9 | maybe for a year or two years, |
| 1:28.8 | ended them up in the hospital fighting for their life due to the alcohol consumption. |
| 1:34.4 | We also had Renee on the show whose daughter Sabrina passed away from an overdose, |
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