How to do the Festive Season Sober

Menace to Sobriety

Daniel O'Reilly

Improv, Business, Non-profit, Mental Health, Education, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Yes I know it is only the 1st of November but this episode is all about how to do the festive season sober. Christmas in my opinion is the hardest part of the year to get through sober. I mean I am an example of how difficult it can be, I was defeated at Christmas the first time I tried to go sober. To this day it doesn't get easier but I understand it more and more regarding the triggers and how to rewire my brain when correlating drinking/seshing to Christmas. Throughout the podcast I talk about my triggers, if there are any you relate to let me know in the comments or if there are different ways you say no to a drink. I answer some of your questions and it feels good to talk about these things going into the festivities. I want to thank you all for the continuous support with this podcast and let me know you thoughts if there is anything you'd like me talk about. #podcast #soberpodcast #mentalhealth #motivation #sobersuccesspodcast #mentalhealthawareness #sobersuccess #christmas #festive Sobriety Podcast #wedorecover # recoveroutloud #addicitonrecovery #addiction #recoverytok #sobriety #sober #sobertiktok #sobertok #soberlife #sobercurious #soberliving: https://www.instagram.com/dappersinstagram/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Menace to Sobriety with your host with the most, Dan O'Reilly.
0:10.5	And a big one, I'm doing this fairly early just to give you guys loads of time to prep, but I'm already feeling anxious about it.
0:18.1	I'm not going to lie.
0:19.5	I'm calling this podcast episode,
0:21.3	how to do the festive season sober, how to do Christmas sober. And for me, it's the
0:28.7	hardest part. I'm over two years sober now and I still feel and think all the same feelings
0:35.5	and all the same thoughts about the festive season not as much
0:39.2	as i did at the beginning but i certainly feel it and um yeah i wanted to do an episode on just you know
0:45.9	what i'm going to do to navigate the christmas season what you can do some tips some things
0:50.9	that can help and a little delve into why we feel the way we do about the Christmas season.
0:56.0	I don't care who you are.
0:57.8	If you are struggling or had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and drugs or either or the Christmas season is such a tricky and anxiety-inducing time of year, man.
1:10.4	It really is. I haven't particularly enjoyed Christmas
1:14.3	as much as I'd like to over the last couple, like last year. It was a little bit of a, not a
1:20.1	struggle, but I felt it the year before I felt it. And the year before that, I actually cracked. And
1:25.3	I'd done four months sober and I cracked for Christmas.
1:29.7	So I have this feeling about Christmas that kind of it defeated me once.
1:35.9	Do you know what I mean?
1:36.5	So I think of it in a bad way.
1:39.7	But what I wanted to do is I wanted to look back on Christmas and how it's been ruined before
1:46.3	with alcohol and drugs and sort of kind of set the scene. And then I'm going to talk to you
1:50.8	about how I'm going to navigate this Christmas and what the sort of things I do to keep my
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