How to Embrace Sobriety with Gillian Tietz
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Gillian Tietz is the host of Sober Powered, a top 50 mental health podcast, and the founder of Sober Powered Media, a podcast network of top mental health shows. She has a master’s in biology and worked in research labs in the Boston area. Getting sober in 2019 inspired her to start her podcast to help others understand why addiction happens and how to develop the coping skills they need to stay sober. After 2 years of consistent, hard work she left her career in biochemistry to start her network.
Eric and Gillian discuss her journey to sobriety and how she shares what she has learned with others on her podcast, Sober Powered.
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Gillian Tietz and I Discuss How to Embrace Sobriety and …
- Her podcast, Sober Powered
- How she learned that watching TV did not support the life she wanted
- The start of her journey to sobriety
- Struggling with emotions that lead her to destructive habits
- Her struggles with body image
- Realizing how drinking caused her mental health to deteriorate
- How alcohol enhanced the problems she was trying to hide from
- Learning to accept that moderating drinking wasn’t possible
- The idea of harm reduction and the controversial opinions
- Finally seeking professional help when at the start of the quarantine
- How she wanted to start the podcast to share what she had learned to help others
- The value of finding support from sober communities on social media
- How we often don’t see the cause and effect of drinking when you’re in it
- The effects that alcohol has on the brain and mental health
- Post acute withdrawal and how the brain needs to learn to re-regulate without alcohol
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| 0:00.0 | If you don't drink every day, maybe you drink and then you have cravings that you're fighting off for days. |
| 0:06.4 | That's part of the drinking experience too, so I think not just taking that instant gratification piece that one to two hours as the whole experience is key. |
| 0:16.1 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:25.7 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:35.9 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:40.2 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:44.9 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:51.3 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:54.7 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:59.6 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:20.7 | Where were you in 92, bouncing your butt to Sir Mixlot? |
| 1:23.6 | Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment, now I had as a podcast all about it. I'm Jason Longfied, and on my new show, Where Were You In 92, we take a ride through the major hits, one hit Wonders and Shocking Scandals that shaped the Wildest 12 Months in Music History. |
| 1:36.6 | You know, the president came after me, everybody, time, Warner, with madness. |
| 1:41.3 | Music was magic, and I had completely burned that to the ground. |
| 1:45.5 | I realized I'm the forbidden fruit. |
| 1:48.3 | So listen and follow Where Were You In 92, on the IHR Radio App, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. |
| 1:55.4 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Jill Teats, a biochemist and host and creator of the Sober-powered podcast. |
| 2:03.7 | In her podcast and teaching, Jill talks about what she's learned about why it's so hard to stop drinking, why alcohol makes us so miserable, |
| 2:11.9 | how to embrace sobriety, and how to develop the life skills you need to stay sober. |
| 2:18.6 | Hi Jill, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you so much for having me. |
| 2:22.2 | I am excited to have you on because we are going to be talking about all things, addiction and recovery. |
| 2:28.1 | But before we get into that, let's start like we always do with the parable. |
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