Losing the Battle Against Moderation
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week's retrospective episode we revisit Vic and Lucy's struggle to beat the moderation pixie.
Many of us try and fail to moderate for years before eventually accepting that sobriety might be the best route for us.
We have heard every trick in the book from drinking a water in between each alcoholic drink to only drinking on the weekends!
Attempting moderation is often a losing battle. You might be surprised to hear that going totally sober is actually the easier way to live your life.
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| 0:00.0 | I always remember when I was trying to moderate. |
| 0:09.5 | I was so desperate to do it. |
| 0:11.0 | If there was one wish, one wish I could have in my whole life, |
| 0:15.4 | it would have been to be able to moderate. |
| 0:17.5 | That is what I wanted more than anything in the world to moderate with |
| 0:21.0 | alcohol. So it was like a dream. It was like a daydream, really. It was a dream and I tried for it and I couldn't get it. But if you gave me one wish, it would have been that. And what about now, Lucy, now you're seven months sober nearly. I mean, do you still wish one day you could be a moderate drinker? |
| 0:37.9 | I would love to be, yeah, I'd love to be. |
| 0:40.3 | But I know. |
| 0:41.1 | I absolutely know 100% I couldn't be. |
| 0:44.6 | And that knowing, I guess, is enough, isn't it? |
| 0:47.1 | Because you get to know your behaviour. |
| 0:49.0 | You know yourself by now. |
| 0:50.1 | You know yourself after 26 years of binge drinking. |
| 0:53.0 | That that behaviour is just so repetitive and boring, As we talked about in the last broadcast, you know that behaviour and you're just going to be kidding yourself if you think that's going to happen one day. I've got no intentions of trying to attempt that ever again in my life. Because that's what you've been doing for years. Yeah, what's the point? What's the point? But what about you? What about you? Tell us |
| 1:11.0 | about your moderation and how wonderful you were at it. Yeah. I was amazing. One drink on the bus |
| 1:17.8 | on the way home. That was it. Yeah, yeah. Not at all. I call it the moderation, Pixie, because I felt like |
| 1:26.0 | when I was drinking that there was almost like an outside force that was making me drink more. |
| 1:31.2 | It was almost like a horrible little pixie cackling on my shoulder going, |
| 1:35.0 | go on, you know you're going to do it anyway. |
| 1:37.1 | Come on, join the party, have some fun. |
| 1:39.3 | You can't moderate. |
| 1:40.3 | You can't moderate. |
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