Quitting Everything: Ingrid on dumping cigarettes, booze, and diets

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Long before many of us turned to alcohol, we learned to numb our feeling with other behaviours. These old habits may resonate into adulthood and become normalized by a world full of quick fixes. For Ingrid, healing from alcohol addiction has meant simultaneously addressing other harmful behaviours that many people don't even question. Visit Ingrid's blog at totalfatty.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
0:16.0	looking for excuse me, I just want to be free from power weakness head on me.
0:23.6	Free, free, free, free, free, free.
0:26.6	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:42.5	I'm your host Gene McCarthy. I write the blog Unpickled. That's where I tell my story of life after alcohol and I tell my story there.
0:52.1	And then I invite you to share your stories here and before I
0:56.1	introduce today's guest I want to say in true Canadian fashion I want to say sorry and thank
1:03.1	you so sorry for the terrible audio I gave you on last week's interview with Mary and thank you to the nice listener who wrote in and said,
1:13.5	so were you in the bubble bath,
1:14.6	or were you doing dishes while you recorded that episode?
1:18.1	Because there was water running.
1:19.7	There was all this noise.
1:21.7	It turned out I had the wrong mic active rather than the expensive mic that was right
1:27.0	in front of my mouth.
1:28.6	The studio was recording with an ambient mic.
1:31.2	So, no, I wasn't in the bathtub or doing dishes.
1:34.3	That water running was my oil diffuser, which is like 10 feet from my desk.
1:42.2	And I was horrified when I found out that you could hear all of that.
1:45.7	But the guest was so wonderful that I left it up for you.
1:48.7	So if you listened to that and wondered what on earth was going on here at my house,
1:54.1	it was just me being ditsy.
1:57.1	And I triple-checked my mic today, so I'm hoping it all sounds good because I have another
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