Relapse!
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
For many reasons, no matter how hard you try, even if you hate it, when you give up alcohol it has an annoying habit of creeping back into your mind. Strong emotions, triggery places and drinking culture, mean thoughts of it seep in, little nudges and voices begin shoving you towards having 'just one' and before you know it, you're at the bottle shop paying for a bottle of Sav.
For some, relapse is a part of the sobriety path and others manage to circumvent it. But how? Today Vic and Lucy delve into the times they wobbled, tell you the most common relapse triggers, give you some tips on how to avoid going back and discuss the shame and drama that jogs alongside returning to booze after a period of abstinence.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is made in association with drunkmummy, sobermummy.com, and cupper.com, |
| 0:06.0 | the free social network for the sober and sober curious. |
| 0:12.0 | All the kettles boiled. |
| 0:14.0 | Great. Perfect timing. |
| 0:16.0 | Should you get started then? |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Lucy Good. this is sober outward. |
| 0:29.0 | Right Lucy, over to you. Thanks Vic. So whatever stage you're at on your sober journey and |
| 0:35.7 | Vic and I are at completely different stages. |
| 0:38.5 | You'll know that life without booze can at times feel, what do you reckon? |
| 0:43.5 | Awkward. Lucy and I invite you to listen to our podcast where we discuss the realities of sobriety. |
| 0:50.0 | The good, the bad, the ugly and the cringingly embarrassing. |
| 0:54.4 | Our honest and open chats will help you discover what it really means to be sober. |
| 0:58.9 | Yes, we're here, like a dodgy bottle of port from your nan's drink cabinet, |
| 1:03.5 | to take the edge off sobriety, and together we can learn how to feel the awkward and do it anyway. |
| 1:17.9 | Thank you. we can learn how to feel the awkward and do it anyway. The ice cream vans here, do you want anything? |
| 1:20.3 | Oh, ice cream vans pulled up, Lucy. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. |
| 1:22.9 | I'll get one of those, if they've got them, I'll have a Raspberry Ripple screwball |
| 1:27.0 | and a Mr Whippy with flake double, double cone, double flake. Yeah, I'll have a clown face and I want a double cone as well dipped in chocolate. I'll have a slushy and a can of Coke. Do you want a can of fanta as well, Lucy? Yeah, I will, yeah. All right, go on, hurry up, Alan. Let's see what happens. Alright, let's get on with this. No, it's gone. Oh, for fuck's sake, you're joking. |
| 1:44.6 | He's missed it. Lucy. Yeah, I will, yeah. All right, go on, let's see what happens. All right, let's get on with this. Oh, for fuck's sake, you're joking. |
| 1:47.6 | He's missed it. |
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