I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power. Weakness had on me. Free, free, free, free, free.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction

and recovery. I'm Gene McCarthy, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host. I've been chronicling

my adventures in life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety a decade ago in my blog

Unpickled and in the books that I write to so far and more on the way

at jean mccarthy.ca. I tell my stories there and I hold space for your stories here. And today,

ah, super exciting. I'm holding space for none other than Ruby Warrington, the author of Sober Curious, and she has a new book out,

a workbook that is fantastic. It's called The Sober Curious Reset. Ruby Warrington,

hello and welcome. Hello, Jen. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.

I'm glad you're here. And I'm sure our listeners are exciting because I think if I

took a poll, I would have to guess that your book is on the bookshelf of probably 90% of

listeners. That would be cool. You've had a huge impact and it's, I just have so many questions for you about the whole

movement of the sober curious mindset. But before we get to that, I'm just going to ask you to

take a few moments and tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and who you are and how you got

here. Well, yeah, my name's Ruby.

I'm British by birth, and I've lived in America, New York for nine years.

It was nine years last month.

I actually got my U.S. citizenship last year right before the election, which is great.

And so I'm definitely making this country my home. And this is really where my career

has moved from being more in the journalistic space to becoming an author and writing more about

the subject matter that I really care about and the kind of books that I really want to see in the world.

My background is, like I said, journalism.

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