S6 E5: Sobriety with Millie Gooch from the Sober Girls Society

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Millie Gooch is the founder of the Sober Girl Society and is one of the voices leading the sobriety movement in the UK. As a journalist, she has written for a range of publications, and her campaigning work has been featured everywhere from ELLE and Stylist to the BBC and Evening Standard. The Sober Girl Society Handbook is her first book.This episode covers:- Inspiration behind the sober girl society- Why breaking up with alcohol is like breaking up with a toxic ex- Hangxiety, palpitations, the fear - What is being sober curious? - Benefits to going alcohol free that no one really talks about- How to deal with the stigma from friends/family/peers- Is sobriety part of diet culture?- Drink-free dating tips and sober sex - How to support people really struggling to stop drinking and where to find support. If you or someone you know needs support with cutting down or stopping drinking, please seek support from your GP. Self-help or mutual aid groups (groups such as AA or SMART Recovery groups) are accessible in most areas. Drinkline is the national alcohol helpline: Call 0300 123 1110 (weekdays 9am to 8pm, weekends 11am to 4pm).If you loved this episode make sure to give it a review, rating (hopefully 5 stars) and share it with your friends and family. instagram/twitter/facebook: @thefoodmedicwww.thefoodmedic.co.ukThis podcast episode is sponsored by WHOOP. Right now, you can get your first month free when you checkout through join.whoop.com/thefoodmedic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.2	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.0	Delicious.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Food Medic podcast.
0:25.4	I'm your host as always, Dr. Hazel.
0:28.0	So today we are talking about sobriety.
0:32.5	I guess if you guys follow me on social media,
0:36.3	you may have heard me or seen me talk about this
0:39.7	because I've been dabbling with going alcohol free over the last 12 months really. I'm
0:47.1	definitely not at a point where I am sober and I do still consume alcohol, but I've tried periods of going completely sober. And that was
0:59.0	really because I felt like alcohol was contributing to my anxiety. I was having palpitations
1:06.8	afterwards and it was disrupting my sleep. And actually, the periods that I stopped drinking were largely during lockdowns.
1:16.8	So in this episode, I say it was easy, but it was largely easy for that reason in that I didn't
1:23.1	have the, I guess, peer pressure of drinking alcohol. Not to say that my friends put me under a
1:30.6	huge amount of pressure, but society does, let's be honest. And so, yeah, I think my longest period
1:37.6	was four months and I felt great afterwards, but I do really enjoy a glass of wine or cocktail, and I'm not
1:48.0	going to deny that. I also don't want to make any absolutes when it comes to saying I'm this
1:55.5	or that, and I'm the same when it comes to my diet. So basically, as I've been talking about it more, you guys have
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