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🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Glorious Rock Bottom is straight-talking journalist and author Bryony Gordon’s candid and compelling sobriety memoir. In this chat with our Jen, Bryony explains what made her realise her drinking was a problem, what it means to be an alcoholic, how she learned to tell the stigma around alcoholism to jog on, expectation vs reality when it comes to AA, why we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and why she decided to share her personal story with the world.
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0:36.0 | Hello, Jen here to tell you about this episode of The Sunday Chops. |
0:41.0 | Back in May I was lucky enough to catch up with journalist, best-selling author and |
0:46.3 | mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon to chat about her new book, Glorious Rock Bottom, |
0:51.5 | which is about her struggle and subsequent recovery from |
0:55.1 | drug and alcohol addiction it's a surprisingly readable book considering the |
1:00.8 | serious subject matter so I definitely recommend it and for now I hope you very much enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed chatting to Bryny. I'm joined via Zoom by journalist, best-selling author and mental health |
1:17.0 | campaign at Bryony Gordon hello Bryony. |
1:19.0 | Hello Jen how are you? I'm all right it's quite hot today. It's quite hot and you're |
1:24.8 | 37 weeks pregnant. Yes it's very warm I'm slowly melting possibly you are as well. |
1:31.0 | You are here to talk to me about your brand new book |
1:34.0 | Gorious Rock Bottom. |
1:35.0 | Do you want to tell us what it's about? |
1:37.0 | Well, it's basically about getting sober |
1:40.0 | and realizing that I am an alcoholic. |
1:44.4 | I'm nearly three years sober. |
1:46.7 | I wrote my second book called Mad Girl. |
1:48.6 | It was all about my OCD. |
1:49.9 | And I guess it kind of led me into this unexpected world of mental health campaigning. |
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