Sober Awkward
Should I Delete That?
Alex Light & Em Clarkson
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
As we welcome in the new year, many of you will be dabbling with sobriety through Dry January. It can feel like the perfect antidote to a heavy month of boozing and indulging over the festive period, but how many of us actually consider why we drink? Sober Awkward is a podcast run by sober pals Victoria Vanstone and Hamish Adams-Cairns, and they join Alex and Em to discuss what it really feels like to be sober and why they were both compelled to do it. They share the best things and worst things about being sober, and how to tell people to just f**k off when you need to...
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| 0:00.0 | It's impossible to say how long it will take to get over or if you ever will all you know for sure is it isn't now |
| 0:08.1 | But like countless other widows and widowers whilst you may not be ready to form another serious romantic connection, you still |
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| 0:35.0 | I don't know about you, Al, but I find this new year, new stuff so overwhelming. |
| 0:41.0 | Although there are elements of a new routine and a fresh start that I can really |
| 0:46.5 | get behind, I actually find the pressure to fix my whole life to be all-encompassing at this time of year. |
| 0:52.8 | Totally, there is so much pressure and actually why can't we just celebrate what we're already |
| 0:57.6 | doing right and how we can expand from there versus setting goals just once per year because society tells us that it's a new year, new you. |
| 1:06.3 | One area that I will continue to beat the drum of self-development in however is therapy. |
| 1:12.4 | We are not all about changing our bodies this year but we can |
| 1:16.4 | be about helping our minds and that is why we are so proud to be partnered back up |
| 1:21.2 | with better help. |
| 1:22.8 | With over 1,000 therapists in the UK already, |
| 1:25.9 | better help can provide access to mental health professionals |
| 1:28.6 | with a wide variety of expertise in mental health. |
| 1:32.3 | Not only that, but you can access better help from your home. |
| 1:35.0 | We know that there are so many barriers to therapy, |
| 1:38.0 | whether it be financial or location, |
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