Sober Christmas?! Help!
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The day is nearly upon us! For some of you it will be the most rewarding day of your sober calendar - for others it is the most challenging.
Either way, in this episode we will share our best and worst Christmas experience and share some of our best tips on how to not only survive but thrive during a sober Christmas.
Jam packed with lots of helpful tools shared by the listeners too.
We have a little surprise Christmas Day gift being released tomorrow but otherwise this is our final episode of 2023 but we will be back with you on New Years Day. So both from both of us Merry Christmas and thank you for listening this year!
Show Notes
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| 0:00.0 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:34.9 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:00.0 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety and |
| 1:12.3 | mental health, and turn you into the most sparkly, authentic version of you. |
| 1:16.5 | Won't that mean I become boring, though, Vic? |
| 1:18.4 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Hamish Adams-Kans. |
| 1:24.1 | And this is soberber Awkward. |
| 1:33.1 | Hamish, can you not do one of your horrible Merry Christmas? |
| 1:34.6 | You know what? |
| 1:35.6 | It's Christmas. |
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