Sober living with Clare Pooley

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week's episode is with Clare Pooley, author of the hugely successful 'The Sober Diaries - How one woman stopped drinking and started living'. Clare found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle so she left her successful role as a Managing Partner in one of the world's biggest advertising agencies to look after her family. She knew the change wouldn't be easy but she never expected to find herself drinking more than a bottle of wine a day. The book is her journey back to herself, through getting sober and is an inspiring, funny and poignant story of living life to the full. We chat about: - when to consider stopping drinking - how she knew she had a problem - what she learned about herself through sobriety - her sober social life - sober parenting Hope you enjoy it, to accompany the episode I've written about my own experience of sobriety over on the blog https://www.motherkind.co/blog-1/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.7	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Motherkind podcast with me Zoe Blaskey,
1:19.7	where each week I chat about all things motherhood and well-being.
1:24.6	This week I had the pleasure of chatting with the hilarious Claire Pooley, who is the author of
1:31.1	The Sober Diaries, how one woman stopped drinking and started living. So Claire started by writing
1:38.3	a hugely popular blog called Mummy Was a Secret Drinker under the pseudonym of Sober Mummy.
1:45.3	And through a series of events, which we talk about in the podcast,
1:48.4	she came to write this book, The Sober Diaries.
1:52.6	And if you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it.
1:55.5	It is a really funny, lighthearted, but incredibly emotional and poignant at the same time book about Claire's
2:06.2	journey from excessive drinker into sobriety. And there are some huge challenges that she faces
2:13.3	along the way, which we talk about in the book. I think that's when you realise that you've got a bit of a problem
2:20.1	is when you can't stick to your own rules.
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