Sober Stories: I Stopped Counting Days - I Started Living Them
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our new weekly shortened episodes - Sober Stories!
After the overwhelming response to a recent writing competition during which we asked you to share your JOURNEYS to sobriety (the good, the bad and the ugly!), we felt compelled to take things a step further.
We asked, you wrote, and now we're sharing the incredible, hilarious, and heartwarming stories you sent us. Get ready to be inspired by your fellow listeners, one story at a time!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Sober Awkward, where we're doing something a little bit different. |
| 0:07.9 | We started this podcast to share our own messy, awkward and hopefully humorous journeys through |
| 0:14.1 | sobriety and have always felt incredibly humbled by how many of you have connected with our |
| 0:20.0 | stories. But not everyone's journey is the |
| 0:23.1 | same as Vicanise. So we put our heads together to figure out a way to give back and let our |
| 0:28.8 | listeners inspire each other. Basically, we're taking us to idiots completely out the equation. |
| 0:35.2 | We decided to run a storytelling competition, during which we asked you |
| 0:39.7 | to share your own inspirational stories of recovery with us. Well, to be honest, the stories you sent us |
| 0:47.0 | completely blew us away. They were powerful, moving and truly inspiring. We knew right away that we had to share them. So, with |
| 0:57.0 | the permissions of the storytellers, we're going to be sharing one of their stories with you |
| 1:01.5 | each week. This is our way of celebrating you. These are your stories, raw, real and full of hope. Welcome to Sober Stories. |
| 1:16.5 | This week's sober story is by Rebecca, and it's called I Stopped Counting Days. I started living |
| 1:22.7 | them. I don't know exactly how many days I've been sober. I stopped counting somewhere around the nine-month mark, |
| 1:29.8 | once I realised I wasn't simply surviving anymore. |
| 1:32.7 | I was actually living. |
| 1:35.3 | These days I measure my progress in moments, not milestones. |
| 1:39.8 | The quiet pride of showing up for my children, |
| 1:42.7 | clear-eyed and calm. |
| 1:44.7 | The peace I feel when I go to bed without shame clawing at my thoughts. |
| 1:48.6 | The mornings I wake up with clarity, energy, and the kind of strength that doesn't come from grit, |
| 1:53.8 | but from finally learning to be gentle with myself. |
| 1:57.4 | That shift, from gritted teeth to gentleness, has been the most unexpected part of this whole |
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