The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This week in the Share Shed there is a message from someone who feels properly stuck.
It’s whisky, and it’s creeping earlier. What used to be evenings has slowly shifted… to afternoons… and now sometimes mornings. Just a quick swig out of the bottle to steady the nerves.
They’ve been listening to the podcast, quietly questioning things, knowing deep down something isn’t right… but still lying to themselves and everyone around them.
And this is the first time they’ve ever said it out loud. If this resonates maybe the best thing you can do is just tell one person?
The Share Shed is where listeners send in their funniest, cringiest and most unbelievable drinking stories. It’s not about judgement, it’s about recognising how wild things could get when alcohol was in charge, and laughing about it now we’re on the other side.
If you’ve got a story you’d like to get off your chest, funny, awkward or slightly ridiculous, you can send it to Vic at:
vic@soberawkward.com
Anonymous is absolutely fine. In fact - for legal reasons - probably preferable!!
and if you feel like you are in need of some extra support and you live in Australia - here are some people you can call -
📞 SUPPORT & RESOURCES
If anything in today’s Shame Shed felt familiar, or you’re worried about your drinking, there is support out there. You don’t have to do this on your own.
🇦🇺 Australia
National Alcohol & Other Drug Hotline
📞 1800 250 015 (24/7)
Free, confidential advice and support
🌐 https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/alcohol-and-drug-information-service
Lifeline (if you’re feeling overwhelmed or in crisis)
📞 13 11 14 (24/7)
🌐 https://www.lifeline.org.au
Hello Sunday Morning / Daybreak App
Online support programme and community
🌐 https://hellosundaymorning.org
🌐 https://daybreakapp.com.au
Clean Slate Clinic
Telehealth support for detox and recovery from home
🌐 https://www.cleanslateclinic.com
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Drinkline (NHS Alcohol Helpline)
📞 0300 123 1110
🌐 https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-advice/alcohol-support/
Alcohol Change UK
Advice, tools, and support
🌐 https://alcoholchange.org.uk
We Are With You
Free, local and online support
🌐 https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk
🌍 International
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Find local meetings worldwide
🌐 https://www.aa.org
SMART Recovery
Science-based support groups (online and in person)
🌐 https://www.smartrecovery.org
💬 A gentle reminder
If you’re drinking in the morning to cope, especially with anxiety or withdrawal symptoms, it’s really important to speak to a doctor or medical professional. Stopping suddenly can be unsafe for some people, and support can make a huge difference.
You don’t have to have it all figured out.
You just have to start somewhere.
💛 Other Resources & Links
📘 Victoria’s memoir – A Thousand Wasted Sundays
A brutally honest and hilarious look at motherhood, anxiety, and ditching the booze.
🎧 Listen to more Sober Awkward episodes
🫖 Join The Cuppa Community
Our private, supportive online space for sober folk
📘 Get the Sober Awkward Guide
Our downloadable toolkit for ditching booze the awkward way.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thursday share shed of questions and confessions. |
| 0:10.0 | The bit of the week where I'll fling open the doors of sober awkward and let everything tumble out. |
| 0:15.7 | If you've got a cringy moment that still pops up uninvited at 3am. This is your chance to offload it. |
| 0:22.5 | Let's get it off your chest and stop these tumultuous tales lurking like the drunken ghosts of your |
| 0:28.3 | pissed up past. You can email your stories to vick at soberaawquad.com. Anonymous is encouraged, |
| 0:35.6 | oversharing is very welcome and judgment is most certainly banned. |
| 0:40.6 | So if you've ever worn a traffic cone on your head, had a weird one-night stand, |
| 0:45.5 | fallen asleep in a bush, puked in a bin, and yes, had the occasional running with the police, |
| 0:50.3 | or you just need to ask me a question about booze, then you're in the right place. |
| 0:54.9 | I believe nothing says growth like finally airing a bit of dirty laundry. |
| 1:00.4 | Let's evict those embarrassing memories once and for all. |
| 1:04.5 | Kettle on, share shed open, let's get a little bit awkward. |
| 1:13.1 | Oh, pollocks. I'm sorry. let's get a little bit awkward. That's about the 15th time. |
| 1:17.3 | I have stubbed my toe on these bloody lights in my office. |
| 1:20.0 | Anyway, welcome to the Thursday Shareshed. |
| 1:25.7 | The place where we get it all of our chests with no judgment and we make |
| 1:30.3 | ourselves feel a little bit better about our debauchrous drinking days. And you make me feel a bit |
| 1:36.2 | better about mine. Today, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not going to read this one live because |
| 1:43.7 | the person asked me not to. |
| 1:45.7 | They wanted to double check that it was okay to ask this sort of question. So it said in the title, |
| 1:51.7 | please read before reading live, something like that. So I'm not reading it live. I wanted to see |
| 1:57.4 | what they had to say. And it is a bit of a serious one because it's from someone who is at the more |
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