The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
One man, one very confident walk home… and one slight issue with the fact he no longer lived there.
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!!
📞 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)
🌐 https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/alcohol-and-drug-information-service
Lifeline
📞 13 11 14 (24/7)
🌐 https://www.lifeline.org.au
Hello Sunday Morning / Daybreak
🌐 https://hellosundaymorning.org
🌐 https://daybreakapp.com.au
Clean Slate Clinic
🌐 https://www.cleanslateclinic.com
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Drinkline
📞 0300 123 1110
🌐 https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-advice/alcohol-support/
Alcohol Change UK
🌐 https://alcoholchange.org.uk
We Are With You
🌐 https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk
🌍 International
Alcoholics Anonymous
🌐 https://www.aa.org
SMART Recovery
🌐 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.
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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. |
| 1:12.9 | Hello, it's Thursday, the time of the week where we share all our tumultuous pasts together |
| 1:19.7 | and I get to not feel so bad about my own. But very quickly, before we get into today's |
| 1:26.4 | share shed, I just want to say thank you so much for all the messages this week. |
| 1:30.7 | I've had a bit of trouble knowing which email is what because we also launched the sober, awkward writing competition this week too. |
| 1:38.3 | So my inbox has gone a bit rogue. |
| 1:40.7 | If you're writing for the share shed, please put share shed in the subject line. Otherwise, |
| 1:45.3 | poor little me gets completely kerfuffle trying to work it all out. By the way, anyone can |
| 1:49.9 | enter the competition. It's a thousand words. Anything about sobriety, your story, your thoughts, |
| 1:55.9 | whatever you want to say. It's a really great therapeutic process and I really recommend it. Just send them to |
| 2:02.2 | hello at soberawkward.com. I haven't quite figured out a prize yet. Maybe an ancient quill or |
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