Uncanny Similarities
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today Vic and Lucy discuss their very similar personality traits which they believe may have led them to be such heavy drinkers. They share what those characteristics were (things like shyness, low self-esteem and anxiety); why they felt the need to drown them out with booze; the mess they created by doing this; and how they have accepted and adapted these traits in their sobriety.
As everybody that sits on this vast alcohol spectrum knows, alcoholism does not discriminate and absolutely anyone can be affected. This chat is about Vic and Lucy's own personal journeys and their uncannily similar experiences. They hope that by sharing them, it might help you identify why you reach for a drink and hopefully get you to consider other ways to be YOU without the booze.
Show notes Episode 5
Blog Post - A Self-Aware Sobriety
https://www.drunkmummysobermummy.com/post/a-self-aware-sobriety
Lucy Good - https://beanstalkmums.com.au
@beanstalksinglemums
Victoria Vanstone – www.drunkmummysobermummy.com
@soberawkward
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is proudly associated with Hello Sunday Morning. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello Sunday Morning is an Australian charity changing the world's relationship with alcohol, |
| 0:10.4 | one Sunday at a time. |
| 0:12.5 | Their app daybreak helps reset drinking habits and is free for Australian residents. |
| 0:18.4 | Find out more at hello sunday morning.org. |
| 0:23.4 | All the kettles boiled. Great. Perfect timing. Should you get started then? |
| 0:29.3 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Lucy Good. And this is sober, awkward. |
| 0:40.3 | Right Lucy, over to you. |
| 0:42.9 | Thanks, Vic. |
| 0:43.6 | So whatever stage you're at on your sober journey |
| 0:46.5 | and Vic and I are at completely different stages, |
| 0:49.7 | you'll know that life without booze can at times feel, do you reckon awkward lucy and i invite you to |
| 0:57.4 | listen to our podcast where we discuss the realities of sobriety the good the bad the ugly and the cringingly |
| 1:04.3 | embarrassing our honest and open chats will help you discover what it really means to be sober |
| 1:09.4 | yes we're here like a dodgy bottle of |
| 1:12.5 | port from your nan's drink cabinet to take the edge of sobriety. And together we can learn how to |
| 1:19.1 | feel the awkward and do it anyway. Right, hello, welcome to podcast number five, everybody. Uncanny similarities. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah, we're up. Oh, hold on. Alan, hold on. What are you doing? What are you doing? |
| 1:40.4 | Well, you can't do it now because we've just started recording. Would you mind? Yeah, can you do that later? Are you going to get in a half now, are you? I thought it was fairly obvious. I mean, yeah, like we're going to have hoovering throughout our podcast. I'm not looking very happy, Lucy. Let's just carry on. It's every bloody time. Every week. He's like a naughty little troll, isn't he? |
| 2:03.7 | It lives inside the booth. |
| 2:07.0 | The booth troll. |
| 2:09.5 | That is what you shall be named from this day forward. |
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