One for the Road: The Quit Drinking Podcast15 Nov 2024

Daughter of an Alcoholic, Paralytic Every Weekend: Jo Preston Hart's Story

Jo Preston Hart's dad was an alcoholic who died falling down the stairs drunk when she was 18. For years she told herself she was nothing like him. He drank every day, she thought. She only drank at weekends. Three months into sobriety, her mum sat her down and told her the truth: he didn't drink every day either. He was the life and soul of the party, just like her. He got violent, just like she sometimes did. That conversation broke something loose.

Jo's drinking had started at 15 in a backstreet South East London pub, waking up in a police cell three weeks before her 16th birthday. Then raves, pills, cocaine to stay awake so she could drink longer, blackouts every weekend, bottles hidden in the boot of the car clanking for weeks, and a broken arm from a night she still can't fully remember.

In this conversation, Jo opens up about growing up with a violent alcoholic father, her first sober Florence and the Machine concert, the Christmas she woke up with an egg on her head after head-butting a wall, hitting the f-it button a week before her one year sober anniversary, and the voice that told her don't tell the sober group — you want to drink.

Nearly two years alcohol free and stronger for the relapse, not weaker. Jo's story is for anyone who has ever wondered whether one slip means it's all over.

https://www.instagram.com/jo.prestonhart/

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.

www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/

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