The Mum Who Quit Drinking After 30 Years: Emma's Recovery Story
Emma had to leave her two small children alone in a cinema watching Frozen so she could be sick in the loos. She had only had three glasses of wine the night before. That was the moment she knew her d...
21 Dec 20221h
John Taylor on Quitting Drinking, Childhood Trauma + 19 Years Sober
John Taylor is a qualified addictions and family counsellor, the author of the bestselling book Alcohol Stole My Mum, and 19 years sober. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for a quietly devastat...
14 Dec 20221h 5min
Lou Hamilton on Quitting Drinking After Decades of Buried Trauma
Lou Hamilton was twenty-three when she watched the Lockerbie air disaster fall from the sky onto the village where she had just moved. She did not lose anyone. She was not injured. So she told herself...
7 Dec 202255min
From Touring with Coldplay to Quitting Drinking: Franxy's Story
Franxy was the tour manager of Coldplay when Chris pulled him aside and told him his drinking was out of control. He kept drinking for another year. By then he had been sneaking gin he hated down to t...
30 Nov 20221h 1min
The Drunk Video That Made Her Quit Drinking: Kate Taylor's Story
Kate Taylor pulled out her phone on December 20, 2021, two bottles of wine deep, and recorded herself sobbing for thirty minutes. She begged herself to stop drinking. The next morning she watched it b...
23 Nov 20221h
Grey Area Drinking: Why Louise Quit Wine For Good
One glass of wine. That's all it took. By 3 a.m. Louise Morgan would be wide awake, heart racing, the anxiety she'd taken medication to manage now back in full force.For five years she lived like that...
9 Nov 202236min
The Functioning Alcoholic Behind The Dirty Martinis: Paul Drayton's Story
He was the funny one. The life and soul. The manager who could run a packed Notting Hill restaurant on four hours sleep and a barman's breakfast Bloody Mary.Paul Drayton was a functioning alcoholic fo...
8 Nov 20221h 6min
Grey Area Drinking And The Lockdown Shift: Emma Gannon's Story
Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling author, novelist, and host of Control Alt Delete. She also wrote the Guardian piece that lit up the sober curious conversation: I knew I didn't have a drinkin...
5 Okt 202257min
