Andy Ramage On Navigating Your First Alcohol-Free Christmas
The Christmas season is the hardest stretch of the year if you're sober, sober-curious, or just trying to drink less. Office parties. Family pressure. Christmas Eve in the pub. Boxing Day boredom. New...
17 Dec 202129min
From 4 Bottles A Night to Sober Mum: Leanne Baylis's Story
Leanne could drink a bottle of wine in six seconds. By the time her daughter was born with a 4% chance of survival, she was hiding everything. The pregnancy. The bottles. The nights spent crying in in...
1 Dec 202157min
From a Bottle of Vodka a Weekend to BBC Radio 1: Dean McCullough's Story
Dean McCullough was drinking a litre of vodka in a weekend during lockdown. He was hosting a breakfast show, presenting Manchester Pride on TV, and falling apart on the inside. A year later, he was so...
24 Nov 202147min
Millie Gooch: From Pub Crawls To Sober Girl Society
Millie Gooch is the founder of Sober Girl Society, author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook, and one of the loudest voices in the UK sober community for women in their twenties.But four years ago she...
17 Nov 202154min
Why Addiction Is Different For Women: Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish is a British-Australian journalist and author. Her book Women of Substances is an addiction memoir that uses her own story as a case study to explore the gendered way women experience ...
10 Nov 202148min
The Welshman Who Quit Drinking After His First Breakup: Charlie Owen
Charlie Owen was twenty-three when his seven-year relationship ended, his Asia trip got cut short by COVID, and he found himself stranded in Brisbane with no idea who he was sober. He started drinking...
3 Nov 202154min
Courtney Carver on Quitting Drinking, Minimalism + Meditation at 1000 Days
Courtney Carver, author of Soulful Simplicity and Project 333, spent decades quietly managing her relationship with alcohol before she stopped on a hungover morning in January 2019. Nearly 1000 days l...
27 Okt 202145min
The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober: Catherine Gray
Catherine Gray woke up in a Brixton police cell at 27 years old. When the officers handed back her belongings, the only thing she had on her was a tiny pink glittery hairbrush that wasn't hers. No pho...
20 Okt 20211h 2min
