Lauren White had her first drink at 11. By 18, she was modelling for Abercrombie at a size zero, drinking, using MDMA and cocaine, throwing up after every meal, and hiding all of it behind makeup, university, and a "perfect" Hertfordshire upbringing.

She walked into Charter House rehab in a belly top, ego intact, certain she didn't really belong there.

Four months later, she walked out a different person. She's now 11 and a half years sober, an addictions counsellor, NLP practitioner, and transformation mentor based in Bali, where she runs workshops and one-to-ones for people doing the same hard work she did.

You'll hear about: growing up as the parent in her own family; the bulimia she hid for years because the shame felt worse than admitting to alcohol; the second rehab stay at 21 after work addiction nearly killed her; how AA, the 12 steps, and trauma work fit together for her; and why she now lives in flip-flops without a scrap of makeup.

If you've ever wondered whether anyone really gets sober that young and stays that way, this one's for you.

https://www.laurenwhitespeaker.com/

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Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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Dr. Brooke Scheller spent years collecting nutrition degrees, a bachelor's, a master's, and a doctorate, while privately drinking herself into anxiety, depression, and the kind of double life only a high-functioning health expert can pull off. The wellness conferences ended in bars. The shame ran underneath everything.

Then in June 2021, she stopped. She's now coming up on 1,000 days sober.

Brooke is the author of How To Eat To Change How You Drink and the founder of Functional Sobriety, a nutrition and root-cause approach to supporting an alcohol-free life. She and Dave dig into the science most doctors never mention: how alcohol depletes B vitamins, magnesium, and zinc; why blood sugar crashes drive afternoon cravings; how alcohol wrecks the gut microbiome that produces your serotonin and dopamine; and why some drinkers literally can't moderate.

You'll hear about: the protein and snack strategy that kills the 5pm urge; the supplements that support early sobriety; why sleep regulates within weeks; and the genetics question every drinker asks.

If you want the science behind why your body feels the way it does, this one's for you.

 For further insights and guidance on your journey to wellness, connect with Dr. Brooke Scheller on Instagram (@drbrookescheller) or visit her websites at brookescheller.com and functionalsobriety.com.

Website: www.functionalsobriety.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrookescheller/?hl=en

Book Website: www.functionalsobriety.com/book

Amazon: How to Eat to Change How You Drink – https://a.co/d/6hjCXTE

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Matt Busbridge has been a male model agent in London for 12 years. He spent most of those years quietly in the grip of alcohol and cocaine, drinking at lunchtime, racking up lines after work, and hiding it from everyone including his own parents. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking cold turkey on his 33rd birthday and what year one of sobriety in the fashion industry actually looks like.

Matt grew up the chubby kid in Kent. Alcohol at 17 gave him confidence for the first time. Cocaine at 22 took him the rest of the way. By his 30s he was missing flights, hiding bags of gear, and labelling lunchtime pints as normal. After his fiancée wrote him a list of six occasions he'd messed up, he stopped completely.

Inside: low self-esteem, the cheat code that skipped his development, lockdown spiral, going sober without AA, and his new podcast High Sobriety.

Quitting drinking, fashion industry, gray area drinking, cocaine recovery, sober journey.

https://www.instagram.com/highsobrietypodcast_?igsh=bGs0NDUzbDc0c3Zr&utm_source=qr

https://anchor.fm/highsobrietypodcast

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https://nacoa.org.uk/

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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 was a blackout drinker.

She didn't drink at all until 18, then went to uni, took three bar jobs, got paid in alcohol, and came out the other side a four-or-five-night-a-week binge drinker. PR and journalism after that. Free Bar Fridays. Ending up in Dover at 4am because she'd fallen asleep on the train. Three weeks in Thailand spent almost entirely drunk or hungover. A six-year relationship breakup at 24 that sent her head-first into another year of going out and getting hammered.

She read a Stylist magazine interview with Catherine Gray on the tube one hungover morning. Took a photo of the article. Did nothing about it. Then in February 2018, after a night she couldn't remember at all, she downloaded the audiobook and listened to it for eight straight hours on the worst hangover of her life.

That was her last drink.

In this episode she walks through how Sober Girl Society started by accident, the trap of becoming "the sober person" instead of just a person, and what changes between year one and year four.

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https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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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 trauma, mental health, eating disorders, and addiction. She's also a board director of SMART Recovery in Australia and has written four books in total, the most recent on people who push their bodies to extremes.

She started drinking at 13 the day her grandmother died. Got a key cut for her dad's drinks cabinet. Filled a Body Shop shampoo bottle with mixed spirits and got the train into London at 14 to drink her way through Camden, Kensington and Portobello markets on her own. The drinking masked sexual abuse she'd experienced as a child, something she wasn't allowed to get help for because her mum didn't want people knowing.

She stopped at 34 after one final blackout where she woke up with nothing on the paper and nothing in her head. She stayed sober for eight years. Four years ago, in London with friends, she had a cocktail and chose to moderate rather than spiral into shame.

This conversation gets into territory most sobriety podcasts avoid: harm reduction, the biopsychosocial theory of addiction, and why "Choose Your Own Adventure" might be a more honest framework than abstinence-or-bust.

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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 five beers before every date just to feel good enough.

This is the recovery story of a Welsh farmer's son who quit drinking at twenty-five. Charlie tells Sober Dave about growing up in a 2,000-person town in North Wales, escaping to Australia when borders closed, the breakup that broke him open, and how he used alcohol as a crutch for confidence on dates and nights out.

You'll hear about: drinking through a breakup; using alcohol to fake confidence; the moment meditation actually worked; what real connection looks like without drinks; instant gratification, social media and young men; and why his Instagram page Lads Search for Meaning is hitting a nerve.

If you're a young man wondering if you can quit drinking and still have a life, this one's for you.

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https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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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 later, she joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking the simplest way she knows how.

Courtney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006 and started stripping stress out of her life. She paid off debt, decluttered her home, built a minimalist fashion challenge, and changed careers. The thing that simplified her life most, she says, was finally letting go of wine. Inside, she shares why she never labelled herself, how transcendental meditation killed the craving, and the line that's become her sober mantra: alcohol removed her, so she removed it.

Quitting drinking, minimalism and sobriety, gray area drinking, transcendental meditation, Project 333, simplifying your life, sober journey at 1000 days.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soul-and-wit/id1489742667

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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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 phone. No keys. No purse. Just a child's hairbrush she'd picked up off a dirty floor at some point during the night.

You'd think that would be the moment she stopped. She drank for six more years.

Catherine is the bestselling author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober and Sunshine Warm Sober. She's almost eight years alcohol-free, and she's one of the most clear-eyed voices on what nobody tells you about long-term sobriety. The slumps. The advertising propaganda. The boundary work. The friends who don't remember your soberversary. The corruption inside the alcohol industry.

You'll hear about: the failed moderation experiments that ate six years of her life; the litre of vodka a night Dave was drinking; what AA gave her even though it wasn't her path; and why year six of sobriety nearly broke her.

If you've ever told yourself you'll just have one more, this one's for you.

Her first book The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober was published by Aster Books on the 28th of December 2017. A tri-brid of a read, it mixes up memoir details of how Catherine quit alcohol in 2013, along with Buzzfeed-style listicles, illuminating interviews with top experts, and over-arching cultural comment. She hopes her book will help reinvent how Britain thinks about being alcohol-free.

Her latest new book Sunshine Warm Sober is out now- Link below.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/sunshine-warm-sober/catherine-gray/9781783253395

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Cherry Healy was drinking a bottle of wine a night by the time lockdown lifted. She had a brilliant career as a BBC presenter, a partner who barely drank, two kids she adored, and "wine o'clock" creeping into every evening.

This is the story of a woman who caught herself in the gray area before it got worse. Cherry tells Sober Dave about being raised by an alcoholic father, watching her drinking escalate through her thirties, the lockdown bottle of wine that became normal, and the Christmas her dad got pancreatic cancer and she finally said enough.

You'll hear about: drinking at home as a working mum; the danger zone between five and eight pm; what three months sober actually does to you; how she handled her hypersensitivity without alcohol; the mum wine culture problem; and what gray area drinking really looks like up close.

If you've been wondering whether you're drinking too much at home, this one's for you.

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When Liam Fox was 12, he started taping his dad. He'd plug in a little radio cassette recorder, hit play and record, and capture his dad coming home drunk and talking through his backside. The next morning he'd play it back. His dad would be mortified. He'd swear he was never drinking again. A few months later, the cycle would start over.

That cycle lasted 40 years. Liam's mum finally kicked his dad out in 1995, when scaffolding went up the back of the house, a window got opened, and a £2000 video camera went missing. By the end, his dad was drinking two litres of vodka a day, losing three stone in a fortnight, and waking up with stab marks in his hands.

Liam's dad died in February. Two weeks before, he'd promised his son this was the last time.

You'll hear about: growing up with an alcoholic dad; why his school work collapsed and he blamed the teachers; the morning his mum had finally had enough; what really sat underneath his dad's drinking; what it feels like when the parent you've fought for finally goes.

It has been another incredible season, and thank you so much for all of your ongoing and continued support.

If you are not already, then be sure to click subscribe to be first in line for the drop of the first show for Season 3;

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https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Taner Hassan was 19 when 12 million people watched him audition on Pop Stars. He made the final 14 but didn't get the job. What followed was cocaine, nightclub work, and a slow collapse. By 24 he had drug-induced psychosis. His parents said: get help or get out.

Taner grew up in Southend, oldest of three, chasing a music career through reality TV and boy bands. Rejection and fame without the job behind it sent him into five dark years in the nightclub industry, masking everything with drugs and alcohol. When his parents drew the line, he got sober. That was 15 years ago.

Today he's a psychotherapist and head of NHS mental health in Suffolk. His wife and daughter have never seen him drink.

You'll hear about: reality TV fame and rejection at 19; cocaine and alcohol in the nightclub industry; drug-induced psychosis at 24; rebuilding a career from scratch in recovery; the stranger whose life he saved without knowing it.

If you think your past disqualifies you from a meaningful future, this one says otherwise.

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https://nacoa.org.uk/

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Kate Rohan spent 25 years drinking, starting at 14 when alcohol gave her a way out of the bullying and eating disorders that marked her teens. By her late 20s she was a daily 5pm drinker who could never stop at one, finishing a bottle of rosé after running a half marathon in 1:35 and throwing up on her own shoes on a ski season in Verbier without slowing down.

As perimenopause hit, alcohol made everything worse: sleep, anxiety, recovery, all of it. She tried quitting on her own multiple times, making it 21 days, then 28, then relapsing every time. A light bulb moment at the end of December led her to Dry January through Sober Dave's community, and she hasn't looked back. Six months alcohol-free, she competed in a turf games fitness competition and says her body and mind have transformed.

You'll hear about: wine mom culture and the 5pm habit; menopause and alcohol; eating disorders as a gateway to drinking; the "suitcase in the loft" metaphor for putting alcohol away; fitness after sobriety; and why she couldn't stop at one glass for 25 years.

If you're a woman questioning what alcohol is really doing to your body, especially through perimenopause, this one's for you.

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Lisa Riley was drinking a bottle and a half of wine a night after losing her mum. She used alcohol to numb grief, fuel the party, and fill a void she didn't yet understand. On this episode of One for the Road, the Emmerdale actress and TV presenter opens up about what finally made her stop and why she never looked back. Lisa shares how she went from being the last one standing at every gathering to embracing a quieter, simpler life built on self-acceptance. Six years sober, she talks about the smell test that keeps her honest, the restaurant moments that still feel awkward, and why drink never actually defined her personality. You'll hear about: grief as a drinking trigger, the blame game in relationships, sober holidays that changed everything, and why owning your truth is the first real step. Listen now and share with someone who needs to hear this.

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Emily Horwood grew up in the noughties carnage of Camden Town and the Primrose Hill set, where she says you were either selling drugs or taking them. Most of her old crowd are now either sober or no longer here. She joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking after 30 years, and the 15-month slip that taught her what real sobriety actually means.

Emily's drinking moved from teenage bus-stop cider to a decade of what she calls the "gray-out years" — two and sometimes three bottles of wine a night, alone on the sofa, single-parenting two small children. She got sober at 42 in lockdown, slipped over a man at 15 months, and came back in December last year ready to do it properly.

Inside: the hole in the soul, emotional sobriety, AA plus online community, and why moderation never worked.

Quitting drinking, mum wine culture, gray area drinking, AA, sober journey.

http://www.emilyhorwood.com/

http://www.womensaid.org.uk/

http://www.thespeedomickfoundation.org/

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Simon Chappell was drinking two to three bottles of red wine a day, plus beer on top, when his marriage started falling apart. He thought he just had a drinking problem. What he actually had was decades of toxic shame from a childhood he'd been quietly numbing out since he was 12.

His biological father walked out when he was two. His stepdad drank red wine every night and became Simon's template for what a grown man looked like. At 13, he was sexually abused by an older neighbour, a secret he carried for nearly 30 years before he could say it out loud.

In this conversation, Simon opens up about the abandonment wound, the permissive-and-controlling mother dynamic, the school run driving over the limit, and the five years of painful wondering before he finally quit. He talks about the second phase of sobriety, the inner child work that actually heals the root, and why he believes toxic shame sits under every addiction.

Now a bestselling author of The Sober Survival Guide and How to Quit Alcohol in 50 Days, a This Naked Mind sobriety coach trained personally by Annie Grace, and soon to publish How to Heal Your Inner Child, Simon is one of the most thoughtful voices in modern recovery.

If you enjoy One For The Road, then click follow to be notified of the release of our next episode.

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www.joinbesober.com

www.soberlive.co.uk

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Sarah Drayge lost her dad Steve to alcoholism in 2017, exactly one week before his 60th birthday. She believes the shame and stigma around his disease kept him from getting the help that could have saved his life. In this episode of One for the Road, Sarah shares what it was like growing up with a father she adored, watching him slowly disappear into dependence after a life-changing trauma. She opens up about the guilt she carried for years, the things she said that she wishes she could take back, and the moment two surgeons told her there was only a 10 percent chance he would survive. You'll hear about: the signs she missed as a teenager, the family ultimatum that led to 12 months of sobriety, how paramedics responded with eye rolls instead of empathy, and the charity Warrior Kind she built in her dad's honor. Listen now and share with someone who needs to hear this.

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Anita Chellamah was on Top of the Pops with Legs and Co. She fronted the rock band the Cherry Bombs, supported Poison on tour in America, and played the legendary CBGBs in New York. By 28 she was drinking champagne to start the night and Night Nurse to end it.

Then in April 1988, she stopped. She has not had a drink or a drug since. That is 33 years of sobriety.

In this conversation Anita tells Dave the whole story honestly. The first thimble of champagne at 14 in the West End. The drugs that came in with the 80s. The diet pills with speed in them prescribed by a private doctor. The day she finally walked into recovery with debts, no career, and a shoebox of receipts. And the slow, beautiful work of building a real life from scratch — eventually becoming an addiction counsellor, working in HIV care during the worst of the 90s, marrying her husband, raising her son, and going back to writing and singing.

You'll hear about: the 80s music scene from the inside; why career success made her drinking worse not better; the moment of surrender that changed everything; what 33 years sober actually feels like; why she calls it "discovery, not just recovery."

If you've been telling yourself you've gone too far to come back, this one's for you.

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https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Sean and Lee are brothers. They started in the City of London at 16. They sat next to each other on trading floors. They drank lunches at NatWest's wine bar. They earned big money and burned through it on red wine, hidden bottles, and eventually a pub fight that landed them on the front pages and almost in prison.

Lee got sober in October 2014. Sean followed three months later, after collapsing on his girlfriend's kitchen floor on New Year's Eve and waking up in a police cell.

That was nearly seven years ago.

You'll hear about: lifelong battles with OCD and depression that the drinking only made worse; how a two-year suspended sentence saved their lives; what it's like watching your brother get sober before you do; and how a 4am dream gave Sean the words "Rocksobar" in lights and turned into a brand, an alcohol-free beer line, and a foundation now helping others rebuild their careers in recovery.

If you've ever thought you couldn't stop because of who you'd lose, this one's for you.

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Vic Vanstone has been stealing wine since primary school. By 14 she was passed out in cider comas in farmers' fields. By her twenties she was around the world on the lash, chucked out of nightclubs, waking up in hotel rooms with strangers, and once blew her own finger off lighting a firework on the Millennium.

She kept drinking through it all because she could not see herself outside the party.

Then a pregnancy test the morning after her hen-do, three months along, made her stop. She started again six weeks after the baby was born. It took a second child, a Sunday hangover that made her think she was going to die, and a long stretch of therapy before she finally walked away from drinking for good.

You'll hear about: the diary entry from 2007 that she'd forgotten she'd written ("I want to go to AA"); the truth about mummy wine culture and the lie of "I just want the old me back"; what grey area drinking actually looks like from the inside; and why she now runs the podcast Sober Awkward and is writing the book A Thousand Wasted Sundays.

If you've ever been told you're "just a party girl," this one's for you.

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Podcast - Sober Awkward (available everywhere iTunes, Spotify or on my website)

Website - www.drunkmummysobermummy.com

Facebook group - The Sober Social for sober curious women - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesobersocial

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drunkmummysobermummy

@Alcoholexplained

https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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When most kids were saying they wanted to be doctors or firefighters, Josh Connolly used to say he just wanted to have kids and not be a drunk. He grew up walking on eggshells, hearing his mum scream "you'll wake the boys up" while everything got smashed up downstairs. He squeezed his eyes shut and learned to disappear. That trick got him through childhood. It also got him thrown out of every classroom he ever sat in.

Josh found alcohol at 12. It worked. By 24 he was nine and a half stone, four kids, marriage gone, sleeping on a fold-up bed at his mum's house, drinking himself into the ground. The day Aguero scored that famous goal for Man City was the day he realised drink had stopped working.

Now nine years sober, Josh is a NACOA ambassador, a resilience coach, and one of the most emotionally honest men Dave knows.

You'll hear about: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel; the four layers of denial; what the first nine months sober really felt like; what happens when alcohol is the solution, not the problem; why being sober isn't the finish line.

If you grew up around drinking, this one's for you.

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@josh_ffw

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@Alcoholexplained

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https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Terry Dunnage was 12 years old, locked in a bedroom for days at a time, talking to a plastic keyring he kept in a matchbox with a tissue for a blanket. That was his only friend for three years.

At 28, his uncle walked into his kitchen with a jerry can of petrol and a yellow lighter. Terry survived 48 percent burns. While he was in a drug-induced coma, his daughter died. He woke up not knowing.

Years later, sitting in his car with a sawn-off under his chin and one cartridge in the chamber, alcohol nearly finished what the fire could not. His mates pulled up just in time.

Terry is a burn survivor, a mental health advocate, and one of the most resilient men Dave has ever interviewed. He doesn't drink. He doesn't dwell. He spends his life now trying to be the man he wishes had been sitting beside his hospital bed.

You'll hear about: a childhood spent in solitary confinement at home; what really pushed him to nearly take his own life; why he gave up drinking for good; how he learned to walk, talk and box again; the goal-setting mindset that brought him back.

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@Terrydunnage

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@Alcoholexplained

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https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Denise Welch used to drink four or five bottles of wine in a night, get two hours of sleep and walk onto a TV set like nothing happened. She'd tell herself she was functioning. Inside, she was falling apart.

In this episode, Denise sits down with Dave and tells the full story. A happy childhood in the North East. A wanted pregnancy at 31 that was followed by crippling postnatal depression nobody saw coming. Years of self-medicating with alcohol and cocaine while holding down Coronation Street, Loose Women and a family. Complete blackouts she still can't remember. And the night she smashed up the flat and realised she was about to lose the man she loved.

You'll hear about: postnatal depression and how it triggered her drinking; the 13 years of living a double life; getting sober as a couple with Lincoln; why she still gets depression but no longer compounds it with alcohol; and what life looks like at 62 with three jobs and zero hangovers.

If alcohol is making you more unhappy than happy, this one's worth your time.

 https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-unwelcome-visitor/denise-welch/9781529384543

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@Alcoholexplained

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

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William Porter woke up alone in his house with no memory of what happened. His wife had taken the kids and left during a five-day binge that started at a business lunch on a Tuesday. Her ultimatum was clear: stop drinking or I'm gone. She wasn't removing the wine from the house. This was his problem to fix.

William spent his twenties binge drinking through the Parachute Regiment and a tour of Iraq. When he got married and had kids, the binges got worse. Friday nights bled into Mondays. Morning beers became the only way to function with toddlers running around. He quit in February 2014. Seven years sober, he wrote "Alcohol Explained," a science-based look at what alcohol actually does to your brain and body.

You'll hear about: military drinking culture in the Paras; the morning he started drinking before Iraq; why moderation never works; how understanding the science helped him quit for good.

If you've been telling yourself you just need to cut back, this one's worth a listen.

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Katie McNichol was a shot girl, a podium dancer, and the one who never said no to a night out. By her first year at university in Newcastle, she'd gone out 19 nights straight and ended up with alcohol poisoning. At 23, she did 100 days sober, including a girls' holiday to Palma completely alcohol-free, proving to herself she could do it. Then she went back to drinking for another 10 months.

Her last drink was champagne at a London steak restaurant on 13 November 2019. The next morning she flew to Ethiopia for charity work, and she never looked back. She was 25. Now 18 months sober and known as This Sober Girl on Instagram, Katie shares what it's like to get sober when your entire social life is built around drinking.

You'll hear about: alcohol poisoning at uni; doing 100 days sober then relapsing; growing up with a dad who's 33 years sober; the final night that changed everything; building a sober identity in your 20s.

If you're young and questioning your drinking, this one's for you.

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https://nacoa.org.uk/

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Tonya Bardsley starred in The Real Housewives of Cheshire for almost a decade. From the outside it looked like champagne, glamour and laughs. From the inside, she was self-medicating undiagnosed ADHD with alcohol, taking diazepam to sleep, on antidepressants she didn't need, and crying on her sofa on Christmas Day 2022 thinking her family would be better off without her.

She joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking, four weeks of rehab in Thailand, and what life looks like one year on.

Tonya was painfully shy as a kid, bullied so badly at 13 she tried to take her own life, and used alcohol from her teens as a confidence drug. Add ADHD, perimenopause, and a TV career soaked in champagne, and the spiral was inevitable.

Inside: the breakdown, rehab, why she came off all the medications, and how her four kids are thriving.

Quitting drinking, ADHD, perimenopause, sober journey.

https://www.instagram.com/tanyabardsley7/

https://transformwithtanyabardsley.com

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https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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Mark Adderley stood at the bar of his favourite pub staring at the taps, unable to order. Not because he was spoilt for choice. Because he didn't want any of it but wanted all of it. That moment became his altar.

Mark grew up in chaotic 1970s London with a single mum who drank, used drugs, and came out as gay when he was seven. Left alone for huge stretches of childhood. By 14 he was drinking in pubs. By 25 the drinking cost him his first family. By 30 he had two daughters he wasn't living with. When his wife told him he was about to lose a third daughter, he walked into a rehab centre and booked himself in. He's been sober 16 years.

You'll hear about: childhood trauma and benign neglect; the shame of a first blackout at 15; how alcohol fuelled infidelity; self-referring to rehab; parenting sober after years of chaos.

If you're wondering whether it's too late to stop, listen to this.

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

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Kim Ballas, founder of Sober Is The New Cool, joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to celebrate 11 years alcohol-free and tell the story of the moment that changed everything.

Kim grew up in Montreal with a Slovak father she adored and a culture of wine at lunch, wine at dinner, and brandy after. She drank her way through her teens, her twenties, a cancelled wedding, two miscarriages and a marriage. Then her 13-year-old son Matthew was diagnosed with epilepsy. The day she stood in her kitchen with a large glass of red wine in her hand, telling him nobody needs alcohol to have fun, she felt a lightning bolt hit her. She put it down for three months for him. She hasn't picked it up since.

Inside: the social anxiety that drove her drinking, the hypocrite moment, why she loved her son more than herself, and how a kitchen-table Facebook page became a global movement.

Quitting drinking, sobriety for your kids, 50s sober journey.

Only by giving can we receive more than we already have.

https://www.instagram.com/sober.is.the.new.cool/

https://www.facebook.com/soberisthenewcool.org/

https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FSoberitnc

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_tmHjBMjRmRj-HECQ3_Feg

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https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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Scott Thomas, Love Island star, founder of one of the UK's most high-profile PR agencies and host of the Learning As I Go podcast, joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for an unusually honest conversation about quitting drinking, identity, and the cost of being the life of the party.

Scott was the golden child academically, the smart one in a family where both his brothers became famous at 16. He drank quarter-litres of vodka and Fanta on the streets at 13. By his 20s he was throwing parties for a living, getting chucked out of his own nights, and earning the nickname Scotty Special. Then a Mayfair Hotel chairman's luncheon nearly cost him his biggest client and his business partner.

Inside: living up to a reputation, trying moderation and finding it empty, ADHD and fight or flight, and why he's still figuring out what sobriety means.

Quitting drinking, Love Island, sober journey, ambition, sober entrepreneur.

https://www.instagram.com/scott.thomas/?hl=en

https://www.f4t.com/

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

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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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Susannah, known to many in the sober community as Sue's Sober, joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for one of the most quietly powerful conversations on the show.

Susannah lost her mum suddenly at 23. Three months later, on Boxing Day 2004, she was on Koh Phi Phi when the tsunami hit. She helped triage survivors, made impossible decisions, and came home to a London life of late nights, drink spiking, and assault on the tube — and a 20-year freeze response nobody named until she was diagnosed with complex PTSD in 2021.

Her drinking became a problem in her 30s after two traumatic births. Her GP didn't ask about it. Her therapist told her everyone has wine at night.

Inside: grief, freeze response, mum wine culture, the help she couldn't get, and how AA quietly saved her.

Quitting drinking, complex PTSD, grief, sober mum, sober journey.

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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He was drinking 20 pints a day and brushing his teeth with alcohol when he picked up the payphone to say goodbye to his mum.

From the outside, Harrison Ward had it sorted. Hotel manager. Relationship. The badge of honour for being the bloke who could put it all away. Behind the mask, he was self-medicating clinical depression he'd carried since he was 13, weighing over 22 stone, blacking out nightly, and quietly working out how to stop existing.

Then one morning, after losing the relationship that meant everything to him, four words came out at work: "I don't drink anymore, John."

This week on One for the Road, Harrison tells the full story. How he walked away from 12 years of drinking overnight, came clean to his family for the first time, lost 7 stone, ran his first marathon 11 months later, and built a whole new life as The Fell Foodie cooking restaurant-quality meals on a camp stove in the Lake District.

His debut cook book, ‘Cook Out’ has been published by Vertebrate Publishing in 2023.

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fellfoodie/

Website – https://www.fellfoodie.co.uk

Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cook-Out-Foodies-gourmet-outdoors/dp/1839811986/ref=zg_bs_g_279450_sccl_19/261-0854685-2334816?psc=1

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.

https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_/

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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Welcome to my bonus episode Of One For The Road with Sophie B Hawkins. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated, RIAA Platinum-certified singer-songwriter has announced her first UK headline performance in almost two decades, set for Sunday, November 26 at London’s The Forge (3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town, NW1 7NL) For more than three decades, Sophie B. Hawkins has been a chart-topping, award-winning superstar. The New York-based artist dropped “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” upon an unsuspecting world in the summer of 1992, earning instant attention for its raw energy and unforgettable confession of lust and longing. The groundbreaking track struck a chord around the world, reaching the top 5 on Billboard’s “Hot 100,” the top 15 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart, and the top 10 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, New Zealand, and Norway. Indeed, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” remains a classic rock ballad more than 30 years after its initial release, featured on countless film and TV soundtracks as well as a multiformat radio staple around the globe. On todays bonus episode Sophie B Hawkins shares with us the journey through her childhood that made her decide at the age of 14 after reaching her rock bottom to choose a life of abstinence to both alcohol and drugs.

Links to her show at the Forge Sunday 26th November 

https://theforge.seetickets.com/event/sophie-b-hawkins/the-forge-camden/2805177

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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

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She was the smiliest mum at the school gates, lovely four-bed detached house, two children, a husband who worked away. From the outside, she had it sorted. Behind closed doors she was sitting on the bathroom floor each morning trying not to have a panic attack, self-harming, and drinking a bottle of wine every night just to fall asleep.

Caroline Strawson is an award-winning trauma therapist and narcissistic abuse survivor, and the link between the two is the conversation Sober Dave has been waiting to have.

This week Caroline shares the whole story. Marrying a covert narcissist in her late 20s. Finding out he was having an affair while she was six months pregnant. Four miscarriages. The house repossessed at 40. Wine o'clock with the school mum friendship group that turned into a bottle a night to numb the gaslighting, the financial abuse, the silent treatment. And then how she got out, broke the trauma bond, healed her nervous system, walked away from alcohol, and built the life and work she has now.

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.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-narcissistic-abuse-trauma-recovery-podcast/id1527479270

https://www.facebook.com/carolinestrawson

https://instagram.com/carolinestrawson?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

https://www.facebook.com/groups/thetraumainformedcoachingcollective/?ref=share_group_link

https://instagram.com/carolinestrawson?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

https://schooloftraumainformedpositivepsychology.com/elevate-your-earning/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

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Laurie Haynes had three father figures before he was ten years old. He left school at 14 with no GCSEs after setting the art corridor on fire. He spent most of his twenties partying, working hard, ordering a rope off Amazon one night, and walking away from a relationship with his own mum.

Laurie is a NACOA ambassador, entrepreneur, and mental health advocate building a wellbeing platform called Shara. He grew up a child of alcoholism in Portsmouth, name-changed more than once, watching his mum cycle through partners while social services circled the family.

This week on One for the Road, Laurie opens up about it all. The chaos at home. The teachers who quietly kept him in their offices because home was worse. The press story that broke him at his lowest. The therapy that rebuilt him. The decision to cut his parents out so he could break the cycle for his own kids.

A raw conversation about what childhood does to a man, and what it takes to refuse to pass it on.

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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

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Barbara had two to three bottles of wine most nights by the end. Not in pubs, not at parties — at home, on the sofa, and then on a dark walk around the corner to the shop in her coat and flip-flops to buy another bottle before it closed. She wouldn't remember doing it in the morning.

She grew up in Cambridge in a Jamaican family of five sisters, had her daughter at 17, and barely drank through her 20s while raving instead. Alcohol came for her properly in her 30s — dinners, wine, the ladette era, Sex and the City parties every Wednesday night. Then lockdown arrived, and a weekend habit quietly became an every night one.

In this conversation, Barbara opens up about the 14 year old who drank paralytic and had to be picked up by her dad, waking up to find she'd driven home and didn't remember, the Sunday her husband started hiding bottles from her, and what it actually felt like to stand at the bar at four months alcohol free and have friends say, you're still exactly the same.

Three years sober, newly qualified as a sobriety coach, and about to launch a community for women of colour in recovery. Barbara is one of the warmest voices in the UK sober spac

IG @sober_in_colour 

She is soon to be launching a Facebook group exclusive to women of colour www.facebook.com/groups/soberincolour

Viva Coaching with Barbara, where she is helping people who have already made the decision to quit alcohol or are thinking about it https://vivacoaching.co.uk/bookings/

https://www.instagram.com/sober_in_colour/

 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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle

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We hear a lot about the people who quit drinking and rebuild their lives. We hear far less about the people they leave behind when they cant.

This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Lucy Norfolk, who lost her husband Dan to alcohol last year. This is one of the hardest conversations on the podcast and Lucy is sharing it for one reason. She wants other families going through the same thing to know they are not alone, and she wants the system to wake up.

Please note this episode contains content some listeners will find extremely difficult, including alcohol-related illness, seizures, and end of life. Take care of yourself when you listen.

Lucy shares the full story. Meeting Dan in a London theatre and falling for the funny one everybody loved. The first signs that something was wrong. The progression from wine and beer to vodka. The first time he was told by a doctor he wasn't bad enough to be helped. The seizures. The broken hip. The osteoporosis. The rehab and the relapses. The kidney failure. The yellow skin. The Tuesday morning the life support was switched off. And the saving grace that Dan's organs went on to save three other people.

Lucy also shares what she wishes she had known sooner, the charities that helped her family (NACOA, Wives of Alcoholics, With You), and what every partner of someone struggling with alcohol needs to hear.

If you love someone who cant stop drinking, or you have lost someone to alcohol, this conversation is for you.

If you have been affected by this podcast here are some links to support you.

https://www.cruse.org.uk/?s=alcohol

https://al-anonuk.org.uk/

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/

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.

https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

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How do you quit drinking when alcohol is the only thing that stops your panic attacks? When you have been drinking vodka out of a water bottle since music college just to get on a tube, attend a lecture, or walk onto a stage?

This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Rachel Lander, a session cellist who has performed with London Grammar, George Michael, Elton John, and Roger Waters. She is also 16 years sober and a trustee of Music Support UK.

Rachel shares the full alcohol story. The first panic attack at seven. The cello as her first addiction. The Royal Academy of Music scholarship at 18. The discovery that vodka could silence the anxiety roaring up her throat. The bottle in the bag at the Bridgewater Hall. The DTs by 23. The day a therapist finally named it. The seven months of negotiating in meetings before the relapse that broke her denial. And the 16 years of sober life that followed: marriage, divorce, two children, a career back on stage, all without picking up a drink.

If you drink to manage anxiety, if alcohol feels like medicine, or if you are sober curious and trying to make sense of why you drink the way you do, this conversation will hit hard.

I’m proud to be releasing this episode during #AddictionAwarenessWeek2023 when Music Support, alongside other amazing organisations (including@actiononaddiction and my friends at @nacoauk) come together to call for addiction to be treated as a serious mental health condition and seek access to treatment, support and care so recovery can be possible for everyone.

You can find Rachael on her Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/rachaellander84/

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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

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100 episodes. Hundreds of stories. One conversation Dave has been wanting to have for a long time.

For the 100th episode of One for the Road, Sober Dave sits down with the woman who has been there since episode one. Danny Martinez is the producer behind the show, and over the past two years, working on every single episode has quietly changed her own relationship with alcohol.

In this special episode, Danny opens up for the first time about her own drinking. The bottle of wine in the early 20s. The lockdown years when wine became a bottle plus several large whiskeys every night. The husband gently asking if she was drinking too much. The chronic illness that turned out to be stage four endometriosis, undiagnosed for decades. The pain she was numbing. And the slow, uncomfortable awakening that came from editing hundreds of hours of sober conversations.

Dave and Danny also share their favourite guests, the bloopers, why this show has no mid-roll ads, and what they hope the next 100 episodes will bring.

If you have ever drunk to cope, drunk through pain, or wondered if your wine habit is more than just a habit, this conversation will hit hard.

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

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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Why can some people stop after one drink while others can't stop drinking at all? Why do you wake up at 3am after a heavy night feeling like the world is ending? Is alcoholism genetic? And what is alcohol actually doing inside the brain?

This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to Professor David Nutt, one of the world's leading neuropsychopharmacologists and author of the books Drink and Psychedelics. Professor Nutt has spent decades researching how alcohol affects the brain, and he breaks the science down in a way anyone can understand.

In this conversation, Professor Nutt explains exactly what alcohol does to GABA, dopamine, endorphins and glutamate, why some people binge while others sip, why 15% of drinkers develop a problem and it has nothing to do with willpower, what really happened to Amy Winehouse, why losing tolerance makes relapse so dangerous, and why social anxiety is one of the biggest drivers of problem drinking.

He also talks about the future of treatment, including the role of psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD in helping people quit drinking for good, the history of Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous, and his alcohol alternative Sentia.

If you have ever wondered why your brain reacts to alcohol differently to other peoples, this is the episode for you.

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.

https://www.yellowkitebooks.co.uk/titles/david-nutt/drink/9781529398014/

https://www.yellowkitebooks.co.uk/titles/professor-david-nutt/psychedelics/9781529360530/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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How do you quit drinking when alcohol has been your best friend for 25 years? When you've been hiding vodka in the toilet cistern, drinking in your car before work, swigging mouthwash to cover the smell, and still nobody around you really knows how bad it has got?

This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave sits down with Jim Weir. Born in Glasgow, now living on the Isle of Man, three years sober and rebuilding his life from the ground up.

Jim shares the full alcohol story. The first vodka and orange at 14. The diamond white and Smirnoff teenage years. Drama school in Aberdeen. Three bottles of wine a night in Cambridge that didn't touch the sides. The flat that became party central. The drink driving ban. The relationships built on co-dependent drinking. The pub landlord night that ended in police, smashed windows, and a sacking. The car drinking. The hidden bottles. The rehab. The relapse. And the moment in a field on the Isle of Man, screaming and crying alone, when he finally decided enough was enough.

If you're a secret drinker, a functioning alcoholic, or someone questioning your relationship with alcohol, this conversation will land hard.

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.

https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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Content note: this conversation discusses bereavement and the loss of a best friend to alcoholism.

Nicky was the fiery little redhead who lit up every room. Manager of half the shops in town. Mum of two. Knew everyone. The friend you couldn't miss when she walked in.

By her early 30s she couldn't walk. By her late 30s she was incontinent, losing her sight, in so much pain she couldn't be touched. She was ordering wine to her front door at 2am so her family wouldn't see. She died at 41, the weekend of her son's 18th birthday.

Heather sat with her as she took her last breath. Then she drank for six weeks to cope. Then she stopped. She's 451 days sober now and using her account to tell Nicky's story so other families recognise what's coming before it's too late.

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

https://www.instagram.com/dear_niknak/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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Jess Frost grew up in a beautiful Leicestershire village, in a nice house, in a family everyone called the party couple. Behind the door it was different. Her dad cycled through psychosis, hospital admissions, a cult, then alcoholism. Her mum drank to cope. Jess and her sister tiptoed on eggshells.

At 18, three of her four grandparents had died by suicide. Jess was the one telling her mum to leave her dad. She became his carer. She drank on her own, ran obsessively, smiled at work. In New York at 27, she broke down.

Six years on she's sober-curious, building toward dry-before-40, running her own coaching business for adult children of alcoholics, and one of the brightest voices in NACOA's community.

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 and links for Jess.

Follow me on Instagram here

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Visit the website herewww.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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Jim Sonefeld is the drummer for Hootie and the Blowfish. He wrote Hold My Hand. He has been sober for nearly 19 years.

He takes Dave through it. The Chicago suburbs. Five kids in a religious household. The 14-year-old summer where he tried alcohol, threw up in the bushes, and scored it like a competitive sport. Six years to finish a four-year degree at South Carolina. The soccer dream dying. Meeting Mark, Darius and Dean. The Letterman appearance that sent Hold My Hand up the charts and changed everything. Number one albums. Then the slow turn. Cocaine to keep up with the drinking. An overheard intervention he hid from. Four years of lies and isolation in a backyard studio while his family slept inside.

Then a Sunday morning. His four-year-old daughter climbing onto his chest and asking why he wasn't in the house with them. He couldn't answer.

This conversation goes into all of it. The fame, the fall, the 12-step path, and the 19 years that followed.

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.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swimming-Blowfish-Hootie-Healing-Hell/dp/1913172791?crid=20BG4XI8FBO28&keywords=swimming+with+the+blowfish&qid=1692291259&sprefix=swimming+with+the+blowfish,aps,83&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=imperfectlyna-21&linkId=336e763a7a78d32c7ad0042b0d9dae27&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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She was getting ready for a champagne lunch when her hands started shaking so badly she couldn't put her mascara on. It was 10 in the morning. She poured a drink to steady herself.

This week on One for the Road, Dave sits down with Georgie Humphrey, the Liverpool-born mum behind Painting The Town Sober. Georgie shares the full arc, from rave culture at 14, to working as a "drinks specialist" for the biggest alcohol brands in London, to drinking three bottles of wine a night while raising three kids under four.

She talks about the three phases of her drinking (party, prescription, prison), the wine o'clock culture that almost kept her stuck, and the New Year's Eve she finally chose differently. Four years on, she's funny, honest, and free.

If you've ever wondered whether your drinking is a problem, this one's for you

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.

@Painting_the_town_sober

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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Welcome back to this week's episode of One For The Road. This week I am joined by Trevor Twohig. Trevor is the director of Liquid Choices a campaign for alcohol-free options. He is the writer of the Charlie Stone series of crime novels and in a previous life was a bar owner and massive drinker. He reached 22 stone, drinking over ten pints a day before he realized enough was enough. He hopes his story can help people as since going sober his life has just got better and better. 

Please sign up at liquid choices:

www.liquidchoices.com or follow liquid_choice on Instagram

For Don't Look Back Hungover and other books:

www.trevortwohig.com

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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jess woke up shaking on a Saturday morning at 20 years old. One of the guys handed her a drink and told her it would make the shakes go away. It did. And in that moment, something clicked. This can't be good.

She'd had her first vodka at 12. By 20, she could out-drink every guy in the room and still remember her own name. She was in an abusive relationship with her high school sweetheart, weaving her way out of one bad situation while alcohol pulled her into worse ones. Then she met the man who would become her husband, and he sat with her while she stopped.

That was 22 years ago.

You'll hear about: the two-glass-a-night dad who later died from cirrhosis; surviving sexual assault while drinking; the genetic load of three family members lost to alcohol; how she quit without rehab or AA; and why she's still a single drink away from losing it all.

If you've ever thought you were too young to have a drinking problem, this one's for you.

You can find Jess on IG: @mysobersunrise and at mysobersunrise.com 

https://www.instagram.com/mysobersunrise?igsh=dTlzbGRwMnA2ZHp1

https://mysobersunrise.com/

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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle

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Happy Wednesday and thanks for joining me for this week's episode of One For The Road. This week I am Joined by Janey Lee Grace.

Janey is an Amazon No.1 Best-selling author, and speaker, and was a co-presenter on the UK’s biggest radio show, BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon for 24 years. Formerly she was a backing singer with Wham! Kim Wilde and Boy George, had her own number 8 chart hit as Cola Boy with 7 Ways to Love. Janey has written five books on Holistic living including the number one Amazon best seller Imperfectly Natural Woman and her latest book Happy Healthy Sober – Ditch the Booze and Take Control of your Life which encourages everyone to look again at their relationship with alcohol. After ditching the booze Janey launched a podcast ‘Alcohol-Free Life’ focusing on sober self-care, She gave a TEDx talk Sobriety Rocks- Who Knew! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NktRXVUmQC8 And runs The Sober Club, a platform offering a non-judgemental community for people who are committed to sobriety and want to ‘upscale’ their life without the booze and focus on health and wellbeing. Janey is passionate about encouraging people to ditch the chemicals, focus on great nutrition, self-care, and finding their purpose as she found for herself that quitting the booze was the missing link in the ‘holistic living’ picture. She also offers coaching and is trained in EFT, Matrix Re-imprinting. and NLP. www.thesoberclub.com

Janey is married with 4 children and lives in Hertfordshire but longs to be by the sea.

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/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He played 178 games at scrum half for Leicester Tigers. From the outside it looked like the dream. Inside, he was planning his week around how many beers he could get away with.

This week on One for the Road, Dave sits down with Sam Harrison, former Premiership rugby player turned carpenter, now sober on the Gold Coast. Sam shares the full arc, from making his mum's gin and tonics as a four-year-old, to the drinking culture that runs through rugby, to a night he doesn't fully remember and the wife who came home and refused to let him pretend it was a one-off.

He talks about the year off that didn't stick, the relapse that was worse than what came before, and the lightning-bolt moment he chose differently for good.

If you've ever tried to stop and gone back, this one's for you.

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 for Sam.

https://www.instagram.com/everymansam/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

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He spent his days trying to find $15 in his pocket. That was enough for a case of beer, two packs of menthols, and another afternoon outside himself. He slept on his brother's floor. He'd already done time. He couldn't stop.

This week on One for the Road, Dave sits down with his good friend Brad McLeod, host of the Sober Motivation podcast. Brad shares the full arc, from a kid moved across countries, to a teenager locked in a residential treatment unit, to a young man running through a beehive to escape rehab transport. He talks about heroin, jail, deportation, and the airport moment that finally cracked him open.

Today Brad's an addiction counsellor, a husband, a dad of three, and a voice thousands of people in recovery rely on.

If you've ever felt like you can't stop, this conversation is for you.

Check out SoberMotivation: www.sobermotivation.com

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 for Brad.

Sober Motivation Podcast https://link.chtbl.com/sobermotivation

Instagram.com/sobermotivation

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He'd polished off a bottle of Calvados and woken up on the kitchen floor. Four in the morning, lights still on. His wife found him there.

That wasn't the moment Alex Norwood-Hill quit drinking. The real turning point came months later on a stag do in Ibiza.

Alex spent three decades in hospitality. London. Miami. Restaurants for Michael Caine. Cocaine to mow the lawn. He made martinis for three James Bonds and built a glittering life that looked like everything from the outside and felt like nothing inside.

Then he touched a rock off the coast of Ibiza and heard a voice telling him to purify. Six years sober and counting.

Today Alex is the Sober Sommelier. Reiki master. Crystal healer. Maker of an alcohol-free drink called Cordus. This is the story of how he went from rock bottom to the rock that saved him.

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 for Alex.

https://linktr.ee/alexnorwoodhill    

www.sobersommelier.co.uk

www.instagram.com/sobersommelier/

www.facebook.com/thesobersommelier

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle/

This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

email: info@helenbennett.co

website: https://www.helenbennett.co/

TikTok, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram:  @coachhelenbennett

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.