The Sober Insights Podcast | by Belle Robertson

Today’s new OMM is one i’ve recorded in response to this email i got – and her request for an ass-kicking!

penpal Dusquene (day 123) sent me this: “I’m sober, but my emotions are all over the map. Really strong shit. Really strong. It’s been a bit hard to keep Wolfie at bay I will also confess that I’ve not been using my support tools. I told myself I’m too tired ... So if you want to kick me in the ass — give me Toughlove — you can. I’m just being honest.

... My brain is taking off and won’t stop. I usually drank when this happened. Wolfie tells me that I can’t stand the feelings, that it will always be this way so why not open that bottle?!? Not doing it but damn this is hard...

I’m not gonna lie, I still have a fantasy sitting down in a nice restaurant or comfy space, and being able to totally enjoy one glass of something. Not going to work, but that still there. And I hate Wolfie for that thought. Hate him.

And then the thoughts about “what’s wrong with me”? Seriously. I’m supposed to embrace this choice positively, but I’m not there. All I see is deprivation ... My rational mind can’t grasp this. It should be open and shut. Yet I still desire that liquid that is poison. For me.

Not drinking today. But I’m raw. Oooffff”

[and when you listen to the OMM, you’ll hear what i have to say!]

hugs, belle xo

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omm389.superhighway > if you’re newly sober, then it’s like you’re a little chick, walking around in tall grass. you are walking in a new place, unsure where to go. And all the while you are RIGHT beside a superhighway of booze that threatens to squish you. How do you move away from what you know, into the tall (new) grass?
this one-minute audio message is extracted from a longer podcast episode called “423: Self-Care vs. Self-Indulgence”.

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“i want to learn to be sober, but i want to drink at the same time.” there are other coaches who talk about this – about drinking and learning and drinking and learning and eventually give up the alcohol – it doesn’t happen that way. ever. alcohol hijacks our ability to learn new things. i don’t see growth happening until the behaviour is removed.

this omm is extracted from a longer podcast called “Learning to Deal with Emotions” (it’s episode 458 for podcast subscribers). i have a tip for you. if you add yourself to the podcast subscriber list today, this full-length audio about emotions (22 minutes long) will be the first audio you receive. This audio covers things I’ve learned in coaching that I haven’t talked about like this before. If you wait even 24 hrs to sign up to be a podcast subscriber, though, this will not be first audio and you’ll miss this one. So hop over here right now > www.audiosober.com.

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omm387.moderation.doesnt.work > this audio is about mental health, compulsive behaviours, and how moderation doesn’t work. i share how reading an article in New York magazine about an author had me thinking the whole time: this is a story about addiction, compulsion, obsession. it’s so surprising how many times we go down the rabbit hole of THIS SHOULD WORK even when it’s not working. and then we try again. and again. and again.

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