Sober Curious
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 224 ratingsSober Curious author Ruby Warrington talks to all kinds of folks about their relationships to booze, as well as how to navigate life as a non-drinker in a world that loves to get wasted.
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Healing Our Mother Hunger with Kelly McDaniel
March 26, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBIn this episode, you will hear me in conversation with Kelly McDaniel, a therapist and author, whose latest book, Mother Hunger, examines the impact on women specifically of having lacked the proper nurturance, protection, and guidance from their primary maternal figure in early life. The reason I wanted to speak to Kelly in the context of “women without kids,” is that it seems obvious to me that living with mother hunger can’t NOT have an impact on how one feels about becoming a mother, or...
A Culture of Excess with Mickey Down + Konrad Kay
August 11, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBMickey Down and Konrad Kay, creators of HBO's Industry, on addictions to success, status and money, and the substance abuse that fuels their hit show. In the episode we discuss: -Why the themes of ambition, success, and money are at the heart of HBOs Industry – and how these themes manifest in various addictions among the characters -Choosing what we worship, and what happens when we put our faith in external things to make us feel safe, secure, happy, and whole -Why recreational drug an...
Full Spectrum Sobriety with Goddexx
August 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBFull-spectrum life coach Goddexx on transcending binaries, the roots of codependency, and embracing the fullness of who we are - in sobriety and beyond. In the episode we discuss: -Their experiences with food addiction in childhood – related to food insecurity in the home -Starting to abuse alcohol in tandem with coming into their bi-sexuality -Toggling between different addictions to manage different situations and emotional challenges -Discovering and enacting their own “harm reduction...
The New Cocktail O'Clock with Melanie Masarin
July 28, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBGhia founder Melanie Masarin shares how she came to be a pioneer in the nonalcoholic beverage space, and why quitting drinking was the best she ever did for her productivity and her wellbeing. In the episode we discuss: -How her upbringing in France informed her drinking choices in later life -How the drinking culture in France differs from that in the UK and US -Cutting out alcohol to try to diagnose her stomach issues – and discovering how good it felt not to drink -Why not drinking is...
Booze, Buddhism and being Human with Jason Gots
July 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBJason Gots, podcaster and author of Humanity is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers, on the nature of human suffering, living with grief, and the Buddhist approach to addiction and self-discipline. In the episode we discuss: -Jason’s drinking history and what led to him getting sober curious -How Buddhist ideas and practices have influenced his relationship with alcohol -The conversation with his father than helped his sober curiosity s...
Addiction + Attachment Theory with Jessica Baum
July 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBJessica Baum, psychotherapist and author of Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love, on the links between attachment theory and our addictions to substances, behaviors, and unhealthy relationships. In the episode we discuss: -An overview of attachment theory – and how our relationship with our early caregivers wires our attachment style -How an inability to trust and connect with others can be traced back to how our nervous system formed in infancy -Why we become “attach...
Shopping Addiction & Us with Avis Cardella
July 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBAvis Cardella, the author of Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict, discusses our pervasive culture of compulsive spending and why we're more vulnerable to shopping addiction than ever. In the episode we discuss: -When everyday consumption morphs into compulsive spending or shopping addiction -Why compulsive shopping is not the same as over-spending or regularly getting into debt -The physical sensations that could show shopping has become a problem -Why shopping addiction is not taken as...
Addicted to Perfection with Swan Huntley
June 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBAuthor Swan Huntley on drinking to escape the trap of perfection, and why self-love is a part of every sober and sober curious journey. In the episode we discuss: -Swan’s sober story – and how her drinking found her living a secret double life -The book that made her realize it was time for her to quit -Why everybody is sober curious before they get sober serious -Why she decided to write a fictionalized account of somebody’s sober curious journey -Reading and daydreaming as a healthy e...
Dancing it Out with DJ Hanzi
June 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBDJ Hanzi, founder of sober dance party, Reprieve, DJ Hanzi, founder of sober dance party, Reprieve, talks about the healing power of music and dance, and how to navigate the nightlife as a non-drinker. In the episode we discuss: -How his experiences of going clubbing sober led to him setting up his sober dance party, Reprieve -How he kept the party going during Covid – and how it became a place for people to release tension and find hope -The therapeutic value of music and dancing when i...
Alcohol & ADHD with Jayne Matthews
June 16, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBCelebrated hair stylist Jayne Matthews on how getting a midlife diagnosis of ADHD helped her make sense of her substance abuse. In the episode, Ruby and Jayne discuss: -Why discovering cocaine was what finally led to Jayne quitting drinking -Why it was the hangovers – not the drinking – that became the reason she had to quit -The dangers of being a high-functioning addict -Jayne using booze to self-medicate her undiagnosed ADHD symptoms -Why both alcoholism and ADHD are said to run in f...
Insta-addiction with Laura McKowen
February 17, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBMy guest today is the author and founder of The Luckiest Club, Laura McKowen. Laura is the first person I’ve had on the show twice. The first time, we were talking about her book, We Are the Luckiest, and I invited her back to discuss an essay she published in the New York times last fall, titled: How I Knew I Needed to Quit Instagram. I could relate personally to so much of what she described in her piece, in which she compared her relationship with social media with her alcohol addiction...
Sober Relationships with Mark Groves
February 10, 2022 15:45 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBMy guest this week is Mark Groves—a human connection specialist and founder of Create The Love. Probably the number one question I hear from people who are getting sober curious, is how will this affect my relationships. For most of us, regardless of our level of attachment to the substance itself, alcohol is part and parcel of our social lives. It’s there in our friendships, our families, our intimate partnerships, and our dating lives. So what happens when we remove it? Definitely a lot ...
Sober Masculinity with Aubert Bastiat
February 03, 2022 14:31 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBMy guest today is Aubert Bastiat – who is the co-founder of Sacred Sons, a global brotherhood that facilitates gatherings, workshops, and trainings focused on helping men discover a healthy connection to their masculinity. It has always struck me that substance abuse goes hand-in-hand with unhealthy – or what is often termed “toxic” - masculinity. Alcohol especially can enable a three-dimensional caricature of what it means to “be a man”- aggressive, violent, sexually entitled – that causes...
Eating Disorders & Us with Jayne Mattingly
January 27, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBMy guest today is Jayne Mattingly – a therapist and eating disorders recovery coach, and the founder of Recovery Love and Care. I’ve wanted to have a conversation about how eating disorders fit into the landscape of addiction and recovery for a long time, partly because of my personal history with anorexia. It was only while writing Sober Curious that I became fully aware that this is absolutely a part of my addiction story. But I had shied away from talking about it publicly as, a) I feel ...
Sober Black Girls with Khadi A. Oluwatoyin
January 20, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBMy guest today is Khadi A. Oluwatoyin, who is the founder of Sober Black Girls Club – a platform for Black women and non-binary people who are sober, sober curious, or even just thinking about putting down the bottle. Khadi was raised in a strict Muslim household, and alcohol was not part of her world growing up. But within hours of arriving at college, she had her first drink – and so began her career as a heavy binge drinker. She shares the specific solution that alcohol provided for her:...
Healing Toxic Shame with Shain Kish
January 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBMy guest on today’s episode is Shain Kish – who is a long-time member of the Sober Curious community, and my co-moderator in the "Sober Curious Book" Facebook group. Shain was the first person to ever show up at a Sober Curious writers group I used to host, and he found my work having been searching for ways to think about quitting drinking that actually spoke to him. He has gone on to use a “harm reduction” approach to addressing his alcohol and drug abuse, and he explains here what this h...
Reasons to Quit with Mia of The Sober Glow
January 06, 2022 12:21 - 57 minutes - 53 MBMy guest today is Mia from The Sober Glow - who was one of the very first “sober influencers” that I encountered on social media in my early days of getting sober curious and in this interview, Mia and I both reflect on how we have evolved on our respective sober curious paths. We also cover the unique challenges of being a non-drinker during a global pandemic, finding new ways to manage stress, why Mia recently archived all her old Instagram posts, and how one of the biggest gifts of remov...
Everything is Drugified with Anna Lembke, M.D.
December 30, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBMy guest today is psychiatrist Anna Lembke MD, a specialist in Addiction Medicine at Stanford University. I invited Anna on to talk about her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence – in which she posits that practically anything can become addictive in what she describes as the “dopamine saturated ecosystem” of our world today. Her book is a deep dive into the dopamine function of the brain, and she spells out exactly what is happening biologically whenever w...
Drinking on the Job with David Murphy
December 23, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBMy guest on today’s show is David Murphy—chief “flavor architect” for Lyres. David is a restauranteur, a sommelier, and a decades-long wine specialist, and now he has brought all his expertise in the field to the alcohol-free space. I’ve been very curious about how people working in the alcohol industry at large are responding to the emerging sober curious or alt sobriety space. I sometimes picture people at the big booze brands sitting around, scratching their heads trying to figure out ho...
Why Do We Drink? with Sylvester McNutt
December 16, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBFind the episode and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher, or listen up below. My guest this week is the author and motivational speaker, Sylvester McNutt III. I met Sylvester when I was a guest on his podcast, Free Your Energy, and as soon as we signed off that day, I knew I wanted to have him on here to continue the conversation. I explain why as the recording gets going, so you’ll hear about that in a few moments. But his Sober Curious journey aside, I also wanted to have Sylveste...
The Astrology of Addiction with Bess Matassa
December 09, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBMy guest today is the brilliant astrologer and author Bess Matassa. Bess is a long-time friend and collaborator of mine, and I knew she would be the perfect person to bring on for this episode on The Astrology of Addiction. Now, I know this topic might be a bit “out there” for some of you. But I am confident that whatever your interest in or thoughts about astrology, you will find plenty that you can relate to in our conversation, while having your mind blown just a little bit along the wa...
Finding Sober Friends with Kate Johnson
December 02, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBMy guest today is the spiritual teacher and author Kate Johnson. Kate’s new book is called Radical Friendship, and I knew I wanted to have her on the podcast as soon as I read it. I don’t know about all of you, but closing out 2021 I have been feeling the impact of 18 months of social distancing. The past few months, I’ve found myself questioning who my real friends are; whether I’ve been a good enough friend to people; and what kinds of friendships I want to invest in going forward. This ...
The Future is AF with Bill Shufelt
August 12, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBMy guest today is Bill Shufelt, who is the founder of Athletic Brewing – my favorite alcohol-free craft brewery! Bill has been a major player in spearheading the rapidly expanding non-alcoholic space and in this episode he shares his own sober curious journey, what led him to quitting drinking completely nine years ago, and the story behind how he quit his job and took the leap into the entrepreneurial space. Along the way, we touch on some really interesting points that help to join the d...
The Adderall Effect with Allie Lerner
August 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBMy guest today is Allie Lerner, a sex and trauma therapist who I invited on to the show to talk about how she quit her 10-year addiction to Adderall. Adderall is a prescription drug, and one that enables certain traits that are celebrated in our society – such as productivity and thinness. Both factors that mean this is an addiction that often flies under the radar. In our conversation, Allie describes how it crept up on her, and how it came to completely take over her life to the point whe...
Addiction in the Family with Jamila Reddy
July 29, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBMy guest today is Jamila Reddy, a lifestyle designer, holistic wellness advocate, and empowerment coach, who has first-hand experience of how one person’s substance abuse can impact on the wider family system. Jamila lost her older sister to addiction coming up on three years ago at the time of recording, and I invited her on to talk about how she and her family coped with this loss. Many of us have experienced watching our loved ones struggle with addiction – as well as navigating the ment...
Addicted to Anxiety with Nicole LePera
July 22, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBMy guest today is Dr. Nicole LePera, a.k.a. The Holistic Psychologist. Given her extensive social media following, it’s very likely you are familiar with Nicole’s work—which has helped to democratize the field of psychotherapy. On her Instagram account, Nicole has made theories, tools, and practices for what she terms “self-healing” available and accessible to millions of people – and her new book, which is titled How to Do the Work, breaks down her approach to creating positive change in ...
Living With Our Pain with Jessica Murnane
July 15, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBMy guest this week is Jessica Murnane – a podcaster, author, and women’s health advocate, who is also one of the most down-to-earth and non-preachy people in the modern wellness space. Jessica’s and I met when were both promoting our first books four years ago. I had only just started speaking about being sober curious publicly and Jess was one of the first people I’d come across who had cut booze out of her life for health reasons – namely as part of the holistic protocol she had embraced ...
Clarity & Connection with Diego Perez
July 08, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBMy guest this week is Diego Perez – you will likely know by his Instagram handle @yung_pueblo. I invited Diego on to talk about his new book, Clarity & Connection, which are two of the qualities which go hand in hand with being Sober Curious. What not so many people know, is that Diego quit all “intoxicants” many years ago, after hitting his own rock bottom with alcohol and other drugs – and that this has been an integral part of his career as a writer and deep meditator. He shares all th...
Unapologetic Living with Samantha Moyo
July 01, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBMy guest this week is Samantha Moyo – an activist, artist, and creative expansion coach. I asked her on the podcast, because she is also the original founder of Morning Gloryville, which was the first sober morning dance party when it launched back in 2013. Sam shares the origin story of what became a movement that helped millions of people Since she moved on from that role, she been pretty involved in the activism scene and has also worked with all sorts of organizations, teams, and indiv...
High on Our Own Supply with Luke Simon
June 24, 2021 13:49 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBLuke Simon is a mystic and longtime collaborator in the sober curious movement, and author of the new book, Venus Juice. I first met Luke when I started attending all kinds of far out healing circles in the mid- 2010s, when he was known as one of the co-founders of the now sadly shuttered Maha Rose Center for the Healing Arts in Brooklyn. A sensitive and artistic soul, Luke’s work in the healing space led to him investigating ways to get high on his own supply – and in this episode we dis...
What is Harm Reduction? with Jen Elizabeth
June 17, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBJen Elizabeth is a sober mom, writer, sexual abuse survivor, and harm reduction specialist. She works with the Sidewalk Project, an organization that works to empower unhoused communities around the world, and is also a host at the Sober Mom Squad, a community and space to discuss all things motherhood, without the mommy juice. I invited Jen on to talk about the meaning of harm reduction and why she is so passionate about this approach to treating substance abuse. She is very outspoken abo...
Sobriety + Solidarity with Clementine Morrigan and Jay
February 18, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBMy guests this week are Clementine Morrigan and Jay, co-hosts of the F***ing Cancelled podcast – which examines the phenomenon of cancel culture through the lens of 12-step recovery and trauma-informed reparative justice. This is the last show of the current season + it’s safe to say I’ve been feeling quite nervous about airing it!! After all, criticizing cancel culture, or even siding with other people who do, is a sure-fire way to get cancelled. But what I value about Clementine and Jay’...
Cravings v. Connection with Sarah Wilson
February 11, 2021 21:09 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBMy guest this week is author and philanthropist Sarah Wilson. These days, Sarah is perhaps best known for her New York Times bestselling book on anxiety, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful. But we first met in a previous life, when she was primarily known for being the woman behind I Quit Sugar – which spawned 11 cookbooks and a whole ethos on how to kick sugar addition. Many people experience a surge in sugar cravings after they quit drinking, and so we get deep into what is up with that. ...
Sobriety and Allyship with Hakeem Allen
February 04, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBMy guest this week is Hakeem Allen, founder of the Anti-Racist Social Club, and we discuss why sober curiosity and anti-racism work go hand-in-hand. Hakeem’s organization aims to help people have more open, constructive, and, dare I say, fun, conversations about race, so that white people in particular can learn about what it really means to be a good ally. Now, I know I talk about race a lot on this podcast – and conversations like these might seem a little out of place here. But in my ex...
Healing With Self-Hypnosis with Shauna Cummins
January 28, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBMy guest this week is Shauna Cummins – a professional hypnotist and author of new book, Wishcraft. I have worked personally with Shauna several times over the years, and not only has her work been hugely helpful for managing anxiety and burnout, the theory behind it completely fascinates me. We often have a negative view of hypnosis, thinking of it as being some sort of mind control, when actually it’s a way of taking back control of our own imagination to help ourselves get unstuck – one ...
Recovery For The Revolution with Carolyn Collado
January 21, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBMy guest this week is Carolyn Collado – the healer and educator behind Recovery for the Revolution. Carolyn is on a mission to make recovery accessible to all—meaning, they are devoted to spreading the message that all people, including and especially people of color, disabled people, and trans, non-binary, and queer people, are worthy of the care, autonomy, love, good health, pleasure, and joy that are essential for addressing issues of substance abuse. For Carolyn, recovery – meaning, a r...
Intuition Under the Influence with Natalie Miles
January 14, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBMy guest this week is professional intuitive and psychic medium Natalie Miles. Natalie is best-known for her brilliant podcast, So You Think You’re Intuitive, and she and I have connected very deeply over the past year, as I helped her create and publish her debut book, You Are Intuitive, with my self-publishing imprint, Numinous Books. During this process, I came to realize that intuition – that is, our own innate knowing about the choices that are the right for us—is integral to being Sob...
Sobriety + Social Change with Marcos Salazar
January 07, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBMy guest this week is Marcos Salazar, whose organization For All Drinks is the official partner of the Dry January initiative in the United States. Marcos is doing incredible work to promote living alcohol-free, first and foremost by creating a platform that brings together all the amazing booze-free beverage options in one place. But he is also deeply committed to helping enact social change, and his both his training in psychology and his background in the non-profit space, mean he has to...
Sobriety as Self-Help with Toni Jones
December 31, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBToni and I know each other from our days working as lifestyle journalists in the UK, an environment where heavy drinking was often expected, and a pretty-much constant stream of free alcohol was considered to be one of the perks of the job. It was after Toni went freelance a few years ago, that she suffered a real crisis of identity, and was able to see how her drinking was part of maintaining the persona she thought was integral to her success. She has since gone on to become evangelical...
Drinking Alone with Julia Bainbridge
December 24, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBMy guest this week is food writer and all-around cool girl Julia Bainbridge, whose new book Good Drinks puts a whole new spin on just how “good” alcohol-free drinks can be. She also came to this project from a personal place – having been questioning her own drinking for the past several years, and she shares where she is currently at on this path and how the pandemic has influenced her relationship with booze. We also discuss Julia’s podcast, The Lonely Hour, which is a deep dive into w...
SOBRIETY & IDENTITY WITH LAZARUS LETCHER
December 17, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode, I’m in conversation with the wonderful Lazarus Letcher, a writer, scholar, and musician, who is currently pursuing a PhD in American Studies, with a focus on folklore, Black liberation, and queer and trans studies. Their work in the sober space focusses largely on intersectional approaches to addiction and recovery, which means taking into account how identity impacts substance use. While I was doing my research for this interview I looked into statistics around rates of su...
Life Beyond Booze with Mark Livings
September 17, 2020 13:28 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBLyres founder Mark Livings is shaking up the drinks industry with his crazy accurate alcohol-free versions of all the classic spirits. He shares his views on how the COVID pandemic is completely reshaping the hospitality industry, along with insights into how excessive alcohol consumption is conflated with an outdated model of masculinity, why he thinks Australia and the UK in particular have such a problem with binge drinking, and what he sees as the future of the booze business. In this ep...
Sobriety + Success with Sophia Amoruso
September 10, 2020 12:12 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBSerial entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso quit drinking several years ago as an experiment - and it completely changed the way she views booze, and in particular the role of alcohol in our working lives. Like many of us, she used it as quick way to switch off and a counterbalance to overworking, as well as to feel more confident about herself and her networking abilities. In this episode we also discuss: -Drinking her way through the success of her twenties – and using booze to hide her imposter...
Marijuana and Me with Brandon Alter
September 03, 2020 12:08 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBQuitting cannabis is rarely if ever addressed in sober circles. Like alcohol, cannabis use is very socially acceptable, but it’s also widely seen as pretty harmless, and is not even considered to be addictive. All of these factors make it difficult to spot when it’s become a problem – and many habitual smokers may see themselves in this very nuanced conversation with spiritual healer Brandon Alter, where we also discuss the deep healing that can happen when we really choose to show up for ...
Addiction on Prescription with Chekesha Kay Ellis
August 27, 2020 11:59 - 1 hour - 60 MBChekesha Kay Ellis is a recovery advocate and certified family recovery specialist, and New Jersey state lead for Mobilize Recovery. As she celebrates 10 years sobriety from opioid addiction, an addiction that also robber her of her hearing, she shares her experience of being a high-functioning addict, how she ultimately quit cold turkey, and the cornerstones of her subsequent self-directed recovery. In this episode we also discuss: -The commonalities between opioid abuse and alcohol abus...
Quitting For The Kids with Clinton Schultz
August 20, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBClinton Schultz, is an aboriginal psychologist and founder of the aboriginal-run alcohol-free brand, Sobah Beer. Clinton’s work sits at the intersection of sobriety, social justice, and psychology, and he and his wife Lozen created Sobah in part to raise cultural awareness and promote the Aboriginal arts, language and history. As well as his own journey to sobriety – which was sparked by his young son asking him if he would please stop drinking “silly drink” – we discuss why binge drinking a...
How To Be Happy with Light Watkins
August 06, 2020 17:19 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBLight Watkins is a renowned author and meditation coach. As founder of the alcohol-free events series The Shine, he has also been a bit of a running buddy of Ruby's in terms of spearheading the “new sobriety” movement. We dive in by discussing the power and the potential of social media activism, and go on to talk about Light’s own sober journey – including how he consciously weaned himself off alcohol over a period of months, and how quitting drinking 20 years ago actually paved the way fo...
Self-Healing in Sobriety with Alexandra Roxo
July 30, 2020 11:21 - 1 hour - 56 MBAlexandra describes "self-healing" as a process of learning how to accept and integrate our deepest fears and most painful wounds. Very relevant here as unexamined, and therefore unhealed, trauma is the root of so many of our addictions, as we often develop an unhealthy relationship with substances and other numbing behaviors in an attempt to ‘fix’ these hurting parts. We go to some pretty deep places in this conversation, which also touches on the healing potential of altered states – wit...
Intoxicated Masculinity with Mishka Shubaly
July 23, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBMishka is 10 years sober, and while he identifies as an alcoholic he is resolutely anti-program, anti-spirituality, and anti-self-help. His approach to quitting drinking is as boiled down as it gets: you decide you want to quit, and … you quit … while making lifestyle changes to support this choice. In his case, this also meant relearning how to be a man without the excessive drinking that had come to define his masculinity—a subject I have been wanting to address on this podcast for ages. I...
Sobriety & Self-Acceptance with Vasavi Kumar
July 16, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBVasavi is a real force of nature, and she shares her story about using alcohol and cocaine to be all the things she thought other people wanted her to be—and how it was after getting sober that she finally discovered how to be herself. She was also diagnosed with bipolar and ADHD at age 20, and shares how, at the time, getting high was a way to explain away her manic and often self-destructive behaviors, which opens up a wider dialogue about substance use and mental health. In this episode w...