How I Quit Drinking - and started Tribe Sober with Janet Gourand

Tribe Sober - Your guide to alcohol-free living!

After running Tribe Sober for 6 years and helping hundreds of people to ditch the drink and embrace alcohol-free living I've learned a lot.  My biggest insight has been that sharing our stories around our problems with alcohol is the most powerful way we can help others - that's why the heart of this podcast is recovery stories.

Today I celebrate seven years of sobriety so I'm sharing my story - how I quit drinking and started Tribe Sober

In this Episode

• How I got hooked on the booze - and nearly drowned - and carried on drinking
• How I got breast cancer - and carried on drinking
• How I kept trying (and failing) to "moderate"
• How a "walking, talking blackout" made me (finally) decide to ditch the drink
• How I went to AA and why it didn't work for me
• How I finally found "my people" at a one day workshop in London and managed to stop drinking
• How I stayed sober - and decided to use my training experience to design a workshop to help others
• How the workshop participants wanted to stay connected and Tribe Sober membership was born
• How I marked my first Soberversary by writing a "Goodbye to Alcohol" Letter 
• How I'm celebrating my seventh Soberversary by developing an online course which will be available in July 2022

• More Info

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