
#054 - Getting sober, facing shame & taking responsibility - w/ Sarah Ann Macklin
Beyond the Self with Africa Brooke
The Shame of Drinking
As young as I could remember, actually, my dad was always a very big drinker. And he would drink a lot of his pain away,. So that's where I kind of started to see this blueprint and this idea that you drink your problems away. When I was 14 years old and we'd moved to the UK, and drinking culture is very big in the UK, it's just kind of seen as part and parcel of growing up. But at the core, if they have a problem, if you have an issue, you don't talk about it, you just have a drink.
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