In this episode, our guest is Janet Gourand, the founder of Tribe Sober, an alcohol sobriety community and podcast. We discuss alcohol blackouts and other alcohol-related dangers.

Learn all about blackouts (and brownouts) - risks, causes, science, signs, interactions, preventative measures, horror stories, and more. And become reminded of alcohol's scary links to crime, violence, disease, and even death. One of these times, you could wake up from your blackout inside a hospital, jail cell, or not at all.

Entering into and navigating sobriety can be hard at first. So Janet shares various tools that help, such as: social connection, joining a community, and having a project or goal.

Alcohol might shut down the brain, but sobriety can help power it back up, increasing things like energy, motivation, mood, creativity, imagination, and connection.

RESOURCES

BOOKS
- Blackout by Sarah Hepola
- We Are the Luckiest by Laura McKowen
- Why You're Unhappy by Loretta Breuning

COMPANIES
- Miller Brewing Company
- Philip Morris

COMMUNITIES
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
- Tribe Sober

PEOPLE
- Ernest Hemingway
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Laura McKowen
- Loretta Breuning
- Lucy Denith
- Sarah Hepola

PLACES
- Cape Town
- Johannesburg
- London
- Sapporo

PODCAST EPISODES
- Why You're Unhappy with Dr Loretta Breuning (Tribe Sober, 1/20/2024)
- Playing Russian Roulette... with Alcohol - Michael Waite (Tribe Sober, 4/13/2024)

TV SERIES
- Dahmer – Monster

VOCABULARY
- Ativan
- benzodiazepines
- brownouts
- CBD
- CB1 receptor
- hippocampus
- ketamine
- THC

**Connect, learn more, or join the community**
website: tribesober.com
Instagram: @tribesober