How to Embrace Sobriety with Gillian Tietz

Nov 11, 2022

Gillian Tietz, host of the Sober Powered podcast and founder of Sober Powered Media, shares her inspiring journey to sobriety after struggles with addiction. She discusses the importance of confronting emotions that can lead to destructive habits and how alcohol worsened her mental health. Gillian emphasizes that moderation isn’t always an option and highlights the value of community support in recovery. The discussion also touches on the deceptive nature of alcohol and its impact on anxiety, offering a deeper understanding of the road to lasting sobriety.

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ADVICE

Structure Your Day

Structure your day to support the life you want, not to enable bad habits.
Be mindful of mindless activities like excessive TV watching, which can create a void.

ANECDOTE

TV and Sobriety

Gillian quit drinking but initially kept her old routine of watching TV for hours, making it harder.
She later avoided TV for a month, which helped her sobriety, and now remains mindful of TV consumption.

ANECDOTE

Drinking Escalation and Relapse

Gillian's drinking escalated quickly after starting at 22, leading to daily drinking and mental health decline.
Suicidal thoughts, worsened by forced sleeplessness, prompted her to quit, but she relapsed after 90 days.

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Gillian Tietz is the host of Sober Powered, a top 50 mental health podcast, and the founder of Sober Powered Media, a podcast network of top mental health shows. She has a master’s in biology and worked in research labs in the Boston area. Getting sober in 2019 inspired her to start her podcast to help others understand why addiction happens and how to develop the coping skills they need to stay sober. After 2 years of consistent, hard work she left her career in biochemistry to start her network.

Eric and Gillian discuss her journey to sobriety and how she shares what she has learned with others on her podcast, Sober Powered.

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Gillian Tietz and I Discuss How to Embrace Sobriety and …

Her podcast, Sober Powered
How she learned that watching TV did not support the life she wanted
The start of her journey to sobriety
Struggling with emotions that lead her to destructive habits
Her struggles with body image
Realizing how drinking caused her mental health to deteriorate
How alcohol enhanced the problems she was trying to hide from
Learning to accept that moderating drinking wasn’t possible
The idea of harm reduction and the controversial opinions
Finally seeking professional help when at the start of the quarantine
How she wanted to start the podcast to share what she had learned to help others
The value of finding support from sober communities on social media
How we often don’t see the cause and effect of drinking when you’re in it
The effects that alcohol has on the brain and mental health
Post acute withdrawal and how the brain needs to learn to re-regulate without alcohol

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