Soberful

Chip and Veronica answer your questions on how to deal with alcohol and drinking triggers.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Brassard has been helping women recover from trauma for decades; in this episode, she breaks down what trauma really is and how we can recover.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can we sometimes be drama addicts? Chip and Veronica explore how they have created drama in their own lives and how creating drama is a way of meeting needs.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chip and Veronica are back from their summer break and kick off this season by discussing how our childhoods affect us and how our relationship with our parents plays out in our romantic relationships. They discuss how we can't change the past but we can change the meaning we give it and how it affects us in the present.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special bonus episode, Veronica joins forces with long-time colleague Joe Schrank. They discuss how we need to change the alcohol culture by producing a TV show called 'Are you sober curious.' To do this, they need your help. We are asking our sober community to help crowdfund the pilot episode. Find out more info here: https://seedandspark.com/fund/are-you-sober-curious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In their last episode before their summer break Chip and Veronica discuss dealing with disappointment, how it feels when others are disappointed in you and how expectations and grace are the two things that help us navigate things that disappoint us.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lenore Skenazy believes our children are in crisis. That we are over-parenting them and stealing vital growth opportunities from them. If kids don't build resilience and have confidence in their abilities then they pay a price in adulthood.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**Trigger warning*** Kelly Wallace shares her moving story of childhood sexual trauma, alcoholism and recovery.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our monthly question we look at fear. Our listeners are particularly concerned with fear of relapse, of what others think of them and fear of leaving a relationship in order to stay sober.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Willoughby has gone from drinking all the beer to being one of the leading voices of the alcohol-free movement in the UK. In this episode she discusses the extraordinary success of her alcohol-free off license.   To learn more, visit the show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices