Soberful
Veronica Valli & Chip Somers
Veronica Valli and Chip Somers are experts on recovery. Chip Somers was most recently described by Russell Brand in his book 'Recovery' as a 'right social liability.' Together they have been sober for almost 50 years and have a LOT of stories, messes, experience and occasionally helpful advice to share on living in sobriety. They bring all of that (and more) to the Soberful podcast. This podcast is for anyone who wants to live an alcohol-free life, is struggling to get sober or who is in long-term recovery.
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Feb 5, 2020 • 1h 3min
79: Confronting Your Inner Critic with Lynn Matti
Lynn Matti, psychotherapist and author of 5 Weeks to Self Confidence: A Guide to Confronting Your Inner Critic and Controlling Your Relationship with Your Thoughts joins Veronica to talk about how we can dismantle the inner critic to build our self-confidence and self-esteem. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Jan 29, 2020 • 56min
78: Escaping Porn Addiction with Joshua Shea
***Trigger warning****Joshua Shea is a recovering alcoholic and pornography addict and the author of The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About: How I Let My Pornography Addiction Hurt People and Destroy Relationships, released in January 2018 and co-author of He's a Porn Addict…Now What? In this episode, we discuss how porn and sex addiction start, the depths they can take you, and how to safeguard our kids against the pornification of our culture. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Jan 22, 2020 • 48min
77: Adult Children of Alcoholics
In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA). ACOA's have particular characteristics that they carry into adulthood, particularly in their intimate relationships. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Jan 15, 2020 • 46min
76: The Problem With Food with Tiffany Thoen
Intuitive eating with Coach Tiffany Thoen RN. In this episode, we look at the dysfunctional relationship, so many of us have with eating and how when we get sober, we often use food as a substitute for alcohol. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Jan 8, 2020 • 54min
75: Starting Life Over
Everything changes, even when we don't want it to. In this episode, we discuss what it's like to start over. How even when we thought everything was terrible we rebuilt our lives into something better than we could have imagined. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Dec 18, 2019 • 1h 3min
74: Things That Changed Our Lives This Year
In the final episode of the year Chip and Veronica discuss all the things that changed their lives this year. **Trigger warning*** the Michael Jackson documentary and child sexual abuse is briefly discussed. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Dec 11, 2019 • 1h 2min
73: We Are The Luckiest with Laura McKowen
How does a mother overcome her shame and guilt? In this week's episode, Veronica interviews Laura McKowen about her new book 'We are the luckiest.' Laura talks frankly about how her drinking affected her daughter, the shocking incident that left her crushed with shame and how she overcame her guilt to finally get sober. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Dec 4, 2019 • 54min
72: Drinking On Success
Chip and Veronica discuss the phenomenon of 'drinking on success.' It's when things are going well that we forget quickly where alcohol takes us and what happens when we drink. Opportunities to be successful come because we are sober but because we don't know how to handle success we sabotage ourselves. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Nov 27, 2019 • 57min
71: Women, Menstruation and Getting Sober
In this enlightening and educational episode, Veronica talks to Linda Carter, an acupuncturist and fertility coach. We discuss how menstruation and menopause affect women and the impact this can have on getting sober. Linda talks us through the different stages of menstruation how hormones affect our feelings and moods and what women can do to support themselves at each life stage when they want to stop drinking. To learn more, visit the show notes.
Nov 20, 2019 • 48min
70: Resilience
Building resilience is essential to sobriety. We have often had these opportunities stolen from us as children or were just never taught them in the first place. In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss what resilience is and how it's never too late to build it. To learn more, visit the show notes.
