Sober Powered

By Gillian Tietz, MS, CAMS-I

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Millions of people wake up with another hangover and Google, "how do I know if I'm an alcoholic?". We get stuck on the label and the stigma, when instead we should be asking ourselves, "is alcohol making me miserable?" and "would I be happier if I quit drinking?" In the Sober Powered Podcast, Gill, a former biochemist turned anger management and sober coach, walks you through the latest research on alcohol addiction using her own sober story as a case study along the way. The science of how alcohol affects the brain can help you depersonalize your drinking experience so you can finally say goodbye to your hopes and dreams of moderating someday (because you clearly can't moderate!). Getting sober doesn't mean you are a weak-willed loser with no self-control, it simply means you are a person who can't drink. Your brain loves it too much and you are too hardcore. Each episode features in depth explanations of what is going on in the brain along with the tools and mindset shifts that Gill works on with her clients to help them accept sobriety, let go of shame, and learn the coping skills required to manage stress and emotions sober -in the hopes of helping you do the same. Website: www.soberpowered.com

Episode Date
E255: 6 Strategies For Staying Sober Through the Holidays (and Some Holidays Drinking Statistics)
Nov 15, 2024
I'm 5 Years Sober: Here's How I Reached Acceptance
Nov 09, 2024
E254: Why You Can’t Make Good Decisions About Your Drinking (or Anything Else)
Nov 08, 2024
E253: 5 Common Mistakes in Early Sobriety and How to Avoid Them
Nov 01, 2024
E252: How Many Attempts Does it Take to Quit Drinking for Good
Oct 25, 2024
E251: Here’s Why You’re Emotions Are So Intense
Oct 18, 2024
E250: What Does it Mean to “Be Ready” to Get Sober
Oct 11, 2024
E249: Alcohol and Cortisol: Extra Stress and Extra Cravings
Oct 04, 2024
E248: You Can’t Be Comfortable AND Stay Sober
Sep 27, 2024
E247: Sober Sleep is the Best Sleep, But Not Right Away
Sep 20, 2024
E246: Alcohol and Dementia
Sep 13, 2024
E245: Want to Stay Sober? You Need to Be Consistent
Sep 06, 2024
E244: Boredom in Sobriety
Aug 30, 2024
E243: Emotional Eating After Getting Sober
Aug 23, 2024
E242: The Science of Making Good Habits in Long Term Sobriety
Aug 16, 2024
E241: 6 Theories of Alcohol Cravings
Aug 09, 2024
E240: Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) After Quitting Drinking: 8 Tips to Cope
Aug 02, 2024
E0: How Alcohol Affects Your Body: Here's What the Science Says
Aug 01, 2024
E239: How the Brain Heals After Quitting Drinking
Jul 30, 2024
E238: Why Moderation Doesn’t Work
Jul 26, 2024
E237: Why We Forget How Bad It Was
Jul 23, 2024
E236: Why Alcohol Feels Good and Then Feels Really Bad
Jul 19, 2024
E235: Dopamine and Loss of Control
Jul 16, 2024
E234: The Scary Side of How Alcohol Affects the Body
Jul 12, 2024
E233: How Alcohol Affects the Body: A Deep Dive
Jul 09, 2024
E232: The 3am Wake Up of Shame: Alcohol and Anxiety
Jul 05, 2024
E231: Everything You Need to Know About Alcohol Withdrawal
Jul 01, 2024
E230: 11 Tips to Quit Drinking in Dry July
Jun 28, 2024
E229: 5 Mindset Shifts to Help You Stay Sober (That Aren’t Stupid)
Jun 25, 2024
E228: Why Alcohol Automatically Captures and Holds Your Attention
Jun 21, 2024
E227: You Need a Goal (200 lb Deadlift Achieved!)
Jun 18, 2024
E226: Using Alcohol to Escape Your Life
Jun 14, 2024
E225: 5 Strategies for Dealing with Relapses and Getting Back on Track
Jun 11, 2024
E224: Alcohol Makes Your Brain Stop Working
Jun 07, 2024
E223: 6 Common Triggers for Drinking and How to Avoid Them
Jun 04, 2024
E222: 6 Neurotransmitters That Get Messed Up By Alcohol
May 31, 2024
E221: 5 Ways to Redefine Fun Without Alcohol
May 27, 2024
E220: The Hippocampus and Alcohol: Blackouts, Memory Deficits, and Learned Associations
May 24, 2024
E219: 7 Healthy Lifestyle Changes to Support Your Sobriety
May 21, 2024
E218: In the Moment Craving vs Constant Craving
May 17, 2024
E217: Warm Weather: 3 Reasons We Think Alcohol is Required
May 14, 2024
E216: 4 Types of Impulsivity: Which One Are You?
May 10, 2024
E215: 5 Different Ways of Thinking About Sobriety
May 07, 2024
E214: Self-Medicating with Alcohol
May 03, 2024
E213: Self-Care is NOT Temporarily Turning Off Your Brain (Getting "Me Time")
Apr 30, 2024
E212: Why Some People Get Sober and Others Don’t (Resilience and Epigenetics)
Apr 26, 2024
E211: The Anticipation of the Drink
Apr 23, 2024
E210: Good News, Your Brain Heals A LOT After 90 Days Sober… Unless You Relapse
Apr 19, 2024
E209: How Porn Addiction Affects the Brain
Apr 16, 2024
E208: Stress, Depression and Our Eating Habits
Apr 12, 2024
E207: 15 Milestones to Look Forward to in Sobriety (Sober Timeline)
Apr 09, 2024
E206: HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
Apr 05, 2024
E205: Kindling in Alcohol Withdrawal
Apr 02, 2024
E204: Can Anyone Get Addicted to Alcohol?
Mar 29, 2024
E203: Why You Still Want Alcohol Even When You Hate It (It’s Dopamine!)
Mar 26, 2024
E202: WTF is “The Work”?
Mar 22, 2024
E201: Your Dysregulated Stress Response
Mar 19, 2024
E200: My Greatest Shame
Mar 15, 2024
E199: Frustration Tolerance
Mar 12, 2024
E198: 5 Ways Anger Management Changed My Life
Mar 08, 2024
My Favorite Things I Learned in February and How to Apply Them to Your Life
Mar 05, 2024
E197: Making the DECISION to Quit Drinking
Mar 01, 2024
Do You Want to be Sober or Do You Want to Drink Without the Consequences? (Replay)
Feb 26, 2024
E196: How the Brain Recovers After Quitting Drinking
Feb 23, 2024
E195: When Does Sobriety Get Better?
Feb 19, 2024
E194: 5 Stupid Coping Skills That Work
Feb 16, 2024
E193: Feeling More Emotional and Anxious? How’s Your Sleep?
Feb 12, 2024
My Favorite Things I Learned in January and How to Apply Them to Your Life
Feb 09, 2024
E192: Do You Need a Drink or Are You Just Hungry? (Alcohol & Ghrelin)
Feb 05, 2024
E191: Going Back and Forth Makes Your Cravings Stronger
Feb 02, 2024
E190: Non-Alcoholic Drinks: The Pros and Cons
Jan 29, 2024
E189: How the Brain Regulates Emotions & Impulses (Rumination & Retaliation)
Jan 26, 2024
E188: Wellness Over Weight Loss
Jan 22, 2024
How Many More Years Do You Want to Spend Thinking "It's Not That Bad?" (Gray Area Drinking)
Jan 19, 2024
E187: How Multiple Cycles of Withdrawal Impacts the Recovery of Your Brain
Jan 15, 2024
E186: Anger Management
Jan 12, 2024
How Nutrition Can Support Your Sobriety with Dr. Brooke Scheller
Jan 08, 2024
E185: Unexpected Things That Happen in Early Sobriety
Jan 05, 2024
E184: Benefits of Dry January: What the Research Says
Jan 01, 2024
Your Guide to Dry January with Casey Davidson, Suzanne Warye, Erinn O'Neill and Michaela Horvathova
Dec 29, 2023
My First Sober Christmas
Dec 24, 2023
E183: To Drink or Not to Drink? How Your Brain Decides
Dec 22, 2023
"But Everyone Drinks Like Me"... No They Don't
Dec 19, 2023
E182: Why You Drink Habitually Without Thinking
Dec 15, 2023
Losing Friends When You Quit Drinking
Dec 12, 2023
E181: Why You Keep Drinking and Expecting it to be Different
Dec 08, 2023
"Why Aren't You Drinking?"
Dec 05, 2023
E180: Why Your Drinking Gets Worse Over Time, Not Better
Dec 01, 2023
Navigating Holiday Parties Sober
Nov 28, 2023
E179: Sober Holiday Tips with Paul Churchill, Casey Davidson, and Veronica Valli
Nov 24, 2023
E178: Why You Lose Your Motivation to Quit Drinking
Nov 17, 2023
E177: 4 Years Sober: Why Did This Happen to Me?
Nov 10, 2023
E176: We Have to Grieve Alcohol (It’s Ok to Miss it)
Nov 03, 2023
E175: Tired After Quitting Drinking? Here’s How to Boost Your Energy Levels
Oct 27, 2023
E174: Why Routine is Important in Sobriety
Oct 20, 2023
E173: What To Do With Your Days After a Slip
Oct 13, 2023
E172: Guide to Your First Week Sober
Oct 06, 2023
E171: Sober October Tips with Casey Davidson, Suzanne Warye and Amanda E. White
Sep 29, 2023
E170: Here’s Why the First Year of Sobriety is So Hard (It’s Dopamine)
Sep 22, 2023
E169: Alcohol and Gut Health
Sep 15, 2023
E168: Is Drinking the Only Way to Meet People? (Dating, Socializing and FOMO)
Sep 08, 2023
E167: What to Expect With Your Anxiety When You Quit Drinking
Sep 01, 2023
E166: Cravings and Staying Stuck in Your Old Life with Angela Pugh
Aug 25, 2023
E165: I Quit Sugar for 30 Days
Aug 18, 2023
E164: How Taking Breaks from Drinking Helped Me Quit For Good
Aug 11, 2023
E163: Can We Learn to Moderate Our Drinking?
Aug 04, 2023
E162: What to Expect Cognitively in Early Sobriety
Jul 28, 2023
E161: What to Expect Emotionally in Early Sobriety
Jul 21, 2023
E160: Reflecting on the Early Days of Our Sobriety with Eric Zimmer, Laura Cathcart Robbins and Paul Churchill
Jul 14, 2023
E159: What to Expect Physically When You Quit Drinking
Jul 07, 2023
E158: Dry July: 7 Things You Need to Know to Get Started
Jun 30, 2023
Q2: How to Answer “Why Aren’t You Drinking?”
Jun 26, 2023
E157: Fatigue and Brain Fog in Early Sobriety
Jun 23, 2023
E156: 55 Tips to Quit Drinking
Jun 16, 2023
How Dopamine Impacts Your Level of Motivation
Jun 12, 2023
E155: My Career Journey (Teaching, Biotech and Working for Myself)
Jun 09, 2023
E154: Keep Coming Back. Relapse is Not the End
Jun 02, 2023
Q1: Do Drinking Dreams Ever Go Away?
May 29, 2023
E153: Surviving the Summer Sober: 5 Challenges You Might Face
May 26, 2023
E152: Anxiety and Depression Increases Your Risk of Negative Consequences from Your Drinking
May 19, 2023
E151: Why Your Attempts to Quit Drinking Aren't Working
May 12, 2023
[Bonus] When You Can't Take Stress Off Your Plate
May 08, 2023
E150: 15 Moderation Strategies I Tried to Gain Control of My Drinking
May 05, 2023
E149: How Alcohol Affects the Nervous System
Apr 28, 2023
E148: 5 Skills That Keep Me Sober
Apr 21, 2023
[Bonus] If You Numb the Bad, Then You Numb the Good Too
Apr 18, 2023
E147: Staying Sober Through Intense Emotional Pain
Apr 14, 2023
E146: Is Alcohol Addiction a Disease?
Apr 07, 2023
E145: ADHD and Alcohol Use Disorder: Understanding the Link
Mar 31, 2023
E144: Why We Self-Sabotage with Alcohol
Mar 24, 2023
E143: How to Stay Accountable in Your Sobriety
Mar 17, 2023
E142: The Pressure of Needing to Hold it All Together with Laura Cathcart Robbins
Mar 10, 2023
E141: It’s Not Your Fault, But it is Your Responsibility with Laura McKowen
Mar 03, 2023
E140: When You Quit Drinking But Don’t Feel Better with Dr. Brooke Scheller, DCN, CNS
Feb 24, 2023
E139: 5 Reasons Why You Can’t Stay Sober
Feb 17, 2023
E138: 5 Ways Problem Drinkers Think Differently
Feb 10, 2023
E136: Why We Think We're Weak-Willed Losers
Jan 27, 2023
E135: Lack of Consequences with Casey Davidson
Jan 20, 2023
E134: Coping with Boredom in Sobriety
Jan 13, 2023
E133: 4 Podcasters Share the Journey from Questioning Our Drinking to Quitting Drinking for Good
Jan 06, 2023
E132: How to Quit Drinking and Get Past the First Week
Dec 30, 2022
E130: Transfer Addiction: Swapping 1 Problem for Another
Dec 16, 2022
E129: Why it’s Critical to Work on Your Perspective
Dec 09, 2022
E128: Why Cravings are So Powerful
Dec 02, 2022
E127: Why You Obsess About Your Drinking
Nov 25, 2022
E126: Sober Nutrition: Extreme Hunger and Cravings
Nov 18, 2022
E125: Why You Can’t Stop Drinking Once You Start
Nov 11, 2022
E124: How Long Does it Take to Fully Recover? (3 Years Sober)
Nov 04, 2022
E123: Recognizing You Need to Quit Drinking with Dr. Matt Glowiak, PhD, LCPC, CAADC, NCC
Oct 28, 2022
E122: How Exercise Can Help Your Recovery
Oct 21, 2022
E121: What if it Never Gets “Bad Enough” to Quit for Good with Eric Zimmer
Oct 14, 2022
E120: How Does Chronic Stress Affect the Brain?
Oct 07, 2022
E119: Why We Can’t Cope With Anything
Sep 30, 2022
E118: Your Guide to Sober Sex With Dr. Nazanin Moali
Sep 23, 2022
E117: Why Sobriety Eventually Just Clicks
Sep 16, 2022
E116: Drinking Envy and Wishing You Could Be “Normal”
Sep 09, 2022
E115: Why You Aren’t Ready to Quit Drinking and How to Get Ready
Sep 02, 2022
E114: Why We Believe Alcohol Helps and How to Break These Beliefs
Aug 26, 2022
E113: Introducing Sober Powered Media
Aug 19, 2022
E112: Drinking More Coffee in Sobriety? Here’s Why
Aug 12, 2022
E111: Drinking Alone Drastically Increases Your Risk of Getting Addicted
Aug 05, 2022
E110: 5 Reasons People Relapse and What To Do About It
Jul 29, 2022
E109: New Study: People Under 40 Shouldn’t Drink Alcohol
Jul 22, 2022
E108: Alcohol and Dynorphin
Jul 15, 2022
E107: 10 Things No One Tells You About Quitting Drinking
Jul 08, 2022
E106: Why You Feel Overwhelmed (The Amygdala Hijack)
Jul 01, 2022
E105: Do We Just Need More Willpower?
Jun 24, 2022
E104: Why Alcohol Doesn’t Help You Cope with Dr. Ashish Bhatt, MD, MRO
Jun 17, 2022
E103: Why We Use Alcohol to Enhance Our Experiences
Jun 10, 2022
E102: Alcohol and Your Dysregulated Nervous System With Beth Bowen, LMSW
Jun 03, 2022
E101: Does Alcohol Really Unlock Creativity?
May 27, 2022
E100: Dr. Lembke Returns to Discuss Radical Honesty and Self-Awareness
May 20, 2022
E99: Why We Can Never Drink Again (Neuroplasticity and Permanent Changes)
May 13, 2022
E98: Emotion Intensity and How to Start Self-Regulating
May 06, 2022
E97: Why We Keep Believing it’ll be Different this Time
Apr 29, 2022
E96: Does Craving Sugar Increase Your Risk of Relapse?
Apr 22, 2022
E95: Surprise, Moderate Drinking Isn’t Good for Your Heart (New Study)
Apr 15, 2022
E94: Drinking to Cope or Numb Out Doesn't Help, Here's How to Really Cope
Apr 08, 2022
E93: Alcohol-Related Deaths Increased By 25% in 2020
Apr 01, 2022
E92: Why Don’t We Realize Our Drinking is a Problem?
Mar 25, 2022
E91: Do You Want to be Sober or Do You Want to Drink Without the Consequences?
Mar 18, 2022
E90: New Study Finds Just One Drink Shrinks Your Brain, or Does it?
Mar 11, 2022
E89: How Dopamine Strengthens Our Cravings and Weakens Our Willpower
Mar 04, 2022
E88: Sibling Studies: Why One Develops a Problem and the Other Doesn't
Feb 25, 2022
E87: Why Shame Increases Loss of Control Over Alcohol and How to Manage Shame
Feb 18, 2022
E86: Why Helping Others Helps You Stay Sober
Feb 11, 2022
E85: Biased Alcohol Studies vs Reality
Feb 04, 2022
E84: Does Alcohol Really Taste Good and Feel Pleasurable?
Jan 28, 2022
E83: What to Expect Emotionally in the First 90 Days
Jan 21, 2022
E82: So You Quit Drinking, Now is When the Work Starts with Amanda E. White, LPC
Jan 14, 2022
E81: Why We Drink: Social Drinkers vs Problem Drinkers
Jan 07, 2022
E80: Benefits of a Dry Month
Dec 31, 2021
E79: Why We Romanticize Alcohol
Dec 24, 2021
E77: Are Non-Alcoholic Drinks Okay to Drink?
Dec 10, 2021
E76: Learning the Truth About Your Drinking with Dr. Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation
Dec 03, 2021
E75: How Sleep Improves from Actively Drinking to Long Term Sobriety
Nov 26, 2021
E74: Resilience Impacts How Much You Drink
Nov 19, 2021
E73: The Obsession May Eventually Even Out (I’m 2 Years Sober)
Nov 12, 2021
E72: Trauma Makes it Even More Difficult to Handle Our Emotions
Nov 05, 2021
E71: Trauma May Make Drugs and Alcohol Feel More Pleasurable
Oct 29, 2021
E70: How the Brain Balances Reward and Consequences
Oct 22, 2021
E69: Alcohol Shrinks the Brain... But What Does That Mean?
Oct 15, 2021
E68: How Heavy Drinking Changes the Way We Make Decisions
Oct 08, 2021
E67: How Alcohol Impacts Cortisol and Causes Cravings
Oct 01, 2021
E66: What Increases Our Risk of Relapse
Sep 24, 2021
E65: What Happens to the Body When You Binge Drink
Sep 17, 2021
E64: Anxiety and Alcohol (Part 2)
Sep 10, 2021
E63: Why Alcohol Causes Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
Sep 03, 2021
E62: Dopamine: Everything You Need to Know
Aug 27, 2021
E61: How Alcohol Memories are Triggered in Sobriety
Aug 20, 2021
E60: How Alcohol Affects Our Cognitive Abilities
Aug 13, 2021
E59: What to Expect When You Stop Drinking
Aug 06, 2021
E58: How Does Alcohol Cause Cancer?
Jul 30, 2021
E57: How Alcohol Affects Our Looks
Jul 23, 2021
E56: High Functioning Alcoholics and Denial
Jul 16, 2021
E55: How to Power Through When You Want to Give Up
Jul 09, 2021
E54: Neuroplasticity and Using Alcohol to Escape or Numb Out
Jul 02, 2021
E53: The Top 5 Things I've Learned in 1 Year of Researching Addiction
Jun 25, 2021
E52: Everything You Need to Know About Cirrhosis and More
Jun 18, 2021
E51: Why We Crave Alcohol and What to do About it
Jun 11, 2021
E50: [Special] Advice From 7 of My Sober Friends
Jun 04, 2021
E49: 5 Consequences of Not Having Boundaries
May 28, 2021
E48: Is Addiction Genetic or a Learned Behavior?
May 21, 2021
E47: Addiction Treatments From Snake Pits to Modern Medicine
May 14, 2021
E46: Neuroplasticity Helps us Recover
May 07, 2021
E45: Emotional Overwhelm
Apr 30, 2021
E44: Kevin Bellack on Parenting Before and After Quitting Drinking
Apr 23, 2021
E43: Drinking to Cope
Apr 16, 2021
E42: Is Relapse Part of Recovery?
Apr 09, 2021
E41: Why Sober People Want So Much Sugar
Apr 02, 2021
E40: Why Are We So Angry?
Mar 26, 2021
E39: Getting Sober Improved my Body Image
Mar 19, 2021
E38: What Causes Withdrawal Symptoms?
Mar 12, 2021
E37: Alcohol and Infertility
Mar 05, 2021
E36: Your Sober Pal Tells us What AA is Like
Feb 26, 2021
E35: Emotional Sobriety
Feb 19, 2021
E34: Why Drinking Makes it Hard to Lose Weight
Feb 12, 2021
E33: Why Do We Feel So Tired in Early Sobriety?
Feb 05, 2021
E32: A Conversation with my Husband
Jan 29, 2021
E31: If Alcohol is Toxic, Why Can We Drink it?
Jan 22, 2021
E30: Gray Area Drinkers and Positive Alcohol Expectancies
Jan 15, 2021
E29: The Link Between Drinking as a Teen and Developing an Addiction
Jan 08, 2021
E28: Is it a Bad Habit or a Problem?
Jan 01, 2021
E27: Why We Can’t Just Drink on Special Occasions
Dec 25, 2020
E26: Does the Brain Recover?
Dec 18, 2020
E25: Surviving Your Company Party Sober
Dec 11, 2020
E24: How Addiction Develops
Dec 04, 2020
E23: What Your Blood Can Reveal About Your Liver Health
Nov 27, 2020
E22: Why You Think Alcohol Helps Your Anxiety
Nov 20, 2020
E21: I'm One Year Sober!
Nov 13, 2020
E20: Why is it So Hard to Moderate?
Nov 06, 2020
E19: Alcohol Use Disorder and Other Mental Health Conditions
Oct 30, 2020
E18: My Husband Still Drinks, Here's How We Make it Work
Oct 23, 2020
E17: Alcohol and the Heart
Oct 16, 2020
E16: Signs I was a Problem Drinker (That I Ignored)
Oct 09, 2020
E15: Stigma and Social Death
Oct 02, 2020
E14: Nature vs Nurture
Sep 25, 2020
E13: SSRIs and Alcohol-Induced Aggression
Sep 18, 2020
E12: Why We Blackout From Drinking Alcohol
Sep 11, 2020
E11: Why Alcohol Feels Good (Endorphins and Opioid Receptors)
Sep 04, 2020
E10: Denial and Dry Drunk Syndrome
Aug 28, 2020
E9: From Chronic Day Ones to Forever Sobriety
Aug 21, 2020
E8: What to Expect During Withdrawal
Aug 14, 2020
E7: Shame
Aug 07, 2020
E6: How the Body Processes Alcohol
Jul 31, 2020
E5: Sugar Addiction
Jul 24, 2020
E3: Alcohol, Sleep, and Drinking Dreams
Jul 10, 2020
E2: Alcohol Cravings. Why does our brain tell us to drink?
Jul 03, 2020
E1: Introduction and How Alcohol Causes Anxiety
Jun 25, 2020