Sober Powered
By Gillian Tietz, MS, CAMS-I
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I promise you, you're not a weak-willed loser with no self-control. There are a lot of reasons why we can't control the way we drink- trauma, lack of coping skills, stress, anger, anxiety. Plus, as you'll learn in my podcast, alcohol takes advantage of our vulnerabilities to hook us, then it changes our brains to keep us stuck and reliant on alcohol. It's not about willpower. In the Sober Powered Podcast, I use science, psychology, and compassion to help you understand why you use self-destructive coping skills like alcohol, what happens in the brain to make drinking spiral out of control and prevent us from drinking in moderation, and how to develop the coping skills and emotional sobriety you need to quit drinking and stay sober.
About me: I quit drinking on November 9, 2019. I have a master's in biology and I'm a certified anger management specialist and crisis intervention specialist.
Not sure where to start? My most popular episodes are 99, 150, 170, 177, 180, 186, 191, 194, 196, 197 and 202.
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E209: How Porn Addiction Affects the Brain
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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E208: Stress, Depression and Our Eating Habits
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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E207: 15 Milestones to Look Forward to in Sobriety (Sober Timeline)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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E206: HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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E205: Kindling in Alcohol Withdrawal
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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E204: Can Anyone Get Addicted to Alcohol?
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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E203: Why You Still Want Alcohol Even When You Hate It (It’s Dopamine!)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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E202: WTF is “The Work”?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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E201: Your Dysregulated Stress Response
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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E200: My Greatest Shame
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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E199: Frustration Tolerance
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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E198: 5 Ways Anger Management Changed My Life
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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My Favorite Things I Learned in February and How to Apply Them to Your Life
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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E197: Making the DECISION to Quit Drinking
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Do You Want to be Sober or Do You Want to Drink Without the Consequences? (Replay)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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E196: How the Brain Recovers After Quitting Drinking
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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E195: When Does Sobriety Get Better?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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E194: 5 Stupid Coping Skills That Work
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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E193: Feeling More Emotional and Anxious? How’s Your Sleep?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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My Favorite Things I Learned in January and How to Apply Them to Your Life
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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E192: Do You Need a Drink or Are You Just Hungry? (Alcohol & Ghrelin)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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E191: Going Back and Forth Makes Your Cravings Stronger
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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E190: Non-Alcoholic Drinks: The Pros and Cons
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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E189: How the Brain Regulates Emotions & Impulses (Rumination & Retaliation)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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E188: Wellness Over Weight Loss
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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How Many More Years Do You Want to Spend Thinking "It's Not That Bad?" (Gray Area Drinking)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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E187: How Multiple Cycles of Withdrawal Impacts the Recovery of Your Brain
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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E186: Anger Management in Sobriety
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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How Nutrition Can Support Your Sobriety with Dr. Brooke Scheller
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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E185: Unexpected Things That Happen in Early Sobriety
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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E184: Benefits of Dry January: What the Research Says
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Your Guide to Dry January with Casey Davidson, Suzanne Warye, Erinn O'Neill and Michaela Horvathova
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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My First Sober Christmas
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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E183: To Drink or Not to Drink? How Your Brain Decides
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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"But Everyone Drinks Like Me"... No They Don't
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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E182: Why You Drink Habitually Without Thinking
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Losing Friends When You Quit Drinking
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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E181: Why You Keep Drinking and Expecting it to be Different
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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"Why Aren't You Drinking?"
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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E180: Why Your Drinking Gets Worse Over Time, Not Better
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Navigating Holiday Parties Sober
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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E179: Sober Holiday Tips with Paul Churchill, Casey Davidson, and Veronica Valli
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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E178: Why You Lose Your Motivation to Quit Drinking
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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E177: 4 Years Sober: Why Did This Happen to Me?
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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E176: We Have to Grieve Alcohol (It’s Ok to Miss it)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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E175: Tired After Quitting Drinking? Here’s How to Boost Your Energy Levels
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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E174: Why Routine is Important in Sobriety
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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E173: What To Do With Your Days After a Slip
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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E172: Guide to Your First Week Sober
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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E171: Sober October Tips with Casey Davidson, Suzanne Warye and Amanda E. White
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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E170: Here’s Why the First Year of Sobriety is So Hard (It’s Dopamine)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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E169: Alcohol and Gut Health
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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E168: Is Drinking the Only Way to Meet People? (Dating, Socializing and FOMO)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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E167: What to Expect With Your Anxiety When You Quit Drinking
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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E166: Cravings and Staying Stuck in Your Old Life with Angela Pugh
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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E165: I Quit Sugar for 30 Days
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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E164: How Taking Breaks from Drinking Helped Me Quit For Good
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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E163: Can We Learn to Moderate Our Drinking?
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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E162: What to Expect Cognitively in Early Sobriety
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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E161: What to Expect Emotionally in Early Sobriety
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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E160: Reflecting on the Early Days of Our Sobriety with Eric Zimmer, Laura Cathcart Robbins and Paul Churchill
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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E159: What to Expect Physically When You Quit Drinking
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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E158: Dry July: 7 Things You Need to Know to Get Started
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Q2: How to Answer “Why Aren’t You Drinking?”
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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E157: Fatigue and Brain Fog in Early Sobriety
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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E156: 55 Tips to Quit Drinking
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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How Dopamine Impacts Your Level of Motivation
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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E155: My Career Journey (Teaching, Biotech and Working for Myself)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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E154: Keep Coming Back. Relapse is Not the End
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Q1: Do Drinking Dreams Ever Go Away?
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May 29, 2023 |
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E153: Surviving the Summer Sober: 5 Challenges You Might Face
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May 26, 2023 |
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E152: Anxiety and Depression Increases Your Risk of Negative Consequences from Your Drinking
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May 19, 2023 |
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E151: Why Your Attempts to Quit Drinking Aren't Working
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May 12, 2023 |
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[Bonus] When You Can't Take Stress Off Your Plate
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May 08, 2023 |
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E150: 15 Moderation Strategies I Tried to Gain Control of My Drinking
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May 05, 2023 |
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E149: How Alcohol Affects the Nervous System
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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E148: 5 Skills That Keep Me Sober
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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[Bonus] If You Numb the Bad, Then You Numb the Good Too
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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E147: Staying Sober Through Intense Emotional Pain
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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E146: Is Alcohol Addiction a Disease?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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E145: ADHD and Alcohol Use Disorder: Understanding the Link
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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E144: Why We Self-Sabotage with Alcohol
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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E143: How to Stay Accountable in Your Sobriety
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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E142: The Pressure of Needing to Hold it All Together with Laura Cathcart Robbins
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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E141: It’s Not Your Fault, But it is Your Responsibility with Laura McKowen
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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E140: When You Quit Drinking But Don’t Feel Better with Dr. Brooke Scheller, DCN, CNS
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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E139: 5 Reasons Why You Can’t Stay Sober
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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E138: 5 Ways Problem Drinkers Think Differently
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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E137: Dealing with Other People with Nikki Eisenhauer
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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E136: Why We Think We're Weak-Willed Losers
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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E135: Lack of Consequences with Casey Davidson
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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E134: Coping with Boredom in Sobriety
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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E133: 4 Podcasters Share the Journey from Questioning Our Drinking to Quitting Drinking for Good
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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E132: How to Quit Drinking and Get Past the First Week
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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E131: Money 101 for Sober People with Tori Dunlap from Her First 100k
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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E130: Transfer Addiction: Swapping 1 Problem for Another
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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E129: Why it’s Critical to Work on Your Perspective
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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E128: Why Cravings are So Powerful
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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E127: Why You Obsess About Your Drinking
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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E126: Sober Nutrition: Extreme Hunger and Cravings
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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E125: Why You Can’t Stop Drinking Once You Start
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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E124: How Long Does it Take to Fully Recover? (3 Years Sober)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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E123: Recognizing You Need to Quit Drinking with Dr. Matt Glowiak, PhD, LCPC, CAADC, NCC
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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E122: How Exercise Can Help Your Recovery
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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E121: What if it Never Gets “Bad Enough” to Quit for Good with Eric Zimmer
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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E120: How Does Chronic Stress Affect the Brain?
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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E119: Why We Can’t Cope With Anything
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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E118: Your Guide to Sober Sex With Dr. Nazanin Moali
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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E117: Why Sobriety Eventually Just Clicks
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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E116: Drinking Envy and Wishing You Could Be “Normal”
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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E115: Why You Aren’t Ready to Quit Drinking and How to Get Ready
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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E114: Why We Believe Alcohol Helps and How to Break These Beliefs
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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E113: Introducing Sober Powered Media
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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E112: Drinking More Coffee in Sobriety? Here’s Why
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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E111: Drinking Alone Drastically Increases Your Risk of Getting Addicted
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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E110: 5 Reasons People Relapse and What To Do About It
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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E109: New Study: People Under 40 Shouldn’t Drink Alcohol
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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E108: Alcohol and Dynorphin
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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E107: 10 Things No One Tells You About Quitting Drinking
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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E106: Why You Feel Overwhelmed (The Amygdala Hijack)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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E105: Do We Just Need More Willpower?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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E104: Why Alcohol Doesn’t Help You Cope with Dr. Ashish Bhatt, MD, MRO
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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E103: Why We Use Alcohol to Enhance Our Experiences
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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E102: Alcohol and Your Dysregulated Nervous System With Beth Bowen, LMSW
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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E101: Does Alcohol Really Unlock Creativity?
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May 27, 2022 |
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E100: Dr. Lembke Returns to Discuss Radical Honesty and Self-Awareness
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May 20, 2022 |
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E99: Why We Can Never Drink Again (Neuroplasticity and Permanent Changes)
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May 13, 2022 |
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E98: Emotion Intensity and How to Start Self-Regulating
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May 06, 2022 |
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E97: Why We Keep Believing it’ll be Different this Time
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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E96: Does Craving Sugar Increase Your Risk of Relapse?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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E95: Surprise, Moderate Drinking Isn’t Good for Your Heart (New Study)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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E94: Drinking to Cope or Numb Out Doesn't Help, Here's How to Really Cope
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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E93: Alcohol-Related Deaths Increased By 25% in 2020
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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E92: Why Don’t We Realize Our Drinking is a Problem?
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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E91: Do You Want to be Sober or Do You Want to Drink Without the Consequences?
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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E90: New Study Finds Just One Drink Shrinks Your Brain, or Does it?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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E89: How Dopamine Strengthens Our Cravings and Weakens Our Willpower
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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E88: Sibling Studies: Why One Develops a Problem and the Other Doesn't
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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E87: Why Shame Increases Loss of Control Over Alcohol and How to Manage Shame
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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E86: Why Helping Others Helps You Stay Sober
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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E85: Biased Alcohol Studies vs Reality
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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E84: Does Alcohol Really Taste Good and Feel Pleasurable?
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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E83: What to Expect Emotionally in the First 90 Days
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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E82: So You Quit Drinking, Now is When the Work Starts with Amanda E. White, LPC
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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E81: Why We Drink: Social Drinkers vs Problem Drinkers
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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E80: Benefits of a Dry Month
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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E79: Why We Romanticize Alcohol
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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E78: We Need to Learn to Feel Our Feelings with Nikki Eisenhauer from The Emotional Badass Podcast
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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E77: Are Non-Alcoholic Drinks Okay to Drink?
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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E76: Learning the Truth About Your Drinking with Dr. Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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E75: How Sleep Improves from Actively Drinking to Long Term Sobriety
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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E74: Resilience Impacts How Much You Drink
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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E73: The Obsession May Eventually Even Out (I’m 2 Years Sober)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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E72: Trauma Makes it Even More Difficult to Handle Our Emotions
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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E71: Trauma May Make Drugs and Alcohol Feel More Pleasurable
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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E70: How the Brain Balances Reward and Consequences
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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E69: Alcohol Shrinks the Brain... But What Does That Mean?
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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E68: How Heavy Drinking Changes the Way We Make Decisions
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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E67: How Alcohol Impacts Cortisol and Causes Cravings
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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E66: What Increases Our Risk of Relapse
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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E65: What Happens to the Body When You Binge Drink
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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E64: Anxiety and Alcohol (Part 2)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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E63: Why Alcohol Causes Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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E62: Dopamine: Everything You Need to Know
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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E61: How Alcohol Memories are Triggered in Sobriety
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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E60: How Alcohol Affects Our Cognitive Abilities
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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E59: What to Expect When You Stop Drinking
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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E58: How Does Alcohol Cause Cancer?
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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E57: How Alcohol Affects Our Looks
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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E56: High Functioning Alcoholics and Denial
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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E55: How to Power Through When You Want to Give Up
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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E54: Neuroplasticity and Using Alcohol to Escape or Numb Out
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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E53: The Top 5 Things I've Learned in 1 Year of Researching Addiction
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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E52: Everything You Need to Know About Cirrhosis and More
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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E51: Why We Crave Alcohol and What to do About it
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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E50: [Special] Advice From 7 of My Sober Friends
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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E49: 5 Consequences of Not Having Boundaries
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May 28, 2021 |
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E48: Is Addiction Genetic or a Learned Behavior?
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May 21, 2021 |
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E47: Addiction Treatments From Snake Pits to Modern Medicine
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May 14, 2021 |
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E46: Neuroplasticity Helps us Recover
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May 07, 2021 |
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E45: Emotional Overwhelm
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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E44: Kevin Bellack on Parenting Before and After Quitting Drinking
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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E43: Drinking to Cope
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Trailer: What's This Podcast Even About?
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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E42: Is Relapse Part of Recovery?
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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E41: Why Sober People Want So Much Sugar
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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E40: Why Are We So Angry?
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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E39: Getting Sober Improved my Body Image
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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E38: What Causes Withdrawal Symptoms?
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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E37: Alcohol and Infertility
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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E36: Your Sober Pal Tells us What AA is Like
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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E35: Emotional Sobriety
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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E34: Why Drinking Makes it Hard to Lose Weight
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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E33: Why Do We Feel So Tired in Early Sobriety?
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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E32: A Conversation with my Husband
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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E31: If Alcohol is Toxic, Why Can We Drink it?
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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E30: Gray Area Drinkers and Positive Alcohol Expectancies
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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E29: The Link Between Drinking as a Teen and Developing an Addiction
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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E28: Is it a Bad Habit or a Problem?
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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E27: Why We Can’t Just Drink on Special Occasions
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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E26: Does the Brain Recover?
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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E25: Surviving Your Company Party Sober
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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E24: How Addiction Develops
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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E23: What Your Blood Can Reveal About Your Liver Health
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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E22: Why You Think Alcohol Helps Your Anxiety
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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E21: I'm One Year Sober!
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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E20: Why is it So Hard to Moderate?
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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E19: Alcohol Use Disorder and Other Mental Health Conditions
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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E18: My Husband Still Drinks, Here's How We Make it Work
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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E17: Alcohol and the Heart
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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E16: Signs I was a Problem Drinker (That I Ignored)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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E15: Stigma and Social Death
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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E14: Nature vs Nurture
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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E13: SSRIs and Alcohol-Induced Aggression
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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E12: Why We Blackout From Drinking Alcohol
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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E11: Why Alcohol Feels Good (Endorphins and Opioid Receptors)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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E10: Denial and Dry Drunk Syndrome
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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E9: From Chronic Day Ones to Forever Sobriety
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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E8: What to Expect During Withdrawal
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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E7: Shame
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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E6: How the Body Processes Alcohol
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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E5: Sugar Addiction
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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E3: Alcohol, Sleep, and Drinking Dreams
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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E2: Alcohol Cravings. Why does our brain tell us to drink?
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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E1: Introduction and How Alcohol Causes Anxiety
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Jun 25, 2020 |