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Sober Awkward — 411 episodes

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1

Nangs: The Addiction Nobody Talks About with Sam Bramman

2

Have You Swapped Booze for Scrolling? with TJ Power

3

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

4

The Hidden Struggle of the High Functioning Drinker - with James Swanwick

5

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

6

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

7

Problem Drinking - Delivered to Your Door - with Hattie Underwood

8

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

9

Sober in the Country - with Shanna Whan AM

10

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

11

Naltrexone - Can You Drink Your Way Sober? - with Katie Herzog

12

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

13

Sobriety on Instagram: Connection, Comparison or Compulsion? - with Sarah Drage

14

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

15

Little Addictions with Catherine Gray

16

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

17

The Problem With “Normal” Drinking – with William Porter

18

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

19

Sober Sex: How to Get Wet When You’re Dry - with Anna Wolfe

20

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

21

Let’s Talk Nervous Systems – with Sarah Rusbatch

22

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

23

ADHD and Alcohol: What’s Really Going On?

24

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

25

I'll Try Anything Twice - with Carly Schwartz

26

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

27

An Introverts Guide to Leaving the House - with Jenny Valentish

28

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

29

The Social Pivot - with Sober Dave

30

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

31

Finding Your Way Back to You - with Mel Bampton

32

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

33

Grow Up! Alcohol and Maturity with Recovery Jimmy

34

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

35

Too Much, Too Young? with Sean

36

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

37

All the Feels (Without the Booze)

38

The Share Shed: Awkward Questions & Confessions

39

How to Lead With Tea, Not Lectures

40

The INCREDIBLE ways that sobriety improves your skin!

41

Saying Goodbye to Hame!

42

Fatboy Slim: Knowing I Had to Stop When the Line Between Norman Cook and Fatboy Slim Began to Blur!

43

Sobriety and Midlife - with Dana Bowman

44

Will I Ever be able to Dance Like I Used to Without Alcohol?

45

The Sweet Switch: Why Am I Eating So Much Crap Now I'm Sober?

46

How on earth do you celebrate your Soberversary??

47

Your First 4 Weeks Sober – What Really Happens And How To Get Through It...

48

Sober? Me? Where Do I Start...

49

New Year’s Eve - Don’t just survive it – Outsmart it!

50

Our Annual Christmas Poem - From Two Sober Elves

51

Your Awkward Christmas Toolkit

52

Remember when Hamish was a sober baby?

53

Clare Pooley: How I Inspired Millions to get Sober through 'The Sober Diaries'

54

Sober Stories: Putting the ‘O’ back into Sober by Verity

55

Can I ever have a relationship in Sobriety?

56

Will I Ever Trust Myself Again? (Yes. And Here’s How…)

57

Sober Stories: Debbie's Journey

58

Are you 'Sober' in your dating profile?

59

Who’s Really in Control – You or Alcohol?

60

Sober Stories: Our Anonymous Prize Winner!

61

What happens when you have a month off booze?

62

Brewers Droop

63

Sober Stories: 'You're No Fun' by AnnMarie

64

Can you turn one month off into forever?

65

Why Having Sober Mates Matters...

66

Sober Stories: Kristen

67

Free Piss in the Hotel Lobby.

68

Losing It All: How Addiction Led Me to Embezzle Millions from Hollywood's Elite

69

Sober Stories: Brian

70

What about if I just drink on holiday?

71

Alcohol? Or Actual Coping Mechanisms?

72

Sober Stories: Nell

73

Why is problem drinking so hard to identify?

74

Scare Yourself Sober!

75

Sober Stories: Lisa

76

Vic's Ignored Red Flags!

77

Making Up for Lost Time

78

Sober Stories: I Stopped Counting Days - I Started Living Them

79

Something to Soak up the Hangover?

80

Enthusiasm: How to Stay Pumped When Everyone Else is Pissed!

81

New! Our Listeners' Sober Stories - Finding the Quiet Joy

82

Sober Munchies

83

Ever Got Sh*t-Faced on a Cruise?

84

New! Our Listeners' Sober Stories - Stuck in the Middle

85

Where do I find my Dopamine kicks now?!

86

When Bravery Backfires: Sobriety and RSD

87

New! Our Listeners' Sober Stories - The Dementor on the Road to Sobriety

88

Why Aren't I Feeling Better Immediately?

89

Unbottling Depression

90

New! Our Listeners' Sober Stories - Annabel

91

Isolation vs. Connection: What Really Sustains Sobriety

92

Ozempic for Alcohol Cravings?

93

New! Our Listeners' Sober Stories - James

94

Why is Loneliness Such a Risk to Your Sobriety?

95

Warnings from Laos Methanol Poisoning Survivor - Bethany Clarke

96

New! Sober Awkward Top Ten - 10 x Responses to 'Why are you not Drinking?'

97

Vic's Drug Experience that Changed EVERYTHING!

98

Sobriety Hack: Know Your Values!

99

New! Sober Awkward Top Ten - 10 x Tips to Sober Socialising

100

The Benefits and Dangers of Chasing other Highs in Your Sobriety

101

Oi! It's Your Round!

102

New! Sober Awkward Top Ten - 10 x Signs You Are Drinking Too Much

103

Why Are Free Drinks So Hard to Say No To?!

104

So, What really happens at an AA meeting?

105

New! Sober Awkward Top Ten: 10 x Sober Challenges

106

Could Alcohol Be Banned Again?

107

Rehab! No. No..... Maybe?

108

New! Sober Awkward Top Ten: 10 x Ways to Stop Alcohol Cravings

109

What Pressure is Our Boozing Putting on A&E?

110

So… Booze, We Need to Talk!

111

NEW! Sober Awkward Top Ten! 10 x SMALL Changes that make a HUGE Difference

112

What do I do if my partner still drinks?!

113

HSP – A Highly Sensitive Sobriety

114

NEW! Sober Awkward Top Ten! 10 x Weird Side Effects of Going Sober

115

Why whether drunk or sober Vic HATES camping!

116

Yumi Stynes - Replacing Booze With Real Connection

117

How is alcohol affecting my sleep?

118

Swapping “Why did you stop drinking?” to “Why did you start?”

119

Why escaping the Comfort Zone is so Rewarding!

120

Bryony Gordon: From Mad Girl to Sober Royalty

121

Is it Time to Step out of the Comfort Zone?

122

Sober July? Here’s What Happens to Your Body When You Quit Booze

123

Is Your Sober Birthday Bigger Than Your Actual Birthday?

124

Imposter Syndrome Since Going Sober?

125

How to Celebrate your Soberversary

126

I'm Not Alcoholic Enough to Stop

127

Confessions of a Social Butterfly!

128

The Big Booze Con – Have We All Been Played?

129

Are you a People Pleaser?

130

Sobriety Capital – Gathering Your Tools for the Road Ahead - with Jean McCarthy

131

University - Did We Drink Away Our Potential?

132

Sobriety? But What About YOLO?

133

Do You Remember Anything About University?

134

Davinia Taylor: From Boozy Nights to Biohacking Brilliance

135

Grief - How to help out rather than pass out

136

How Is Your Gut Health Linked to Your Sobriety?

137

Coping with Grief - without Drinking.

138

Sober, Shouty and Still Showing Up - Vic chats everything 'Mumming'

139

Why did we Never Learn?

140

Fentanyl: The Drug that Kills One American Every Seven Minutes with Richard Taite

141

A Lesson in Drinking

142

Is Alcoholism In The Blood? - With Arabella Byrne

143

What is Keeping You from STAYING Sober?

144

Part 2: Learning to Love the Skin I’m In (Or At Least Try)

145

Should We Tell Our Teens About Our Wild Past?

146

Part 1: I’m Sober… So Why Do I Still Hate My Body?

147

The Power of Open Conversations with Teens

148

'Why Alcohol Advertising is Legal Lying' with Anna Donaghey

149

How You Can Stay Sober Whilst Parenting

150

The Fatboy Slim Episode of Sober Awkward!

151

Do You Stop Maturing When You Start Drinking Booze?

152

Why the Shift to Parenthood often Leads to Over Drinking

153

Why Does Trauma lead to Addiction?

154

What You Might Be Called When You Quit Drinking

155

Why Isn't My Life Perfect Now I'm Sober?

156

Labels in Sobriety: What Are They and Do We Need Them?

157

The Awkward Art of Human Connection

158

Re-Release: Coming out and Going Out - Alcohol and the LGBTQ+ Community

159

Understanding The Connections Between Porn Addiction and Alcohol Addiction - with Jeremy Lipkowitz

160

The ONLY good thing to come out of a Hangover

161

Drink Spiking: The Shocking Truth

162

The Worst Day of My Sobriety - Hamish (awkwardly) Reveals All

163

Drinking Culture at Airports and on Flights

164

Embracing the Awkward: A Chat with Maz Compton

165

Vic's Story

166

Beyond Dry January: Staying Sober once the hype dies down.

167

Why YOUR Sobriety Story is Worth Sharing

168

Ulrika Jonsson - ‘Getting To Know Myself Now I’m Sober!’

169

Hanging with the cool kids - Why sobriety is 'Lit'

170

Considering Moderation? Why One Will Hurt!

171

Why Going Sober is More Punk than Boring!

172

How to Live without Regrets

173

Sport x Alcohol: Can I Do One Without the Other?

174

Hungover? How to Kick Start Sobriety in 2025!!

175

The Sober Christmas Elf

176

Surviving Christmas Day!

177

How to Set Boundaries in Your Sobriety

178

Super Model Paul Sculfor: Why the First Step is the Hardest

179

Why Am I Losing Some Friendships in My Sobriety?

180

When Drinking Booze is a Tradition

181

The Big UK Sobriety Challenge

182

What is Methanol Poisoning?

183

Why Finding New Ways To Celebrate and Commiserate is The Key to Your Sobriety

184

How to Speak to Teenagers about Alcohol with Paul Dillon

185

The Secret to Ridding Ourselves of Our Drinking Shame

186

Does Working Away From Home Increase Drinking Habits?

187

Why the AF Industry is Booming

188

Is it a Lapse or a Relapse?

189

Is having an AF Beer ok?

190

I'm Sober! Why Do I Keep Getting Drinking Dreams?!

191

Why quitting booze means you can go the posh restaurant!

192

Quit? Me? Why? Part 2 - Helping People That Don't Get Hangovers.

193

It's all about the money!

194

Quit? Me? Why? Part 1 - I Don't Even Get Hangovers!

195

Why remembering is much more satisfying than forgetting!

196

Wakes, Funerals, Grief and Booze

197

What's happening in a Blackout?

198

Cigarettes and Alcohol

199

How letting it all out can free you from the problem

200

Getting Loaded with James Brown: Founder of Loaded Magazine

201

Do Men Bottle things up?

202

So, What Really Happens in Therapy? Part 2

203

Learning to Extrovert without taking a sip

204

So, What really Happens in Therapy? Part 1

205

Were you an Introvert before booze?

206

Can Drinking Alcohol in Early Pregnancy Harm the Baby?

207

How Sleeping around really made us feel...

208

Alcoholism: The Only Disease That You Recover Stronger From

209

Casual Shagging!

210

Millie Mackintosh: Navigating the Difficulties of a Second Year's Sobriety

211

Can you Break the Cycle?

212

Drink Driving - Why One Standard Drink is One too Many

213

Do you think your Drinking Habit is Generational?

214

Enticed by the Craft Beer Industry

215

Does your Skin really look Younger when you quit Drinking?

216

How to Keep Going Year after Year...

217

Does Sobriety Look Good on You?

218

The #1 Tip to a Long Lasting Sobriety That YOU Have Been Ignoring for Far Too Long!

219

Can I Say No to Going Out?

220

How to Keep Your Social Battery Charged in Your Sobriety

221

How to Plan for a Big Event

222

Is Trauma The Core of Your Over Drinking and How Can We Cure It?

223

What do I Do if I Don't Drink?

224

Are you Lying About Your Alcohol Consumption?

225

Why finding a hobby will help you stay sober...

226

What Does Giving Up Alcohol Add to Your Life?

227

How Saying No Builds Confidence.

228

When You Feel Like You're Disappointing the Family....

229

Did you Give in to Peer Pressure?

230

What Causes Pub Fights and One Punch Attacks?

231

Does it matter what I label myself?

232

Just Look How Far You've Come!

233

Am I Sober Curious?

234

Joe Williams: Finding My Purpose Through Sobriety

235

I'm Not Crying, You're Crying

236

How to Make Time Your Biggest Motivator

237

Why Lucy Left the Podcast

238

Did Years of Drinking Damage My Brain?

239

The Science Behind Cravings and How to Overcome Them

240

Does Building Self-Esteem in Teens stop them Leaning on Booze?

241

The Worst Thing I Did Whilst Drunk Around Colleagues Was...

242

Are you a Beer Bully?

243

Which Triggers You Need to be Aware of to Avoid a Relapse

244

Feeling Rejected? Here's What You Need to Do!

245

Signs That Your Home Drinking Has Become a Problem

246

Why Water is at the Centre of a Long Lasting Sobriety

247

What are the Long Term Effects on your Body of Binge Drinking?

248

Why Do Famous People Often Struggle With Addiction?

249

When Vic and Lucy Launched Cuppa!

250

Are you Blaming Others for Your Bad Choices?

251

Dating Tips with Faye Laurence

252

The Shame Shed Returns - Drunk Texting and Online Shopping

253

Holiday tips for the Sober Curious

254

Osher Günsberg: How Sobriety Saved My Life

255

The Horrors of Drinking Holidays Past

256

Getting to Know the Person You Were Before Booze

257

Hangxiety - medical or emotional?

258

WARNING! How Going Cold Turkey Could Kill You!

259

Can Hangovers Change?

260

Is Sobriety Boring?

261

Coming out and Going Out - Alcohol and the LGBTQ+ Community

262

Choosing Function over Disfunction.

263

Is booze causing my Anxiety?

264

Identifying the Functional drinker.

265

How to Still be Confident After Going Sober

266

Can looking back help you move on from booze?

267

Live interview with Jean McCarthy

268

How Lucy met Vic and gave up booze.

269

The Alarming Link Between Alcohol and Cancer

270

Grog Bog

271

'A Thousand Wasted Sundays' is Out!!!

272

Unsupportive Mates?

273

FOMO - Fear of Missing Out.

274

Under the Influence

275

Cravings

276

Lockdown Pissed Versus Lockdown Sober

277

But, Society says drinking is normal?

278

The Pros and Cons of Labelling Yourself an 'Alcoholic'

279

Happy New Year! Is It Time to Give Up Booze?

280

The Vocabulary of Sobriety

281

The Sober Awkward Christmas Elf!

282

Sober Christmas?! Help!

283

Conventional (and Unconventional!) Sober Christmas Tips!

284

In the Summertime...(or wintertime!)

285

Is My Drinking 'Bad' Enough to Get Help?

286

Lee Mack: Because Being Vegan Wasn't Sanctimonious Enough!

287

Dealing with Triggers

288

Habits! Why the Good Ones Are Hard to Keep and the Bad Ones Won't Go Away

289

Does 20 years of binge drinking leave you traumatised?

290

Can Alcohol Destroy Relationships?

291

William Porter chats about Alcohol and Sleep

292

About Last Night....

293

Alcohol and the Armed Forces

294

The Drinking Fantasy - with William Porter

295

Workplace Drinking Cultures

296

How Repeating Risky Behaviour Makes You Drink More

297

Pissed-up Abroad

298

When Taking Risk Leads to Injury

299

Creating your own Sober Community

300

Does Sobriety make you more Eco Friendly?

301

Ziggy Alberts: The Power of a Positive No

302

Some Surprising Sobriety Benefits

303

Gambling - Addiction by Design?

304

How to Redefine Fun...

305

How Alcohol is Tricking Your Primal Needs

306

How Do I Socialise without Alcohol?

307

ADHD and Alcohol with Dr Alex Conner

308

The Moment Vic found her Sober Community

309

Why 'Just Giving Up' Isn't Always Enough

310

The Importance Making Sober Mates

311

Booze on the Box

312

Parents! It's Never Too Late to Give Up

313

How do I find the motivation to carry on?

314

The Dangers of Mummy Wine Culture

315

Learning to Parent Yourself Before Parenting Others

316

The Functional Drinker

317

Reputation Party Animal

318

The Origins Of Vic's Podium EXPLAINED!

319

Millie Mackintosh: From Reality TV to Alcohol Free

320

The Roles of Depression and Anxiety in Binge Drinking

321

How Do I Stop Drinking?

322

Vic's Sister's Big Lesson from 22 Years of AA

323

Alcohol and Menopause

324

Losing the Battle Against Moderation

325

Improving Your Skin From the Inside Out

326

How To Answer the 'Why Aren't You Drinking?' Question

327

Fatboy Slim: From Big Beat to Sobriety

328

How and When To Tell People You Have Gone Sober

329

Sober Dancing

330

Why Can't I Be A Normal Drinker?

331

The Highs and Lows of Your First Year Sober

332

The Moment You Realise You Need To Go Sober

333

Sober on Tinder

334

Having a Month off?

335

Boozy Weekender?

336

Red Flags!

337

Alcohol & Food

338

Searching for Dopamine

339

Bonus Episode! - Lonely in Sobriety?

340

Drugs

341

Getting Spiritual?

342

Free Booze

343

Would Prohibition Work Today?

344

Accident & Emergency

345

Help! My Partner Still Drinks.

346

Camping

347

The Sugar Episode

348

Sleep

349

The Soberversary

350

The University Years

351

Stepping out of the Comfort Zone

352

Grief

353

The People Pleaser

354

A Lesson in Drinking

355

Talking to Teens About Booze

356

Becoming a Parent

357

Why One Will Hurt

358

Labels

359

The Hangover Cure!

360

Bonus Episode! - Cravings with William Porter

361

The Christmas Special

362

Loud & Proud

363

A Sober Revolution

364

After the Game

365

High Flying or Flying High

366

Friendship - Part 2

367

Friendship - Part 1

368

Making New Traditions

369

The Shame Shed

370

The Alcohol Free Industry

371

Sobriety Suits You!

372

Peer Pressure

373

The Big Event

374

Bottling Things Up

375

Blackout!

376

Sober Hobbies

377

One Night Stand

378

The Sober Extrovert

379

Generational Change

380

Liquid Gold

381

Am I Sober Curious?

382

Change

383

The Cravings Toolkit

384

A Drinking Career

385

Relapse!

386

Behind Closed Doors

387

The Healing Body

388

Sober Dating with Faye Lawrence

389

The Sober Holiday

390

Hangxiety

391

The Dangers of Highly Functioning

392

Shame with Sarah Drage

393

Your First 100 Days of Sobriety

394

A Merry AF Christmas?

395

How People Help or Hinder Your Sobriety.

396

Alcohol and the Pandemic

397

The Impact of Words

398

Last Orders with Sober Dave

399

Understanding You Are Worthy of Help.

400

The Sober Hangover

401

A Day in the Life of a Drinker - with William Porter

402

Risk!

403

Sobriety - The Gift That Keeps On Giving!

404

Guide To Your First Sober Shindig

405

Surviving a Sober Society

406

From Tequila Shots to Tiny Tots!

407

Uncanny Similarities

408

The Moderation Pixie

409

Boredom, boring, bored, bored, bored!

410

Telling People

411

Alcohol Ain’t My Mate!