21 min - you nailed it with Docs not being able to wrap their Brian’s around not drinking!!!

Early in sobriety, I met an attorney in a meeting who said to me, "Whatever you're worried or fearful about, give it to me...because 95% of what I worry about never happens". As alcoholics and addicts we are great at "Living in the wreckage of the future". : )

Hurts

But the first year it's normal to reach for other hits

Ottawa

5 days sober in The midst of holidays. Triggers everywhere. Tv shows, movies, commercials. Everyone is drinking. I put a sign on my mirror that says “I don’t drink”.

Thank you so much for your video's! I'm 3 and a half months sober and in this time I have gotten sick alot. Cold after cold. Now I have a very bad flew, high fever and alot of throatpain. I thought that not drinking would be better for my immunity. Or is it normal that in the beginning you get sick more often?

I have your book as well; and it is just as amazing and helpful as these wonderful videos! One of my triggers was hearing news about an old friend ( she broke our friendship off after 18 yrs, and alcohol was a factor in that). She moved and I miss her still. Once in a while, I would hear how great she was doing, and it would trigger me to have a drink. The longer I went without alcohol, my sobriety gave me more expanded positive energy. This helped me get over the breakup, and I didn't feel so triggered when I heard about her.

Thank you needed to hear 2 weeks in

Thanks for the vid

This was SO helpful and at the RIGHT TIMING. God bless ❤

I am 4 days in again after many attempts and at this point I have had enough! Alcohol then cocaine was my vice 🙈😕 thank you for your content 🙏🏼

My main tool this Holiday season will be my freedom to drive home. When everyone starts to get hammered, that's going to be my first sign to leave. Unless if it's funny I'll stay but if things start to get overly dramatic and annoying, I'm going to leave because I'll have the ability to drive LOL

A,year omg

Once you get to acceptance you pretty much live there ! Wow that’s a great quote ….. thank you

Good advice

I love your videos. Thank you so much for all of your work.

Covid went me wild drinking

Id buy the bottle go home drink after work pass out

To stay sober

Thrilled she did not have to hit a real bottom. Can't relate to her story, but happy she made an informed decision and has a life! Bravo

Thank you. Tried AA. I found it cult -like., but a tool for many. I enjoyed this. This podcast , as well as others, will be my connection until I can find something outside the home. I live in Reno, NV.

At least they aren’t drinking and driving as they used to, happily back in the day, when leaving the pub ‘socialising’

Do you drink caffeine? Coffee? I tried to stop and went right back, but I can feel it’s not so good

Thank you so much! 9 days in, and I've watched a lot of content. You gave me a new perspective than I've thus heard yet!

Day one for me, bleh, you are so right. It’s the emotional thing that needs to be healed.

The commercials and movies are terrible triggers for me.

Wow I loved this! You rock Ali 🎉 it resonated so much with me. I’m a neurodivergent 55 year old counsellor. I have used alcohol so much throughout my past to ease social situations without really realising I was doing it. The last couple of years.. I’ve found out I’m ADHD. I’ve realised alcohol is not my friend and impacts my life in so many ways. I only drink now once or twice a week but even that is too much. I work with neurodivergent clients and so much of what you say resonates. Thank you so much for this. You’re an inspiration 💜

62 days sober here, and I've been watching your videos and listening to your podcasts for the last 44. I can't tell you how much they have helped me. I've had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol for the last 28 years. I've carved out time at the beginning of December to work the below program and I can't wait to see how this journey of sobriety keeps unfolding. Thank you for your commitment, and continued help to those who struggle.

I'm sorry to say but your statement about connections is wrong and to say Loneliness will get you drunk has just nearly made me fail after 23 months sober. You want to keep comments like to yourself as they aren't helpful to a lot of people who find it difficult to make your so called connections in a town full of addicts!

Oh my god!!! I needed this.

7yrs SOBER Cold Turkey NO METTINGS EITHER

I am so stuck atm

Six years in January💪

I've been struggling 26 days

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. None was able to approach sobriety topic as you did!

Soberity delivers everything alcohol promises

Going on holidays is a big achievement

Spot on about experiencing events for the first time sober, and it does get easier. It also gets better. When I was five years sober, and my life was substantially better in every regard, I wondered if there was more. After ten years I realized that my commitment to sobriety was taking me to places I didn't even know about. Then 15, 20, 25, and now 30. Our intuition, awareness, vision, and JOY keeps improving...IF we continue to live in the solution. All the best...✌❤Mark

I love you thankyou 🙏

So true. 2 years sober this coming January 2025.

Where is the ‘below’ u mention. All. I see are the comments

“Alcohol is not your friend, and all it’s going to do is keep beating you up. And it’s not going to stay as it is now; it’s going to get worse. And if you think it’s bad now, a year from now it’s going to be worse. Two years from now it’s going to be worse than that.” Sobriety is easy compared to the alternative.

The subtitles are very distracting + not necessary-you speak English well enough that most of us can understand most of what you’re saying even without them 😅

You are the best ❤

This is true. The first few months were really hard, especially on the weekends. I think it'll take me about a year to get fully use to this. Every other weekend I'll have the urge to drink. The nonalcoholic beer helps me the most. I'll have that initial thirst for beer, I'll drink one or two nonalcoholic beers and I'm fine for the rest of the day. I always enjoyed the taste of beer. The thing about nonalcoholic beer is that it's not addictive. I'm able to have one or two. I can't do that with normal beer. I'm that classic joke where I go to the bar and say - "I'm only having one beer! And then 15 beers later."

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Excellent interview. Love the truth speaking and sharing of the problems we have and how to overcome them.

Nearly 6 years alcohol free and I'm always looking for new inspiration!

Drunk ppl are so boring, that’s the first thing I noticed ! I’ve been sober for one year and ten months😅thinking back I used to think ppl who don’t drink are boring 😂