After Hours with Jimmy Thistle

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Had a great chat with Martin today about his addiction to heroin and other substances from an early age. We discuss his childhood trauma and then his subsequent recovery and the help and support that he provides in the community.

This is a very candid chat and there are some triggering subjects so please take care when listening.

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Alcohol Explained - William Porter

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This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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Danny is right at the start of his Sober Journey and I get the chance to chat with him on 31 days sober!

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Link to the Louis Theroux film - Drinking to Oblivion

https://documentaryheaven.com/louis-theroux-drinking-to-oblivion/

Link to Hazel Martins BBC report - Bing Drinking and Me

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025fyj

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My Instagram is:
https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy

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Alcohol Explained - William Porter

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This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

https://a.co/d/0gy6mT9Z

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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This Naked Mind: https://amzn.to/4eC6L6z

A Million Little Pieces: https://amzn.to/44jOV3i

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Kate is a mother, she has three children and was a grey area, binge drinker who had a tough childhood but decided one day on a hike to give up alcohol completely. She has 145 days under her belt and is looking forward to living a sober life.

You can find Kate at: https://www.instagram.com/sober_in_the_peaks

My Instagram is:

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Alcohol Explained - William Porter

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This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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This Naked Mind: https://amzn.to/4eC6L6z

A Million Little Pieces: https://amzn.to/44jOV3i

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 Kate Taylor is a professional writer who has lived in London, New York and Rome and for companies like Disney and the United Nations. She is a big voice on Instagram where she talks openly and with humour about her journey from drinking a bottle of wine a night for 20 years to where she is today, over three years sober. You can follow her at https://www.instagram.com/walking_the_straight_line/. She lives in Shropshire, in the UK, with her husband and two children.

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Alcohol Explained - William Porter

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This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

https://a.co/d/0gy6mT9Z

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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Enjoyed After Hours? Follow, review and share the podcast!

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Alcohol Explained: https://amzn.to/4uMmkyB

This Naked Mind: https://amzn.to/4eC6L6z

A Million Little Pieces: https://amzn.to/44jOV3i

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Episode 1 | Jo Hartley — The Episode That Started It All: 10 Years Sober, Hiding Bottles in the Washing Machine & The BBQ That Changed Everything
This is where After Hours began. Recorded in a cafe in Douglas, Isle of Man, with plates clattering in the background and borrowed equipment, Jimmy sat down with Jo — his first friend in sobriety, the woman who was five years sober when he was on day zero — and just had a chat.
Jo’s story starts in the mid-80s, a shy teenager who discovered alcohol gave her confidence and never really stopped chasing that feeling. Through university in Leeds and a year abroad in Milan — where she discovered that cartons of wine flush flat and are easy to dispose of — the secretive behaviours that she now recognises as problematic were already taking hold. Hiding. Buying in bulk. Never quite feeling like the drinking was the issue.
By her early 20s she was drinking every day, working in an off-licence, and doing a month off just to prove to herself she didn’t have a problem. The month off worked perfectly. It became her green light to carry on for years.
A move to the Isle of Man for love, a banking career, a small flat with limited hiding places — and then a house with a washing machine her husband has never opened in 25 years, a freezer he never raids, and a separate kitchen where nobody could check on her. The addiction found its spaces.
The wake-up call came at 28 — a barbecue, a sunny day, and a decision to slow down and pace herself. She looked up at the blue sky and heard nothing else. She had a seizure. Coming round on the ground, she could hear the paramedics asking “Is she an alcoholic? Is she an alcoholic?” and her friends saying “of course not.” Inside her head, Jo screamed “of course I am.” She went to hospital, detoxed, had hallucinations. The consultant cleared her liver results three months later and told her to stick to NHS guidelines. She walked out furious.
Years of attempts followed. Relapses, home detoxes administered by her husband, five or six medically-assisted detoxes in total. Eventually she found SMART Recovery at Motivate on the Isle of Man — terrified of walking in, convinced she’d see someone she knew. It took a year of going, learning, and relapsing to find her last drink: locked in a hotel room in Benidorm on a yoga retreat, her friend breaking the door down to find bottles hidden in every cupboard.
That was 10 years ago. Jo is now a recovery support worker at Motivate — sitting on the other side of the desk in the same SMART meetings she once attended in fear, helping people who are exactly where she once was.
This is Episode 1. This is where it all started. And it might just be the most important one to listen to.

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Alcohol Explained - William Porter

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This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

https://a.co/d/0gy6mT9Z

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

https://a.co/d/0jdcIjGb

Donate:

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https://nacoa.org.uk/get-involved/donating/donate/

Enjoyed After Hours? Follow, review and share the podcast!

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Alcohol Explained: https://amzn.to/4uMmkyB

This Naked Mind: https://amzn.to/4eC6L6z

A Million Little Pieces: https://amzn.to/44jOV3i

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