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  • Bonus Content - Stoptober Share

    Jimmy Thistle shares his journey and insights on sobriety during "Stoptober," emphasizing the importance of extending sobriety beyond a single month for lasting health benefits. He reflects on his personal experiences, the challenges of staying sober, and the transformative impact of a 90-day commitment. Jimmy encourages listeners to push beyond short-term goals, highlighting the clarity and life improvements that come with sustained sobriety. He invites his audience to engage with his content and join his supportive community for those pursuing a sober lifestyle.


    Join Sober Seasons here:


    https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1GCtvADXLu/?mibextid=wwXIfr


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


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    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt


    14 min
  • Bonus Content - Covid/Alcohol Conspiracy Share...

    In this conversation, Jimmy Thistle discusses the impact of COVID-19, the vaccine debate, and the hidden dangers of alcohol consumption. He shares personal experiences, critiques government regulations, and challenges societal norms surrounding sobriety. The discussion emphasizes the need for awareness and change regarding public health issues.


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


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    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt


    20 min
  • I Was Filming My Brother’s Wedding as a Gift — Got Drunk, Deleted All the Footage & Ended Up Doing Drugs With Homeless People on the Streets of Ottawa

    Episode 43 | Tom McLeod — 3 Years Sober: The Toronto Filmmaker Who Almost Partied Himself to Death & Found Out Rooms Full of People Who Did the Same Are Actually Pretty Entertaining

    Tom McLeod grew up in Calgary — an unpopular kid who had his first drink at 14 at a cool party and immediately chose it. Within weeks he was the guy who could out-drink everybody. Skateboarding made him popular; alcohol made him feel like a superpower. By his apartment years he was drinking every day, adding cocaine, becoming a bike messenger in Vancouver and making documentaries while running on fumes.

    At 28 he tried sobriety — made it a few weeks, relapsed at his brother’s wedding where he deleted all the footage, ended up doing drugs with homeless people on the streets of Ottawa and punched his dad. He knew it was wrong every single time for the next 11 years and kept going anyway. COVID finished the relationship, finished the work and nearly finished him — sleeping less and less, more and more drugs, a last bender of nearly two weeks without sleep, liver damage, a heart he thought was about to give out.

    He spotted a sober friend on Instagram from his eyes alone. Messaged him at 2am. Went to a men’s AA meeting. Heard a guy talk about robbing a bank in the 70s and thought: why didn’t anyone tell me this is where the answers were? Went out for one more bender. Then walked back in. Three years later he’s directing again, dating someone healthy, making a content series called Practically Sober, and learning that rooms full of people who almost partied themselves to death are actually pretty entertaining.


    Follow Tom on Instagram at:


    https://www.instagram.com/practically.sober


    TikTok is here:


    https://www.tiktok.com/@practically_

    sober


    Augustan burrows - Dry


    https://amzn.to/4a5LJM3


    Recovering out loud - Podcast


    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/recovering-out-loud/id1804098190


    28 Days - Sandra Bullock film


    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191754/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk


    Practically Sober - Youtube


    https://youtube.com/@practicallysober?si=p6Z9ou3UFYtVthbW


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…


    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt


    Support the show

    My Instagram is:

    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:

    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…

    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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

    A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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

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

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

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

    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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    1 hr 32 min
  • I Put Vodka in a Starbucks Cup & Drank It at the Mall at 15 — My Friends Didn’t Even Know I Was Drinking

    Episode 42 | Lexi — 1,000 Days Sober: The Canadian Wellness Coach Who Got Sober Alone, in Her Room, With No Help — On Exactly Day 1,000

    Lexi grew up in Ontario adopted by older, strict parents who she loved but never quite felt connected to. Her first drink at 15 felt like medicine — instant relief from everything she was carrying. Within weeks she was sneaking a mickey of vodka into sleepovers while her friends watched movies, drinking secretly from a Starbucks cup at the mall. By 16 she’d moved out of home and was drinking vanilla extract and Listerine when she couldn’t get alcohol. Cocaine and hallucinogenics followed. The whole time she kept it functional enough — graduating, training as a massage therapist and energy healer, helping other people through their deepest trauma while quietly abandoning herself.

    COVID cracked the rules she’d always imposed on herself. By 2022, after her mentor died, she stopped pretending — pouring a drink straight after her morning workout, carrying it to work in a travel cup, needing alcohol to answer the phone, open the post, walk into a shop. Then she drove home drunk from a work event, crashed the car, and her friend — watching from the car behind — told her to sort it out or she was done. Her partner said the same. Lexi chose tomorrow.

    She didn’t go to AA. She didn’t go to therapy. She didn’t listen to podcasts or read quit-lit. She locked herself in her room for two months, went offline, and journaled her way through everything she’d been hiding since she was 16. Meditation, visualisation, radical self-honesty — she did everything the fellowship would have suggested, entirely alone.

    Now exactly 1,000 days sober — it was her milestone on the day they recorded — Lexi works as a sober coach with a five-pillar programme and a free consult for anyone ready to start.

    Follow Lexie on Instagram:


    https://www.instagram.com/thesoberexperience_withlexie


    Lexie’s 5 concepts that helped Lexie thrive:


    https://the-sober-experience-with-lexie.kit.com/5concepts?fbclid=PAVERFWAMlTzNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp6bAts6CAtYc8gSNvLD_GQuF6vBfwbxdko048THlY2Hx0Bh69a-t5wv1zVbj_aem_mi9FMNCoX


    My Instagram is:

    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:

    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…

    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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

    A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

    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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    1 hr 4 min
  • I Looked Through My Sister’s Letterbox & the Flat Was Completely Empty — We Found Out She’d Been Repossessed & Was Living on the Streets & She Never Told Us

    Episode 41 | Amber Hughes — The Sister Left Behind: How Addiction & Homelessness Took Hannah, & What Amber Built in Her Name

    Amber Hughes grew up in Oxfordshire with a 16-year age gap between her and her older sister Hannah — close enough that Hannah came to every sports day, every school fete, and said goodnight across town at eight o’clock every evening even after moving out. Their childhood was simple and happy. Then their dad died when Amber was 14, Hannah was 30, working full-time, paying a mortgage alone and just starting a weekend degree in early years education. The cracks, looking back, started there.

    Years passed. Amber noticed Hannah asking their mum for money. Working the supermarket till on Friday nights, she watched Hannah avoid her checkout and buy four bottles of wine. Arguments followed. She thought it was selfishness. Addiction never crossed her mind.

    Then she was sent round to Hannah’s flat and looked through the letterbox. Empty. The flat had been repossessed. Hannah hadn’t told anyone. Over the years that followed — a codependent relationship, lost jobs, missed mortgage payments, hiding it all to protect the family — Hannah’s drinking had quietly become something unrecognisable. Christmas 2015: a seizure, hospital, doctors telling them if she stopped drinking she could die and if she kept going she’d die. Hannah was 36.

    The next 18 months were a chaos of hostels, disappearing, sleeping rough in Oxford parks, five-hour searches through the city streets, seizures from trying to stop cold. Eventually Hannah got a room at Homeless Oxfordshire’s O’Hanlon House. In May 2017 they had what Amber didn’t know was their last visit — looking through old photos on a bench in Oxford, arguing about shoes, Hannah saying she loved her, Amber rolling her eyes. Four days later the police knocked.

    Hannah was 38. She died of cardiac arrest following a seizure, with no alcohol in her system — possibly trying to detox alone.

    In Hannah’s name Amber started Amber Lights in Oxford, raising over £2,000 for Homeless Oxfordshire, taking Hannah’s story into primary schools, and campaigning against the Vagrancy Act that criminalised people for sleeping rough.


    You can find Amber in Instagram at:


    https://www.instagram.com/amberlightsinoxford


    Amber's LinkTree:


    https://linktr.ee/AmberLightsinOxford


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…


    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt


    Support the show

    My Instagram is:

    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:

    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…

    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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

    A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

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

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    1 hr 29 min
  • I Was in a Taxi on the Way to Work in a Suit & I Asked the Driver If I Could Have the Beer He Had in the Back — My Work Colleague Was Sitting Right Next to Me

    Episode 40 | Craig Hewins — 3 Years Sober: The Surrey Sales Guy Who Cold Turkeyed Alone in a Rented Room & Never Told Anyone

    Craig Hewins grew up in Surrey — happy childhood, no trauma, no excuses as he puts it. Started drinking at 14 in the park with cider, loved the confidence it gave him, and just never really stopped. Football was his other passion through his teens and twenties, but slowly the drinking took over the weekends, then the matches, then the rest. By 25 he was dependent. By his late twenties he needed a drink on Monday morning just to face reality.

    He got into sales — an environment he describes as full of reckless, self-destructive people — and thrived when drinking, barely functioned without. Attendance issues ended jobs. He lost his driving licence drink driving. His relationships fell apart. The worst period: waking up, retching into the bathroom sink from bile because he hadn’t eaten, then steadying himself with whatever wine was left in the bottle just to get down to the shop for more.

    The taxi story captures it best. Suited and booted, on the way to work on a Monday morning, he spotted a beer in the back of the cab, asked the driver if he could have it — and cracked it open immediately. His work colleague was sitting right next to him.

    The Facebook photo was the final straw. Tagged in a shot and not recognising himself, he thought: I’ve completely lost myself. He locked himself in a rented room — ensuite, landlady’s house, nobody really knew he was there — and cold turkeyed for two weeks on takeaways. No AA, no rehab, no support. Just willpower.

    Two months in, his best friend died. His mates took him to the pub to grieve. When he nearly ordered a pint, a few of them quietly said don’t do it. He didn’t. And in that moment — not drinking while losing someone he loved — he knew he’d never need to again.

    Now coming up on three years, Craig has an ultramarathon booked and is getting married in a week.


    Listen to Craig's story here:


    You can follow him on Instragram at:


    https://www.instagram.com/hewins11


    Listen to the Sober Stretch Podcast:


    https://open.spotify.com/show/42nfv5PNruzVeGdJU4DbLW?si=7ee2208efa204322


    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson

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    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…


    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Support the show

    My Instagram is:

    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:

    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…

    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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

    A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

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

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

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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    1 hr 8 min
  • I Went on Dragon’s Den, Got Investment, Built a Fashion Brand From Nothing — Then Lost Everything & Retrained as a Therapist at 50

    Episode 39 | Mike Longthorn — The Alcohol-Free Introvert: Dragon’s Den, Bankruptcy & Finding Out Who He Was Without a Drink

    Mike Longthorn grew up in a happy home in Anglesey but spent his school years feeling different — quieter than others, struggling in ways he couldn’t name. It was only through therapy decades later that he understood why: he’s dyslexic, and had spent his childhood quietly mortified by spellings on the board and the quiet cruelty of kids who spotted weakness. The first drink, when it came, felt like a solution. He was shy. Alcohol made him extrovert. He filed that away.

    Through his twenties he worked in Audi sales, was good at it when sharp, less so when perpetually hanging. He was into house music, making tracks, smoking weed — the drinking was there but not the main event. Then in 2008, inspired by meeting business owners as part of his Audi advocacy role, he left — or was quietly pushed out — and launched a business importing wellies from China. Wellies with a wedge heel. He got a design registration on the wedge, went on Dragon’s Den two years later, got investment, worked with Theo Paphitis for three years and built it into a fashion label that stocked with ASOS, JD Williams and Debenhams.

    By 2019 the business was gone. Returns, quality issues, Debenhams and House of Fraser collapsing — it cost him £300k and he went bankrupt. But something had already shifted. Surrounded by his new partner’s friends who were teachers and nurses and people contributing something real, he felt the misalignment of selling fast fashion for shareholders. He did a Level 2 counselling course to try something new. Then Level 3. Then a diploma at university level. Then qualified as a therapist. He now works with a sexual abuse and violence charity alongside his coaching practice.

    Six months before finishing the diploma, he decided to quit drinking. January 1st, three sessions of therapy booked in to hold him accountable. It worked — 1,900 days in, he coaches people on going alcohol-free under his handle, the Alcohol-Free Introvert. His whole focus: the pull away from alcohol needs to outweigh the pull toward it. When it does, everything changes.



    You can find Mike on Insta at:


    https://www.instagram.com/the_alcoholfree_introvert


    Amy Liptrot’s book and film The Outrun:


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    https://amzn.to/49rymFN


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…


    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt


    Support the show

    My Instagram is:

    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:

    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…

    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    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!

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

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

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

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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    1 hr 28 min
  • Episode 38 - Jodi Clark

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    Jodi Clark is the founder of Sober Flourish, a powerful coaching platform and community supporting women who want to change their relationship with alcohol and reclaim their clarity, energy, and purpose.


    After spending two decades in the corporate world and navigating her own transformation - losing 84 pounds, becoming alcohol free, and rebuilding her life from the inside out - Jodi now mentors other women to do the same.


    She’s a certified alcohol-free and business coach, a digital entrepreneur, and a voice for women who no longer want to settle for burnout or blurred potential.


    Her work blends mindset, wellness, and business growth to help sober and sober curious women build lives and businesses that truly reflect who they are now.


    You can find Jodi on Insta at:


    https://www.instagram.com/soberflourish


    Her website is:


    https://soberflourish.com/links?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLsziFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp-pCGNuakhp9bJGrOvEaoe0kDkAPB11HfonuvDGREYK6jQ7R7EQ_qf-6VcX5_aem_yZidODOej-_pHOCqLmPk3Q


    Alan Carr's book is here:


    https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Women-Drinking/dp/1785991477


    And Holly Whitaker's Quit Like Woman:


    https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Like-Woman-Radical-Obsessed/dp/1984825070/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29KLPK96R3PUC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Mcg5OwlIhD9dNzC_Ceq5hAjXJVqSrrJVgRU-EBV1k8rgKtWqgJtQx2Be9k-OZTIA26ZZaNH0-ElwCmSs7U5XBV-FBatY6z3lBWSPfeK4TjCig1KwRiGZUPF2Z8yqKJC4BcStbeprQrt6jTaUvp2sQ3FOPVYLWayvgymV4HHzJzYvBQbrCBdws-LPMuacNEZeVnKft8eHAF4Kllq7b4e95vMPWo6v7b7G6vExmFGu4Ks.CSd_8j8ZgXVDYYxer_TxD--v3A8WOQ7p9PztXdIVQg4&dib_tag=se&keywords=like+a+woman&qid=1753214863&s=books&sprefix=like+a+woman%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C284&sr=1-1


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…


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    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    This Naked Mind - Annie Grace

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

    A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

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

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

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

    Donate:

    https://motiv8.im/donate/

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

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    1 hr 28 min
  • Episode 37 - Lucy Norfolk

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    In 2022, Lucy lost her partner, Daniel, whose life was tragically cut short by the effects of alcoholism. Navigating the grief of his passing, she has found strength in sharing their story to raise awareness about the hidden impact of addiction on families.


    Today, she honours Daniel’s memory by supporting charities like NACOA and standing alongside her daughter Amelie, whose letters to government have sparked national conversations about support for children of alcoholics.


    You can find Lucy on instagram at:


    https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_


    NACOA can be found at:


    https://nacoa.org.uk


    My Instagram is:


    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy


    And you can find all my other links at:


    https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle


    Buy me a coffee…


    https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Support the show

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    https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy

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    Alcohol Explained - William Porter

    https://a.co/d/0854fIb6

    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!

    Instagram: @thesoberthistle

    Coaching: https://thistlefreedomcoaching.com

    Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

    Books:

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

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

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

    Donate:

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    2 hr 15 min
  • Episode 36 - Kristen Bear

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    Kristen Bear is the founder of Creative Sobriety, a multi platform resource for anyone looking to change their mindset on alcohol and its place in their life.


    As a writer and actor, she sees sobriety as the key to unlocking our full creative potential and a true rebel move in a society that glamorizes booze.


    Kristen is 5 1/2 years sober and splits her time between San Francisco and her tiny container house in rural Tennessee.


    Follow Kristen on Instagram, Substack, and TikTok and listen to the Creative Sobriety podcast everywhere!


    You can find Kristen on Insta at:


    https://www.instagram.com/creativesobriety


    Kristen is on SubStack at:


    https://kristenbear.substack.com


    And Kristen’s amazing podcast Creative Sobriety:


    https://open.spotify.com/show/24X7Hfehh8mBNIRQ5jIIDU?si=c2186bba65244ad8


    You can find Kristen at her website:


    https://www.creativesobriety.co


    Holly Whitaker quit like a woman


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Join Jimmy Thistle for After Hours, the brutally honest, funny and heartwarming podcast that dives deep into alcohol, addiction and recovery.


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