One for the Road: The Quit Drinking Podcast

Amy Dixon lost her dad Steve to alcoholism in September 2020. He was 68. Two weeks before he died, Amy had already started the work of giving up alcohol herself. In this conversation with Sober Dave, she opens up about what it was actually like growing up as the child of an alcoholic, and what life looks like two years on.

Amy talks about the bear she thought was prowling the house at night, who turned out to be her dad snoring drunk. The hospital visit at 15 when he turned up paralytic at half ten. The Al-Anon meeting she walked into in her twenties and couldn't connect with. The Amazon browsing history she found after he died, full of books about how to recover and how not to hurt your children.

She also talks about her work with NACOA, the six Cs every child of an alcoholic needs to hear, and why she finally decided to stop drinking herself two weeks before her dad's death.. 

This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Amy.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/amy-dickson11

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.

This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.

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Mike Faria was 36 when he looked in the mirror and saw highlighter yellow eyes staring back. His liver was shutting down. His stomach was the size of a beach ball. His mother had started planning his funeral.

For five months he'd been drinking a litre of vodka a day. Working in construction. Raising two sons. Telling himself he was weaning off.

A paramedic asked Mike who the president was. He answered wrong. They took him to hospital against his will, where he spent three weeks in an induced coma with a 92 percent chance of dying.

He woke up feeling reborn. Doctors couldn't believe his liver had started to recover. Today Mike is sober, raising his sons, and sharing what he went through so other people don't have to learn what end-stage drinking really looks like.

This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Mike.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRkjTPyn/

https://www.instagram.com/jerzeymike/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@ GrownupHustle

This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.

This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.

https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk

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Michael Sargood is 500 days sober. By the end of his drinking, he was on a litre of vodka a day, had lost a relationship, his driving licence, nearly lost his home, and was going to bed every night with a knife under his pillow.

In this conversation with Sober Dave, Michael opens up about growing up gay in the 90s in a conservative part of the UK, why he loved alcohol for the same reason his dad hates it, and how being on antabuse and moving back in with his parents in his late 30s saved his life.

Michael talks about ADHD, charity shop fashion, why early sobriety is genuinely boring, and why he no longer chases happiness but contentment. He also shares the line his partner said that changed everything: I just want to die or have a real shot at life.

This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Michael.

https://www.instagram.com/happywithoutthehooch/

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=happywithoutthehooch

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@ GrownupHustle

This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.

This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.

https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.facebook.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tweaklifeuk/

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In this episode, Sober Dave sits down with Abi Feltham to talk about her journey through alcohol addiction, mental health struggles, and recovery.

Abi Feltham shares what it was like growing up feeling disconnected, struggling with low self-esteem, and using alcohol from a young age to cope. What started as a way to feel more confident quickly became something much deeper.

Over the years, her drinking escalated into daily use, working in bars, travelling across Southeast Asia, Australia, and North America, and surrounding herself with environments where heavy drinking was normalised.

Abi Feltham opens up about:

• drinking to cope with self-hate and depression
• living abroad while alcohol and drugs became part of daily life
• hitting rock bottom, including a suicide attempt and time in a psychiatric ward
• how addiction continued even after returning home
• the moment everything changed and she realised she had to stop drinking

Now over two years sober, Abi Feltham talks about recovery, the challenges of early sobriety, and how working on herself has changed her life.

This is an honest conversation about addiction, mental health, and what it really takes to rebuild your life from the ground up.

*Trigger warning-suicide discussed in this weeks episode*

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Abi.

IG -Abi instagram

Tiktok - Abi Tiktok

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@ GrownupHustle

This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.

This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.

https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.facebook.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tweaklifeuk/

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Danusha Malina Durban was in her late twenties before she took drinking seriously. By the time she was a working mother with a city consulting career, she was fiercely territorial about her bottle of Prosecco. It was the only thing in her life nobody else could touch.

This is the recovery story of a mother of ten who quit drinking quietly three years ago. Danusha tells Sober Dave about being adopted by Polish parents who survived World War Two, growing up around her father's hidden vodka, the late-onset drinking that crept up on her in the city, and the night she finally said enough.

You'll hear about: how mum wine culture catches working women; the 3am self-loathing she could not shake; quitting alcohol without telling anyone; staying sober through losing her best friend; and what real freedom from drink looks like.

If you've quietly wondered whether your drinking is bigger than it looks, this one's for you.

This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Danusia.

https://www.danusiamalinaderben.com/

https://www.schoolformothers.com/

https://www.instagram.com/school.for.mothers.podcast/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danusiamalinaderben/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@ GrownupHustle

This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause.

This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.

https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.facebook.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tweaklifeuk/

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Adrian Cox needed a hip replacement at thirty. Not from a sports injury. From drinking. The alcohol had thinned his blood so much it stopped feeding the ends of his bones, and the ball of his hip had turned half black.

This is the recovery story of a jazz musician and the tour manager of UK ska legends Bad Manners. Adrian tells Sober Dave about leaving home at fifteen to join a band in Devon, the cooking sherry by the river that became his daily routine, drinking himself into hospital wards he had researched on Google, and the call from a sober stranger that finally turned things around.

You'll hear about: drinking on tour as a teenager; living above a pub in Belgravia with a £700 a week bar tab; cocaine and gambling addictions; losing friends to drink; the avascular necrosis that took his hip at thirty; and what eight years sober actually feels like in the music industry.

If you've ever told yourself your drinking is just part of your job, this one's for you.

This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Adrian.

Instagram- @ontheroadinrecovery @adriancoxmusic

www.Facebook.com/adriancoxmusic

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@GrownupHustle

This season's podcast is sponsored by a great new start up called Tweak Life. They have built a well-being hub full of useful information and tweaks that can help you improve your mental and physical health and finances. There is a wide range of topics covered which includes mindfulness, eating well, exercise. managing addictions, improving finances, mortgages and even menopause. This is free to use, just go to https://tweaklife.co.uk/ for more information.

https://www.instagram.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.facebook.com/tweaklifeuk

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tweaklifeuk/

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She started drinking at 14 to numb a life that was falling apart. Her parents had separated. Her uncle had died suddenly. Her mum had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. And the only coping strategy she knew was the one her alcoholic father had modelled her whole life: drink, lie about it, and make everything look fine on the outside.

This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave talks to CeCe Reagan, a sober writer, poet, domestic abuse survivor and child of an alcoholic who quit drinking at 24 and has spent the last six years rebuilding her life across two countries.

CeCe opens up about the full story. Drinking to oblivion from her first ever party. Almost losing her life in a seven-year abusive relationship that started when she was 16. Losing her mum at 19 while still in active addiction. Trying to get sober at 23. Moving to Newcastle 16 days sober and white-knuckling her way through. Finding her people in church basements with a Geordie accent she could barely understand. And eventually using writing — poetry, journaling, letters to alcohol — to process everything she had spent a decade numbing.

If you grew up with an alcoholic, drink to numb grief or trauma, or are trying to quit drinking young, this conversation will land.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for CiCi.

https://www.instagram.com/cicireagan

https://www.facebook.com/cici.reagan

www.cicireagan.com

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@GrownupHustle

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Fraser Franks was a Chelsea academy kid. He played 12 seasons as a professional, climbed up through Brentford, AFC Wimbledon, Luton and Stevenage, and ended his career at Newport County with a heart condition that forced him to retire at 28. His last finished game was against Manchester City in the FA Cup.

He takes Dave through it. The shy kid who promised himself at six years old he'd never touch a drop because he wanted to play for Chelsea. The 17-year-old who finally took his first drink and felt the cheer. The careful weekend-only drinking through his career. Then retirement at 28. A wife about to give birth. No idea who he was without football. And a crate of beers in the fridge on a Tuesday night, because for the first time in his life there was no training the next day.

The drinking turned. Hiding bottles in the garden. Walking the dog as cover to nip to the Sainsbury's Local. Working away in hotel rooms because that was the only place he could drink without anyone seeing. A Father's Day breakdown with his wife and mum that finally cracked it open.

Now Fraser is nearly a year sober, works with Premier League clubs on player welfare through his company B5 Consultancy, and is a new ambassador for Alcohol Change UK alongside Dave.

This one is for anyone leaving a career, an identity, or a structure that's been holding them together. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow @soberdave for more.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Fraser.

https://twitter.com/Fraserfranks

https://www.instagram.com/fraserfranks/

https://www.asipofsobriety.com/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@GrownupHustle

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Stacey Heale was hiding glasses of prosecco behind cookery books in her own kitchen. Her husband Greg, lead singer of the band Delays, had stage four bowel cancer. The country was in lockdown. Friends kept dropping off wine with the groceries.

She'd put her two small daughters to bed with a flute on the bedside table. By the time she got to the stories, the words on the page were blurring.

It wasn't the volume, Stacey says. It was the intention. The hiding. The 10am pour. The need to numb out an unbearable situation while still being everyone's cheerleader.

This conversation goes deep on wine mum culture, drinking through caregiving, what alcohol does to grief, and how Stacey pulled it apart before she became the kind of mother she didn't want her girls to lose.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Stacey.

https://www.instagram.com/stacey_heale/

https://www.ted.com/talks/stacey_heale_the_transformative_power_of_social_media

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@GrownupHustle

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Marisa Peer has worked with thousands of people including royalty, rock stars, actors, and Olympic athletes. She's the founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy and one of the most respected therapists in the world.

In this conversation with Sober Dave, she says something that stops you in your tracks: in 30 years of work, she has never met an addict who believed they were enough.

That's the whole thing. The drinking, the drugs, the food, the gambling, the shopping. They sit on top of one quiet, unspeakable belief: I am not enough.

Marisa walks Dave through how she gets people sober fast, why willpower targets the wrong layer, what alcohol is actually doing for the people who can't stop, and how the medical world has made addiction sound more complicated to fix than it has to be.

She also shares the story of the 65-year-old alcoholic who finally got married, what Adele's lyrics give away, and the three-step process she uses to rewire the mind for indifference to alcohol.

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and contact links for Marisa

.Instagram

https://rtt.com/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

https://www.grownuphustle.com/

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

@GrownupHustle

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Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soberdaveonefortheroad

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