I’ve been sober for almost three years now-  after a long, grey relationship with alcohol. One that swung between binging and self-loathing. Eventually, the morning-after anxiety just became too much, and I gave up drinking.

I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t the full-blown reckoning that followed. I hadn’t realised how much of my life was centred around alcohol. Celebrate something? Have a drink. Bad day? Have a drink. Out and about? Let’s get another bottle.

So much of my identity, my fun, my freedom, even my friendships, had become wrapped up in drinking.

Today’s conversation with Helen Masters, founder of Sober AF, we talk about the warped perspective of drinking that we have as a society and how it is very possible to divorce sobriety and fun.

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Why Aren’t We Talking About This? is a series of honest conversations about the stuff we rarely discuss but probably should - big feelings, weird thoughts, life, death, and all the messy, beautiful parts of being human.

Hosted by me, Carly Osman-Holme, on a quest to dodge a full-blown existential crisis. I’ve reached that point in life where I’m asking the big questions: How did I get here? What do I actually want? And why didn’t they teach us any of this in school?