#245 – The Holiday Episode with Casey Davidson, Gill Tietz and Paul Churchill

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Veronica joins forces with three other sober podcasters to discuss getting through the holidays sober. Listen to the episode now: Follow Us for FREE: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS Watch the episode now: about this episode

Today’s show is a special holiday episode I recorded with three other fantastic, sober podcasters: Casey Davidson, Gill Tietz, and Paul Churchill. We came together to talk about our experiences of drinking through the holidays, getting sober through the holidays, and how to be sober through the holidays and share our different perspectives. I hope you enjoy the episode!

In this conversation, we talk about:

Paul’s holiday seasons of not being present and hiding his drinking
Casey’s experience being a blackout drinker and not remembering the end of the night during the holiday season
The hangover on Christmas morning
How the holiday season in England lends itself to excessive drinking without consequences
Why the holidays can often be a lonely time.
Gill’s past holiday experiences, filled with humiliation, anger, and alcohol-fueled fights with family and friends
The ups and downs of our first sober holidays
Emotional challenges that come with the holiday season in early sobriety
Struggling with boundaries with family and friends
What we did when we wavered in our sobriety
Working during the holiday season as a positive distraction
Gaining a new perspective on drinking during the holiday season
Dealing with receiving alcohol as gifts during the holiday season
How to set health boundaries with family
Breaking the cycle and confronting stigmas and old perceptions
Tips for navigating social events while sober
Creating your own holiday plans
Why it’s crucial to prioritize sobriety during the first year

Connect with Gillian Tietz

Gillian Tietz is the host of the Sober Powered Podcast and the founder of Sober Powered Media, a podcast network for mental health podcasts. Getting sober in 2019 inspired her to start her podcast, where she utilizes her biochemistry background to teach others how alcohol affects the brain and why it’s so hard to stop drinking. She is a chemistry professor at a university in Boston.

Gillian Tietz’s Website | Sober Powered
Gillian Tietz’s Podcast | The Sober Powered Podcast
Gillian Tietz on Instagram: @sober.powered

Connect with Paul Churchill

Paul Churchill is the founder of Recovery Elevator – a popular membership-based community that helps partner sobriety-seeking individuals with like-minded seekers. Paul helps others start their journey and turn their life around. Along with putting on alcohol-free wellness retreats and seminars across the country, he hosts sober travel itineraries across the globe.

Paul Churchill’s Website | Recovery Elevator
TEDx Talk: I’ve been duped by alcohol | Paul Churchill | TEDxBozeman
Paul Churchill’s Podcast Recovery Elevator
Paul Churchill on Instagram @recoveryelevator
Paul Churchill on Facebook: Recovery Elevator

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Casey McGuire Davidson is a life and sobriety coach and host of the Top 100 Mental Health Podcast, The Hello Someday Podcast for sober curious women and gray area drinkers. Casey helps busy women quit drinking and create lives they love without alcohol. She’s a wife, a mom, a practical dreamer, a retired corporate ladder climber, recovering people-pleaser and ex-red wine drinker, who’s been known to crawl into bed at 9 pm and whisper “Don’t worry…you’re still a badass” to herself.