Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober · Gillian Tietz, MS, CPRC
E310: Emotional Sobriety: Why Quitting Drinking Isn’t Enough
·24 min·2 clips
Gill Tietz reveals how alcohol froze her emotional maturity at 22, leaving her reactive and insecure for years.
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Sobriety gets harder before it gets steadier, and the episode explains why.
The episode treats sobriety as more than dropping alcohol; it looks at the feelings alcohol used to quiet down. That gives it a steady, slightly uncomfortable focus, because the hard part is what comes after the buffer disappears: avoidance, old habits, and the pull to relapse.
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If sobriety has you feeling everything at once, start here.
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