Sober Powered

A podcast by Gillian Tietz, MS, CAMS-I

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Education

230 Episodes

  1. E193: Feeling More Emotional and Anxious? How’s Your Sleep?

    Published: 2/12/2024

  2. My Favorite Things I Learned in January and How to Apply Them to Your Life

    Published: 2/9/2024

  3. E192: Do You Need a Drink or Are You Just Hungry? (Alcohol & Ghrelin)

    Published: 2/5/2024

  4. E191: Going Back and Forth Makes Your Cravings Stronger

    Published: 2/2/2024

  5. E190: Non-Alcoholic Drinks: The Pros and Cons

    Published: 1/29/2024

  6. E189: How the Brain Regulates Emotions & Impulses (Rumination & Retaliation)

    Published: 1/26/2024

  7. E188: Wellness Over Weight Loss

    Published: 1/22/2024

  8. How Many More Years Do You Want to Spend Thinking "It's Not That Bad?" (Gray Area Drinking)

    Published: 1/19/2024

  9. E187: How Multiple Cycles of Withdrawal Impacts the Recovery of Your Brain

    Published: 1/15/2024

  10. E186: Anger Management in Sobriety

    Published: 1/12/2024

  11. How Nutrition Can Support Your Sobriety with Dr. Brooke Scheller

    Published: 1/8/2024

  12. E185: Unexpected Things That Happen in Early Sobriety

    Published: 1/5/2024

  13. E184: Benefits of Dry January: What the Research Says

    Published: 1/1/2024

  14. Your Guide to Dry January with Casey Davidson, Suzanne Warye, Erinn O'Neill and Michaela Horvathova

    Published: 12/29/2023

  15. My First Sober Christmas

    Published: 12/24/2023

  16. E183: To Drink or Not to Drink? How Your Brain Decides

    Published: 12/22/2023

  17. "But Everyone Drinks Like Me"... No They Don't

    Published: 12/19/2023

  18. E182: Why You Drink Habitually Without Thinking

    Published: 12/15/2023

  19. Losing Friends When You Quit Drinking

    Published: 12/12/2023

  20. E181: Why You Keep Drinking and Expecting it to be Different

    Published: 12/8/2023

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I promise you, you're not a weak-willed loser with no self-control. There are a lot of reasons why we can't control the way we drink- trauma, lack of coping skills, stress, anger, anxiety. Plus, as you'll learn in my podcast, alcohol takes advantage of our vulnerabilities to hook us, then it changes our brains to keep us stuck and reliant on alcohol. It's not about willpower. In the Sober Powered Podcast, I use science, psychology, and compassion to help you understand why you use self-destructive coping skills like alcohol, what happens in the brain to make drinking spiral out of control and prevent us from drinking in moderation, and how to develop the coping skills and emotional sobriety you need to quit drinking and stay sober. About me: I quit drinking on November 9, 2019. I have a master's in biology and I'm a certified anger management specialist and crisis intervention specialist. Not sure where to start? My most popular episodes are 99, 150, 170, 177, 180, 186, 191, 194, 196, 197 and 202.