Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast

In this second episode with Mia Idrissi, we talk about how fun it is to have feelings now. You know—like sadness, shame, and rage, but without the vodka chaser.
Mia drops gems about dating while sober (it’s hard, no notes), learning to sit with uncomfortable emotions, and how grief just kind of shows up like an uninvited guest with dirty shoes. We also talk about how sometimes sobriety isn’t all sunshine and vision boards. Sometimes it’s just surviving another Tuesday without losing your sh*t.

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Mia Idrissi joins Drunk-ish to share the kind of story you don’t hear every day—raw, hilarious, heartbreaking, and ultimately redemptive. With 32 years of sobriety under her belt (her third time getting sober), Mia talks candidly about growing up in a party-heavy home, sneaking cigarettes at age six, and getting drunk for the first time at five. She opens up about the trauma of losing her brother to suicide at 16, her own spiral into addiction, working alongside the Green River Killer, and the near-miss that pushed her toward recovery.

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This is part 2

Robbi Morgan Walberg is back for Part Two, and Curly Dimple has officially reported to rehab in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in December, where the detox plan was warm milk and honey. Robbi gave the place one week. Then a counselor named Frank told her his parents performed on the original Showboat, somebody actually found her a rabbi in Altoona, and she stayed. We talk about wearing full clown white on Christmas Eve, crying for six years, finding out what a resentment is, and 39 years of marriage without one drink together. Plus her daughter Goldie, and why you are not what you do.

This is Part One

Robbi Morgan Walberg is the first person killed in the original Friday the 13th, which is not even the most dramatic thing she told me. She grew up in a New Jersey dance studio run by her vaudevillian acrobat parents, got high before seventh grade, set the front of her house on fire, and had an aunt who was her Fiorinal dealer and had no idea. When she was depressed at 12, her brother's solution was not therapy. It was a unicycle. Then came Barnum, Quaaludes in a Life Savers roll, and shopping for rehab outfits in Altoona in December. 42 years sober. Part One.

In a first of its kind episode, I talk directly to the listeners about (what I consider) the myth of moderation. Maybe I should have titled this episode the myth of moderation so you know what you're getting into but I didn't. So that no one feels tricked, I am going to discuss my own experience with trying to moderate, some other people's experiences, the thoughts out there on whether it is achievable and I will end with a longer bit on the origin of Moderation Management which was touched upon on yesterday's episode with Suzanne Warye. 

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