Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast

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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Suzanne Warye is back for her third or fourth visit (we've lost count), and I'd have her on every week if she'd let me. We start with her first grader refusing to go to school and somehow end up at the bigger question: who sold us wine as a parenting tool? Suzanne talks about writing The Sober Shift, now out in paperback. That includes the chapter about losing her dad while they weren't speaking, why she prescribes herself a good closet cry to Jimmy Buffett, and how posting that Brad Pitt was hotter sober brought the trolls out in force. 

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Amy Hatvany is back to discuss the CNN article that poses the question: If you've called yourself an alcoholic, can you ever go back to restrained drinking? We take a deep dive into black and white thinking, glorifying alcohol, total abstinance vs attempting to moderate and I think we end up really solving it. 

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