Sobriety Rocks - Who Knew! | Janey Lee Grace | TEDxNorwichED 

I started drinking since my teenage, got addicted to alcohol. Spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Alcohol addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

Addiction is giving up everything for one thing, recovery is giving up one thing for everthing

Focus, not on what you’re giving up but on what you’re gaining. Excellent line.

Fifty nine days alcohol free. After 21 years of beer and whiskey. Feels good. Thank you as i shed some tears of joy. Peace.

Alcohol is the only substance you can abuse and people think you don’t have a problem

Love this ted talk! Got to 52 days sober but sadly relapsed. Now it's been 27 days of sobriety since then, and I'm doing so well. I even went to a party with my friends who are BIG on drinking and I didn't have a drop. I'm so proud of myself! ❤️

Alcohol should not be in grocery stores. You should have to go to a liquor store only to get it. We dont live in that world though. Giving up alcohol now started yesterday.

I don't have a wine witch. I have and ipa witch. The romantic stage of my sobriety is waning and the negative voice is resurfacing. I must continue to remind myself that I've never regretted not drinking but almost always have regretted drinking. Good luck to everyone, we're on the right path!

20 days sober and couldn’t help but to agree with everything you said

17 days without a drink. Quit for 1 year in 2007, 1 year in 2009 and 1 year in 2017. Went back every time fooling myself into thinking I could moderate and control my drinking. Starts out ok and builds and builds over time until drinking to excess twice a week. Sick of it. I really feel like I’m done. I’m 42. I really don’t want to wake up at 52 regretting another 10 years wasted on hangovers and missed opportunities due to this horrific poison.

I quit July 2019, it all started with a month. Best decision of my life, she’s so right in this talk. I’m even starting a new career. Life is definitely better for sure, sleep great like a baby and no hangovers. Hangover free is what keeps me going , praying for anyone struggling. You got this and for those who want to try the 30 day challenge, dry January is a great time to do it. Good luck, remember one day at a time 💓💓💓💓💓💓

28 days sober of alcohol here! 30 years old, and decided to give it up for life! Now I say I’m not an abuser of alcohol, but going a week or so and then having two bottles of wine and half a bottle of gin in one sitting, throwing up all over your bedroom, waking up the next day single as you’ve dumped your girlfriend by text, Lying to her that you cheated when in fact you didn’t, and you have no recollection of doing this! That was the moment I decided I’ve had enough. I’m not the person I was when drunk, I never will that “person” again! Stay strong everyone reading this.

Thanks for this, it just reminded me of why I’m sober. I’m a month and a half in, and could feel myself loosing the battle a bit. But feel slightly better after this! Thanks

143 days sober and I have never resonated with a video so much, what a fantastic talk. Janey is spot on about all of the benefits, apart from the fact that as a bald man, I am still waiting on those sober locks 😂.

I love being sober! This video is just for moi.

Allen Carr’s book “Quit Drinking The Easy Way” is awesome and life changing.

I LOVED THIS. You can see she really did a lot of inner work on herself.

I hope one day there’s a shift in our society and people realize how wack it is.

I can soo relate to this! I didn’t have any alcohol until I was 31 but after 3 years of drinking I started to realise that I had a problem and going T total for the foreseeable future was my best option. Now 2 months sober 😅 plan to be sober for as long as possible now 😁

*Alcohol is the only drug we need to justify not taking it* What a great finding that’s so true.

I went 2 years and 9 months sober relapsed at my favorite NFL team home opener a few years ago. Just downloaded a sober app choose not to drink for the next 24 hours. The one day at a time mentality helped me on my journal my first rodeo, I’ll be using the same mindset this time 🙏🏾

Fantastic! Just listened to Janey on my way into work for motivation! Brilliant! I even found myself saying 'yes' out loud to myself (she was that inspirational). Every word Janey said resonated with me. I don't want to drink so, like Janey, I will be telling the Wine Witch to 'do one' tonight! Today is day 6 sober for me. Not been done before in years! We've got this!

I enjoyed the story telling of alcohol abuse. I drank alcohol for 22 years until one day, I not longer desired that felling, and it is now going on 28 years in December. My life is so much better and others including family and friends like being around me. I even love myself. 🙂

One of the best TED talks I have seen. A great message delivered with integrity and passion. The principles Janey talks about can be applied to many other contexts. Well worth a watch especially if you have any habit you want to change.

Agree 100%👏I gave up drinking and I feel way much happier and healthier!

Wow, Janie did not hold back with the truth! I love her approach.

This is what I needed to hear. I'm going sober and hoping this time it'll last, but listening to this ted talk really gave me the push I needed. thank you

Hung on (AND agreed with) every word!! Thank you for this message!

I love this talk, and I love Janey’s podcast. So positive.

What a brilliant ending! Everything that was said is so true. I know from personal experience.

“I hear you. Thank you for sharing” I’m going to use that thinking in many other areas too😎

Hey Janey, great TED talk. Well done - loved it!

I wish you you will have millions views on this video.

Next time find people who were true alcoholics, this lady never had an issue. I can say the same , how I stopped over eating and it changed my life, just to be clear I never had an over eating problem to began with !

18 years sober here. 6 DWI convictions, beat around another 6, jail often, six treatments, and I can’t identify with this girl at all. Zero trouble with the law since I quit drinking except for one speeding ticket. It took total surrender for me not a pep talk from some girl that looks like she never had a drink or served a day in jail.

Love her strong voice! Really shines her personality. Probably anciliary effect of quitting alcohol. :)

All said and done,its all down to ourselves,the buck stops with us and the first step is admitting what we are,only then can we s4art to recover,good luck to all👍

So much respect 🙌 to you for sharing your story to help others heal. 🦋 It's a true calling. I absolutely found my purpose in telling my story of borderline death ☠️ and life implosion 🤯 to healing my brain and body to get my life back! Much luv! 🕉 You can heal!

LOVE this❤. The time has come to face the wine witch x

Alcohol steals your joy, agreed!

I didn't want to get sober. I definitely needed to get sober. I was forced to AA or lose my daughter. I thought, "fine. Ill stop drinking long enough to move away. That was thirty years ago. Some of it has been wonderful and some has been....not so much wonderful. Isn't that life? Just because you don't drink today isn't a commitment to not drink next week.....or tomorrow . Find a way of sobriety that works for you. Relapse does not have to be a part of your story. But if you are HERE, maybe check out a way or two of sobriety. You can always drink later.

oh I just LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!!! Really Well Done absolutely brilliant!

I had been listening to the "grey area" Ted talk in the background whilst "working". Obviously it was on autoplay and suddenly this voice came on and I thought "I know that voice" and I tried to conjure the face of a famous actor/TV presenter, but my "grey area" fuddled brain wouldn't play ball. So I gave in and looked at the video details. OMG!! Janey Lee Grace of Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Radio 2 fame! Because of Lockdown, I rarely drive any more and so haven't listened to the radio in years. But her voice is obviously still ingrained in my sub conscious. It feels so reassuring to hear that someone as "successful" as JLG was behaving the same as me. Again it goes to her point that from the outside people think we're functioning. Only we know the truth on the inside. I do dry January every year and never have any problem completing it (I even go beyond to the 1st Saturday in February). But I always have the reward of being able to drink in February (especially as that's when the 6 Nations starts and I always go to the pub with mates to watch it). I always say to myself that I'll be a social drinker and won't drink at home on my own . . . .but then the inevitable happens and within a few days, I'm drinking every night again. The thing is that the more I drink at home on my own, the more I can drink in each session. So, 1 bottle of wine will progress to 1 bottle of wine and a beer, and then 1 bottle of wine and 2 beers and so on. I am watching these videos in the hope that they inspire me to stop - although I'll be honest the thought of never drinking again is a scary thought. I wish I could just be a social drinker.

Thanks so much for this! I need the encouragement.

I used alcohol for 25+ years. I have been sober for long periods of time through the years. Sobriety does not equal recovery, Currently in recovery so I can heal the trauma and remain sober.

03-29-2005 The day I was given the gift of sobriety, the gift that keeps on giving one day at a time.

Miss You, Tim and Steve I'll always,s Love the show

This is wonderful!! Thank you so much for this!!

2 months sober😜

Excellent talk Janey. Nailed it.

Love The Unexpected Joy of being Sober!!

Great video - I am supporting my Brother ( 49 ) going to stop drinking . I don’t drink and when I go out and socialise ‘ and every time I get asked - did I have a problem with drinking- no I just don’t like it and I don’t need alcohol. To me it’s a poison simple

6 YEARS SOBER NOW MYSELF .. 💯👍🏾

That wine witch is a sneaky bugger. Every time you think you got it under control ...

60 days sober 🙏

I’m gonna try that the next time the “beer witch” comes out lol❤ And yes, alcohol absolutely does still joy of the spirit!

Excellent 🎉

Day 26 no alcohol 👍

If people knew that alcohol in the Arabic (Al-kuhl) means "Body Eating Spirit" fewer people would touch the stuff. Yahshua/Jesus is coming back. Please treat all people with respect and love one another my friends. Repent and turn from any wickedness.

I cant drink Im an alcoholic.

Alcohol free for one year four months with the help of addiction professionals. It breaks my heart that my boyfriend continues to drink in excess.

Ethanol is a solvent, i used it in the lab many times, i dont drink cause it makes me sick and gives me a headache My fav time is early sat sun mornings, the world is empty of people, theyre all sleeping off hangovers

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Lovely! Inspirational!🥰

the wine witch is real fr

Sugar is also a drug we seem to have to justify not taking. I think alcohol is associated with it because it rises blood sugar levels.

I agree it's better!

I am so tired of drinking and im afraid of disconnecting with my best friend. 😢

best talk ever!

Bee bop a bee bop!

165 days

It’s not that some people have an “addictive voice”, it’s an addictive personality. Once you get the “addictive voice” that’s a sign you have become addicted to the substance you’ve been abusing. Which is what to expect. For some people it takes longer, and for some a lot less. ALCOHOL IS FOR LOSERS. Got a t-shirt that says that and people hate me for it but I don’t care lol. 1 YEAR CLEAN!

Here’s the trap people fall into, I think, when getting sober: they think they’re giving something up. But that’s really just because of our culture’s totally backwards attitude toward alcohol: it’s marketed to us as fun, cool, sophisticated. And then our friends and family tell us as such. We’re questioned why when we tell people we don’t drink. But… alcohol isn’t any of those things. It’s a highly addictive, dangerous drug that has the capacity to cause all sorts of mayhem and chaos in people’s lives. Once you realize this, that alcohol is just another drug, you see you’re giving up NOTHING positive and gaining everything in return. This, IMO, is the real trick to quitting drinking alcohol - not deluding ourselves into thinking we’re missing out on something good (we’re not).

Day 1

❤great talk day one

SOBRIETY ROCKS! AND SAVES liveS.

Excess food and drugs are all around us for us to discipline ourselves not to indulge. God created us with the free will to reject the deadly sin of gluttony.

I appreciate👏 your Video

Anika Bridge

I DONT GET DRINKERS , YOU AINT READY FOR ANYTHING WHEN YOU START DRINKING

I really want to quit 100%.

day one....again..... from a couple tall boys a year ago, to a six pack every day, to a 12 pack every day and whiskey. IM ON DAY ONE! please pray for me! how many DUI'S? too many, how many relationships ruined? family relationships? jobs lost? careers ruined? just prayers please.

Brothers and Sisters please let the Shed Blood of Jesus Christ wash you clean. The Gospel 1 Corinthians 15 1-4 KJV please see Brother Robert Breaker on Utube preach How to get saved

So true!!! The propaganda is insane!

harry styles

🇬🇧! almost died too for a quick 🥈 ✅👊👊👊😀

Alcohol sucks. Meth is awesome

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I have to say, this is quite uninformative and a bit of an airy fairy view of alcoholism. Simply stopping could be very harmful advice to some, and its not all sunshine and rainbows when you do. You failed to address some key issues involved with the actual process of stopping in the first place and the longevity of that process both physically and mentally. Bit of a poor Ted Talk tbh.

I dont know how being sober is fun i disagree with this video.

It just blows my mind that drinking a poison is socially acceptable. Commercial, magazine ads, billboards, drinking is everywhere you look. There's a bar on every corner, basically a crack house on every corner. The amount of deaths per year because of alcohol is staggering. The relationships it ruins is staggering. How and why have we let it get to this point? Mind blowing.

I stopped in April 2009 and never looked back. The alcohol free trend is very heartening. It's a joy to go to a party, to dinner, etc., an never worry about drinking too much, hangovers, etc. For those of you thinking about stopping -- go for it. You won't regret your decision.

i never was an alcoholic, however i stopped drinking 5 years ago. the change of my life is incredible. the way i use my time is just another world. what i can say is besides alcohol being a poison, it is a WASTE OF TIME, ENERGY... be smart! don't get brainwashed into alcohol. many people try to ridicule me too.. they just ridicule themselves. they say i abstain, and restrain myself from enjoying... well i have other ideas of enjoying myself. i dont have to abstain. my body does not like/want alcohol. wake up!

in my fridge there are cold bottles of water and Dr. Pepper now. I had started drinking back in 1999 6 years after my parents were killed. I was like "This will definitely help" Oh but I would never get behind the wheel while intoxicated. First and last DUI, wound up crashing my truck in to a ditch. This was in 2007. Alcohol would never have me in its grips. Oh how wrong I was about everything. That alcohol elevator had hit bottom and continued on through to the earth's crust in to the mantle taking me along with it. 3 years sober now

I am 22 and 9 months sober. This talk reminded me of how important it is to not do this alone and to build connection!

I quit drinking alcohol this past March right as COVID-19 began to take a stronghold here in the US. I had been sober curious for a few weeks leading up to that point, and when I stopped I didn't think I could give it up completely. I read several books about sobriety and watched many videos just like this one, and that really helped me to stay on track. Quite honestly, becoming sober was the BEST decision I ever made in my life. On the surface, I was not considered an "alcoholic," but I still drank enough on most occasions to the point where I experienced hangovers, headaches, and anxiety constantly. I feel so much more free, joyful, and strong without this substance that most people struggle to live without. Not every day is easy, but it is so worth it. And this video hit the nail on the head with the quote, "the opposite of addition is connection." Even 6 months later, I still take it one day at a time!

over 7 months sober, best thing ive ever done

“The opposite of addiction is connection” Powerful aha moment.

My partner joined a treatment center today after dealing with this for over ten years. I’m really proud of him and can’t wait to see him and build routines that will help us reach our goals together. It is hard to be in a relationship with someone who’s life is taken over by this and I know it’s harder for them. I’m hoping that I am able to help and encourage him to keep going.