One Year Sober: The Hardest and Best Year of My Life

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  • @kerstie4332
    @kerstie4332 Рік тому +35

    I've listened to every podcast since the beginning and also Sober Dave's. I know your target audience is predominantly men, however, there's women also struggling to open up and handle addiction (such as myself) and wanted to say thanks and what a privilege it's been to follow you on your journey.

    • @benhurley280
      @benhurley280 Рік тому

      He’s speaking from a man’s perspective as that’s what he is but there’s lots of great universal information and wisdom that everyone can relate to and use.
      Good luck on your journey 👍🏻

    • @kerstie4332
      @kerstie4332 Рік тому

      It's UA-cam. Relax Brian.

    • @tkaygg
      @tkaygg Рік тому

      We can't do it without you. (Women)

    • @kayleighbrown1728
      @kayleighbrown1728 9 місяців тому

      H​@@benhurley280

  • @danielculbert4816
    @danielculbert4816 Рік тому +8

    Massive congrats Dan. You really have been a big inspiration for so many people (lads). I’m sitting on day 298 myself, again with you playing a big part to play in that. Keep fighting the good fight Sir 👊

  • @Podders1991
    @Podders1991 Рік тому +3

    Dan you’re the biggest inspiration for my sobriety thank you so much for doing this work I don’t think you’ll ever understand how valuable it is to us all 👏

  • @dominickbylang4400
    @dominickbylang4400 Рік тому +1

    I’m 20 months sober, enjoying your content, openness to be admired. AA stopped me drinking but the steps make me happy, keep going dude

  • @gilesparker2369
    @gilesparker2369 11 місяців тому +1

    Respect to you Dan. You have done the work and you are helping others to do theirs. You are helping me that’s for sure. Keep it up. It makes a difference

  • @cheriejackson6991
    @cheriejackson6991 8 місяців тому +1

    Congratulations 🥳 !
    I’m at the start of my journey.
    Your talks really inspire
    So thanks too .

  • @Quartzone6145
    @Quartzone6145 Рік тому +2

    Well done Dan such an achievement. Been watching from the beginning and such good insight into addiction,watching as a woman with a partner who has addiction your podcasts have really helped me to understand more.

  • @rosemarieghislanzoni5361
    @rosemarieghislanzoni5361 Рік тому +1

    Congrats 1 year !! I’ve been here since the start and you’ve helped me through so much, I’m just over 6 months sober, thank you 🙏

  • @jacobcain6336
    @jacobcain6336 Рік тому +2

    Hand on heart, recently you have helped me through the hardest time in my life. I can relate to you so much.. Losing my Dad to addiction and struggling with long term addictions and mental health problems that I have been battling with since I was a kid. Whenever the bastard gremlin has chirped up, I have put one of the podcasts on and now me and the Mrs listen every week. I can see how much you have put in and how much more you are getting out and thanks to you guys, I am doing the same. Hats off to you on one year. And Thank you man

    • @jacobcain6336
      @jacobcain6336 Рік тому

      People make mistakes man.. that’s what a lot of the podcast is about and he’s helped a lot of people. Just these comments alone can tell you that.

  • @DH-yu2gi
    @DH-yu2gi Рік тому +6

    Be proud of yourself Dan, congratulations 🎉

  • @arccway
    @arccway 10 місяців тому

    this is amazing! this is 2nd day and i'm glad to find this podcast and begin my journey!

  • @tammyjams22
    @tammyjams22 6 місяців тому +1

    22 days sober. I love it 🥰

  • @jonconner764
    @jonconner764 8 місяців тому

    Hi mate , just checking in to see if your ok ?
    Haven't seen any podcasts for a while now and i loved them .
    Hope your doing well pal, i recently celebrated 450 days sober and it was due to watching your early podcasts telling me to try a CA meeting.
    So thank you x

  • @jamiekirwan7477
    @jamiekirwan7477 Рік тому +3

    I strongly advise anyone in the coke alcohol hole
    Take up excersize and put all your energy with all you have on being the fittest strongest version of yourself you can possibly be
    I am two years clean now after 13 years of coke binges and going missing for days on end
    Excersize has changed my life and out look on life
    We all can be so much more good luck to everyone trying
    Never stop giving up giving up

  • @Offmeheadwithjoy
    @Offmeheadwithjoy Рік тому

    Congratulations Dan, massive commitment to your sobriety and new life... I've watched most of your interviews so far and it's plain to see in your body language you are much more present and look relaxed!! Great to see. Much love from New Zealand 💚

  • @Ross-y8c
    @Ross-y8c 7 місяців тому +1

    Having access to this and other sober podcasts is the most valuable thing to me in choosing not to drink.

  • @karinaleach2090
    @karinaleach2090 Рік тому

    Well done Dan!!
    I’ve been listening to the podcast every week since the first episode
    You’re doing a great thing for the sober community 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @Liam-us3cq
    @Liam-us3cq Рік тому

    Well in Dan , your podcast is one of the most important things to help keep me on the right track. Thanks lads!

  • @bigchaz6426
    @bigchaz6426 8 місяців тому

    Love it! Such positivity. Keep up the good work! Thank you both! xxx

  • @natalieengstrom2253
    @natalieengstrom2253 Рік тому

    So proud to be on this journey with you! Congratulations Dan 🎉

  • @lukemcgoldrick6872
    @lukemcgoldrick6872 5 місяців тому

    Keep this channel going , very good 👍

  • @Matt_Gaughran
    @Matt_Gaughran Рік тому

    Congratulations Dan, followed from the start. Always helped. So has M.A.T.E keep smashing it brother

  • @burritobox4010
    @burritobox4010 Рік тому

    Totally inspirational..listen every week been on a very simular journey. Don't know how I found the podcast but seems like faith because its one I look forward to every week and some weeks has made me think twice about going back on it so thanks to everyone that's involved in the production and long may it last lads ❤

  • @sikilgallen2834
    @sikilgallen2834 Рік тому

    Really Inspirational ,You have helped me show others change is possible & Made me Look back on my own Journey of Sobriety ..

  • @Mandy-nw6dv
    @Mandy-nw6dv Рік тому +1

    Bloody love you guys. So much information. You are inspiring so many people. Well done on a year of sobriety 🙌 your doing amazing. More off the street kinda guests would be great. Like you said every podcast comes with different people who are going thru different addiction. Hope I make sense. I'm adhd and dyslexic too so sometimes I don't put it quite right 😅

  • @jakeworsley2058
    @jakeworsley2058 Рік тому

    We’ll done Dan and thanks to everyone involved what a journey i love my life now 💪💪💪

  • @mandyjjonesj5541
    @mandyjjonesj5541 Рік тому

    amazing achievement.
    when people have an answer to the first question of what would you say to yourself a year ago ?
    and people answer "" don't be hard on yourself, or don't feel guilty"" etc etc...but I think....all if that is crucial....like that's part of the healing journey isn't it. I love that Dan's first answer was that he would say "" it's going to be ok""
    I honestly love this podcast.i did a year and half clean of H and C .... then I moved house, and I can't even explain the stress it caused me, I'm bipolar, and have moved before, but this.....this move truly crippled me in every emotion, mental state possible for some reason....back at it again.....and need to make sure I don't do it again....
    congratulations Dan 🎉🎉

  • @MarkMcCann1888
    @MarkMcCann1888 Рік тому

    Congratulations Dan! Smashing it mate! Keep it up! 💪🏻

  • @natureisallpowerful
    @natureisallpowerful Рік тому +1

    1st congratulations mate its a journey. ❤ respect

  • @GavinCee
    @GavinCee Рік тому

    Congrats. That's a big achievement!

  • @sambo.0334
    @sambo.0334 Рік тому

    John. Would be great if you guys could get me and my twin brother on the show. Both struggling to keep sober but in our separate ways. I use for physical pain relief/not care about it and my brother because his personal situation that involves how his ex his uses his kids as weapons..
    Absolute respect for Daniel and what you said at the start. A message from the future was a great question. Onlookers perspective is fresh and naive in a good way to actually ask the right questions in an honest way 👍🏻

  • @MichelleP-hy5lf
    @MichelleP-hy5lf Рік тому

    Congratulations Dan! You should be proud of yourself 👏 ❤️

  • @JayloT93
    @JayloT93 Рік тому

    massive respect to you Dan. Keep on doing the work because you are worth it :)

  • @barrybaker5502
    @barrybaker5502 Рік тому

    Well done Dan ...
    You doing a great job and serving to us all ....

  • @wrenl2944
    @wrenl2944 Рік тому +1

    Congrats!

  • @SoniaDelaney-qc5is
    @SoniaDelaney-qc5is Рік тому

    Congratulations 🎉 Dan all hard work paying off

  • @bigboundsy
    @bigboundsy Рік тому

    Love it mate. I noticed you had ca Keyrings but u said u haven’t done the 12 steps!! Wondered how that came about!!

  • @louiseb6459
    @louiseb6459 Рік тому

    Love this ❤ more stories from people ordinary or famous . Well done Dan 🎉

    • @louiseb6459
      @louiseb6459 Рік тому

      @@brianwells4891 therein lies your problem good luck with it 👍

  • @aloeblack8853
    @aloeblack8853 10 місяців тому +1

    My year started on 31st December and the intent is a full year off in 2024. You are one of the only people out there I can relate to and look up to in terms of getting sober. We approach drugs and alcohol in a very similar way and your success in sobriety gives me hope. Thanks Dan 🩵

    • @MsSheilaC
      @MsSheilaC 6 місяців тому +1

      How are you doing? Im at 2 months myself

    • @aloeblack8853
      @aloeblack8853 6 місяців тому

      @@MsSheilaC well done. I’m doing ok. I have had two occasions where I have had two drinks since December 30th. One instance I caved and had two beers with a mate where I was actually trying to make him feel comfortable which was silly on my part. The second time I had two glasses of wine at dinner after a bit of a family crisis. Not proud of breaking my streak but it’s 4 standard drinks in 4 months. I am maintaining the goal to stay sober going forward and no intention to make it regular again (my real problem was cocaine and not touched it although I think about it regularly).
      How are you feeling so far?

    • @MsSheilaC
      @MsSheilaC 6 місяців тому

      @@aloeblack8853 I think youre doing great and that's a great way to look at it. Youre four months sober, minus four drinks!
      isnt it crazy what we do to make others feel comfortable? lol I was offered wine by a wine maker at his party, who knows my background w wine but didnt know I had stopped drinking, and he was so enthisiuastic to know my opinion that I took the smallest sip possible but still looking like I was tasting... It was hysterical to me but that the only time Ive dabbled w it in two months (I went into the garden and dumped the rest so not to be tempted or mindless w a glass in my hand).
      it hasnt been the glorious results that most ppl seem to report two months in, but Im in it for the long haul and will be patient. At some point things will get better. I honestly think the older one is and the more time regularly drinking, is relative to the time it takes to detox the brain and organs etc. I wasnt alcoholic but had a regular habit and at 60, thats some time put in. Im going to make my 60's one of my best decades.

  • @chevin-pyrex1588
    @chevin-pyrex1588 Рік тому +1

    Ive been doing herion for about 95
    years , today i think its enough . No more H

  • @leejackson2223
    @leejackson2223 Рік тому

    Well done Dan. Massive achievement!❤

  • @liamfirkin2145
    @liamfirkin2145 Рік тому

    M2S is in my diary, these are part of my week. Every Sunday. You’ve been a huge help Dan.
    5 months on Wednesday. Congratulations on the 1 year mate 💥

  • @4dstrength
    @4dstrength Рік тому

    Great podcast! 👌🏻❤️

  • @jt6781
    @jt6781 Рік тому

    Well done mate, keep it up 💪❤

  • @kiernanwts
    @kiernanwts Рік тому

    Congratulations mate 👏 👍 🙌

  • @sgrill11124
    @sgrill11124 Рік тому

    What an achievement!!!! Well done Dan!

  • @cpkay33
    @cpkay33 10 місяців тому

    one year no beer/gear is brilliant. such a simple slogan to adhere to.

  • @williamhowie6060
    @williamhowie6060 Рік тому

    Little tip D when feeling vulnerable(happens loads have a hot bath its symbolically washing youre pain away .

  • @ap5194
    @ap5194 Рік тому

    Congratulations geezer 🎉🎉🎉

  • @EJWEST333
    @EJWEST333 Рік тому

    Remember Christmas is a trigger 😅 keep believing in yourself. ✊
    Congratulations on your sobriety 🎉

  • @bungle3912
    @bungle3912 Рік тому +1

    Well done, not easy. Can we have an update on Kirk? Is he not coming back? Is he okay?

    • @menacetosobrietypodcast
      @menacetosobrietypodcast  Рік тому +2

      No idea, he no longer wants to do the podcast abd don’t talk to me, just stopped. Pop him a message if you want to see how he is I don’t talk to him any more.

    • @bungle3912
      @bungle3912 Рік тому +1

      @@menacetosobrietypodcast What? Really? That’s crazy. Hope he’s okay and not relapsed. Thanks for letting use know.

    • @bungle3912
      @bungle3912 Рік тому

      @@menacetosobrietypodcast Weirdly, I caught a clip of Kirk talking about when he disappeared on you before and his answer why was ‘drugs’. I hope he’s not done the same again and he’s okay.

  • @canvasaerialandsat14
    @canvasaerialandsat14 Рік тому

    Congratulations 🎉 🎉

  • @veniko6996
    @veniko6996 Рік тому

    Well done buddy ❤

  • @lukepowell1988
    @lukepowell1988 Рік тому

    I will be a year sober from the bag and drink on 21/11 been a hard year just need to drop the brass on the head now but with a year behind me think I’m in a better position to do it

  • @theromanceofwax
    @theromanceofwax Рік тому

    Well in guvna. Nice to see John and his lovely hands

  • @sassijay
    @sassijay Рік тому

    Congratulations 🎉

  • @maggiedennis3371
    @maggiedennis3371 Рік тому

    Following you all the way. I think you are so raw . True. Sensitive.. funny .. your number 74 year old .. but where is Kirk . Loved the two of you

  • @stewartclarke2474
    @stewartclarke2474 Рік тому +1

    Well done dan

  • @danielbooth5035
    @danielbooth5035 10 місяців тому

    thanks

  • @kamturner1359
    @kamturner1359 7 місяців тому

    The body keeps the trauma you’re correct

  • @paulforrester4057
    @paulforrester4057 Рік тому +1

    No kirk anymore?

  • @PapaClarkeTheGoat
    @PapaClarkeTheGoat Рік тому +5

    whats happened to Kirk? is he ok

  • @mitcheldelemere7817
    @mitcheldelemere7817 Рік тому

    Levels❤🎉

  • @James-e8i1q
    @James-e8i1q Рік тому

    Does it really get better?

  • @maggiedennis3371
    @maggiedennis3371 Рік тому

    Your whole demeanour has changed, since I have been following you.. so calm .. so honest ….. are you still happy with your family now…..?

  • @DANNY-lw5re
    @DANNY-lw5re Рік тому +2

    When you buy alcohol you're selling your happiness from tomorrow.

  • @kerrduncan9982
    @kerrduncan9982 Рік тому

    Currently sitting listening out my tree and this needs to stop

    • @simonoates6463
      @simonoates6463 Рік тому

      I hope you get some help mate. It’s hard but also achievable

  • @JordanBell-b8t
    @JordanBell-b8t Рік тому +1

    Where is Kirk?

  • @angelmuniz4127
    @angelmuniz4127 Рік тому

    Is Kirk really back on the sniff?

  • @newoization
    @newoization 9 місяців тому

    Bored me to tears.😅

  • @maggiedennis3371
    @maggiedennis3371 Рік тому

    You don’t have to do the 12 steps to get sobriety..

  • @williamhowie6060
    @williamhowie6060 Рік тому

    You didnt see her when drinking(horseshit)it was deep shame keep chatting man

  • @kevinsmith5318
    @kevinsmith5318 7 місяців тому

    Too much “fuckin” for me