E143: Happiest Sober: Madeline Forest on Quitting Drinking and Finding Support and Helping Others

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Send us a text In this episode, Matt and Steve welcome Madeline Forest, the host of The Happiest Sober Podcast. Madeline is a sober woman from Canada who shares her story of growing up with a sober mom. Madeline's mother at 21 and never looked back, she also had a dad who relapsed and was absent from her life. Madeline explains how alcohol became a source of anxiety and shame for her, even though she never hit a rock bottom or faced external consequences. She also reveals how she ...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:02.0	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.3	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.9	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.4	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.6	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.4	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:21.9	You're not alone.
0:28.1	This is the sober friends podcast. We seem to have eliminated all of our guests from the continental United States, Steve. Yeah. The only people we ever talk to are people outside our
0:34.0	borders. And this is so great that we have the technology to do this.
0:39.0	But now we're going north as opposed to going south. We're going north to Canada.
0:43.8	Our guest this week is the host of the happiest sober podcast. Madeline Forrest, Madeline,
0:51.9	welcome to the sober friends podcast. Hi, thank you for having me.
0:56.0	I'm so happy to be here.
0:57.1	I'm so happy that we finally connected here.
1:00.7	I know.
1:01.5	It was a long time coming.
1:03.0	So I'm really excited for it.
1:04.8	It's pretty much like that with every guest.
1:06.3	It's like if I want a good guest on, it's like I have to start today and it'll be, you know, a month or two and we'll get to it.
1:13.9	So it's like always have someone in the hopper.
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