From Camden Carnage to Sober Mum: Emily Horwood on Quitting Drinking

Emily Horwood grew up in the noughties carnage of Camden Town and the Primrose Hill set, where she says you were either selling drugs or taking them. Most of her old crowd are now either sober or no longer here. She joins Sober Dave on One for the Road to talk about quitting drinking after 30 years, and the 15-month slip that taught her what real sobriety actually means.

Emily's drinking moved from teenage bus-stop cider to a decade of what she calls the "gray-out years" — two and sometimes three bottles of wine a night, alone on the sofa, single-parenting two small children. She got sober at 42 in lockdown, slipped over a man at 15 months, and came back in December last year ready to do it properly.

Inside: the hole in the soul, emotional sobriety, AA plus online community, and why moderation never worked.

Quitting drinking, mum wine culture, gray area drinking, AA, sober journey.

http://www.emilyhorwood.com/

http://www.womensaid.org.uk/

http://www.thespeedomickfoundation.org/

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.

www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez