Hiding A Drink Problem In Plain Sight: Harrison's Recovery Story

He was drinking 20 pints a day and brushing his teeth with alcohol when he picked up the payphone to say goodbye to his mum.

From the outside, Harrison Ward had it sorted. Hotel manager. Relationship. The badge of honour for being the bloke who could put it all away. Behind the mask, he was self-medicating clinical depression he'd carried since he was 13, weighing over 22 stone, blacking out nightly, and quietly working out how to stop existing.

Then one morning, after losing the relationship that meant everything to him, four words came out at work: "I don't drink anymore, John."

This week on One for the Road, Harrison tells the full story. How he walked away from 12 years of drinking overnight, came clean to his family for the first time, lost 7 stone, ran his first marathon 11 months later, and built a whole new life as The Fell Foodie cooking restaurant-quality meals on a camp stove in the Lake District.

His debut cook book, ‘Cook Out’ has been published by Vertebrate Publishing in 2023.

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fellfoodie/

Website – https://www.fellfoodie.co.uk

Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cook-Out-Foodies-gourmet-outdoors/dp/1839811986/ref=zg_bs_g_279450_sccl_19/261-0854685-2334816?psc=1

If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/

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

https://www.instagram.com/lucy_norfolk_/

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez