Alcohol Change UK

So perhaps it's going out and doing more work in your local community, it's volunteering, it's coaching your kids' football teams or becoming part of a men's group.

Helping other guys with their own sobriety or working with a charity such as Alcohol Change UK.

You know, it's how can you use your experience to help somebody else feel less alone.

And purpose doesn't have to be this big thing that you tell the world what you're doing and why.

I'm glad that we have... such fantastic services here that we can avail of but at the same time it's not the nhs that's broken it's the system behind it that they again it's that margin in the market where addiction and mental health should be treated together and they're treated separately they're seen as two separate things and that's not the case yeah yeah

And I think that's what the charities, the great charities, Alcohol Change UK, Alcohol Focus Scotland, and there's one in Ireland as well.

I can't remember the name of it now, but they're all doing a lot of good work around the education piece, because that's what's missing, isn't it? The doctors and the nurses, they don't know.

You think about before we removed alcohol from our lives and came into these circles and started talking to people.

You were going to tell us who the alcohol group is in Ireland and all that.

Oh, sorry, Alcohol Action Ireland, it's called.

So they're another charity, I believe, like Alcohol Change UK and Alcohol Focus Scotland, who are doing a lot of work in the background around education, which I think is just so important, the education piece.

And the alcohol-free space and the sobriety space across the board is just so important.

really, really pleased that the Alcohol Health Alliance last week did an article about it and put it on their website.

I'm particularly pleased that Alcohol Change UK, who are just amazing.

I mean, all these organisations are in the papers, but alcohol change uk um i wrote a blog for him and that's coming out on the 20th um yeah turning point publicly backed it um and i've got i've got more stuff coming up as well it's just just some of the leading kind of places and voices in the alcohol safety or alcohol change um sort of community have have basically picked it up or supported it which just is incredible um I also met with the Society for the Study of Addiction.

They're doing an article about it as well.

It's just like, this is just something I never could have imagined.

I know.

And the thing that worries me is why is this loophole there? You know, this is just ridiculous.

You've got amazing organizations campaigning for alcohol safety, like Alcohol Change UK.

It's a really, really good question.

I mean, the work that Alcohol Change UK do I think is really good.

And if anyone sort of goes on their website or look at their socials, you know, they do a lot of stuff to kind of break the stigma and shame down.

Obviously podcasts like this.

And you know, the one thing that carries me through all of those things I'm doing.

Oh, well, if I embarrass myself, at least I'm not pissing or pooping my pants in public or at least I'm not being sick on myself or at least I'm not voice calling an ex-partner from 10 years ago telling him I love him when he's got three kids like it's just nothing is as embarrassing as me in active addiction and if I do something and it fails oh well I'm still sober like so it's given me things yeah that just are incredible like doing the work with Alcohol Change UK and doing help helping with their um and the delivery travel campaign for

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yeah for uber and um uber and delivery um it's

but just try everything use your brain as a sponge and just be so open to it because there are so many amazing connections above everything that you make in sobriety like I've met some of the most amazing people I will ever meet and like just to be able to take that knowledge of people that have been through it it's nice to not feel alone you know

Absolutely.

And, you know, you talk about Alcohol Change UK, I'm, you know, very privileged that I do some ambassador work for them.

So what we'll do is we'll make sure there's always a link anyway in the show notes to the Alcohol Change UK support page where there's some, you know, various things.