Episode Details

For years, Annie Knowles was sure her husband was the one with the drinking problem. He was in AA. She was just a normal wine mum, two-bottles-in-the-fridge kind of drinker. Three and a half years sober, she knows now that was never true.

Annie is the only adopted child in a family of seven, a working NHS sonographer, and one half of a marriage where both people eventually got sober through completely different routes. Her husband through AA and the twelve steps. Her through Annie Grace, William Porter, This Naked Mind, and the sober online community.

In this conversation she opens up about the abandonment wound underneath her drinking, gray area drinking that escalated through Covid lockdowns, the guilt of once telling her sober husband she wished he'd just drink again, their son's autism diagnosis, and the adoption trauma she only began to face once she stopped numbing it.

She's now an NHS alcohol champion and runs a free blue light recovery group for emergency services staff. This is a recovery story about two different paths to sobriety, inner child healing, and why the real question isn't how much you drink, it's consequences and control.

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Instagram: @af_rainbowrider

Email: annie@soberrainbowrider.com

Reclaim Balance - Life Coaching with Annie Knowles

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.

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

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellamartinez/

www.instagram.com/grownuphustle

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