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NEW - What’s on Your Mind Jim Richards: Sobriety
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Sobriety gets treated like a confession, and Jim Richards is tired of feeling like he owes anyone an explanation for ordering a non-alcoholic beer. Coming up on three years without a drink, he lays out what actually changed and why the hardest part was never the willpower people assume it takes.
He traces the moment it started: a weekend decided by cost-benefit math, one too many Fridays writing off Saturdays he wanted back. He gets into what non-alcoholic beer has become, why anxiety operated like a megaphone once alcohol left the picture, and why old emotional patterns can resurface through a single drink at the end of a hard day.
The conversation lands on the difference between sobriety as a definition and sobriety as an experience, why clarity, not restriction, is the part nobody warns you about, and why he still goes out just as much as he ever did.
Topics: sobriety, non-alcoholic beer, quitting drinking, clarity, anxiety
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Originally aired on 2026-07-07