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Are you ready to ditch daily drinking, reclaim your confidence, and create a life of freedom? Each week, Angela combines no-nonsense advice, personal stories, and science-backed strategies to tackle the challenges of sobriety. Angela Pugh is a globally-ranked Life Coach and podcast host, a professional Interventionist, and entrepreneur with more than 18 years of personal sobriety, helping people rebuild their lives since 2008. From navigating relationships to managing triggers, you’ll discover practical tools, empowering insights, and real-world solutions to thrive in sobriety. It’s time to stop feeling stuck and start feeling unlimited.
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- 3 weeks ago25 min
How to Make Friends When You Don’t Drink
Okay, real question. Have you ever wanted someone to grab breakfast with, or take a class with, and then realized… you honestly don’t know who you’d ask? Yeah. Why is making friends as an adult so damn awkward—and where are you supposed to meet people? It gets even weirder when you quit drinking. You might still love your friends, but you don’t want to spend every Saturday night watching them get drunk. You want people you can laugh with, and conversations you’ll actually remember the next morning. You just have no clue where those people are hiding. And if you’re an introvert like me, someone telling you to “just put yourself out there” probably makes you want to throw your coffee at them. I get it. I love being home. I need a lot of alone time. I will never be the girl who walks into a room with her hand out, ready to chat everybody up. But I’ve also learned that when I’ve gone days without talking to a real human, I need connection too. And I had to learn how to do that without alcohol. In this episode, I take you back to my early days in AA, when my anxiety was so bad I’d grab the corner seat and slip out early so nobody could talk to me. I wanted so badly to stay sober and be comfortable, but I was doing everything I could to be invisible. So I made a deal with myself to start changing my patterns, and my first step was a lot smaller than starting a conversation. I also had to admit something kind of embarrassing: people weren’t approaching me in life because I wasn’t approachable. Head down, sunglasses on, earbuds in, nose in my phone. Apparently that doesn’t say “come say hi.” Who knew? 😂 I’ll tell you how I made two friends, one from my gym and one from a tarot class (yes, really). We’ll also talk about where to meet people, what to actually say, how you go from “hey, good to see you” to “want to grab breakfast?”, and what to do when someone says no. You don’t have to turn into an extrovert. You just have to let people get to know you. And then you can go home and put your sweatpants on. 💛 Links mentioned in this episode: Sober Society Membership: addictionunlimited.com/membership Book A Call Here: addictionunlimited.com/call Related Episode: Guaranteed Results When Your Social Life Is Stalled Follow me on Instagram: @addictionunlimited Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/addictionunlimited     Prefer to read instead of listen? Here’s the full transcript of this episode. Hello, my friend. Welcome back to another episode of the Addiction Unl
- 4 weeks ago25 min
Why They Tell You Not to Date in Your First Year Sober
Why do recovery communities tell you not to date or make major life changes during your first year sober? Because getting sober isn't just about learning how to live without alcohol. It's about learning how to handle your feelings without it. And when you're newly sober, those feelings can be ALL OVER THE PLACE. You're dealing with boredom, loneliness, insecurity, and a whole lot of emotions you may not even know how to identify yet. Then someone comes along, and suddenly life feels exciting again! But dating brings its own emotional roller coaster. Rejection, jealousy, uncertainty, disappointment, and heartbreak can be overwhelming when you're still learning how to manage everyday life without drinking. In this episode, we're talking about why dating in early sobriety can be especially challenging, why major life changes can threaten your stability, and how giving yourself time to build confidence and coping skills can make all the difference. Because the goal isn't to avoid big feelings. It's to learn how to handle them without alcohol.
- Oct 7, 202624 min
How to Stop Giving Up on Yourself in Sobriety
About to give up, reach for a drink, or follow the same old pattern? Angela shares how a split-second choice can change your direction—and why the victory starts before you know the outcome.
- Sep 30, 202632 min
How Do I Know If I Actually Have a Drinking Problem?
How do you know if you actually have a drinking problem? You make rules about when you’ll drink. You negotiate how many you’re going to have. You promise yourself tonight will be different. You replay last night trying to figure out exactly what happened. You take breaks, make new rules, Google questions, take quizzes, compare yourself to other people—and somehow alcohol keeps requiring more and more of your attention. At some point, that’s worth looking at. In this episode of Addiction Unlimited, we’re getting away from arbitrary drinking counts and labels and looking at something far more revealing: your actual relationship with alcohol. In this episode, we’re getting away from labels and arbitrary drinking counts and looking at something far more useful: your actual relationship with alcohol. Is it really a drinking problem? The surprisingly revealing question that has nothing to do with how much or how often you drink Why taking 30 days off alcohol may not prove what you think it proves The difference between having a plan for the night and actually being in control of what happens When researching your drinking stops giving you answers—and starts becoming part of the answer And after all the research, analyzing and comparing—you already have enough information—you just have to be willing to do something with it. Because sometimes the amount of work you’re doing to prove alcohol isn’t a problem tells you more than another quiz ever will. You don’t have to decide what to call yourself today. You don’t need the perfect label or one more piece of evidence. You can simply acknowledge that your relationship with alcohol isn’t working anymore—and let that be enough truth to take the next step.   Links mentioned in this episode: Book A Call Here: addictionunlimited.com/call Sober Society Membership: addictionunlimited.com/membership Related Episode: Why Am I An Alcoholic – the Bio-Psycho-Social Truth About Addiction Follow me on Instagram: @addictionunlimited Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/addictionunlimited     Prefer to read instead of listen? Here’s the full transcript of this episode. 455 Transcript Angela (00:07.374) Hello, my friend. Welcome back to the Addiction Unlimited podcast. I’m your coach, Angela Pugh. How do I know if I actually have a drinking problem? This is probably one of the most common questions people ask themselves when they start getting uncomfortable with their drinking. Am I really an alcoholic? Do I actually
- Sep 23, 202627 min
The Real Moment You Become Ready to Stay Sober
You can desperately want things to change and still have a long list of things you don’t want to do. In this episode, we’re talking about the moment you stop letting fear, discomfort, and resistance make your decisions—and become willing to learn from people who have already gotten where you’re trying to go. Whether you’re trying to quit drinking or you’ve been living sober for years and feel like your growth has stalled, this is a conversation about becoming teachable, seeing what you can’t see on your own, and discovering what becomes possible when you stop requiring recovery to happen according to your rules.
- Sep 16, 202630 min
You Quit Drinking. What Are You Using to Escape Now?
You quit drinking—but what are you using to escape now? When normal things like shopping, dating, food, or work get hard to put down, it may be time to look at what’s really going on.
- Sep 9, 202628 min
The Life Skills Alcohol Kept You From Learning
You stopped drinking. Now you have to learn all the things drinking allowed you not to learn. In this episode, we’re talking about the life skills alcohol can keep you from practicing— Because sobriety isn’t just learning how not to drink. It’s learning how to handle your life without needing alcohol to manage it.
- Sep 2, 202634 min
People-Pleasing Is Costing You More Than You Think
People-pleasing can look like kindness while quietly creating exhaustion, resentment, dishonesty, and isolation. Learn what drives the automatic yes, why other people’s feelings aren’t yours to manage, and how to start saying no without making it weird.
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Are you ready to ditch daily drinking, reclaim your confidence, and create a life of freedom? Each week, Angela combines no-nonsense advice, personal stories, and science-backed strategies to tackle the challenges of sobriety. Angela Pugh is a globally-ranked Life Coach and podcast host, a professional Interventionist, and entrepreneur with more than 18 years of personal sobriety, helping people rebuild their lives since 2008. From navigating relationships to managing triggers, you’ll discover practical tools, empowering insights, and real-world solutions to thrive in sobriety. It’s time to stop feeling stuck and start feeling unlimited.
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