The Sober Rebel

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Today, the focus is on friendships in sobriety and those social shifts that can happen. It dives into the subject of projection and how that may appear when you choose to go sober. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Our beliefs about drinking and what it offers need to be challenged effectively if you want to embrace and truly enjy sobriety and that's what the focus is today. We will have built up many beliefs over the years and unpicking t...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Understanding how and why 5pm can feel so much more difficult to navigate than first thing in the morning is another thing to unlock in sobriety. Understanding how we react when overwhelmed and fatigued at the end of the day rea...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Today the focus is on the power of defaults and how you can use this to stregthen and build habits. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialise...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Sleep had to be the focus of one of the early days. For some, their sleep improves straight away, whilst others may experience lethargy, restless nights and even a ramp up in vivid dreams. Today, the focus is on what happens to...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. The relationship between alcohol and anxiety is multifaceted and when you first remove booze, sometimes there is a change to how you experience anxiety. This is a process of your nervous system recalibrating. Louisa Evans is a p...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Some triggers are obvious and some less so. Today we talk about those covert triggers that can slip under the radar and how to prepare for them. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the ho...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Today the focus is challenging some of those thoughts that can have a tendancy to sabotage us and engaging in metacognition. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebe...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Creating a new identity and also challenging some of the conditioning we've all be subjected to over the years will also make this whole process a lot easier. Today we look at how alcohol shapes your identity and what to do with...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Sobriety is a simultaneous process of knocking alcohol off the pedestal that we all tend to put it on, and placing sobriety on one instead. To begin with, let's reframe what alcohol offers. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based pra...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Today is all about boundary setting and how that will support you this month. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people ch...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Alcohol revs the system up and sobriety does the opposite for our emotional regulation. Those pockets of safety create glimmers that are the true reward of removing alcohol. Today is about spotting those glimmers and how that wi...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Today is the first Saturday of Dry January so the focus will be on creating new routines around the weekend and not panicking if there are flat moments. All will be explained! Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, cli...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. This episode focuses on the biology and brain changes that begin in the first 24 hours. It's an amazing process of recalibration that the body and brain goes through when you remove alcohol. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based pr...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. You've made the decision to do Dry January and whether that's just for the month or with a view to do it for longer, this podcast will support you to help you reframe alcohol and what it gives you so that you can make a more inf...

In this episode, Louisa talks to Mandy who has had so many realisations in her sobriety including how it's positively impacted her health and fitness levels. From cold plunging and jumping off cliffs, she's even found new passions and hobbies but above all she's been able to nurture her relationships with those close to her, and that's priceless. Join Louisa for her brand new Dry January series on...

In this episode, Louisa talks to Tracy, the founder of Sober Glimmers and the community over at soberglimmers.co.uk . Tracy shares how sobriety changed the way she shows up as a mum, why the outdoors has become such a big part of her life and what led her to build a space for people who want something more than drinking culture. It’s an honest chat about finding your feet, choosing what actually f...

In this episode, Chris shares his benefits of sobriety, and the topics range from increased confidence to go sober raving, dating without alcohol and being inspired by others. He even attributes an increase in mood and positivity to quitting alcohol over three years ago and now has the time and energy to give to other things. Louisa is a psychology-based practitioner and therapist based in the UK...

In this episode, Chloe shares her benefits of sobriety, reflecting on 1000 days of an alcohol free life. At one point she openly admits that she wasn't sure about letting go of alcohol and thought of it as her friend, whilst also hating how it made her feel. She talks about going to her GP to ask for help and how stumbling upon podcasts was the thing that really helped her. Hearing others stories...

In this episode, Jimmy shares how sobriety really has changed his life in so many ways. He talks honestly about navigating anxiety, learning to sit with discomfort and slowly rediscovering who he is without alcohol in the mix. His story is a reminder that change doesn’t always start with certainty… sometimes it begins with a single step. Above all sobriety has allowed him to discover who he really...

In this episode, Helen talks about how living alcohol-free has improved her relationships, boosted her health, and transformed the way she feels about herself. She reflects on how much lighter and more energised life feels without the weight of drinking, and how those changes ripple through every part of her day. She also shares how sobriety has given her the courage to say yes to new opportunitie...

Ben Harlow is an actor, presenter & podcaster and is now over 2 years alcohol free. As the host of Benjy’s Cafe Podcast discussing all things life, showbiz and sobriety and the co-host of the hit YouTube series, Heroes Have Heroes he is no stranger to the mic. In this episode Ben talks about his three sober benefits of feeling fearless, grabbing opportunities and being in the moment. Hearing h...

In this episode Mark and Clare talk about their three joint benefits of both of them going sober over 1000 days ago. They may have both had different approaches to sobriety initially but they both agree that it's change their marriage, family life and overall health immeasurably. About Louisa: Louisa is a psychology-based practitioner based in the UK and works with clients worldwide via Zoom. She...

In this episode Kate shares how going sober has helped her manage her ADHD and PMDD and how learning emotional sobriety skills has been essential. She talks about making new sober friends (for life) and how she is now undertaking new challenges that she never would when she was drinking due to her anxiety. Kate is now firm in her decision that she will never drink again and that it has changed her...

Katie works as a full time musician in and around Perth Australia. This makes an interesting experience living in an alcohol free life, however it often reinforces the reasons why she doesn’t want to drink watching others slowly get inebriated regularly. Playing music in pubs and restaurants hits home hard about the hard sell society puts on promoting people to drink alcohol every time they go out...