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The Catholic Sobriety Podcast
Welcome to The Catholic Sobriety Podcast. I'm Christie Walker — Catholic sobriety coach, content creator, and woman who has lived alcohol free for nearly 30 years.
This podcast is for the Catholic woman who is disciplined, faithful, and quietly negotiating with a glass of wine every night. You don't think you're an alcoholic.
You're not sure there's even a "problem." But something in you knows this habit is costing you more than you're willing to admit — and that the gap between who you are in Christ and who you are at 9pm is getting harder to ignore.
We go deep here. Faith, neuroscience, identity, inner healing. Because what looks like a drinking habit is almost always something bigger — and God is usually in the middle of it, waiting.
Ready to find out who you are without it? Start listening.
Episodes
186 episodes
Ep 183: How to Stop Using Alcohol to Cope With Overwhelm
For the woman who drinks because her life is genuinely a lot — this one is for you. In this episode Christie talks about why alcohol feels like the only off switch at the end of an overwhelming day, what it's actually doing to your capacity ove...
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Ep 182: What Nobody Tells You About Quitting Drinking
Nobody warns you about the messy middle. You've gotten through the beginning, you're past the pink cloud, and now the doubt is setting in — is this sustainable? Can I really keep this up? In this episode Christie shares what happened the mornin...
Ep 181: Rethinking What It Means to Teach Our Kids About Alcohol
Christie came across a reel from a health coach with an unpopular opinion: she's not going to teach her teens to drink responsibly — she's going to give them the real truth about what alcohol actually is and does. The comments were - well, inte...
Ep180: The Twenty-Minute Craving (And How to Outlast It)
Why does the craving hit out of nowhere? Why does wine feel like it helps with overwhelm? And why does cutting back feel so hard even when you really want to? In this episode Christie breaks down exactly what your brain is doing when you crave ...
Ep 179: Can I even do this?
Can I even do this? Am I too far gone? Am I the one this doesn't work for? If you're asking any version of that question right now — this episode is for you. Christie answers it directly, talks about why the shame voice isn't God's voice, walks...
Ep 178: You're Not Weak. Your Foundation Is Compromised.
Anyone can stop drinking for a while. Willpower works — temporarily. But if the foundation underneath the habit is compromised, the craving comes back. In this episode Christie shares what happened over 50 days of working with a functional heal...
Ep 177: Who Are You Without a Drink in Your Hand?
Who are you without a drink in your hand? Not what do you do without it — who are you? In this episode Christie shares the surprising truth she discovered about herself when she got sober at 23, why it took years to actually figure things out, ...
Ep 176: The Evening Trigger Nobody Talks About
The hardest trigger isn't at the party. It's on your own couch, at the end of a regular Tuesday, next to your husband. In this episode, Christie gets personal — sharing what happened in her own marriage when she decided to invest in her health,...
Ep 175: FOMO, Aunt Mabel, and the Girls Trip Problem
The girls trip. The family barbecue. The friend who says "well then I can't drink" when you order iced tea. If summer social situations are the thing standing between you and drinking less, this episode is for you. Christie gets specif...
Ep 174: Gray Area Drinking and the Lie We've All Believed Since the Garden of Eden
You don't have a wine problem. You have a wound that wine is covering. In this episode, Christie shares the story of how she started drinking at sixteen — and why — and unpacks the real need underneath every woman's habit. Spoiler: it goes all ...
Ep 173: How to Drink Less This Summer (Without Dreading Every Party)
Every summer, millions of women tell themselves the same thing: "I'll deal with this after Labor Day."And every fall, they're right back where they started.In this episode, Christie makes the case that summer isn't the wo...
Ep 172: How a Catholic Mom Quit Drinking After Years of Trying (232 Days Alcohol-Free)
Abby is a wife, mom, and Sacred Sobriety Lab member who has been alcohol-free for 232 days. But before that number, there were six attempts at cutting back — each one unraveling the same way, one exception at a time.In this episode, Abby...
Ep 171: The 4 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Stopped Drinking Nearly 30 Years Ago
Christie pulls back the curtain on her four coaching pillars — Catholic faith, neuroscience, inner healing, and identity in Christ — and shares the personal journey behind each one. Nearly three decades sober, she walks through why she built he...
Ep 170: You Can Grieve What You're Letting Go — And Still Let It Go
Have you ever walked past something — a park, a pair of tiny shoes, a photo on the fridge — and felt that sudden ache of a season that's gone? That's where this episode starts. Christie was walking her dog when she passed a neighborhood park wh...
Ep 169: I Am Becoming a Woman Who... (The Identity Shift That Makes This Work)
What if the reason changing your relationship with alcohol feels like a constant fight is because you're using the wrong strategy entirely? In this episode, Christie draws on her own story — 29 years of living alcohol-free, a faith journey that...
Ep 168: Why Do I Keep Drinking? Four Questions That Finally Help You Figure It Out
Have you been drinking more than you want to — more often, in larger amounts — and you can't quite figure out why? You're not alone, and you're not broken. In this episode, Christie Walker, the Catholic Sobriety Coach, walks you through a power...
Ep 167: You Don't Need a Drink — You Need an Evening Transition
If you find yourself craving wine every evening, this episode is going to change how you see that craving. Because what most women are reaching for isn't alcohol — it's relief. And there's a huge difference.In this episode, we're talking...
Ep 166: How to Calm Your Nervous System Naturally (Without Alcohol) | with Brigid Tebaldi
If you've been using wine to take the edge off at the end of the day, this episode is going to make so much sense of that — and give you something better.On today's episode of That Catholic Sobriety Podcast, I'm welcoming back Brigid Te...
Ep 165: How to Have More Fun at Social Events Alcohol-Free
You're going to a party. There will be wine on the table, cocktails at the door, and someone who will absolutely try to put a glass in your hand. And you know what? It's going to be a great night.In this episode, I'm getting ready for ou...
Ep 164: Why It’s So Hard to Stop Drinking on Fridays | The Friday Reset
If you’ve ever started the week with a real intention to drink less — and then found yourself standing in the kitchen on Friday evening reaching for the same glass again — you are not alone.In this episode of The Catholic Sobriety Pod...
Ep 163: Alcohol and Women’s Hormones: How Drinking Affects Perimenopause, Sleep, Mood, and Weight | with Leah Brueggeman (From the Archive)
I’m republishing one of the most informative conversations I’ve had on the podcast because I continue to share this episode with clients again and again.If you are a woman who is trying to drink less or questioning the role alcohol plays...
Ep 162: When You’re Trying to Drink Less… and Your Husband Isn’t
What happens when you start questioning your drinking… but your husband doesn’t?Many women begin reducing or eliminating alcohol while their spouse continues drinking as usual. He may be supportive, confused, or simply carrying on with t...
Ep 161: When Family Stress (or celebrations) Triggers the Urge to Drink
In this episode, I’m sharing something that came up in a recent coaching call inside the Sacred Sobriety Lab—because I know it’s not just one woman’s struggle.When family dynamics and stress collide, alcohol can start to feel like the fa...
Ep 160: Alcohol Hits Different in Midlife — Here’s Why
Alcohol impacts women differently in midlife—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. In this episode, we explore why drinking feels harder now, what it quietly takes from your energy and peace, and how midlife can be a threshold into a cleare...
Ep 159: Struggling With Wine or Food? Here's What's Actually Happening
If you’ve ever tried to step away from wine, food, or any habit that helps you cope — and suddenly everything feels harder — you’re not imagining it.Cravings get louder. Emotions rise. Resistance shows up in your thoughts, your body, an...