Sober All The Tyne

31/01/2025

If depression are stones then feathers are freedom.

Each time we don't talk about the black dog, or how we feel inside, we choose to pick up a stone.

To the point the stones become too heavy for one person to carry alone. Impacting our lives and relationships, where so often substances offer a false route to happiness, giving a false sense of being free of those stones for a few hours...Only to find the weight to return 5 times heavier the next Day. The guilt & the shame, mixing with the "never agains" we repeat to ourselves.

So like the Egyptians building pyramids it's better to share the load both physically and emotionally. As each time we do we turn a stone into a feather and watch it fly. Thus ourselves becoming free of a burden we once felt we couldn't carry alone.. so whether its a friend, family member, or even on here. Tell someone how you're feeling and today turn just one stone into a feather.

31/01/2025

Sorry everyone, yesterday was a Bipolar like day, but I'm back to it now.
Today's morning affirmation is a poignant one so let's say it together.

'I am Strong enough to face my challenges'

29/01/2025

Daily Affirmation #3
"I Deserve To Love Myself"

28/01/2025

Daily Affirmation #2
I Accept Myself Completely

28/01/2025

Meditation is something that we'll talk about in length in Episode 3, but simply put for now it's the process of connecting the mind body and spirit, and being aware of oneself in the moment There's no right way to meditate, some People like Guided: Mantra, Transcendal.. I find Just breathing to the tempo of certain music works with my headphones in.....try it out

Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope, I Virtuosi Italiani · In A Time Lapse · Song · 2013

27/01/2025

Affirmations are the way I start a Day. They are mini promises we make to ourselves based on positive thinking, self care & belief. You'll see one daily on here, and that's my promise to you... Today's affirmation, one of our followers reminded me of

One Day, One hour, One minute at a time

26/01/2025

Although this page is a place of non-judgement, safety, and support with the podcast episodes reflecting this.. it does not replace professional treatment... Clinical help in the first instance should be sought through Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust They are an amazing group of professionals from all walks of life, each with their own lived experience. I continue to work with them to this day. If you or anyone you know is struggling, reach out. They can and will help.

If you’ve noticed that someone seems not themselves, or their drinking or drug usage is having a big impact on their lives we can offer help. 💙

Learn about the support and advice we offer by clicking the link 🔗🔗
https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/services/drug-alcohol-service-addictions-services-newcastle/

25/01/2025

So Many People Know A version of You That Doesn't Exist Anymore

23/01/2025

It's hard to know what to write on a welcome post. But my Grandma said honesty is the best policy, so here goes... My name is Adam, former broadcast producer, recovering drug addict, and medicated Bipoliac....I am writing from a place of lived experience now 30 days sober. ( Longest in 12 year's) W**d, Co***ne or Booze it never mattered to me..

I lived as a functioning addict for years until the day came I wasn't. I lived in pre -contemplation, Denying I was an addict as I was putting successful programme's out on TV, and had the respect of my peers. I blamed bipolar as my need to self medicate, or the traumas visited upon me by others as the root cause of my addictions.

For those who know me I was a born creative, and the sad reality for many creative souls is mental health and drug addiction often go hand in hand (we will unpack this in later episodes) .......self destruction was my communication, drugs my rehabilitation, and anger my right. Through a myriad of event's both physical and mental, I lost my creative career,

Wherein the dependency for drugs took over... They consumed me.. the shame, the anger, the pain it was omnipotent. My relationships broke down as my inhibitions and morals fell. self immolation beckoned as i played the character of the man I used to be...i hated the hand I was dealt after giving so much of myself to not just my industry but life itself as the mirror became harder to look at.

Cognitive behavioural therapy.... Dialectal behavioural therapy... I laughed at it all until extended work in rehabilitation post overdose on prescription pills made me see the light... I wasn't dead, but I was killing myself, and the pain I felt was actually wasted power if i only invested it in the right way.... Only I could decide if i was a lost cause or not, and demon's only had the power I let them have.

So that's what this is.... An interview led conversational mental health recovery podcast centred on drug rehabilitation. Based on lived experience, underpinned by clinical excellence...... A place of safety and non judgement.

A place where the river of addiction runs deep.... But together we can be Sober All The Tyne... Because the Angels only lead you where you are.

A lot of groundwork to lay.. logos, brand identity, lead generation, organic growth, S.E.O and all the long Hours and glory of Pre-production / Production and creating s**z I love. So please bare with me. I am a one man band, on the road myself.....but hopefully not for long....Thank you for your love.

Episode 1 - Coming 05/03/25 to all platforms. So please like , share and follow to help others on the journey

23/01/2025