Sobriety on Instagram: Connection, Comparison or Compulsion? - with Sarah Drage

About this episode

Vic chats with Sarah Drage about the complexities of sobriety in the digital age and the impact of social media on recovery.

This week on Sober Awkward , Vic chats with Social Media Educator and (National Association for Children of Addiction) NACOA Ambassador - Sarah Drage about the strange and sometimes complicated world of sobriety on the internet. When we stop drinking, many of us head straight online. Suddenly there are sober coaches, Instagram accounts, communities, podcasts, hashtags, and an entire digital world devoted to not drinking. For some people it becomes a lifeline. For others… it can start to feel like just another thing we’re slightly addicted to. Vic gets honest about her own relationship with the online sober world, the pressure to keep creating content, and the strange reality of sharing your life with people you’ve never met. She often tells herself, “If it helps one person, it’s worth it.” But what happens when helping strangers online starts competing with real life, family time, and your own wellbeing? And then there’s the other side of the internet. The rabbit holes. You open Instagram looking for a sober quote and twenty minutes later you’ve somehow ended up on a page where people are putting very strange things in very strange places. How does that happen? What are they…

People in this episode

Host: Vic

Guest: Sarah Drage

Topics covered

• sobriety
• social media
• addiction
• mental health
• online communities
• content creation

Keywords

• sobriety
• Instagram
• addiction
• social media
• mental health
• content creation
• online communities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Association for Children of Addiction, Children of Alcoholics Podcast, Instagram, Ted Talk

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