The Catholic Sobriety Podcast

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 transformed her identity, and years of coaching Catholic women — to unpack the difference between behavior management and identity-based change. This isn't about willpower. It's about who you actually are. And that changes everything.
Topics Covered:
Why willpower was never designed to carry this weight long-term
What identity actually means — and how your brain uses it
Christie's personal story and the conviction that changed everything
The Catholic theology of identity that makes this more than just a strategy
What identity-based change looks like on an ordinary Tuesday night
One question to take with you this week
The Catholic Sobriety Podcast | Christie Walker
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If you have ever...
Struggled with the social pressures associated with alcohol use.
Felt isolated, alone, and unsure of how to break the cycle.
Experienced shame and frustration after drinking.
Told yourself, “I’ll never get this. It’s no use.”
Then this 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start is for you! 
Each day, you’ll receive a short video with simple tasks to help you analyze your drinking habits with clarity.

👉🏻 Get started with my FREE 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start
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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 powerful tool used inside her Sacred Sobriety Lab called the Critical Thinking Skills Worksheet — a six-category framework designed to wake up the thinking part of your brain right in the middle of a craving.
Christie breaks down four of the most impactful questions from the framework, explains what's happening in your brain when habits take over, and connects the neuroscience to the Catholic tradition of discernment and interior life.
If you've been stuck in a cycle you can't seem to break, this episode gives you a starting point — not a perfect plan, just an honest one.
Topics covered:
Why cravings feel automatic (and what to do about it)
The prefrontal cortex and why your thinking brain needs a script
Four critical thinking questions: Why, What, Who, and How
How to start — even if you only have 10 minutes and a notes app
Why this is spiritual work, not just self-help
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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 about why evening drinking is so common for women, why it has nothing to do with willpower or weakness, and what's actually happening in your brain and body at that 4–6 PM window. More importantly, we're talking about what you actually need — and how to start building it.
In this episode:
Why evening drinking is a nervous system issue, not a discipline problem
What "the transition point" is and why alcohol hijacks it so easily
The specific trigger moments most women don't recognize until they're named
Why white-knuckling never works — and what does
The spiritual piece: what you're really looking for, and where to actually find it
How to build a simple, practical "sacred transition" that tells your brain the day is over
Concrete tools you can start using tonight
This episode is for you if:
You drink wine most evenings and aren't sure how it became so automatic
You've tried to cut back but it always falls apart around dinnertime
You feel spiritually dry, depleted, or like something is missing — even when life looks fine
You don't identify as having a "drinking problem" but you know alcohol is becoming a crutch
You want practical tools rooted in both neuroscience and Catholic faith
Drop us a Question or Comment
If you have ever...
Struggled with the social pressures associated with alcohol use.
Felt isolated, alone, and unsure of how to break the cycle.
Experienced shame and frustration after drinking.
Told yourself, “I’ll never get this. It’s no use.”
Then this 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start is for you! 
Each day, you’ll receive a short video with simple tasks to help you analyze your drinking habits with clarity.

👉🏻 Get started with my FREE 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start
https://the-catholic-sobriety-coach.myflodesk.com/5-day-sobriety-kick-start
👉🏻 Book a Clarity Call
https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/38683

Visit my Website: https://thecatholicsobrietycoach.com

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 Tebaldi for a conversation I've been wanting to have for a long time. Brigid is a board-certified health coach specializing in Spiritual Somatic Rewiring — a framework that combines nervous system repair, subconscious belief work, and the truth of Scripture to create root-level transformation.

I say it all the time: you don't need alcohol, but you do need something. That something is nervous system regulation — and today Brigid breaks down exactly what that means, why so many of us are living in a state of chronic overwhelm, and what we can actually do about it.

In this episode we cover:

What nervous system dysregulation actually feels like in your body
Why alcohol feels like it works — and what it's really doing
What happens when you remove alcohol and feel MORE anxious
The "strong one" identity that's secretly keeping you stuck
Why overwhelm makes prayer harder (and what to do about it)
Simple five-minute practices you can use in real life today

This episode is for you if:

You're a mom who feels constantly on edge and can't figure out why
You've tried to cut back on alcohol but the anxiety or irritability spikes
You want a faith-based, science-backed approach to feeling calm and grounded

Connect with Brigid:
www.loretowellness.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/brigid.tebaldi
Somatic Rewiring (free): https://www.loretowellness.com/free-audio-training

Drop us a Question or Comment
If you have ever...
Struggled with the social pressures associated with alcohol use.
Felt isolated, alone, and unsure of how to break the cycle.
Experienced shame and frustration after drinking.
Told yourself, “I’ll never get this. It’s no use.”
Then this 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start is for you! 
Each day, you’ll receive a short video with simple tasks to help you analyze your drinking habits with clarity.

👉🏻 Get started with my FREE 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start
https://the-catholic-sobriety-coach.myflodesk.com/5-day-sobriety-kick-start
👉🏻 Book a Clarity Call
https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/38683

Visit my Website: https://thecatholicsobrietycoach.com

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 our school's annual auction — one of my favorite events of the year — and it reminded me that so many of you are heading into similar moments: fundraisers, weddings, work events, holiday parties. Events full of people you love, in rooms that happen to be full of alcohol.
This episode is not about surviving the night. It's about thriving in it.
We talk about:
Why willpower alone will never be enough — and what actually works instead
The real reason declining a drink can feel so loaded (and how to reframe it completely)
Two questions to ask yourself before you walk in the door
What Jeremiah 1:5 has to do with your confidence at a cocktail party
Practical tools to handle the "can I get you something?" moment with total ease
How to walk in free, stay fully present, and leave feeling like yourself
I've been navigating social events alcohol-free for decades. These nights don't intimidate me anymore — they're genuinely some of my favorites. And I want that for you too.
Scripture Referenced: Jeremiah 1:5
Drop us a Question or Comment
If you have ever...
Struggled with the social pressures associated with alcohol use.
Felt isolated, alone, and unsure of how to break the cycle.
Experienced shame and frustration after drinking.
Told yourself, “I’ll never get this. It’s no use.”
Then this 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start is for you! 
Each day, you’ll receive a short video with simple tasks to help you analyze your drinking habits with clarity.

👉🏻 Get started with my FREE 5-Day Sacred Sobriety Kick Start
https://the-catholic-sobriety-coach.myflodesk.com/5-day-sobriety-kick-start
👉🏻 Book a Clarity Call
https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/38683

Visit my Website: https://thecatholicsobrietycoach.com