The Catholic Sobriety Podcast

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 where her boys used to play, and the grief hit her out of nowhere.
Not grief over something bad. Grief over something beautiful that simply isn't anymore.
And then her brain did what it always does — it connected it to you. To the women she works with who are afraid to let go of alcohol because they're grieving it before they've even quit.
In this episode, Christie unpacks why that grief is real, what you're actually going to miss (and what you're not), and the one reframe that changes everything: drinking didn't make you more yourself. Untangling yourself from alcohol will.

IN THIS EPISODE
Why grief is a completely normal — and actually appropriate — part of letting go of alcohol
The park moment: Nathan, Andrew, and Ben, and what one walk taught Christie about missing a season
The minivan reel that broke her heart a little (you've seen it, you know the one)
What you're really going to miss vs. what you think you're going to miss — and why those are very different things
The identity lie: why so many women drink to feel like themselves, and why it's working against them
The neuroscience of why alcohol feels like relief — and why that feeling is a trick
What it looks like when a woman finally comes back into focus
Permission to grieve AND keep going
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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
https://the-catholic-sobriety-coach.myflodesk.com/5-day-sobriety-kick-start
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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
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

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
Drop us a Question or Comment
👉🏻 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
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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