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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.

Recent Episodes

Ep 189: The Idols We Don't Recognize: Disordered Attachments and Hearing God's Voice | with Kylie Hein

Most of us could name our vices in five seconds. What we can't name as easily are the things we've quietly built our days around: the glass of wine at 5:30, the scroll before bed, the snack that takes the edge off, the productivity that makes us feel worth something. They don't look like idols. They look like rest. In this episode, I welcome back Kylie Hein, Catholic coach, spiritual director, and host of the Persistence in Prayer podcast, to talk about disordered attachments. We talk about h...

52 MIN

Ep 188: What 25+ Years Sober Couldn't Fix

Twenty-five years without a drink. And I still walked into rooms feeling like an alcoholic. Not because I was drinking — I wasn't. But because somewhere along the way, being a non-drinker became a fact about my life, and "alcoholic" stayed the truth about who I was. In this episode, I'm telling you the two specific moments that showed me I was on the fringe of my own life — one at my cousin's 30th birthday, one in Las Vegas at 40 — and the sentence that finally changed everything: there were ...

29 MIN

Ep 187: People Pleasing and the Lie That You Have to Earn God's Love | with Andrea Bear

Andrea Bear didn't set out to write about people pleasing — it found her. In this conversation, Andrea unpacks the difference between pleasing God and pleasing people, why "good" behavior can quietly become a false virtue, and how her own years of over-functioning — in her marriage, her parish, and eventually caring for her dying father — forced her to confront what she was really seeking. If you've ever felt exhausted by your own goodness, or suspected your busyness is doing something other ...

71 MIN

Ep 186: Why You're Drinking More Since Your Kid Left for College

If your house got quiet this fall and your wine glass got a little more full, you're not imagining it — and you're not doing anything wrong. In this episode, Christie shares what she didn't expect in her second year of college drop-off: the small things that hit harder than the big ones, the night she caught herself buffering instead of feeling, and what actually helped the next morning. Plus, real, specific things to do instead of reaching for the glass — and why missing your kid and numbing...

22 MIN

Ep 185: Your body already knows the truth - even when your brain is still negotiating.

Your body already knows the truth — even when your brain is still negotiating. In this episode Christie opens up about what her sleep tracker revealed after 93 days of a hormone recalibration program — and how ignoring data she already had is the perfect picture of what later-stage resistance actually looks like. She talks about why resistance gets sneakier, not louder, as you make progress, unpacks the "you deserve this" thought, walks through her Resistance Decoder tool, and speaks directly...

19 MIN