The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast

You’re not drinking for fun. You’re drinking to feel like you’re enough.   But no matter how many glasses you pour, the feeling never sticks—because alcohol can’t fix a childhood wound.   In today’s episode, we explore one of the most powerful workshops inside STRIVE Foundations: Why We Never Feel Good Enough. Whether you drink at the pub to fit in or alone to silence the shame, this episode is a wake-up call.   Lee shares his own story of being bullied as a child and how that early experience shaped a PART of him that never felt worthy. That PART later reached for wine, not because of weakness, but because of a deep, unspoken pain.   If you’ve ever been afraid to tell someone you’re quitting alcohol, if you’ve ever used booze to feel “normal,” or if you’ve ever felt like a burden—this is for you.   This episode isn’t about stopping drinking.   It’s about understanding why you started.   It’s about healing.   It’s about remembering who you are underneath the mask.