The Sober Rebel

In this episode, Emma shares how, after losing her father, she turned to red wine more and more, until one day, she realised she wasn't even really that hungover and it was a massive red flag for her. She realised in that moment that she wanted to live a healthier life. Emma speaks to Louisa about her three key benefits: living healthy, nurturing well-being, and embracing a fuller life.

For a FREE guide to help you through the first few weeks of sobriety, visit www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and a...

In this episode, Katie talks of having more confidence since going sober and how her health and fitness has improved as well. She shares tips to help with sober socialising and also discusses how her career change to teaching has been aided by her decision to be alcohol free.

For a FREE guide to help you through the first few weeks of sobriety, visit www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society based in the UK and works with clients worldwide via Zoom. She supports...

In this episode, Gemma talks of having more time in sobriety and how that's had a knock on effect to other areas of her life. Increased time means increased quality time too. She also talks of the clarity she experiences now, how she sees things clearer now she isn't battling hangovers and finding genuine happiness in all the little things.

It's a lovely listen.

For a FREE guide to help you through the first few weeks of sobriety, visit www.louisaevans.com.

Louisa is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and a Graduate Member of...

In this episode, Luke shares how nearly five years of sobriety has transformed far more than just his relationship with alcohol.

When asked about the biggest benefits he's gained from living alcohol-free, three stood out: becoming a better father, focusing on his fitness and Hyrox training, and becoming a better coach.

Luke talks honestly about how sobriety has allowed him to be more present with his family, channel his energy into his health and fitness, and show up more fully in both his personal and professional life. We also discuss how giving up alcohol didn't...

In this episode, Lisa shares how sobriety has given her a whole new lease of life.

When asked about the biggest benefits she's gained from living alcohol-free, three stood out: being more present, improved health, and a renewed appreciation for life.

Lisa reflects on how removing alcohol has allowed her to be more present with the people and moments that matter most. She also talks about the improvements she's experienced in both her physical and mental health, and how sobriety has opened the door to a richer, fuller life than she ever imagined possible.

In this episode Sharron shares her experience of how sobriety has transformed her life in ways she never expected.

When asked about the biggest benefits she's gained from living alcohol-free, three stand out: consistency, self-development, and authenticity.

Sharron reflected on how removing alcohol helped her become more consistent in the way she shows up for herself and others. She talks about the opportunities sobriety has given her to grow, learn, and invest in her own personal development, as well as the freedom that comes from living more authentically.

It's an honest and inspiring...

This is an important conversation about what happens after the initial flush of sobriety. What happens if quitting alcohol unearths other things to address? The cover image sums up Laura perfectly. She’s vibrant, funny and full of life but after the 100 day milestone she was struggling.

Having gone sober in the past she knew that this was the point she often returned to drinking telling herself that “I feel rubbish so what’s the point?”. This time though she got help. She was supported to dig deeper and to addresses the underlying issue.

Now she’s ba...

In this episode, Hazel talks about her three biggest benefits of becoming alcohol-free: rebuilding self-trust, embracing personal growth, and becoming the best grandma she can be.

Listening to Hazel's story is a powerful reminder that sobriety isn't just about stopping drinking. It's about discovering what becomes possible when alcohol is no longer taking up space in your life. Through her honesty and warmth, Hazel shares how giving up alcohol allowed her to trust herself again, continue growing as a person, and show up fully for the people she loves most.

It's a wonderful conversation and...

In this episode Sammy talks about her three benefits of getting restorative sleep, having zero ‘hanxiety’ and the family presence that she cherishes.

When you listen to what Sammy has dealt with in the first nine months of sobriety it really does demonstrate how being alcohol free is a superpower, even in tough times. From a cancer diagnosis and her husband being hospitalised with meningitis through to losing her beautiful dog, Rupert, she’s remained sober through it all.

It’s an amazing listen and she's an amazing lady.

Louisa is a psychology-based practiti...

In this episode, Erica shares her sober journey so far. Her instagram handle @sober_for_the_health_of_it, really sums it up as she's really had some worrying and low moments with her drinking and on her road to recovery. She talks about so many topics including the health benefits of sobriety, menopause and how putting her sobriety first has really helped her in all areas of her life. Now she's celebrating 9 years of sober freedom, it's a really emotional and honest conversation of what it took to get where she is today.

Louisa is a...

In this episode, Katie shares her experience as she approaches one year sober. She talks about what it means to have faith in yourself, even when things feel uncomfortable, and how sobriety has shown her that she can do hard things without quitting. This is a conversation about being a work in progress rather than trying to fix everything at once, and learning to trust that change comes through consistency. Katie also reflects on how her sleep has improved since removing alcohol, and the difference that has made to her energy and daily life. It’s an honest look at...

In this episode, Louisa is joined by James who went sober at the end of 2022. James talks about how sobriety unlocked the opportunity for him to own his own Pilates studio in Margate, stepping away from the hustle of London. He also explores the shift in how work feels when you’re no longer just getting through the day, but actually engaging with it in a more intentional way and how interpersonal relationships change.

A central theme throughout this conversation is James’ drive to live life fully from a place of presence, clarity, and a deeper connection to w...

In this episode, Louisa is joined by Olivia, who has been sober for eight years and brings a grounded, deeply wise perspective to the conversation. They explore Olivia’s journey into sobriety and how it has transformed not only her life, but the way she feels about herself. Olivia shares her thoughts on experiencing more magic in everyday life without alcohol, and how sobriety has allowed her to cultivate self-trust, authenticity and a genuine sense of inner peace. This is a calm, reflective, and uplifting episode that gently reminds listeners of the richness that sobriety can offer.

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The podcast is back after a short break. In this episode Louisa talks to Tracey who celebrated two years sobriety at Christmas. Tracey talks about how sneaky she would be as a drinker even though to the outside world she only drank a couple of times a week, she still didn't feel she had an off switch.

Louisa is a psychology-based practitioner and therapist based in the UK and works with clients worldwide via Zoom. She supports people who want to change their relationship with alcohol and also works with anxiety, low mood and overthinking. If you’d...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

In this episode, the topic is in the many gains you'll have experienced in this month and will ask you to consider extending your sobriety for longer to see what else could happen...

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of co...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today the focus is on other people's reflections on their sobriety, including the many guests on the regular Sober Rebel podcast and those amazing women who took part in Louisa's MSc Psychology interviews for her dissertation on Alcohol, Sobriety and Menopause.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a gr...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today Louisa reflects on her sobriety over the last three years, talking about those personal turning points for her in that journey.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. He...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Most people's goal when trying to moderate is to be a weekend drinker. But let's look at what the real cost of that pattern of drinking is. Sobriety is actually true freedom. Anything you can do to reframe what alcohol offers really helps and so today the focus is the drinking maths and how much time and energy lost to drinking.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist an...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

The most common concern in longer term sobriety is how to cope with special events and holidays and how you can enjoy them without alcohol. Today talks about teh truth of what each of those things feels like sober.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and re...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today is a Q&A episodes with commonly asked questions at this point.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity sh...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

The subject today is the return of self respect as your behaviour is now inline with doing things that support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and ne...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Sobriety begins to feel a bit more normal by this point, it's the point that you realise everything feels uneventful in a good way. The tug of war is quieter in your head. This is also where you begin functioning effectively rather than managing yourself.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship wi...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Let's talk about sober socialising. Here are some practical tips.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting pe...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Let's talk about that strange and slightly awkward transition from hiding yourself away in early sobriety to keep yourself safe, to then re-entering the world of socialising sober. Not everyone goes through this but it's pretty common to feel a bit out of sorts. It does get easier.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people ch...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

The inner critic is that unhelpful internal voice that can often appear, so today the episode talks about this doubting thought process, why it exists and how sobriety actually makes it quieter.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive be...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

What is self-efficacy and how can it help with achieving habit change? Long term sobriety relies on this concept once motivation or determination naturally fades.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and ne...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

This episode focusses on the subject of self sabotage and how your nervous system needs to learn to trust peace and joy.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. He...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today we cover how knowing your values and how sobriety impacts positively on each one, really can keep you on track, even if motivation dips.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and ne...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

A series on early sobriety wouldn;t be complete without talking about dopamine, what it is and how we can find healthier ways to experience it, instead of chasing the spikes of dopamine from alcohol.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a bl...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Worrying about what sobriety can do to a relationship is what often stops many going sober. This episode explores the truth of how dynamics can change when one or both of you doesn't drink.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today, the focus is on friendships in sobriety and those social shifts that can happen. It dives into the subject of projection and how that may appear when you choose to go sober.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of co...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Our beliefs about drinking and what it offers need to be challenged effectively if you want to embrace and truly enjy sobriety and that's what the focus is today. We will have built up many beliefs over the years and unpicking these makes things a lot easier.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change th...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Understanding how and why 5pm can feel so much more difficult to navigate than first thing in the morning is another thing to unlock in sobriety. Understanding how we react when overwhelmed and fatigued at the end of the day really helps.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today the focus is on the power of defaults and how you can use this to stregthen and build habits.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work fo...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Sleep had to be the focus of one of the early days. For some, their sleep improves straight away, whilst others may experience lethargy, restless nights and even a ramp up in vivid dreams. Today, the focus is on what happens to sleep in sobriety.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship wi...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

The relationship between alcohol and anxiety is multifaceted and when you first remove booze, sometimes there is a change to how you experience anxiety. This is a process of your nervous system recalibrating.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of co...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Some triggers are obvious and some less so. Today we talk about those covert triggers that can slip under the radar and how to prepare for them.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit sc...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Today the focus is challenging some of those thoughts that can have a tendancy to sabotage us and engaging in metacognition.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her wo...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Creating a new identity and also challenging some of the conditioning we've all be subjected to over the years will also make this whole process a lot easier. Today we look at how alcohol shapes your identity and what to do with that information.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with al...

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Sobriety is a simultaneous process of knocking alcohol off the pedestal that we all tend to put it on, and placing sobriety on one instead. To begin with, let's reframe what alcohol offers.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of co...