John Robbins
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3,052 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 19 Jun
John Robbins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But those, those things are markers that he might be someone who would go on to have a problem with alcohol.
And treating his behavior with compassion in the same way I would treat any seven-year-old's behavior with compassion, I would like to think.
It's a really important part of my sobriety because I'm someone who's quite adept at finding kind of sticks to beat myself with and being critical and being hard on myself.
So switching into that compassionate voice as often as I can for myself and other people
It's a big part of being sober because when I was drinking, one of those alcoholic traits, which has nothing to do with being drunk, is like, you know, I've heard it said before, but the phrase is the piece of shit at the center of the universe.
You know, like, I'm a piece of shit.
They're a piece of shit.
The world is against me.
I deserve this, but I can't get this.
I'm so terrible.
And that just, all that thinking just feeds me.
The need to drink to escape, to switch it off.
Yeah, I mean, personally, I don't think it matters.
That's a conclusion I've come to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I've just saved myself the inquiry.
I mean, I could give you examples where it would be both.
So definitely around the time my interest, as a kid, I started to notice alcohol was around the time my dad left and things had been difficult at home.
And then in my teenage years was having a difficult time and definitely isolated.
So there's like nurture points, but also definitely my metabolism treats alcohol differently to some friends of mine.
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