Ep: 42 Jo Hands From Gin in Jam Jars to Finally Free

This week we're joined by a very good friend of ours, Jo Hands — someone we've been meaning to get on the show for a long time and, frankly, we should have done it sooner.

Jo grew up in the 70s in a home where alcohol was a completely normalised, ever-present friend. By the time she hit boarding school in the Lake District, gin was being smuggled back in jam jars. By the time she landed in London in the 90s, working in corporate financial communications, Thursday night office drinks weren't optional — they were part of the job description.

For years she was in and out of medical waiting rooms working through a long list of unexplained symptoms, and not once was she asked how much she drank. Alcohol, as she puts it, was the one thing in the room that nobody was looking at.

Jo went alcohol-free at 54 and in this conversation she talks about the perimenopause connection that nobody discusses enough, the moment she started viewing alcohol through the lens of coercive control, and the morning she looked in the mirror and said — clearly, finally — never again.

Honest, warm, and at times genuinely funny. We think you're going to love this one.

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