383. Missing the old self on the annual "Slap A Salami Saturday" - Monthly Check In with Ty383. Missing the old self on the annual "Slap A Salami Saturday" - Monthly Check In with Ty
How I quit alcohol
Ty checks in with Danni about his thousand-day sobriety experiment, sharing how he misses his old party-host self and the rush of binge–quit cycles. The conversation looks at plateaus, family traditions like “Slap A Salami Saturday”, and the quiet pull towards a more aligned, alcohol-free life.
22:36•27 Aug 2026
Slap A Salami Saturday and the Sobriety Roller Coaster with Ty
Episode Overview
- Recognise the cycle of bingeing, quitting and using short sober stints as a springboard back into drinking.
- Notice how strongly certain events and traditions are mentally linked with alcohol and question that connection.
- Accept that life in maintenance mode can feel flatter and less dramatic, yet far more stable and sustainable.
- Consider longer alcohol-free commitments as experiments to see your true potential rather than quick fixes.
- Pay attention to the inner voice that says you’re out of alignment, even if life looks ‘pretty good’ from the outside.
“What if I just kept climbing and climbing without getting pulled back all the time and operated at 100% instead of 70%?”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This monthly check-in with Ty gives a frank, funny and sometimes raw snapshot of what long-term alcohol-free living can actually feel like once the initial buzz wears off. Danni Carr chats with Ty, who’s midway through a thousand-day commitment to sobriety after years of cycling through “binge, quit, binge, quit”.
He explains that for a long time, life felt “pretty good” with alcohol, which made it easy to justify moderation and short stints off drinking. As he puts it, his pattern was: “drink, fall below standard, commit, rebuild, feel amazing, achieve, and then reward myself with drinking and repeat.” You’ll hear Ty unpack his experience of the annual “Slap A Salami Saturday”, a much-loved family tradition where he suddenly felt the sting of being a different kind of host.
He admits, “I’m not the host I sort of used to be,” and talks about missing his old hyper-energetic party persona and the pre-event excitement that used to be fuelled by booze. Danni gently challenges this and suggests that the fun and effort can still be there, just without alcohol, sparking a conversation about how strongly our brains link certain events with drinking.
The chat shifts into a bigger reflection on the addiction to highs and lows: big binges, big breaks, and that rush of achievement from a “dry month” followed by a drinking “reward”. Ty now wants to see what happens if he simply keeps going without resetting — operating at “100% instead of 70%” and learning to accept plateaus as a normal, even healthy, part of growth.
If you’re wondering whether your drinking is holding you back even though life seems fine on the surface, this candid catch-up might leave you asking: are you stuck on the same roller coaster, and what could a steadier, alcohol-free version of you look like?
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