111. "I don't need alcohol or sugar as a coping skill anymore": Kate
Kate Bee is the founder of The Sober School. Right back from her childhood surrounded by family members who drank, she says that alcohol was the most normalized drug around. When she became an adult, Kate used alcohol to be cool, as well as to help her forget about all the things that she thought were wrong with her. Looking back, she realizes that she'd also used food for comfort and reward... especially sugar. Sugar helped her cope with her feelings and was an end-of-the-day stress buster...