Gwen Jorgensen officially celebrates reaching 1 year of sobriety👏

In the notes of the video, it says that she is currently training for the Olympic track trials. I think its time for her to update her default notes.

Also, I hate this sobercurious thing. It really makes it seem like sobriety is something to "try out" on a lark, some casual thing. But for alcoholics, it is a serious undertaking that might save their life, their relationships, financial well being, etc after a pattern of destructive behavior.

Sounds like it was more Pat than Gwen.

At this point she really is struggling for content. As someone who had a family member end their own life due to problems that arose from abusing alcohol - I fail to see why anyone would celebrate this video/'accomplishment', if the person in question never had an alcohol problem. You're not '1 year sober', you just chose other drinks. Not to mention we are talking about someone who was a pro athlete and so would naturally be drinking less than the average person anyway.

Once again, Gwen puts out more painfully self-indulgent content.

P: "How was that for you?"

G: "It was easy"

BrainCell wrote:

if the person in question never had an alcohol problem. You're not '1 year sober', you just chose other drinks.

100% this.

Back on the sauce this time next year. Drunks never change.

Runners and all T&F athletes do not need to drink. Alcohol is a performance inhibitor.

Ok, I watched parts of this . Seems like this is more about her husband and his relationship with alcohol.

if you weren't much of a drinker to begin with, is a sobriety milestone all that much of a big deal?

I understand why this can be important to recovered alcoholics, but I see a lot of people who didn't drink much to begin with try to get on this train, and it comes across as attention-grabbing. Quitting drinking when you didn't drink much at all to begin with isn't that big a leap.

Just get an accounting job already.

Orcas wrote:

BrainCell wrote:

if the person in question never had an alcohol problem. You're not '1 year sober', you just chose other drinks.

100% this.

Yepper.

Was she drunk when she said she was aiming to win the Olympic Marathon? :)

BrainCell wrote:

At this point she really is struggling for content. As someone who had a family member end their own life due to problems that arose from abusing alcohol - I fail to see why anyone would celebrate this video/'accomplishment', if the person in question never had an alcohol problem. You're not '1 year sober', you just chose other drinks. Not to mention we are talking about someone who was a pro athlete and so would naturally be drinking less than the average person anyway.

Once again, Gwen puts out more painfully self-indulgent content.

P: "How was that for you?"

G: "It was easy"

I do like Gwen but she has sometimes soured me recently on her attitude. She did a parkrun vid where she dropped a guy and her and the other other girl were bragging about it.

Guy probably had no idea who it was anyways either.

mike weston from burn notice wrote:

Just get an accounting job already.

She's smart and talented and should have no problem landing a job, if she has a STEM-oriented brain and the pedigree of an Olympian.

not zuckerberg wrote:

mike weston from burn notice wrote:

Just get an accounting job already.

She's smart and talented and should have no problem landing a job, if she has a STEM-oriented brain and the pedigree of an Olympian.

She’s only good at two things: accounting and triathlon. Yet she’s not doing either one of them.

In triathlon, the competition has closed the gap. She wouldn’t be competitive anymore from a talent perspective. That leaves accounting. She needs to get back into things at an entry level audit job.

100% agree! She is reaching for any attention she can get during this marathon season. Has has such a narcissistic personality!

mike weston from burn notice wrote:

not zuckerberg wrote:

She's smart and talented and should have no problem landing a job, if she has a STEM-oriented brain and the pedigree of an Olympian.

She’s only good at two things: accounting and triathlon. Yet she’s not doing either one of them.

In triathlon, the competition has closed the gap. She wouldn’t be competitive anymore from a talent perspective. That leaves accounting. She needs to get back into things at an entry level audit job.

These kind of comments crack me up, since she’s made more than enough money and has a large enough following that she doesn’t need to work an entry level job again. Y’all brain dead if you think that is the actual right move for her.

She is struggling for content and keeping the attention. It is sad to think that this was a gold medal winner and a dominant triathlete. She had a fake tour of cities she was going to move to. A fake reveal. And now this. She and her husband are cringe but in the world we live in now, this sells to a core group and how dare you criticize. Which they have a point, we should not watch the videos but we also are within are right to call her out for being washed.

BrainCell wrote:

At this point she really is struggling for content. As someone who had a family member end their own life due to problems that arose from abusing alcohol - I fail to see why anyone would celebrate this video/'accomplishment', if the person in question never had an alcohol problem. You're not '1 year sober', you just chose other drinks. Not to mention we are talking about someone who was a pro athlete and so would naturally be drinking less than the average person anyway.

Once again, Gwen puts out more painfully self-indulgent content.

P: "How was that for you?"

G: "It was easy"

As a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for 10 years, I actually am offended by this. If giving up alcohol is "easy" then you don't have a problem with it. So incredibly tone deaf, Gwen.