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Love Sober Podcast Kate & Mandy 61 03/01/20 Jan 03, 2020

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Welcome back and Happy New Year! This episode is a quick check in with each other. We have lots of exciting projects on the go so we talk through these. • Our new Facebook community https://www.facebook.com/groups/love.sober.co • We have our 30 day programme to kick start your sobriety journey available on our website www.lovesober.com • We are also hosting a panel at the Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival on the 18th January https://mindfuldrinkingfestival.com/talks-january-2020/ • We have our second edition of Create & Thrive with Sharon Walters https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-sober-life-create-and-thrive-with-sharon-walters-tickets-77874549875 AND... • Kate will soon be on the She Recovers Podcast! We talk New Year why we love sobriety and what our Word of the Year is. So grab a cuppa and let's chat X

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Love Sober Podcast 60 Guest: Taryn Strong 27/12/19 Dec 27, 2019

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We are delighted to end 2019 with a very special guest @tarynstrong

Taryn is the co-founder of @she_recovers the international women’s recovery movement with her mother @recoveringdawn Taryn is also a qualified yoga teacher and aromatherapist and runs the She Recovers Yoga teacher training program and online yoga classes.

It was wonderful to hear her incredibly inspiring and open hearted story of recovery, the dynamics of mother and daughter relationships, the work of She Recovers of which we will be helping to develop as designated SR coaches for the UK.

We talk the new year, how important the body is in recovery and being trauma informed how SR isn’t just for women in recovery from substance abuse but all women who are recovering from something. We talk her morning routine, setting intentions and the importance of self-care.

It was truly a joy to speak to her, we are sure you will enjoy this gem. So grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Happy New Year everyone XXX

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Love Sober Podcast 58 Guest:Millie Gooch 13/12/2019 Dec 13, 2019

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This week, our second special episode sponsored by Sainsbury's we talk to our friend and very inspirational woman @milliegooch Millie Gooch is a writer, speaker and founder of Sober Girl Society @sobergirlsociety - an online and real-life network of independent not gin-dependent women. She gave up drinking in Feb 2018 after noticing how her party girl binge-drinking was negatively impacting her mental health and 7 months later started Sober Girl Society to show girls like her that you can still be young, wild and hangover-free! With Millie we talk through her experiences with alcohol and how brilliant it is for us as mums to see someone empowering young women. To have someone on social media who is really living and loving her life sober AND social and encouraging women to ask themselves better questions about alcohol in their lives is FABULOUS. Well done Millie and THANK YOU for all the work you do.

We talk bossing the party season with lots of tips, and drink recommendations - Millie co-hosted @sainsburys pop-up pub the Clean Vic this summer so we discuss mixology and the brilliant range there is now. We discuss what else you can do which is social and yet not booze-focus... ever heard of Massaoke? (Look it up!) Its a great chat, so grab yourself a AF cocktail and let's chat x

Sainsbury's has a free drink for you to try - Follow the link here https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/freemule and read the T&C - we chose this drink ourselves for you guys as it's versatile and deliciously fresh, so happy Xmas from us and from Sainsbury's!!!

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Love Sober Podcast 57 AF Drinks 6/12/19 Dec 06, 2019

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This week's podcast is the first of three Xmas specials sponsored by Sainsbury's.

Sainsbury's have really been a forerunner in providing AF drinks and supporting emerging low and no alcohol brands onto the market, their AF fizz was the first decent drink we found and it helped SO much, especially at this time of year. So we really recommend you check their range out.

They're also offering listeners a free drink! Follow the link here https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/freemule we chose this drink ourselves for you guys as it's versatile and deliciously fresh, so happy Xmas from us and from Sainsbury's!!!

This week on the pod we introduce our Sober Advent - so let’s get this party started! We will be kicking off the run up to Christmas with a ‘how-to’ approach to bossing the festive period when you are sober or sober curious. We talk about having a daily advent calendar of self-care and sober treats and AF drinks.

In a season of connection and joy we talk about true connection, rather than getting plastered and the true joy of no hangovers! The concept of 'adding in’ to fortify us and keep us topped up in this season which can be overwhelming for the most hardy of us...We will look at what alcohol free alternatives and celebrate the shifting conversation and greater range of alcohol free products to choose from.

Gone is the luke-warm orange juice hurrah! The world is our oyster! So grab yourself an AF drink and lets chat x

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Love Sober Podcast 56 Guest:Paula Williams 22/10/19 Nov 22, 2019

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This week on the pod we’re absolutely delighted to talk to Paula Williams about @shamebooth this is pretty special for Mandy as going into the Shamebooth really REALLY enabled her to move past her shame and what was keeping her stuck. A game changer for her recovery journey. The visual style, the concept and energy behind Paula’s work completely lights us up. It’s vital and it’s important. Paula is a self proclaimed stirrer of the pot. An artist, An interventionist, activist, feminist, freedom and equality fighter and a proud woman in recovery. AKA Badass shero!
What started as an idea to outfit a phone booth with a classic phone and invite people to record the things they are ashamed of has developed into a movement, with a booth that travels, a podcast, a website and more.
A graduate from The Art Institute of Chicago, Paula believes secrecy and judgment are what make shame thrive. She created the Shamebooth to bring people’s shame stories out into the open, meet them with empathy, and banish shame for good.
The project has developed beyond all expectations, with the booth moving from location to location, Pride to Sunday Streets, and people sharing their stories and emerging from the booth freer. With the light spirit of Paula and the Shame Dames, SHAMEBOOTH is both deep and irreverent, powerful and playful.
Paula’s desire to help others evolved as the result of years of self medicating with booze and pills, and a history of mental health issues, which has led Paula to recovery. This experience has radically shifted her perspective towards others who are suffering and are full of shame, terrified to ask for help. Today, she is grateful to be in a position to give back.
Paula is working with SF-based SOUND MADE PUBLIC to bring the project to life and gives special thanks to her dream coach Rhetta Rowland.

So grab a cuppa

Love K & M xx

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Love Sober Podcast 55 Clean Language 15/11/19 Nov 15, 2019

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This week on the pod we discuss clean language. The language we use in Sobriety has been a focus on the podcast from the beginning and it's interesting and validating to see the shift away from negative, shaming and disempowering language to the language we value words that light us up and empower us. It's an important subject not just for professionals and services to change, but also for us to use more compassionate language with ourselves and be mindful of negative metaphors. So grab a cuppa and let's chat. Resources mentioned: https://www.rehabs.com/pro-talk-articles/its-time-to-clean-up-the-language-of-addiction-treatment-and-recovery/

So grab a cuppa

Love K & M xx

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Love Sober Podcast 54 Guest: Lara Frazier 08/11/19 Nov 08, 2019

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This we talk to Lara Frazier, a freelance writer, a truth-teller and an innovator. She is a FIERCE believer in the power of owning our stories and is a strong advocate for addiction recovery. On her blog, Lara shares a story of healing: in sobriety, through addiction, in life and love, and in all the other big, huge moments of fear and magic that we rarely talk about, but we should.
Lara Frazier lives in the Tampa Bay area with her pig, Peaches. She received her MBA in Marketing & Global Business from Pepperdine University. After many years of working in the entertainment industry, Lara became addicted to prescription pills and left her career to seek help and find her truth. Currently, Lara is the Digital Marketing Director for Renewal Health Group. Her story is powerful and inspiring so grab a cuppa and let's chat.

You can find Lara here...
Insta: @sillylara
Online: www.larafrazier.com
Facebook: @laraannefrazier

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Love Sober Podcast 53 Conversations 1/11/19 Nov 01, 2019

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This week on the pod we discuss what to say to people about stopping drinking. Something that should be relatively simple often ties us in knots, we leave ourselves vulnerable because it’s actually a bit of a skill to know what to say.

So we discuss this, who to share our truth with and who to build a smokescreen against. We discuss some of our own experiences and how you can use different techniques within your expanding social circle.

We talk boundaries and saying no and using a bit of humour to get you through the tricky spots, it does get easier when you can recognise who you’re talking to.

So grab a cuppa and let’s chat X

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Love Sober Podcast 52 Creativity 25/10/19 Oct 25, 2019

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In this week's pod we talk about flow and creativity, the benefits of finding mindful creative practices and spaces in the company of others and their importance in sobriety and as life tools. We discuss the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, one of the co-founders of Positive psychology and our own work in Love Sober creative workshops, in particular our most recent London workshop with artist Sharon Waters aka london_artist1 on instagram.

These practices are not only fun and happy making , they also are badass tools for resilience building when the shit hits the fan.

So grab a paintbrush , or a cuppa and let's chat.

Kate & Mandy XXXX

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Love Sober Podcast 51 Sobercurious 18/10/19 Oct 18, 2019

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In this episode we take a moment to re-affirm our core values and beliefs at Love Sober. We explain why we have included #sobercurious in our intro from the beginning, which was before it became a buzzword. For us it means an exploration into getting sober and how to do that i.e. curious about sobriety. A recent press article in Patch stated The "sober curious" movement, also known as "sober sometimes," and that is something we one hundred percent do not advocate, we have stated before and felt it important to state again that “mindful” drinking, moderation or sober sometimes is not a solution for people with a problematic relationship with alcohol, it is what keeps people stuck and drinking. We believe in early intervention, being sober curious for us is being given permission to go alcohol free before a situation of maladaptive behaviour with alcohol/self-medicating or binge drinking can slide over the line into dependence, having the conversation early before the choices you have become increasingly limited. We go through the questions to recognise Alcohol Use Disorder, and our firm belief in building community, support and conversation around problems with alcohol and the need to keep shifting the conversation away from the binary black and white model of you either are or you aren’t an alcoholic, to talking about a spectrum or grey area and how we can get sober and thrive and love a life without alcohol. If you are looking for support check out www.lovesober.com for our community, course and 1-1 coaching. In the meantime grab a cuppa and let’s chat aherm rant...

Resources mentioned:

https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/american-addiction-centers-cautions-against-sober-curious

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-use-disorders

https://www.amazon.com/Kick-Drink-Easily-Jason-Vale/dp/1845903900

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