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Ep. 97: Diary Of My First 30 Days Sober Feb 17, 2022

What are your first 30 days without alcohol like? What parts are hard and when do you start feeling good? Here's my diary of my first 30 days sober, which turned into 6 years alcohol-free.

Tomorrow, February 18, I am hitting 6 years alcohol-free! I can’t believe I haven’t had a sip of alcohol but it's also just another day because not drinking isn't hard anymore. It's the way I live my life. It's my new normal. And it has actually been that way for a long time.

The truth is, without alcohol I have met some of the most incredible people and I have had some amazing experiences. It's made me more grounded, more content, less anxious, more brave and more secure in my life.

I thought I'd share with you my side of my story through the emails I wrote Belle because I want you to hear the shaky early days of what turned into six years alcohol-free. And at the time, I didn't think I could make it 100 days without drinking.

For full show notes and to access resources and guides, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/97

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Ep. 96: Alcohol-Free Life: How To Live Happy, Healthy And Sober Feb 10, 2022

There are a lot of benefits to choosing an alcohol-free life, but how do you make it a positive choice that you can maintain once the novelty has worn off?

Janey Lee Grace, the host of the Alcohol-Free Life podcast, is here to share the secrets of why to ditch the booze and live happy, healthy and sober.

As a former gray-area drinker, Janey used to wake up at 3 am hating herself for drinking too much, until the ‘wine witch’ came calling at 6 pm the next day and it started all over again.

In 2018 she ditched the booze for ‘Dry January’ and never looked back.

Now Janey is a leading voice in changing the conversation around alcohol. She’s the host of the Alcohol-Free Life podcast, founder of The Sober Club, a UK-based BBC presenter, and author of the book, Happy Healthy Sober: Ditch the booze and take control of your life.

If you've quit the booze, are sober curious, or thinking about reducing your alcohol intake, tune in as Casey and Janey take a look at the issues around alcohol to inspire you to be happy, healthy and sober!

For full show notes and access to resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/96

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Ep. 95: Making Marriage Work After Quitting Drinking Feb 03, 2022

How do you make marriage work after quitting drinking?

Most marriages have some common patterns and habits that can make or break the relationship. Problematic patterns can be exacerbated when you’re in the drinking cycle and new habits can be helpful once you stop drinking and your relationship is adjusting to a new normal.

Because we use alcohol as a coping mechanism, a way to suppress negative emotions, and a tool to connect with the people around us, there is a learning curve to making marriage work after quitting drinking.

Even if you have a strong and happy relationship it’s common to feel defensive, resentful, misunderstood, unappreciated, isolated, secretive or lonely when you’re struggling to moderate your drinking.

And once you’ve stopped drinking it’s normal to go through a phase where you wonder if you and your spouse know how to communicate or have anything in common.

For full show notes and to access resources and links mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/95

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Ep. 94: Sobriety, Growth & Personal Development Jan 27, 2022

What if drinking isn’t the problem but rather a symptom of the problem?

What if it’s masking the deeper personal development work you need to do?
What if instead of being a solution, alcohol is sapping your confidence, exacerbating your anxiety and making it harder to connect with others?
What if you’re drinking because of fear, limiting beliefs, not feeling good enough, an inability to set healthy boundaries, needing to heal past trauma or break unhealthy patterns?
What if removing alcohol could be the first step in growing, changing and returning to yourself?

My guest today is Veronica Valli. She’s an author and co-host of the popular podcast, Soberful. With 20 years of experience as a recovery coach and psychotherapist, Veronica has helped thousands of women stop drinking alcohol and transform their lives.

To access resources and links mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/94

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Ep.93: Diet Culture, Disordered Eating + How To Stop Fighting Food Jan 20, 2022

Diet culture is everywhere.

NPR reported that in 2021, 50% of all New Year's resolutions in the U.S. were based on fitness, 48% were resolutions to lose weight and 39% of resolutions were to improve one’s diet. We spend over $30 billion on diet products annually and an estimated 45 million Americans diet every year.

85% of women have, at one point in their life, been on some kind of a diet, struggled with body image, or both.

And many women who struggle with alcohol also have a complicated relationship with food and their bodies.

Our universal immersion in diet culture can also unconsciously sabotage our efforts to stop drinking. When removing alcohol many women worry that they’ll ‘transfer their addiction to food or sugar’ or try to diet at the same time they are working to stop drinking.

I invited Isabel Foxen to come on the podcast to talk about diet culture, the socialization of women to believe that being thin equals being healthy, attractive, disciplined and worthy, and the impact of it all.

Isabel is a thought leader in intuitive eating and body positive movement and the creator of Stop Fighting Food, a video training series and masterclass for women who want to stop feeling crazy around food.

After years of trying to overcome binge eating disorder through weight normative approaches, Isabel discovered the critical role of acceptance, surrender, and social inquiry into binge eating and the recovery process, and has been sharing her insights with clients and professionals ever since.

To access resources and links mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/93

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Ep. 92: Are You Sober Curious? Jan 13, 2022

What does it mean to be “sober curious”?

If you’re “sober curious” you likely aren’t sure that you want to give up alcohol forever, but you might wonder if your life would be better without alcohol. Maybe you recognize that alcohol is taking up a significant amount of your time, energy and focus. You wish you were more intentional about your drinking. Or your intuition might be telling you that alcohol isn’t serving you.

If you’re sober curious, you’re far from alone. In 2021 23% of Americans who drink regularly participated in Dry January, a month when you abstain from consuming any alcohol for 31 days.

To learn more about the sober curious movement I invited Ruby Warrington to join me on the podcast. She’s the author of the books Sober Curious and The Sober Curious Reset and coined the term sober curious.

Ruby’s honest and non-judgemental approach to reevaluating our relationship with alcohol has spearheaded a larger movement of people taking a closer look at their drinking.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/92

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Ep. 91: Not Drinking Tonight Jan 06, 2022

What do you do when you realize that 1) alcohol is making your life worse and 2) moderating is not working?

That’s where my guest, Amanda E. White, found herself as she started reevaluating her relationship with alcohol.

Her new book, Not Drinking Tonight, is a guide to understanding why you drink, and how to stop drinking and create a sober life you love.

In our conversation, you’ll learn so much about drinking, not drinking, how to figure out whether your relationship with alcohol is working for you and when to take a break.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/91

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This is your last chance to join me for a LIVE Kickoff Session on January 9 for my sober coaching program, The Sobriety Starter Kit.

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol, enroll in the program and grab your invitation to the 2-hour kick-off at www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

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Ep. 90: Dry January: Start The New Year Alcohol-Free Dec 29, 2021

Are you ready to rock Dry January alcohol-free?

I want to give you all the tips to make your Dry January fun, exciting, easy and (most importantly) a success.

Dry January is the act of giving up all forms of alcohol for the entirety of the first month of the year. That means no beer, spirits, wine, cocktails, or any other alcohol for 31 days.

Dry January began in 2012 as an initiative by Alcohol Change UK to “ditch the hangover, reduce the waistline and save some serious money by giving up alcohol for 31 days.” Millions of people now take part in the challenge each year.

To get the most out of Dry January, treat it like an experiment and not a reset.

You’re removing alcohol from your life in January to see how good you can feel without it. How does your sleep change? Your thought patterns, habits, interests and relationships?

If you are approaching January 31st and you’re feeling happier and healthier without alcohol - stay open to seeing what 60 days without drinking feels like. Keep ongoing.

Dry January is the perfect time to take a look at the role alcohol plays in your daily life, in your health choices, and how it makes you feel.

To access resources and links mentioned in this episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/90

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You have 2 days left to grab my special offer to save $100 and join me for a LIVE Kickoff Event on January 9th for my sober coaching program, The Sobriety Starter Kit.

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol it doesn’t have to be this hard.

You just need a plan and a framework to follow.

To enroll in the program and grab your savings and invitation to the 2 hour kick off, go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com. Offer ends 12/31.

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Ep. 89: Holding Your Hand Through Christmas and New Year’s Eve Dec 23, 2021

So it’s Christmas week with New Year’s Eve right around the corner and you’re not drinking.

…Or you’re trying not to drink.

…Or you REALLY want to stop drinking but you’re not sure you’re ready yet.

…Or you stopped drinking 6 months ago but DAMN this week is harder than you thought it would be….

What can you do to stay centered and grounded and not dive head first into the sparkly drinks all around you? I’ve got you covered.

I recorded this podcast to hold your hand through Christmas and New Year’s Eve as you navigate our booze-obsessed culture without a drink.

So cuddle up, listen up, go on a walk and let me share my best advice on how to navigate family dynamics and special occasions and drinking events so you don’t wake up tomorrow or Christmas morning or on January 1st with a headache and a hangover.

I’m hoping you will come out of this podcast episode with a little bit of peace about what this week can look like and the things you can do to make small, incremental shifts in your thought process to let yourself feel really good about this week, the memories of this holiday season and how you're going to start this new year.

To access resources and links mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/89

Ready to drink less + live more?

You have 2 days left to grab my special offer to save $100 and join me for a LIVE Kickoff Event on January 9th for my sober coaching program, The Sobriety Starter Kit.

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol it doesn’t have to be this hard.

You just need a plan and a framework to follow.

To enroll in the program and grab your savings and invitation to the 2-hour kick off, go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com. Offer ends 12/31.

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Ep. 88: 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Getting Sober Dec 16, 2021

What are the most common mistakes women make when getting sober?

If you’ve tried to quit drinking before and keep picking up a bottle of wine on Day 4 or Day 16 I’ve got all the advice you need to set yourself up for success, not self-sabotage.

Every single woman who has stopped drinking has had a last restart, a last day one.

With the right information and support, you can decide to stop drinking and avoid the mistakes and triggers that have tripped you up in the past.

I asked Jen Lee Hirst, a sobriety coach who helps women struggling with alcohol, to break down the top 6 mistakes you should avoid when getting sober.

Here’s what you should do differently this time when you’re quitting drinking so that walking away from alcohol is easier than before.

For full show notes and to access resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/88

Ready to drink less + live more?

Don’t miss this special offer to save $100 and join me for a LIVE Kickoff Session on January 9 for my sober coaching program, The Sobriety Starter Kit.

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol it doesn’t have to be this hard.

You just need a plan and a framework to follow.

To enroll in the program and grab your savings and invitation to the 2 hour kick off, go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com. Offer ends 12/31.

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Ep. 87: How to Breakup with Booze Dec 09, 2021

Have you been thinking about breaking up with booze but you’re not sure how to get started?

If you're ready to shift your mindset about what it’s like to live alcohol-free and take a break from drinking, this episode is for you!

My guest is Alex McRobert, international yoga teacher, life and sobriety coach, and the host of The Sober Yoga Girl Podcast.

Alex became sober in 2019 and yoga played a key role in her mental health and sober journey. In 2020 she founded the Mindful Life Practice Community and Sober Curious Yoga, an online yoga community with participants from all over the world who are changing their relationship with alcohol using mindfulness techniques such as yoga, meditation, community and journaling.

Today, we're talking about how to break up with booze and live a happier and healthier life without alcohol.

For full show notes and to access resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/87

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Ep. 86: A Sober Girls Guide To The Holiday Season Dec 02, 2021

What does a sober girl do to navigate the holiday season, drinking events, office parties, family gatherings and New Year’s Eve without alcohol?

The end of each year can be a happy, fun and exciting time to gather with family and friends. But if you’re in early sobriety and not consuming alcohol at drinking events, the holidays can also be stressful, overwhelming and tricky to navigate.

In order to help I asked Jessica Jeboult to share A Sober Girls Guide To The Holiday Season: How to Navigate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and The New Year Alcohol-Free.

Jessica is the founder of A Sober Girls Guide, your one-stop shop for the modern-day sober or sober curious girl.

For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

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Ep. 85: Identifying The Change You Want In Your life + Getting Unstuck Nov 25, 2021

How do you identify the changes you want in your life and move forward when you feel stuck?

What if you have a family you love, a good job and responsibilities that keep you busy and needed but you are thinking “there has to be more than this”?

What if you’re comfortable enough, you don’t want to rock the boat and (really) aren’t actually sure what exactly needs to change?

But you also feel like you should be happier and more fulfilled than you are right now.

On this week's episode, I had the privilege of sitting down with Michael Anthony. He's the founder of Think Unbroken, a best selling author, award winning speaker, entrepreneur, coach, host of the Think Unbroken Podcast and an advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma. He has helped over 1,000 survivors get out of the vortex and create a life where their trauma does not define them.

Michael and I are diving deep into identifying the change you want in your life, how to get unstuck, and become the hero of your own story.

This episode will show you that life’s circumstances, good or bad, do not dictate your future and how to get your power back.

For full show notes and resources mentioned in this episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/85

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Ep. 84: The Best Non-Alcoholic Drinks Nov 18, 2021

What are the best non-alcoholic beverages to drink when you’re not drinking alcohol?

If you’re worried about going booze-free and fear that you’ll be giving up happy hours and dinner parties in addition to hangovers, I’ve got good news for you. In the last few years, there’s been an explosion of incredible non-alcoholic drink options available including NA beer, wine, spirits, mixers, shrubs and syrups, bitters and more. They taste really good, look amazing in your glass and you can find all the recommendations of which non-alcoholic drinks to try right here.

I invited Laura Silverman, the founder of Zero Proof Nation, a community celebrating non-alcoholic beverages and the people who create them and drink them, on the podcast to dive into the best things to drink when you’re not drinking alcohol. Laura is a curator and the founder of Booze Free in DC, a wellness travel site and. Laura has been a booze-free babe since July of 2007 and she knows all the best non-alcoholic beverages.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/84

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Ep. 83: How To Stop Romanticizing Alcohol + Start Romanticizing Sobriety Nov 11, 2021

What do Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte + Miranda from Sex And The City, Bridget Jones and Olivia Pope on Scandal have in common?

Their shows, characters, sets and plot lines romanticize and glamorize alcohol.

TV shows and movies have taught all of us from a very young age that drinking is empowering, sophisticated, fun and ‘the thing’ that modern, independent women do.

Through marketing, media and the culture we have been raised in we’re taught that alcohol is both good and necessary and that it should be put on a pedestal.

We see drinking as a privilege of adulthood and believe that drinking makes us sophisticated and sexy and also helps us connect and relax.

On the flip side we’re taught that life without alcohol is less exciting, undesirable or something that only people with a “real problem” with alcohol would choose. And we’re convinced that life without drinking is difficult, dull and boring.

None of which could be further from the truth. Life without alcohol is fun, exciting, healthy and happy.

But those ingrained, subconscious or even unconscious beliefs can hold you back when you’re trying to shift your relationship with alcohol.

They sabotage your efforts to get healthy and talk about what you’re doing in an empowering way. They hold you back from feeling better and draw you back into old habits that keep you stuck.

My guest today is Kate Bee, founder of The Sober School, and we’re talking about how to STOP romanticizing alcohol and START romanticizing sobriety.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/83

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Ep. 82: Sobriety Myths: What Are Your Fears About Life Without Alcohol? Nov 04, 2021

If you’re like most women you have a lot of fears and limiting beliefs about what life without alcohol will be like.

You might worry that life without happy hours will be boring. Or that people will judge you if you stop drinking. You might believe that the ONLY people who don’t drink are alcoholics or have a “real problem” with alcohol. Or fear that you’ll lose friends and never have fun again if you quit drinking.

These negative thoughts around life without alcohol are keeping you from finding out if you might actually be happier, healthier and more confident without booze. Your beliefs are keeping you stuck in a holding pattern.

My guest today is Karolina Rzadkowolska. She is a certified alcohol-free life coach who helps powerful women make alcohol insignificant in their lives. She’s worked with thousands of clients through her online courses and coaching to change their drinking habit and unleash a new level of health, happiness, and potential to go after their biggest dreams.

Karolina and I are diving deep into the fears and beliefs that are holding you back from removing alcohol from your life and the truths about how amazing it is to live without alcohol.

For full show notes, go to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/82

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Ep. 81: Reinventing Non-Alcoholic Beer Oct 28, 2021

Do you think all non-alcoholic beer sucks but you’re not sure what to order at a restaurant when you go out? Or are you trying to stop drinking but don’t know what to do with yourself when happy hour rolls around? Are you tired of pulling out a LaCroix around the firepit or at a football party?

My guest today is Bill Shufelt. Bill is the Co-Founder + CEO of Athletic Brewing Company.

When Bill decided to quit drinking alcohol, he didn’t want to quit beer but the flavorless, watery options on the market weren’t going to cut it. That’s why he co-founded Athletic Brewing Company to make a line of non-alcoholic craft beers for discerning drinkers.

For full show notes, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/81

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Ep. 80: What To Expect In Your First Year Of Sobriety Oct 21, 2021

What’s getting in the way of making the decision to stop drinking?

The fear of never drinking again?
Uncertainty about what your life is going to look like?
Worry about what people might think of you if you stop drinking?
Just getting through the first 30 Days?

Today is part 2 of my conversation with one of my private coaching clients, Christy and we dig into what to expect in your first year of sobriety.

To listen to Part 1 of this conversation go to hellosomedaycoaching.com/79.

In this episode Christy and I discuss:

What she did in her first 30, 60 and 100 days without alcohol that helped her not go back to drinking
Why sober treats, anchor activities and creating a seasonal bucket list are important
Boredom in early sobriety
How she talked with her teenagers about the decision to stop drinking
How to navigate drinking events, old friendships and new friendships in your first year
Boundaries, clarity, feeling your feelings and what led Christy to decide to end her 16 year marriage
What she loves about her new alcohol-free life

I know you're going to appreciate how open, honest and brave Christy is to share her story with us. I hope you'll come away with some practical tips and a whole lot of inspiration that removing alcohol from your life is completely worth it.

Here are 4 ways I can support you in taking a break from alcohol

Reach out to learn about private coaching and schedule a Free 30-Minute discovery call.
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Ep. 79: Your First Year Alcohol Free: Part 1 Oct 14, 2021

What happens in your first year alcohol-free? How will you feel in your first 30 days sober? And what changes might you see in your body and your life after 100 days of not drinking? How do you navigate your first holiday, party, friendships, relationships, Halloween, Oktoberfest and football season without alcohol?

My guest is one of my private coaching clients, Christy, who called me on Day 1 and started working with me on Day 4 of not drinking. She just hit one year alcohol-free and is sharing what worked for her, why she stopped drinking, what tools she relied upon to get through wine o’clock and how she feels now. Today we’re going to talk about all of that and more.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/79

Here are 4 ways I can support you in taking a break from alcohol

Reach out to learn about private coaching and schedule a Free 30-Minute discovery call.
Take my FREE CLASS on 5 Secrets To Successfully Take a Break From Drinking
Join The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand sober coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle.

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Ep. 78: Dopamine Nation: Overconsumption, Instant Gratification + The Science of Addiction Oct 07, 2021

Have you ever wondered why you crave alcohol?

Why do you feel happier when you know you’re going to drink? And why do you feel irritable, restless and discontented when you don’t drink or you’re trying to take a break? Why do you promise yourself in the morning that you’re going to take a break from alcohol and by 6pm you’re opening another bottle of wine?

My guest today is Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Dr. Lembke explains the interconnection of pleasure and pain in the brain and the link between dopamine, overconsumption, instant gratification and addiction.

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Ep. 77: 30 Signs You Should Take A Break From Alcohol Sep 30, 2021

Have you been going back and forth about whether you should take a break from drinking but don’t check all the boxes for a person who had a “real problem” with alcohol? That’s the case for a lot of high-achieving women.

We think that having a problem with alcohol is black or white. Either you fall into the category of someone who is an alcoholic or has a drinking problem, or you don’t. And heavy drinking is so normalized that it’s easy to dismiss any worries you have about your alcohol consumption by looking at friends and family members who drink like you do.

You don’t have to have a drinking problem to have a problematic relationship with alcohol. A lot of women fall into the category of “gray area drinking”, between the extremes of having negative consequences from alcohol consumption and being able to take it or leave it on occasion. And there are a number of early, subtle signs that signal you should take a break from alcohol.

My guest today is Janet Gourand, the founder of Tribe Sober. Janet and I are going to dig into 30 early signs you can pick up on, things you might think, feel or do, that signal it’s time to reevaluate your relationship with drinking.

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Ep. 76: Burnout - Signs, Symptoms + How To Recover Sep 23, 2021

Do you drink a lot and also feel physically and emotionally burned out?

Maybe your life feels unmanageable, work stress is constant, you’re sleeping terribly, tired, empty, unmotivated, overwhelmed or mentally exhausted.

The physical and emotional symptoms of burnout often go hand in hand with alcohol use and abuse, and the signs and symptoms of burnout can mimic those of hangovers and alcohol withdrawal.

Physical symptoms of burnout can include headaches, neck tension, digestive upset and sleep issues and people experiencing burnout may also feel physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism and detachment, and a feeling of purposelessness.

Drinking alcohol can not only exacerbate burnout but also make it difficult to recognize, treat and heal burnout.

My guest today is Cait Donovan and we’re talking about “Burnout 101”. She’s going to help us identify burnout and understand how to separate it from the effects of drinking and alcohol withdrawal and identify ways to heal and recover.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/76

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Ep. 75: Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength with Andrea Owen Sep 16, 2021

“For women, moving away from behaviors that don’t work for us anymore, letting go of core beliefs that convince us we’re broken and not enough, laying a stake in the ground around our desires, is an act of making noise”. - Andrea Owen

Have you ever received the message that you’re “too much”? Too loud, too opinionated, too sensitive or emotional, too talkative, too big, too something…

As women, we’ve been socialized since birth to smile, make others comfortable, go along and get along, be helpful and put other people’s needs before our own. And a lot of the time we don’t even consciously realize this is happening.

But repeating these behaviors, over months and years, can lead to resentment, poor boundary-setting, people-pleasing, approval-seeking, lashing out, negative self- talk, and unnecessary apologizing.

My guest today is Andrea Owen. She’s an author, global speaker, and professional certified life coach who helps high-achieving women maximize unshakeable confidence, and master resilience.

Andrea’s taught hundreds of thousands of women tools and strategies to be able to empower themselves to live their most kick-ass life through speaking, her books, coaching, and her wildly popular podcast with over 3 million downloads.

She is the proud author of three books: How To Stop Feeling Like Shit: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness, 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, and her latest book, Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength.

Today I’m talking with Andrea about common behavior patterns that sabotage our power as women and how to unlearn what we’ve been taught so that we can create a life that serves our needs and desires.

For full show notes, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/75

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Ep. 74: How To Stop Overperforming + Underliving Sep 09, 2021

Ambitious and capable women can easily fall into the trap of overperforming and underliving.

We get lost in overthinking, overcommitting, overwhelm, and an over-devotion to letting other people call the shots of our lives.

We prioritize other people’s needs and priorities and end up living a life someone else has designed and dictated, instead of saying yes to ourselves and the things we want to do, be, and say.

Overperforming can lead to resentment, irritation, exhaustion, feeling unfulfilled and wanting to check out with alcohol at the end of the day.

My guest today is here to share how you can stop overperforming and underliving. She’ll help you evaluate what's working in your life, what's not and what's driving your decisions.

Tiffany Han is a coach, writer, and podcast host who is on a mission to teach super achievers how to put their striving on a shelf & radically infuse their lives with delight, serendipity, and deep trust in themselves for lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/74

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Ep. 73: People Pleasing and Over Drinking Sep 02, 2021

Has your people-pleasing habit left you with an overstuffed calendar, unrelenting anxiety that someone might be mad at you, and the inability to get through tough conversations without having a heart attack and the desire to check out at night with alcohol?

If you worry a lot about what other people think of you, look towards others for approval and validation, or feel like you need to please the people around you to be accepted and loved, it’s common to reach for a glass of wine to ease that discomfort.

Seeking approval from others can lead to constant underlying anxiety that the approval you’re working for can be taken away at any minute.

So let’s talk about how to stop being a people pleaser when you’re quitting drinking.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/73

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Ep. 72: What Happened In My Marriage When I Stopped Drinking Aug 26, 2021

This is Part 2 of a conversation with my husband about what happened in our marriage once I stopped drinking.

To listen to Part 1 of this conversation go to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/71

Mike and I had been together for 18 years before I stopped drinking alcohol.

Those years of dating, marrying and becoming parents together were filled with many happy memories of wine tasting weekends, pub crawls, boozy dinner parties and drinking vacations.

Of course, not all of the memories of me drinking were positive, and after I stopped drinking certain things in our marriage had to change and evolve while others stayed the same.

In this episode, Mike and I talk about our relationship, habits, rituals, parenting and connection to each other since I gave up alcohol and why he doesn’t mind that I’m not as wildly unpredictable as I used to be.

We dive into the last five and a half years since I stopped drinking: early sobriety, where we are now, and where we are going.

And we talk about why it’s important to separate the sadness we might feel about aging and the fact that we no longer have the same relationship we did when we were 25 years old from feelings of sadness and mourning that came up when I quit drinking.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/72

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Ep. 71: My Marriage - Drinking and Not Drinking A Conversation With My Husband, Mike Aug 19, 2021

What role does alcohol play in a marriage? And what happens in relationships when one partner decides to stop drinking?

So many women worry about the role alcohol plays in their marriage and what might happen if they were to decide to quit drinking.

Whether your spouse is your drinking buddy, wants you to stop drinking, doesn’t want you to stop drinking or just doesn’t get it, navigating marriage, parenthood and partnership and your relationship with alcohol is delicate and complicated.

In this very special episode, my husband Mike joins me as we talk about what our relationship was like when we were drinking versus our relationship when I stopped drinking and how my decision to go alcohol-free has affected our marriage throughout the years.

We get real about the good (and the hard) parts of our marriage over the course of the last 19 years and how we navigated the transition from my drinking life and early sobriety to our new normal where I don’t drink and he still does.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/71

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Ep. 70: The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober with Catherine Gray Aug 12, 2021

If you've read any Quit Lit, Catherine Gray's book, The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober, is likely on your bookshelf or Kindle. It's one of the first books about giving up alcohol I recommend to women as they're starting their journey to stop drinking.

So I'm incredibly excited because my guest today is the author of The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober, Catherine Gray. I met Catherine online in a secret non-drinking Facebook group 8 years ago, when she was first starting her life without alcohol and she has been an inspiration to me ever since.

We're here to talk about all things drinking, and quitting drinking, the joy you can find in life without alcohol and her new book, Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected Sober Joy That Lasts.

Staying sober is about so much more than putting down the alcohol. It’s about recovering and reclaiming your best possible self.

You don’t have to spend all day sleeping off your hangover, you can leap out of bed at seven and go on an early morning walk, or join your friends for a lovely brunch.

Catherine Gray is a Sunday Times bestselling author of five books and an award-winning writer and editor. Catherine's hit debut, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Since then she has published The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober Journal and the critically acclaimed Unexpected Joy of Being Single and The Unexpected Joy of The Ordinary.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/70

Ready to bring joy back to your life? Check out these resources.

You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

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Ep. 69: Divorce, Women + Drinking Aug 05, 2021

Many women find themselves turning to alcohol and drinking more during the decline of a marriage, during a separation or once their divorce is final.

Why do women drink after a divorce?

Divorce can bring to the surface feelings of uncertainty, loneliness, resentment, fear, regret, guilt, anger and shame for many women. These emotions can be difficult to cope with alone and women may turn to a bottle of wine to numb negative feelings. Not only can women feel isolated, but they also might feel the desire to celebrate their newfound freedom and independence by drinking.

My guest today, Krysty Krwyko of Your Creative Badass Divorce, is here to share how to turn divorce from a soul-sucking to a soul-defining experience. Krysty helps women heal and recover from divorce, shed the stigma, reinvent themselves and reclaim their lives.

Krysty is a life coach, educator, mixed media artist, self proclaimed book nerd and an indie mama of two teens. She uses the pillars of creativity and sobriety in her work with women as they navigate their lives through a creative journey process.

Tune in to hear us talk about healthy ways to cope after divorce, what having a creative outlet means for most women, why there's danger in trying to just push through negative emotions, and how Krysty has used her experience to support women navigating the shitty waters of post-divorce life.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/69

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Ep. 68: Sober Travel: How To Take An Alcohol-Free Vacation Jul 29, 2021

Sober Travel is all the rage. So how do you take an alcohol-free vacation?

If you’re sober curious, in early sobriety or simply want a mindful and relaxing health and wellness break, you are going to love sober travel!

The New York Times published an article recently about sober travel going mainstream with wellness and mental health being top motivators for travel and more people ditching the drinks and planning alcohol-free trips.

But for many women the prospect of staying sober on vacation can be so daunting that they put off quitting drinking until after their next big trip.

Navigating airports, hotel bars and resorts without drinking alcohol seems impossible and unimaginable.

But you can stay sober while traveling and have the most relaxing, enjoyable, fun vacation of your life without the booze.

Today I’m going to give you the tips and tricks you need to know to take your next sober trip and enjoy an alcohol-free vacation.

When you explore the world without the booze, you’ll come back refreshed, relaxed, proud and healthy, without feeling like you need a vacation to recover from your vacation.

Plus you’ll find that you get so much more out of your travel when you’re alcohol-free. Typically when we’re focused on drinking on vacation we limit the activities and adventures we experience and explore. You make your world smaller without even realizing it.

My guest today is Lauren Burnison of the alcohol-free travel company, We Love Lucid.

Lauren is a lover of all things travel, culture and alcohol-free life. She created We Love Lucid after becoming aware of the real lack of travel options for the sober and sober curious.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/vacation

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Ep. 67: Healthy Coping Mechanisms For Stress And How To Model Them For Your Kids Jul 22, 2021

How many of us learned healthy coping mechanisms for managing stress, anxiety or depression when we were kids?

If our parents didn’t model for us healthy ways to cope with the normal human emotions of overwhelm, loneliness, resentment, anger or fear, it’s easy to emulate their patterns or buy into the narrative that alcohol will help us take the edge off and relax after a hard day.

And if you’re the parent of tweens or teens, asking them to not drink or experiment with drugs, it’s hard to reconcile that message with opening a bottle of wine every night.

One of the reasons that kids start using alcohol and drugs is because they don’t know how to manage and cope with their emotions. And in order to help them it’s important for parents to be present in order to model for children how to manage their own emotions.

Today I’m talking with Brenda Zane, a Mayo Clinic Certified Health, Wellness Coach and Parent Coach, whose work supports moms of kids with substance use disorder. Her mission is to help moms maintain their health and sanity as they navigate the chaos and fear of having a child who’s misusing drugs or alcohol.

We’re talking about how to build healthy coping skills for negative emotions and stressful situations and how to model those coping mechanisms for your children.

For full show notes head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/67

Support and resources to help you break away from wine mom culture

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Ep. 66: Does Alcohol Keep You Playing Small? Jul 15, 2021

For so many of us alcohol keeps us playing small.

We love opening a bottle of wine at the end of the day but don’t realize how much of our time, energy, motivation and ability to follow through on our goals is being diminished by our drinking habit.

You might have New Year's Resolutions that you somehow never seem to keep, hobbies you’ve always wanted to try or feel like you’re barely keeping your head above water most days.

Or maybe you’re a woman who has always been able to achieve whatever you set your mind to in life, except managing your drinking.

If you’re a smart, ambitious, high-achieving woman who feels stuck, this episode is for you.

My guest today is here to talk about how drinking can sap your energy, confidence and motivation and keep you playing small. And how to start manifesting the big dreams and desires you have for your life.

Amanda Kuda is a writer, coach, and educator.

She’s a former social drinker and party girl who is now living (and loving) a 100% alcohol-free lifestyle. Amanda’s passionate about teaching other high-achieving women how to navigate the stumbling blocks of going alcohol-free so they can step into a life beyond their wildest dreams and stop playing small.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/66

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Ep. 65: Wine Mom Culture Jul 08, 2021

I used to be a wine mom.

I bought into the idea that moms need to drink to relax and cope with the demands of motherhood.

I felt like opening a bottle of wine helped me transition from work to home and made me feel the way I used to before I had kids.

I saw wine as my well-deserved reward for getting through the day.

Plus, I love being efficient. I felt like “drinking while momming” was a brilliant way to multitask.

I could come home from work, cook dinner, hang out with the kids, manage homework, bedtime and respond to work emails, while at the same time get buzzed and check out from life.

I thought being a wine mom was fun and rebellious.

But when you take a closer look, the wine mom culture is toxic and dangerous.

It normalizes, rationalizes and encourages women to drink a highly addictive substance in large quantities on a regular basis.

It convinces women that wine is required for every playdate, girl's night, date night and after-work gathering.

And if women get to the point that they realize alcohol is making them tired, irritable and depressed, the “mommy needs wine” messages make it really hard to stop drinking.

So, let’s talk about the dark side of mom wine culture, how to look at it objectively and ways to shift your mindset so that you no longer believe that alcohol is required to enjoy life.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/65

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Ep. 64: Giving Up Alcohol with Paul Churchill and Recovery Elevator Jul 01, 2021

Today I’m talking about giving up alcohol with Paul Churchill, the founder of Recovery Elevator.

Paul is a leading voice in the world of recovery having launched the podcast, Recovery Elevator, 6 years ago as an accountability tool when he was first getting sober.

The Recovery Elevator podcast has been downloaded over 6 million times in 145 countries and has helped countless women and men give up alcohol and live a better life.

Today, Paul and I discuss how he went from owning a bar in Granada, Spain and blacking out 7 days a week to launching a podcast about alcohol addiction, and using addiction as the fuel to start an online and in-person alcohol-free community and business.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/64

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

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Ep. 63: The Alcohol Detox + Retox Cycle Jun 24, 2021

Do you go through the cycle of trying to detox your body after drinking too much with healthy eating and exercise, only to turn around and retox again with wine, beer, or cocktails?

I did that for years.

-I’d drink a bottle of wine each night and then go to a 5:30 am workout class.

-I’d go running after work and then come home and open a bottle of wine.

-I’d log everything I ate during the day (which often was very little (egg white omelette, salad, asparagus + salmon anyone?) and then add in 5 or 6 glasses of wine to finish the day.

It’s exhausting.

For so many of us, our relationship with alcohol is complicated and complex.

We use alcohol as a tool to help us decompress, forget about the day and disconnect from our daily responsibilities. And then the next morning we feel like crap and try to undo all the damage we did the night before.

My guest today is Jenn Kautsch, the founder of Sober Sis and she’s here to talk about how women can get out of the alcohol detox and retox cycle.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/63

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Ep.62: Recovery Happy Hour and Life Beyond The Bottle with Tricia Lewis Jun 17, 2021

Are you worried you won’t have fun without alcohol?

Is FOMO (the fear of missing out) keeping you drinking?

Can’t imagine what life would look like without happy hours?

Wondering if there is (actually) life beyond the bottle?

You’re not alone!

My guest today is Tricia Lewis, the creator and host of the Recovery Happy Hour. She’s here to talk about the concerns a lot of women have about life without alcohol. For years Trica was emotionally and physically addicted to alcohol but was really good at making it look like she didn’t have a problem. In November 2016, she decided that balancing a life of being an entrepreneur and a high functioning alcoholic was too much to handle. She quit drinking and learned how to recover as hard as she drank without looking back.

I’m a huge fan of Tricia’s podcast, The Recovery Happy Hour.

The Recovery Happy Hour celebrates inspiring stories of recovery from alcohol addiction, gray area alcohol abuse and what happens AFTER you get sober.

For full show notes and to get the resources mentioned in this episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/62

Ep.61: The Difference Between Self Care & Self Love And Why You Need Both Jun 10, 2021

What does your self love practice look like? Are you chasing love and acceptance from others instead of finding love within yourself?

Self love means taking care of your needs and not sacrificing your well-being to please others. Accepting yourself first is the first step to healing.

Today, I’m talking with self love expert Aubree Nichols who has spent her entire trying to fill her insides with things on the outside only to feel unworthy, lost, and ultimately unfulfilled.

Aubree is talking diving deep into her eating disorder, her battle with addiction and why learning to love herself helped her get sober 15 years ago.

Aubree Nichols is a self love advocate and a writer for Vogue, LA magazine and The Observer. Her superpower lies in her unique ability to share vulnerably about her struggles along the way. From addiction, divorce, eating disorders, to building her empire, Aubree’s raw, real, “tell it like it is” take on her diverse life experiences never fails to connect, engage and empower audiences.

For full show notes and to grab the resources mentioned in this episode, head over www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/61

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

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Ep.60: Dawn Nickel of She Recovers on The Many Paths To Recovery Jun 03, 2021

Sometimes if you’re lucky someone reaches out to you in the early days when you’re first trying to stop drinking and shows you how to take the first steps.

And for me, that person was Dawn Nickel.

8 years ago, when I first thought that I needed to stop drinking and decided to try life without wine, Dawn reached out to me.

I was traveling with my son and husband from Seattle to Victoria, British Columbia for a long weekend, my first in 5 years where I wasn’t going to drink, and Dawn picked me up for coffee, drove me to a beautiful beach and we talked all about drinking and not drinking and where I was and what I wanted and what I was afraid of.

She’s amazing. And she’s also a pretty big deal.

Today on the podcast I was thrilled to interview her and talk about women and the way we recover, from all things and in all ways.

I hope you love the conversation as much as I did.

Dr. Dawn Nickel is a respected thought leader in the women’s recovery sphere and (along with her daughter Taryn Strong) the founder of SHE RECOVERS Foundation, a not-for-profit grassroots organization that inspires hope, reduces stigma, and empowers women in or seeking recovery for substance use and/or mental health challenges.

Dawn is a strong advocate for the view that every woman in or seeking recovery must be supported to find the tools and pathways that will work best for her as an individual.

For full show notes and to grab the resources mentioned in this episode, headover www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/60

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Ep. 59: Alcohol Explained with William Porter May 27, 2021

Do you wonder why drinking alcohol helps you feel relaxed and then leaves you awake at 3am? Or why do you have trouble moderating how much you drink?

How is it possible that alcohol is both a depressant and a stimulant?

Why does a substance that makes you feel euphoric later leave you feeling so low with anxiety and a hangover?

And is it actually true that alcohol is actually good for you in small doses? [spoiler alert: the answer is no]

My guest today is William Porter, the author of Alcohol Explained and Alcohol Explained 2: Tools for a Stronger Sobriety. I’m a big fan of his work and the way he breaks down a scientific approach to what happens to the body and mind when you consume alcohol into something that’s easy to understand.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/59

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Ep.58: All About Sober Treats May 20, 2021

In early sobriety, sober treats are important, not an indulgence.

Don’t underestimate their power, because sober treats are essential to helping you both stop drinking and keep going once willpower runs out and motivation fades

When you’re walking away from drinking you need your time without alcohol to feel rewarding and kind - not like a punishment or deprivation.

And most of all you need sober treats because you’ve been stuck in a “reward rut” for way too long.

After decades of 'adulting' often our universe of rewards and pleasure options have shrunk to the equivalent of ‘bars and bakeries’ (alcohol and sugar).

Hard day? Wine.
Promotion at work? Wine.
Friday night date? Wine.
Kids being hard? Wine.
A few hours to yourself? Wine.
Anxious? Overwhelmed? Lonely? Wine.

You deserve more.

Sober treats will open your imagination and help you find and enjoy new sources of pleasure and comfort.

Today, I am diving into how to quit drinking without deprivation or relying on willpower by using sober treats.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/58

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More resources mentioned in the episode

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Ep. 57: Celebrating One Year of The Hello Someday Podcast May 13, 2021

Today marks ONE YEAR since I started this podcast! I can’t believe it. When I look back on the past year, I’ve been a little scared everytime I release an episode but mostly happy and grateful. I’m amazed to see women like you listening and reaching out and telling me that the podcast is helping them.

Launching this podcast has been incredible and one of the most exciting and satisfying projects that I’ve ever done.

In the past year I released 57 episodes, with 46 incredible guests and we’ve hit just under 70,000 downloads!

I’ve also released 13 solo episodes on topics that I think are really important in helping women stop drinking like strategies for your very first week, mistakes a lot of women make when quitting drinking and all the things I’ve learned in the 5 years since quitting drinking.

But most importantly, I want to say THANK YOU for taking time out of your day to listen to this podcast. Thank you for reaching out and telling me the parts that helped you, made you laugh or helped empower you or feel less alone.

In this episode, I’m going to share some of my absolute favorite moments of the podcast over the last year. The things my guests have shared that really stuck with me, inspired me, gave me new coping tools, and made me think and rethink my own ideas, perceptions and approaches.

I hope you enjoy listening to some highlights from the podcast over the last year and I hope you take away some fresh insight and inspiration to keep going.

For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/57

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Ep. 56: What You Don’t Know About Alcohol And Your Body May 06, 2021

Let’s talk about what happens to your body when you drink alcohol and what happens when you stop drinking after consuming it on a regular basis.

I asked Gillian Tietz, the Sober Scientist and host of the Sober Powered Podcast, to come on the podcast to talk about the Science and Psychology of Addiction.

In today’s episode, Gill and I discuss

Why alcohol slows down our brain activity
How alcohol affects our sleep and why you wake up at 3am after drinking
The connection between alcohol and anxiety
Why alcohol makes it hard to lose weight
What happens to your body physically during withdrawal from alcohol
The benefits your body gets from taking a break from drinking

Plus...

Rage gardening + Tomb Raider
Gill’s story and her road to recovery
Why you need to build a ‘drama free bubble’ in early sobriety
How we felt physically and emotionally when we stopped drinking

About Gillian Tietz

Gillian is a biochemist in the Boston area and is 17 months sober. Her passion is helping others free themselves from the drink, hate yourself, drink cycle by providing education on how alcohol affects our brain and causes addiction.

Gill uses her scientific background to connect neuroscience, psychology, and her personal experience to getting sober.

Wherever you are in your journey, understanding why alcohol causes your own personal brand of misery will fundamentally change the way you approach sobriety.

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab the Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Connect with Gillian Tietz

Head over to Apple podcast and listen to her show, Sober Powered Podcast

Follow Gill on Instagram @sober.powered

To find out more about Gill and how she can support you on your journey to recovery, go to www.soberpowered.com

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Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

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Ep. 55: The Desire Factor Apr 29, 2021

What do you desire in life and what’s holding you back from going after what you want?

Are you worried that your dreams aren’t practical or achievable?
Or that you’re selfish or self-indulgent for wanting more than you have?
Do you feel like you’re too busy, with too many responsibilities to go after something new (and you’ll have time to focus on it ‘someday’)?
Or are you scared to want something because you don’t want to experience disappointment or failure?

Today we’re going to talk about how to give yourself permission to want more in life and how to manifest your desires.

My guest is Christy Whitman. Christy is a Transformational Leader, Celebrity Coach and the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All. She is also the CEO and founder of the Quantum Success Learning Academy & Quantum Success Coaching Academy, a 12-month Law of Attraction coaching certification program. Christy has helped thousands of people worldwide to achieve their goals through her empowerment seminars, speeches, and coaching sessions and products.

For the full show notes, head over to www.hellosomeday.com/55

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab the Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

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Ep. 54: Understanding Negative Thought Patterns Apr 22, 2021

We all have negative thoughts at times and often can be our own worst critics.

And if you have a tendency to be hard on yourself, the automatic thoughts you have can have a big impact on your emotions and the way you experience and interpret the world around you.

It’s normal to feel sadness, anger, worry and loneliness at times. But getting stuck in negative thought patterns can trigger heightened feelings of anxiety, fear, self-pity, and insecurity.

The good news is that you can learn to identify and challenge automatic negative thoughts, which can relieve stress, self-doubt and let you feel significantly more confident and positive.

Today, my guest Shelby John is here to talk about understanding our negative thought patterns.

Shelby is a mom, wife, and entrepreneur. She's been sober since July 2002 and her own recovery journey led her to become a social worker, trained in trauma therapy, coaching techniques and other clinical skills. As a therapist, Shelby helps women heal their past trauma, using EMDR. therapy. Online, she gets to guide them into building the confidence they need to love their lives beyond recovery.

For the full episode show notes and all links and resources mentioned in the podcast visit hellosomedaycoaching.com/54

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab the Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

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Ep. 53: Sugar, Diets and Early Sobriety Apr 15, 2021

Let's talk about sugar, diets and early sobriety.

This topic comes up all the time with women who are trying to stop drinking because they’re fearful of replacing overconsumption of alcohol with food.

Common advice in early sobriety is to let go of your ‘food rules’, go ahead and eat the Peanut M&Ms, have dessert and don’t get too hungry. But a lot of women resist this advice.

Instead, they try to combine their efforts to stop drinking with a new eating program or diet, only to find in a few weeks that they’ve gone back to drinking and are starting the whole process again.

There are also other reasons to stay away from dieting and I’ve got the perfect guest to talk about it all.

Ingrid Michelsen Miller is a Diet Recovery and Weight-Neutral Life Coach who helps women find freedom from binging and weight-cycling. Ingrid was one of the first friends I met in early sobriety and we quit drinking just 60 days apart.

Over the last 5 years, we’ve navigated life without alcohol together (and the day this episode goes live, April 15th, 2021, is Ingrid’s 5 Year Soberversary!)

In this episode, Ingrid and I dive into diet culture: what it is and what it does to us, why we should let go of food rules in early sobriety, and the reason that trying to make our bodies smaller is counterproductive.

For the full episode show notes and all links and resources mentioned in the podcast visit hellosomedaycoaching.com/53

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab the Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

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Ep. 52: The Dry Life: Adopting An Alcohol-Free Lifestyle, Not A Label Apr 08, 2021

Did you know that you can live alcohol-free and still enjoy your life?

You can still be social, still hang out with your friends who drink and also transform internally.

You can let go of the things in your life that aren’t serving you, but also keep the people and activities that bring you joy.

You can have everything you’ve always wanted.

That’s what we’re talking about today, embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle without assuming a label.

My guest today is Kayla Lyons. Kayla is the founder of 1,000 Hours Dry, an alcohol-free community and host of The Dry Life Podcast.

In this episode, Kayla and I discuss her sobriety journey, our drinking culture, how big alcohol markets to consumers, and all the benefits of not drinking.

For the full episode show notes and all links and resources mentioned in the podcast visit hellosomedaycoaching.com/52

Want more support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free?

You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It's the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab the Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

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Ep. 51: Don’t Wait Until You “Want” To Stop Drinking Apr 01, 2021

Let’s talk about the fact that most women who realize that they have a problematic relationship with alcohol don’t actually ‘want’ to stop drinking.

Most of us had a lot of good times drinking over the years. At one point drinking was a lot of fun, and sometimes it still is. We had amazing vacations, girl’s nights and romantic date nights with alcohol.

And even though you might be worried about your drinking, and are tired of headaches and hangovers, you likely don’t actually want to stop completely.

You probably can’t imagine your life without happy hours and wine tastings.

And here’s the good news: you don’t have to ‘want’ to stop drinking to take an extended break from it and discover that life without alcohol is actually happier, healthier, more satisfying and more fun than it was when you were drinking.

My guest today is Camille Kinzler. Camille is an alcohol-free lifestyle/habits expert who is passionate about helping women who wake up at 3 am saying “I wish I didn’t have that last glass of wine...again” (re)learn how to destress, unwind, and connect instead of instinctively reaching for their go-to cocktail.

Camille and I are going to talk about all the strategies that can help you stop drinking (even though you still want to).

In this episode, Camille and I discuss:

Why deciding to take a break from alcohol for 100 days is more useful than a ‘one day at a time’ approach or telling yourself that you’re stopping drinking ‘forever’
How to switch up your evening routine and interrupt the patterns you’ve built around drinking
Why it’s OK to mourn the loss of alcohol. You don’t actually need to kill the ‘want’ of drinking, you just have to kill the ‘yes’
Why this process is less about removing the alcohol and more about wanting more for your life and getting over the fear of change. Focusing on the vision of the person you want to be and the life you want to live is a powerful motivator
The Cozy Method of creating sustainable habit and lifestyle change
Consistency - Creating new habits and rituals
Ownership - Taking accountability for where you are, the habits you’ve created, recognizing what you need and asking for it
Zooming In & Out - Asking yourself who you want to be in this world and looking at the habits and behaviors that you’re practicing to get you to that goal
Yes - Evaluating the commitments that you’re taking on and realizing that if it isn’t a ‘Hell Yes’ then its a No. Learn to set healthy boundaries

About Camille Kinzler

Camille is an alcohol-free lifestyle/habits expert with a Master’s in Science and Physician Assistant (PA) Studies. She is passionate about helping women who wake up at 3 am saying “I wish I didn’t have that last glass of wine...again” (re)learn how to destress, unwind, and connect instead of instinctively reaching for their go-to cocktail. She loves working with professional women, busy moms, and healers/healthcare professionals, as she is all of the above, too.

Connect with Camille

Learn more about Camille and how she can support you in quitting drinking www.thinkbeyondthedrink.com

On Instagram @thinkbeyondthedrink

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Get the 5 step formula for saying no: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/how-to-say-no/

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Ep.50: Overcoming Perfectionism: How to Get Out Of Your Own Way Mar 25, 2021

Let’s talk about perfectionism - what it is, why it happens and how it might be holding you back from doing the things you are meant to do and what you want to do in life.

My guest today is Sara Dean. She’s a mindset, business and leadership coach who helps women own their space, stop shrinking and start shining.

I absolutely love Sara - her perspective, her energy and the way she inspires women (including me) to do more and be more.

Today we’re talking about how to overcome perfectionism and get out of your own way. We dive deep into the connection between perfectionism and procrastination and how staying in your comfort zone can keep you stuck.

This episode is jam packed with encouragement and inspiration, and it all starts with believing in yourself.

In this episode, Casey and Sara discuss:

Why a lifetime of social conditioning can keep women playing small
How we’ve been taught to prioritize things others expect from us in order to get approval and acceptance
The connection between perfectionism and procrastination
7 ways you’re probably getting in your own way
5 ways to get unstuck
How to stop asking permission to play a bigger game in life
How to thrive in the face of anxiety
Strategies to turn your struggles into strengths
How to move from a fixed mindset and a growth mindset
Secrets of cultivating courage, confidence and abundance #everydamnday

7 Ways You Might Be Getting in Your Own Way

Staying quiet and not speaking up when you have an opinion.
Being the person other people want you to be instead of being who you truly are
Playing small
Analysis paralysis
You’re stuck in a fixed mindset vs growth mindset
You are stuck in the dreaming and planning phase without taking any action
Being the gatekeeper of all tasks and roles.

5 Ways To Get Unstuck

Take small steps
Take imperfect action
Get curious
Drop the ball or the bomb. Either make it a priority or let it go.
Dream in strategy

More about Sara Dean

Sara’s is a Mindset, Business and Leadership Coach. She is also the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, a top rated podcast with over 3 million downloads. Sara’s biggest passion is helping women own their space. After enduring her own identity crisis following the birth of her son, Sara took her background in psychology/health/ wellness and rebuilt her identity, one step at a time. Sara motivates and inspires women to stop shrinking and start shining. She is on a mission to inspire women and moms, in particular, to live bigger, bolder, braver #everydamnday.

Sara serves women through her podcast, her thriving Momentum Mamas membership community, her Tenacious Mamas business & leadership mastermind and her annual event, Shameless Mom Con (coming this spring!) When she’s not supporting Shameless Moms, you’ll find Sara with her husband and 8 year old son - building Legos and pretending to understand Minecraft.

Connect with Sara: www.shamelessmom.com

Shameless Mom Academy Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shameless-mom-academy/id1092674204

Join Sara’s free Facebook Group: www.shamelessmom.com/facebook

Instagram: www.instagram.com/shamelessmomacademy

Support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free

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Ep. 49: Healing Through Spiritual Psychology Mar 18, 2021

Can the principles of spiritual psychology help you heal from past traumas?

We’re going to unpack the tools, techniques and practical application of a spiritual psychology approach on the podcast today.

Spiritual Psychology is a blend of spirituality and science. It uses elements of both traditional psychology and spirituality in order to help individuals feel better and more content with their lives.

My guest is Beverly Sartain. Beverly is the author of the book Transcending Trauma: How I used Spiritual Psychology to Heal My Life and the creator of The Spiritual Psychology Healing Workbook.

After multiple hardships in her life, Beverly experienced a spiritual awakening and discovered ways to turn those hardships into assets of her future through the practical application of spiritual psychology.

By resolving her feelings of unworthiness and not being good enough, she reconnected with her inner being and her true essence — love. Beverly will encourage you to find your own path to healing and becoming the co-creator of your life.

In this episode, Beverly and I dig into:

Specific Spiritual Psychology tools and techniques that can be practically applied in your life today
The difference between Victim Consciousness and Creator Consciousness, two states of mind that can rule your awareness
4 levels of a holistic approach to coaching - mental, emotional, physical and spiritual
How to avoid self-sabotage and reframe negative thought patterns
Why judgement is self condemnation and self-forgiveness is restoration
How to cultivate self-compassion, acceptance, peace, and joy

Download 33 principles of Spiritual Psychology

About Beverly Sartain

Beverly is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. In her career before coaching, Beverly managed and developed domestic violence and co-occurring residential programs.

Beverly is also the creator of the Holistic Coach Certification Program and the Spiritual Psychology Coaching Method. The Holistic Coach Certification Program is an ICF ACSTH accredited program that focuses on a holistic approach to coaching. They see Clients as whole, complete and resourceful to create creative solutions to their challenges and issues. Additionally, Beverly provides individual and group coaching through her brand, Recovery Life Management.

Resources and links mentioned in the podcast

Connect with Beverly on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/beverly.sartain.1/

Purchase Beverly’s book, head over to transcendingtrauma

Beverly’s favorite affirmations cards mentioned in the episode

Beverly has created the Spiritual Phycology Healing Workbook to help you be a healthy human by continuing to resolve your unresolved issues so that you can serve from your wholeness versus your wound.

Beverly has laid out 52 soul-packed lessons to help you increase your awareness, relate to yourself in a better way, learn new skills to keep on keepin' on with your personal and professional advancement and be the demonstration of the work you do with others, first and foremost.

Support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free

Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Find My Favorite Sober Facebook Groups, The BFB “Booze Free Brigade” and She Recovers Together

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Ep. 48: Sexy Sobriety with Bex Weller Mar 11, 2021

Rebecca (Bex) Weller is one of my favorite people to talk with about why life without alcohol is awesome.

Bex is a Health & Life Coach from Perth, Australia. She’s the founder of Sexy Sobriety and the author of two books, A Happier Hour and Up All Day.

The work Bex does is centered around helping women discover how much they gain once they put down the wine glass. She works with women to get their sparkle back after it's been dulled by drinking and hangovers.

In our conversation today Bex and I talk about how life without alcohol can be fun and sexy, adventurous, joyful and (most of all) carefree.

Bex says the biggest benefit she’s found in sobriety is the feeling of freedom.

Bex discovered that after (finally) saying “I’m not drinking at all anymore” she suddenly had the headspace, heart space, courage and energy to reach her potential and build the life she really wanted. She felt free for the first time.

So if you’re holding on to drinking because you’re afraid that life without alcohol will be boring or dull, this is the episode for you!

In this episode, Bex and I dive into:

Why to make a list of “10 Things Better Than Booze” (and then all the other lists!)
Tips on how to make alcohol-free life more exciting and fun
Why to focus on everything you’re gaining by not drinking, not what you’re giving up
How to coach yourself through triggers and cravings and nurture yourself from the inside out
Why sobriety is better than moderation (spoiler: it’s the freedom)
Why to not focus on the concept of ‘forever’

“You know what’s a hell of a lot more glamorous than champagne and cocktails? ⁠Self-worth, empowerment, creativity, connection, and SOUL.”⁠ - Bex Weller

About Rebecca Weller

Rebecca is the Creator of SexySobriety.com, she leads one-on-one and group coaching programs, hosts live events, and is the author of the best-selling memoir, A Happier Hour, and the long-awaited follow-up, Up All Day.

Rebecca writes about love, life, and the strength and potential of the human spirit. Her work has been featured by The Telstra Business Awards, The Australian, Fast Company, Sydney Morning Herald, The Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, Better Homes & Gardens USA, SBS Food, Good Health Magazine, Marie Claire Australia, and Elle Quebec. Learn more at BexWeller.com.

Follow Rebecca on Instagram @BexWeller

Connect on Facebook at Bex Weller, SS - Home

Find out more about Rebecca and Sexy Sobriety, head over to www.SexySobriety.com.au/

Support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free

Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Find My Favorite Sober Facebook Groups, The BFB “Booze Free Brigade” and She Recovers Together

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Ep.47: Love Yourself Sober - A Self Care Guide For Busy Moms Going Alcohol-Free Mar 04, 2021

Are you a busy mom who has been using alcohol as a coping mechanism?

You’re not alone.

My guests today are Kate Baily and Mandy Manners, the authors of the new book, Love Yourself Sober - A Self Care Guide For Busy Moms Going Alcohol-Free, and we’re talking about what to do if you’re questioning your drinking habits and how to create a live you love without alcohol.

Kate and Mandy are certified coaches and sober besties who met online. They are writers, community builders and podcast hosts. They work with women who are questioning their drinking and want to create a life they love sober.

In this episode, we dive deep into:

Why moms often use alcohol to cope and create space in motherhood
What to do if you feel sad and disconnected from your life
How to recognize if your relationship with alcohol has become problematic
Why exploring grey area drinking and sober curiosity can be positive and joyous
Practical tools that will help if you realize that alcohol isn’t serving you anymore
The importance of self care in your sobriety tool kit and why we love sober treats
Why to ditch the shame if you’ve stopped drinking and gone back to alcohol again
Mental health, positive psychology, how to ‘sense your no’ and all the tools to live a sober life you love

More about Kate Baily

Kate stopped drinking in her early 40s after she had her youngest child. Stopping was not easy; there was a lot of fear. How would she cope without my helper? She was having to rethink everything, she was fighting the brainwashing and marketing, facing the fears about relationships and friendships changing, not knowing how to switch off, trying to stay calm as really primal fears raged. She worked hard at keeping busy till wine o'clock was past, she ate chocolate, she watched boxsets compulsively. But slowly the days clocked up. She immersed herself in quit lit and reading blogs on the site, made online friends and weeks turned into months. A new habit was forming and gradually felt less like pushing a boulder up a hill.

More about Mandy Manners

Mandy started drinking recreationally when she was 14. She was a curious kid with a nose for adventure and a bit of mischief. In Feb 2014, she stopped and didn’t drink for a year, again it was fantastic; she went through a rebirth of strength, positivity and possibility. She lost weight, quit her job, and decided to move away from the city and start a new life in a smaller town by the sea. She was so positive that after a year she deemed herself fixed and convinced herself that she could drink moderately. From 2015-2017 she drank on and off, she knew she was better without booze, but she wanted to be “normal”. In August 2018 she made a commitment to life-long sobriety.

She realized that if she shared her story, it could help, so she engaged with the sober community on Instagram and Facebook and listened to podcasts and started going to events and realized that there is a really wonderful community of sober people.

Resources & Links Mentioned

Learn more about Kate & Mandy and how they can support you in quitting drinking, lovesober.com

Listen to their podcast, Love Sober

Purchase their book Love Yourself Sober: A Self Care Guide to Alcohol-Free Living for Busy Mothers

Support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free

Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Find My Favorite Sober Facebook Groups, The BFB “Booze Free Brigade” and She Recovers Together

Connect with Casey

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

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Ep.46: Saying Yes To A Bigger Life with Laura McKowen Feb 25, 2021

In Laura McKowen’s memoir, We Are The Luckiest, she writes, “There is a life that is calling you forward, begging you to meet its eye, to glimpse its vision for you. You can get only so far by running away from what you do not want. Eventually you will have to turn toward what you do. You will have to run toward a bigger yes.”

I invited Laura to join me on the podcast to talk about how to say yes to a bigger life and how to be more intentional about how they’re living.

Laura McCowen is the author of the book, We Are the Luckiest - The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life. Laura also writes an award winning blog and has hosted two incredible podcasts, Home and Spiritualish. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Web MD Psychology Today, The Today Show and more.

Laura leads workshops with women and men to go deeper into learning about what is meaningful in their lives.

This work is valuable for anyone at any time, but is especially transformative for women who have stopped drinking or are re-evaluating their relationship with alcohol.

When you’re giving up drinking - and the space it occupies in your days, life, social circle and identity - it’s important to reflect on what else is meaningful to you and deeper callings you have.

This podcast and Laura’s work will speak to you if

you desire a deeper sense of purpose in your life
you dream about spending your days in a more connected, meaningful way
you need clarity around a big life decision or relationship
you know you're not living into your potential, but don't know how to get from "here" to "there"
you're tired of feeling depleted, disconnected, and alone
you need to stoke your creativity and belief in possibility
you want to create or deepen your spiritual practice

In this episode, Laura and I discuss:

How to say YES to a better life without alcohol
Why to ask yourself big questions so that you’re not living an unconscious life
How to listen to your inner voice and stop letting fear hold you back
Why you often don’t need to do a big thing or make huge changes in your job or relationships to find more happiness in your life
Practices to gain more clarity around what you want and intentional about how you’re living
How to find meaning and appreciation in what you already have
Why drinking keeps you stuck
How to live in alignment with your core values

About Laura McKowen

Laura had a long successful career in public relations, and the madman esque drinking culture of advertising. After getting sober she became recognized as a fresh voice and recovery. Beloved, for her soulful and irreverent writing, online and in print. Laura is the founder of several online programs for sobriety and personal development, teaching people how to say yes to a bigger life, and founded the luckiest club, a sobriety support community.

Resources & Links Mentioned

Learn more about Laura McKowen and how she supports women who want to quit drinking, head over to lauramckowen.com

Follow Laura on her journey living alcohol free, to subscribe to her blog

Purchase her book, We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

Support, resources and tools to help you go alcohol-free

Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Connect with Casey

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

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Ep.45: 25 Things I Learned After I Quit Drinking Feb 18, 2021

I spent years trying to make rules about my drinking because I was terrified that sober life would be boring, lonely and difficult. I was wrong. I want to share with you the 25 things I learned after I quit drinking.

As I record this podcast today it is my five year soberversay. 5 years ago I stopped drinking and when I look at the number five, it seems impossibly large.

I remember when it was so hard for me to get past day five. 30 days alcohol-free seemed so big. 100 days sober was an accomplishment that I was bursting with pride and over a year of sobriety was more than I thought I would ever achieve.

If you’re just starting out, are sober curious or have five months alcohol-free or two years on this path, here’s a look ahead to my experience and takeaways from the decision to quit drinking and live a life without alcohol.

Here are the 25 things that helped me and surprised me.

The things I didn’t know when I started out and the lessons I’m continuing to learn now.

If you're just starting out, are sober curious or have five months alcohol-free or two years on this path, here's a look ahead to my experience and takeaways from the decision to quit drinking and live a life without alcohol.

Resources & Links Mentioned

Episode 34: Quit Drinking With Identity Based Habits, Because Willpower Doesn’t Work

Episode 35: Break Your Habit of Drinking in Four Steps - Change Your Cue, Craving, Response + Reward Cycle

Episode 36: The Habits Tipping Point - When Choosing Not To Drink Becomes Easy and Simply Part Of Who You Are

Episode 37: How To Manifest The Shit Out Of Life

Support, Resources and Tools To Help You Go Alcohol-Free

Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

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Ep. 44: Smashing Shame + Why You Don’t Need To Ask Yourself “Am I An Alcoholic?” Feb 11, 2021

I was drawn to my guest today immediately because of a powerful post, she wrote about why she doesn't identify with the label of being an alcoholic.

I don't identify as an alcoholic either. I don’t feel like that label serves me or explains my personal experience and unless they prefer it I don’t use that label to describe the women I work with.

Here’s what Beth wrote that spoke to me.

✨WORDS MATTER✨

The other day, someone called me an “alcoholic.” They were just making conversation, talking about things I’m interested in (which I super appreciate!)…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

... but I don’t identify as an alcoholic—it’s a label that doesn’t explain my personal experience with leaving behind the booze.

I don’t struggle with not-drinking anymore.

I don’t feel like I’m powerless over alcohol.

I don’t align with the 12-steps.

I don’t personally identify with the disease model of addiction.⠀⠀⠀

Even when I was still drinking, the black and white dichotomy of either being someone who drank or being an “alcoholic” kept me drinking longer than I should have. I thought those were my only choices

And then I discovered this beautiful corner of the internet full of people who don’t drink alcohol, who call themselves all sorts of things:

✨Teetotaler

✨Sober

✨Alcohol-free/AF

✨Non-drinker

✨Sober-curious⠀⠀⠀

Or… nothing at all.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I’ve learned a few things from my experience:

1️⃣ Words matter, and labels can be a significant barrier for folks removing harmful habits from their lives. (And the mental health field needs an update on this. ☝🏻)⠀⠀⠀⠀

2️⃣ You are the author of your own story, and only YOU get to define yourself.

3️⃣ Figuring out what you align with, where your AF identity lives? It’s magic. ✨ It’s freedom, fulfillment, and all the good squishy feelings.

The beauty of deciding that alcohol is no longer working in your life is that YOU get to decide how to think about your decision to stop drinking and how you tell your story - with a label or without one.

In this episode, Beth and I discuss how women can smash shame in sobriety.

And we dive into:

Why you don’t need to ask yourself ‘Am I an alcoholic?’
How labels can stigmatize and shame people who have decided to live a healthy, happy, alcohol-free life instead of celebrating their decision to make a healthy life choice
How to find a beautiful supportive online community of people living life without alcohol on Instagram
Why old shame experiences might be keeping you stuck and how shame resilience work can help you heal
The 4 steps to working through shame
Identifying shame
Contextualize it
Connection
Sharing the shame out loud
The freedom we’ve found since giving up alcohol

About Beth Bowen

Beth is a licensed social worker with three years of sobriety, who helps alcohol free women reclaim their power and build kick ass lives in sobriety. Beth is a mom of two, a wife and a sober women's coach who lives outside of Austin, Texas.

Connect with Beth Bowen

To find out more information about Beth and read about her sobriety journey, check out her blog www.bethbowenblog.com

Follow Beth on Instagram @bethbowen_

Do you have old shame stories holding you back from the kickass life you know you're meant for? Check out Beth’s free workshop about Shame Resilience in Sobriety

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

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Ep. 43: Who’s Driving The Bus? Resolving Internal Conflict + Restoring Harmony Feb 04, 2021

My guest today is Annika O'Melia- a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety, trauma, and perinatal mental health with adult women.

Annika quit drinking over 9 years and has four kids under 10, including a set of twin four year olds.

She hosts the podcast Mother Recovering, originally started to talk about the stigma of being a new mom with addiction issues, which she found even greater than the stigma of new mothers struggling with other mental health issues such as postpartum depression and anxiety.

In this podcast episode Annika is going to introduce us to a type of therapy known as Internal Family Systems Therapy, which can help you resolve internal conflict and restore harmony.

Annika’s work is based on the idea that we all have a self that is whole, complete and healthy. And that over the course of our lives as we experience different life situations or traumas, which could be that our parents divorced, childhood abuse, being bullied at school, issues with body image, anxiety, or mental health issues within our family or within ourselves that lead us to experience painful emotions such as anger or shame.

Annika describes how often we try to protect ourselves from these painful emotions and experiences by using unhelpful coping mechanisms called (in IFS) ‘managers’ and ‘firefighters’.

These coping mechanisms can suppress negative emotions but also can stop us from healing.

IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How drinking is often used as a coping mechanism to manage anxiety or suppress painful emotions
What is internal family systems therapy and how it can help you feel more compassion for yourself and live a more peaceful life
How to experience negative emotions without being overwhelmed or wanting to numb out
How to resolve internal conflicts within ourselves
What it means to restore harmony within yourself
What is EMDR and how can it help you in recovery

About Annika O’Melia

Annika is a psychotherapist and owns her own private practice, Quad City Psychotherapy. She is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston and earned her Masters of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. Annika specializes in the treatment of anxiety, trauma, and perinatal mental health and works primarily with adult women. Annika has been sober for over 9 years and has four kids under 10, including a set of twin four year olds. She’s the host of the Mother Recovering podcast.

Connect with Annika O’Melia

To find out more information about Annika, visit www.annikaomelia.com

Head over to Instagram to follow Annika at @annikaomelia

Subscribe and listen to her podcast Mother Recovering

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

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Ep. 42: Breathwork: Calm Your Nervous System, Reduce Anxiety + Increase Joy Jan 28, 2021

What do you do in sobriety when you’re feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, angry or anxious?

You need to calm the adrenaline coursing through your body, regulate what you’re feeling and restore peace - without pouring yourself a drink.

Today I’m sharing a new sober tool to add to your toolbox.

My guest is Jen Broyles, a Holistic Health Coach and SOMA Breathwork Instructor.

Jen’s going to introduce us to Breathwork as a next-level meditation technique that can be a quick and effective way to calm your nervous system, rewire your brain, and release emotional trauma.

Plus Jen’s going to lead us in a SOMA Breathwork Meditation - a complete holistic system of breathing techniques. SOMA Breath takes fundamental Pranayama techniques put into a sequence that combines rhythmic breathing to beat-driven music, for therapeutic function.

In this episode, Jen and I discuss

What is SOMA breathwork and what are the benefits of incorporating it into a daily health practice
How women who are quitting drinking can use SOMA breathwork to support their physical, mental and emotional health
The unconscious mind and stored trauma
How to soothe your emotions by controlling your breathing
How and when to practice breathwork
The 3 phases of SOMA breathwork

Benefits of SOMA Breathwork

Awaken dormant functions of the brain.
Enhance creativity and problem-solving.
Create heightened states of consciousness and inspiration.
Improve brain function and mind power.
Cleanse and purify the bloodstream and lymphatic system.
Stimulate self-healing.
Reduce depression/anxiety.
Clear negative imprints and traumas from early life (0-7 years).
Reimprint your mind with more empowering beliefs and habits.
Set intentions and create the motivation and energy to complete important goals.
Self-realization: discover your true self and your deepest inner calling.

About Jen Broyles

Jen helps individuals restore and optimize their health by calming the nervous system, reducing stress and awakening their inner healer. She recognizes that in an overstimulated nervous system, compromised, gut health and suppressed emotions lead to imbalances throughout the mind, the body and the spirit. Jen combines the healing power of breathwork essential oils and other holistic modalities to help clients create a lifestyle of health, vitality and freedom.

Connect with Jen Broyles

To find out more information about Jen and the services she offers, check out her website Jen Broyles - Breathwork, Essential Oils, Holistic Health

To learn more about the Sacred Breath Community, head over to Sacred Breath Online Community

Follow Jen on your favorite social media platform

Facebook: Jen Broyles, CHC - Home

Instagram: Jen Broyles | Holistic Coach (@jenbroyleshealthcoach)

Twitter: Jen Broyles (@JenBroyles1)

YouTube: Jen Broyles

LinkedIn: Jen Broyles - Dallas, Texas | Professional Profile

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Casey’s interview on Lori’s To 50 & Beyond podcast - No Rock Bottom Required

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 41: Aging, Sobriety and Women’s Wellness After 40 Jan 21, 2021

Worrying about your drinking is a lonely and dark place to be, especially in midlife when women often feel stressed out, unfulfilled and lonely.

And that’s where my guest, Lori Massicot, says she lived for too long.

At 45 Lori says she was an over-drinker, overeater, "sky is falling" type of gal who, after questioning her drinking for two years, finally decided to stop drinking.

And then she discovered all the possibilities available to her now that she no longer spent her evenings on the couch drinking.

Lori is now a life coach specializing in sobriety, mindset transformation and holistic wellness for women over 40 and hosts the podcast To 50 And Beyond.

Being sober has given Lori a second chance at life and enabled her to become who she genuinely is, without the façade she was trying to keep up with for decades.

In this episode, Lori and I explore:

Why more and more women are deciding to stop drinking at age 40, 50 and 60
How “aging sober” empowers women to live healthier, happier and more confident lives.
Why midlife is a good time to reevaluate your relationship with alcohol as you look to the decades ahead
The perimenopause journey and how to get beyond it sober
The correlation between drinking and weight gain in midlife
How women’s wellness after 40 is improved by being alcohol-free

SHOWNOTES: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/41

About Lori Massicot

Lori is a Life Coach specializing in sobriety, mindset transformation, and holistic wellness for women over 40. Lori is an advocate for aging happy, healthy and confident, and free. Lori has a certification in Nutrition Coaching, and is the host of the To 50 & Beyond podcast, a podcast that celebrates women in the middle of life.

Links mentioned in the podcast

Connect with Lori Massicot

To learn more about Lori and to find out more information about her coaching services, head over to www.lorimassicot.com

Follow Lori on Instagram at @lorimassicot

Listen to her podcast To 50 And Beyond

Learn about Lori’s group coaching program for women over 40, Elevate.

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

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Ep. 40: The Sober Diaries - Stop Drinking, Start Living Jan 14, 2021

My guest today is Clare Pooley. Her book The Sober Diaries: How One Mom Stopped Drinking And Started Living is based on her blog, Mummy Was A Secret Drinker, which describes her first 365 days of living without alcohol.

The Sober Diaries is one of the first books I recommend to all of my clients as they stop drinking.

In it, Clare tells her story of building up sober days while at the same time uncovering how deeply her love of wine was connected to her identity as a successful working woman, a fun adult and her life as a mom of 3 children.

I love the way The Sober Diaries takes you through the days and months of early sobriety in a funny, insightful, relatable and realistic way.

If you read it during your first few weeks or months, you'll see your own experiences in Clare's as she moves through Day 14 "Sober Mornings", Day 26 "Oh God, It's Friday", Day 91 "The Wine Witch", 100 Days and when it gets easier - all the way through Day 365.

It's a great read, especially for women with kids, who started drinking in the corporate world or in the mommy wine culture.

Clare, at the time she stopped drinking, was a middle aged woman, over educated, overprivileged, formerly overweight mom of three, who had a long love affair with high priced good quality wine until she realized that the relationship was going nowhere but downhill. So she started blogging to take her mind off her broken heart.

In this episode, Clare and I dive into:

Why immediate benefits of giving up alcohol (better sleep, clearer skin and eyes, a healthier body) are good, but the biggest benefits come much later
The fact that well educated, middle aged women are becoming the most likely group to drink problematically
How Clare (and I) stopped drinking without traditional 12 Step Programs like AA and why choosing that path to living alcohol-free is even easier for women today
Why Clare thinks we need to change the “brand imagery” around not drinking and reframe going alcohol-free from something that one might ‘have to do’ to something you want to do
How our social media feeds are doing us a disservice by normalizing excessive drinking
Why the the most difficult part of quitting drinking for Clare was learning to deal with emotions without having wine as a crutch
Why Clare thought that her life without drinking would be dull and boring but discovered that it was way more exciting than when she was drinking

About Clare Pooley

Clare is a British blogger, author and novelist. She spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time mum.

Realizing that her ‘wine o’clock’ habit had spiraled out of control, Clare started writing a blog, Mummy was a Secret Drinker, which has had nearly three million hits. Her memoir, The Sober Diaries was published in 2017 to critical acclaim.

Clare’s debut novel - The Authenticity Project, was inspired by her own experience of exposing the rather grubby truth about her own seemingly perfect life, and is being published in twenty-nine territories in 2020. Clare’s talks include a TEDx talk - Making Sober, Less Shameful.

Connect with Clare Pooley

To learn more about Clare, head over to www.clarepooley.com

On Instagram: @clare_pooley

Order her books, The Sober Diaries: How One Mom Stopped Drinking And Started Living and The Authenticity Project

Listen to her Tedx Talk: Making Sober, Less Shameful

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days

Listen to the podcast on The Best Quit Lit For Women Quitting Drinking to hear more about The Sober Diaries and other books to inspire your alcohol-free journey.

Get the free guide to The Best Quit Lit Books For Women

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Ep. 39: Tired Of Thinking About Drinking With Belle Robertson (My Sober Coach) Jan 07, 2021

Today my guest on the podcast is my very own sober coach.

Belle Robertson from Tired Of Thinking About Drinking was the person I emailed on my very last “Day 1” 5 years ago, after I woke up at 3am and decided that I needed support to stop drinking wine every night.

After that first day, and over the course of 2 years, Belle and I exchanged over 800 email messages!

Belle held my hand through my first week without alcohol and gave me advice and support as I navigated dinner parties, crappy days at work, date nights, sick kids, camping trips and my first sober vacation in Europe.

I love Belle's approach because it's practical, approachable and positive.

When I started working with her I heard this message - and it set me on the path I’m still walking today.

She said, “So I want you to imagine that there's something else for you, something better than what you're doing now. I want you to think about what could be rather than what is. So if there's a you who right now is a person who's drinking, and you want to be something else, and you want something else to happen in your life, and you don't know how to get there. And you don't know how to get this voice in your head to stop. I know what the answer is. I know that you don't believe me when I tell you I know what the answer is. Because the answer is stop drinking. And when you stop drinking, things change.”

In this episode, Belle and I discuss:

The benefits of not drinking and having a sober coach
Why having a positive mindset will help guide you through sobriety
Why repeated relapse is normal and how to change your strategy to support sobriety
How being sober takes work, it doesn’t happen overnight
Why removing the booze will make things better for you and your relationships
The drinking cycle of quitting drinking and how it affects your mental health
The importance of self care during your sobriety journey

About Belle Robertson

Belle is a writer and a sober coach with a website, Tired Of Thinking About Drinking. She's written a book about how to quit drinking, and has worked one on one as a sober coach with 3258 individuals. Belle hasn't had a drink in over eight years and she started her own sober journey with a sober trial, a period of time off alcohol to see how she liked it. And apparently she did. When she's not recording sober audios or coaching by email. She works as a caterer and a text designer, originally from Canada. Bell lives in Paris and Vermont with her husband, who's also a Canadian.

Connect With Belle Robertson

To learn more about Belle and how she can support you on your sober journey, head over to www.tiredofthinkingaboutdrinking.com

Follow her on Instagram: @tiredofthinkingaboutdrinking

Order her book, Tired of Thinking About DrinkingTake my 100 Day Sober Challenge by Belle Robertson

Listen to Belle’s audiobook: https://gumroad.com/l/Belle-TOTAD-audio, Tired of Thinking About Drinking Take my 100 Day Sober Challenge by Belle Robertson

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

The course is self-paced, so you’re never ‘behind’. You can move through the lessons as quickly or slowly as you need to and revisit earlier lessons at any time.

In the Sobriety Starter Kit you’ll learn the framework, plus all the skills + strategies you need to stop drinking and build a life you love without alcohol – without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

And I’ll hold your hand each step of the way.

Click here to get all the details.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

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Ep. 38: The Sober Girl’s Guide to Dry January Jan 01, 2021

Today is The Day! It’s January 1st, 2021.

It is DRY JANUARY and you are ready to stop drinking.

It’s the perfect time for a fresh start.

You’re ready to

Take a break from drinking to be healthier and happier, more fulfilled and confident.
Sleep through the night and wake up feeling good.
Get out of the drinking cycle of feeling, tired, stuck and defeated.

And I’ve got all the tools you need to start strong and keep on going!

In this podcast I’m going to share all my best tips and tricks to set you up for success so that you get the most out of Dry January.

You’ll learn

How to use Dry January as a springboard to building a life you love without alcohol, not as a short break from the drinking cycle.
Why Dry January gives you the perfect reason to tell others you’re not drinking, without labels or explanations.
How to build up sober momentum in Dry January without worrying about questions of ‘forever’ or ‘never again’.
Where to hook up with other women doing Dry January so that you can cheer each other on.
How to step up self care this month and use treats and rewards so that your time not drinking is really pleasurable.
How to take advantage of this month to change your go-to habits so that after the 31 days you won't want to go back to drinking.

And if one of your goals in 2021 is to drink less + live more I can help.

I created an on-demand course, The Sobriety Starter Kit, which can help you make 2021 the year you stop drinking.

The Sobriety Starter Kit is the online, self-study sober coaching course that will help you quit drinking and build a life you love without alcohol.

The course is based on the sober coaching work I do with my private clients and is available at a cost that’s significantly more affordable than one-on-one coaching.

Plus the online Sobriety Starter Kit course is ready, waiting and available to support you anytime you need it.

When you purchase the course you’ll have lifetime access to it. You can start today or at any other time.

The course is self-paced, so you’re never ‘behind’. You can move through the lessons as quickly or slowly as you need to and revisit earlier lessons at any time.

In the Sobriety Starter Kit you’ll learn the framework, plus all the skills + strategies you need to stop drinking and build a life you love without alcohol – without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

And I’ll hold your hand each step of the way.

Click here to get all the details.

Resources mentioned in this episode

Episode 34 - The first episode on using Atomic Habits to Quit Drinking with Identity Based Habits

Episode 35 - The second episode on using Atomic Habits to Quit Drinking on how to break your habit of drinking in four simple steps - without relying on willpower or hating the process

Episode 36 - The third episode on using “The Habits Tipping Point”, that magical moment when choosing not to drink simply becomes a part of who you are.

The Sobriety Starter Kit Online Course

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 37: How To Manifest The Shit Out Of Life Dec 26, 2020

As the end of 2020 approaches many of us are ready to turn the page on this year and start anew.

And it’s time to start fresh and look ahead to what you want and how to make that happen.

And in this episode I want to tell you just how to do that. How to not only turn the page on last year and set new intentions for 2021, but also to keep your intentions strong as motivation fades after a few weeks or months.

Too often in life, we’ve stopped dreaming. Or if we have dreams we dismiss them as impractical or impossible.

We feel weighed down by responsibilities or what other people might think.

Or our own habits, fears, limiting beliefs and assumptions of what is achievable, appropriate or allowed stops us in our tracks.

My goal is to get you centered on what lights you up, fires up your imagination and brings you joy. To change what’s weighing you down because you deserve to feel happy and fulfilled.

We think it’s our busy schedules or responsibilities that get in our way, but it’s not that.

The biggest thing that stops us from achieving our dreams is ourselves.

Our fears, our limiting beliefs and our negative self-talk.

My challenge to you is to focus on what you want to feel and do in your life (regardless of what others think) and take small and large steps towards your dreams.

And if one of your goals in 2021 is to drink less + live more I can help.

I created an on-demand course, The Sobriety Starter Kit, which can help you make 2021 the year you stop drinking.

The Sobriety Starter Kit is the online, self-study sober coaching course that will help you quit drinking and build a life you love without alcohol.

The course is based on the sober coaching work I do with my private clients and is available at a cost that’s significantly more affordable than one-on-one coaching.

Plus the online Sobriety Starter Kit course is ready, waiting and available to support you anytime you need it.

In the Sobriety Starter Kit you’ll learn the framework, plus all the skills + strategies you need to stop drinking and build a life you love without alcohol – without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

And I’ll hold your hand each step of the way.

Click here to get all the details.

Resources mentioned in this episode

Download The Ultimate Vision Board Starter Kit

Blog: How Vision Boards Work & Why You Need One

The Sobriety Starter Kit Online Course

Brené Brown: The Midlife Unraveling

Jen Sincero’s Book: You Are A Badass

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Check out The Sobriety Starter Kit. The private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 36: The Habits Tipping Point - When Choosing Not To Drink Becomes Easy and Simply Part Of Who You Are Dec 22, 2020

The Habits Tipping Point: When Choosing Not to Drink Becomes Easy and Simply Part Of Who You Are

Welcome to Episode #3 in the Atomic Habits series on how to break your habit of drinking based on the research into what works in changing behavior for long term success.

In part one of Atomic Habits, Episode 34, we discussed how to quit drinking using identity based habits. We talked about how every action you take supporting your goal to be alcohol-free [like listening to this podcast] is casting a vote for your identity as a happy, healthy woman who doesn’t need to drink to have fun or cope with life.

In part two of Atomic Habits, Episode 35, we talked about how to break your habit of drinking in four steps by changing your cues, cravings, responses, and rewards habit loop.

And in today’s Episode, part three, we're going to talk about the tipping point.

The point when your behavior changes and shifts into your identity.

There is a tipping point where by choosing not to drink you are simply acting IN ALIGNMENT with who you are.

The struggle not to drink is gone.
Your mind is not constantly thinking about drinking or not drinking.
You're someone who used to drink but don’t anymore, because you feel better without it.

In this episode we’ll dig into:

How to avoid the stumbling blocks that have tripped you up in the past and led you back to drinking.
What to do when you’re in the ‘plateau of latent potential,’ the time period when the work you’re doing builds until you hit the tipping point.
Good habits make time your ally and bad habits make time your enemy.

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.

In the same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them across time.

At first you feel better and your progress is small and incremental. But as more time goes by those small improvements compound exponentially.

The positive or negative trajectory of your life is immense depending on which habits you keep or change.

When you change your habit of drinking, you’ll have a bunch of immediate benefits.

You’ll have more energy and sleep well. You’ll look better and have more patience.

And you will also change the trajectory of your life. From one that’s declining slowly and then more steeply, to one that’s improving slowly and then improving exponentially over time.

Impressive results are the natural outcome of many small improvements accumulating over time.

Atomic Habits links and resources mentioned

Grab a copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear

Episode 34 - The first episode on using Atomic Habits to Quit Drinking with Identity Based Habits

Episode 35 - The second episode on using Atomic Habits to Quit Drinking on how to break your habit of drinking in four simple steps - without relying on willpower or hating the process.

Podcast episodes on how to prime your mindset, physical and social environment for success in quitting drinking

Episode 2 - 5 Mistakes Women Make When Quitting Drinking

Episode 3 - 7 Strategies To Get You Through Your First Week Without Alcohol

Episode 10 - 10 Things You Need In Your Sober Toolkit

Episode 23 - Feeling Bored In Sobriety? Things To Know + What To Do

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 35: Break Your Habit of Drinking in Four Steps - Change Your Cue, Craving, Response + Reward Cycle Dec 17, 2020

Have you been trying to break your habit of drinking using willpower, positive inspiration or negative, fear-based motivation by trying to avoid negative consequences?

If you haven’t been successful in your attempts to stop drinking using this approach it’s actually not your fault. Instead you've likely just been trying to make a long term behavior change in all the wrong ways.

There are easy ways and hard ways to break a habit, and research into the science of behavior change shows that willpower just doesn’t work in the long term.

In this episode I’m going to talk about how to break your habit of drinking in four simple steps - without relying on willpower or hating the process.

We’ll dive into:

The four laws of how to break a bad habit and how to build a new one, as outlined in Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Why understanding your personal habit loop of cues, cravings, responses and rewards is critical to helping you stop drinking without relying on willpower or hating the process.
How creating and sharing an implementation intention is fundamental to succeeding in change where you have stumbled in the past.
Why environmental design is key to achieving your goals. Making small changes to your physical and social environment will make it easier to break the drinking cycle.
What has likely tripped you up in the past and practical and specific ways to set yourself up for success, not self-sabotage.
What you should learn from times you’ve tried to stop before, without shaming yourself for going back to drinking.

There are four laws of how to break a bad habit and how to build a new one

First, start with your implementation intention. It’s a stated plan to solidify your plan to be alcohol-free for a specific amount of time.

The first law of how to make a new habit stick is to make it obvious. The more visible and available a habit is, the more likely you are to stick to it.
The second law is to make it attractive. The more appealing a habit is, the more likely you are to feel motivated to do it.

The third law is to make it easy. The easier, simpler, more convenient and frictionless a habit is, the more likely it is to be performed.
And the fourth law is to make it satisfying. The more satisfying, enjoyable, and pleasurable a habit is, the more likely it is to stick.

Atomic Habits links and resources mentioned

Grab a copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear

Episode 34 - The first episode on using Atomic Habits to Quit Drinking with Identity Based Habits

Podcast episodes on how to prime your mindset, physical and social environment for success in quitting drinking

Episode 2 - 5 Mistakes Women Make When Quitting Drinking

Episode 3 - 7 Strategies To Get You Through Your First Week Without Alcohol

Episode 10 - 10 Things You Need In Your Sober Toolkit

Episode 23 - Feeling Bored In Sobriety? Things To Know + What To Do

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 34: Quit Drinking With Identity Based Habits, Because Willpower Doesn’t Work. Dec 10, 2020

Now back to How to Quit Drinking With Identity Based Habits, Because Willpower Doesn’t Work.

There are easy ways and hard ways to break the habit of drinking.

And if you’ve tried a bunch of times to get sober momentum and given up after 2 weeks or 2 months, I’m betting that you’ve tried ALL the hard ways to stop drinking and it’s brought you back to the same place.

In this episode I’m going to share with you the research and framework behind how to break your habit of drinking once and for all, without relying on willpower, white-knuckling it or hating the process.

What I’ve found in the coaching work I do with women is that approaching not drinking based on the research into what works in terms of long term behavior change is the most powerful, logical and sustainable way to become a happy and healthy non-drinker.

And the best book I’ve found on how to change your habits and behavior is Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Here’s what doesn’t work when you’re trying to stop drinking:

Shaming or blaming yourself for drinking again when the physical, social and emotional environment you live in has set you up for failure
Relying on hitting a low enough ‘bottom’ so that you’ll finally have the motivation to not drink and the willpower to resist alcohol
Keeping your wine (or your alcohol of choice) in your home (so that you don’t have to ask your partner to change their behavior)
Relying on your partner, family and drinking friends as your main source of support for changing your relationship with alcohol

If you’ve tried to stop drinking before and don’t seem to get very far there are a lot of reasons why what you’ve been doing up until now hasn’t been working.

Here’s what you’ll learn in today’s episode about the ways to change your behavior and stop drinking in a way that’s easier and set up in a way for long term success.

How to prime your physical environment and social support to overcome the moments when willpower isn’t enough and motivation fades
Why true behavior change is based on identity change - who you believe you are. Because when you change your identity from a “red wine or chardonnay girl” to a “healthy, happy, confident and inspiring woman who doesn't drink anymore because she feels better and does more without it” - then, when you don’t drink, you are simply acting IN ALIGNMENT with who you are
How to get rid of the limiting beliefs and fears you have about what your life will look like without drinking
Why it's important to focus on your trajectory (the path that you are on and where it is leading you) rather than your end goal
How altering the media and messages you surround yourself with (including the messages you tell yourself) can be the difference between success and failure

Links and resources mentioned

Grab a copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear

Podcast episodes on how to prime your mindset, physical and social environment for success in quitting drinking

Episode 2 - 5 Mistakes Women Make When Quitting Drinking

Episode 3 - 7 Strategies To Get You Through Your First Week Without Alcohol

Episode 10 - 10 Things You Need In Your Sober Toolkit

Episode 23 - Feeling Bored In Sobriety? Things To Know + What To Do

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 33: Quitter: Drinking, Relapse + Recovery with Erica C. Barnett Dec 03, 2020

There is no cookie cutter way to quit drinking.

Often it takes many tries to find out what level of support you need to navigate life without drinking as a way to cope with life and what framework of recovery works for you.

My guest today is Erica C. Barnett, the Seattle author of the book Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse and Recovery.

Erica’s experience with drinking and quitting drinking illustrates that it often takes a lot of trying to know what works for you. And that being able to move from relying on drinking pretty heavily as your main coping mechanism to not drinking and being able to sustain that often takes a number of tries.

I loved my conversation with Erica and we covered a lot of ground.

We talked about the good and the bad in drinking, quitting drinking and life in recovery.

Plus Erica shared a ton about the ins and outs of the world of outpatient + inpatient treatment and detox facilities, which I knew very little about before our conversation.

In this episode, Erica and I chat about

How awesome it is that we’re now able (with a few years distance from quitting drinking) to laugh at ‘all of it’ (our drinking, the situations we got into, the things we screwed up, the times we tried to stop drinking and failed, our paths to sobriety and everything in between)
The rapid increase in women binge drinking and drinking daily during the 2020 quarantine and COVID pandemic and the relentless messaging in our society encouraging (and pressuring) women to drink everyday
How fucked up it is that our society first encourages and trivializes women’s reliance on wine as “cute” or “funny” and then blames women for becoming addicted to an addictive substance
Why despite the fact that alcohol use disorders are more common than opioid addiction and kill more people, alcohol is positioned as an almost entirely fun and harmless substance
Why relapse is more often than not a part of recovery yet relapse is treated as a personal failure rather than a near-inevitability
The differences between the many paths to recovery including cognitive behavioral therapy, 12 step programs, online alcohol-free groups, inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities, medically supervised detox services, sober coaching and everything in between
The judgement surrounding addiction and how it can be harmful to recovering addicts.
The treatment industry and how it relies on repeat customers to keep it profitable and thriving - as well as Erica’s personal experiences (what worked and what didn’t) at various treatment centers

About Erica C. Barnett

Erica is a longtime political journalist and the author of a great book, Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse and Recovery. She founded and edits the website PublicCola.com, which covers local news and politics in Seattle.

Links and resources mentioned

Grab a copy of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

Check out Erica’s blog, Thecisforcrank.com

Check out http://PubliCola.com and I Was a “Fun” Drunk. Until I Wasn’t.

Connect with Erica C. Barnett

Follow Erica on Twitter @ericacbarnett

Connect with Erica on Instagram @ericabarnett

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratey

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 32: 10 Ways Running Can Jumpstart Your Recovery Nov 26, 2020

Developing a running practice can jumpstart your recovery.

Running is a layer of support that helps you set goals, boost confidence, and fill your time with a healthy alternative when all you want to do is pour yourself a drink.

My guest today is Margaret Ward. Margaret is a mother of 4, a multiple marathon finisher, a retired chardonnay drinker, a life and sobriety coach and a former lawyer.

She’s been featured in Trail Runner Magazine and her main passions, beside her kids, is finding adventure through traveling and running around the world.

Margaret’s Recovery Run Adventures offers alcohol-free adventures to destination races in Iceland, Norway and Italy and more.

In this episode we discuss,

The struggles of motherhood that can drive women to drink as a way to cope with stress and anxiety
The mental and physical benefits of running that will help you heal
How developing a small, consistent running practice can ease early sobriety
How running can help you build up small wins and boost your confidence
The way in which running helps you become more in tune with your body
Fun and exciting running adventures around the world in Iceland, Norway and Italy

10 Ways Running Can Jumpstart Your Recovery

Running requires little financial commitment and you can jump in at any time. Just grab your running shoes and head out the door.
Helps control your cravings, especially in early sobriety. When you run, your brain releases endorphins. Endorphins is a chemical released by your brain that triggers positive emotions. This is also known as the runners high.
Running decreases stress and anxiety. In early sobriety, your stress and anxiety levels can increase. Running increases your heart rate which in turn changes your brain chemistry. Your brain releases an anti-anxiety neurotransmitter such as GABA.
Moving your body allows you to practice mindfulness. When you run, you connect with your breathing and get into a state of flow. Running is a form of moving meditation.
Allows you to set goals and see immediate results. Setting running goals builds confidence and it gives you something to celebrate once that goal is accomplished. Start small and commit.
Provides structure to your day which is an important tool to have during early sobriety.
Counteracts Boredom.
Running is a natural way to release energy. Releasing build up energy helps regulate your nervous system, control anger, and will physically tire you out which will help you sleep at night.
When you start running, you open yourself up to a whole new world. A community of women who will cheer you on and hold you accountable. Joining a local running group helps you establish connections with other women.
Running provides you a great reason to stop drinking. You’re getting your body healthy. You are giving yourself a great tool to jumpstart your sobriety.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/32

Links and resources mentioned

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Connect with Margaret Ward

Find out more about Margaret’s life and sobriety coaching and her travel + running trips at

https://recoveryrunadventures.com/coaching/

You can also get Margaret’s free guide, 5 Steps to Jumpstart Your Running and Recovery, at

https://recoveryrunadventures.com/coaching.

Read Margaret Ward’s feature in Trail Runner Magazine.

Follow Margaret on Facebook at Recovery Run Adventures

Connect with Margaret on Instagram @recoveryrunadventures

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 31: How To Get Through The Holidays Without Drinking with Jean McCarthy Nov 19, 2020

The holidays are both a wonderful time of year as well as a time that can trip up women who have stopped drinking, from those in early sobriety to those that might have quit months (or years) earlier.

A lot of us might get to November and December and think, I've been doing this not drinking thing for a while now. I've got this.

But the holidays are a unique combination of back-to-back drinking events + occasions, family dynamics, memories of previous years drinking, physically being surrounded by alcohol with powerful emotional and social triggers.

The holiday season can undermine your recovery if you're not prepared to navigate it in a way that supports your sobriety.

In this episode, Jean and I share all the tips and tricks to having a wonderful holiday season without drinking.

We talk about:

How to socialize sober + reduce stress and anxiety around attending holiday gatherings
Specific strategies for navigating Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas + New Year’s Eve
Practical advice on attending + hosting holiday parties, traveling + staying with family or having family members stay with you
What you can share with family + friends so they can make not drinking easier for you during the holidays
Why annual traditions and the specific expectations around what events happen during the holiday season, who hosts, what is served, how long people are together, who travels + for how long, can lead to resentments + challenges for your sobriety
Why it’s important to identify your expectations around the holidays + evaluate how they might impact you physically, mentally and emotionally
How to say no, modify traditions + set boundaries without feeling like you’re high maintenance
The fun stuff: why to set up a seasonal or holiday ‘bucket list’ with ideas of how to make the most of this special time that’s not centered around alcohol
Ideas for new traditions that can make the season more joyful, memorable + fulfilling

About Jean McCarthy

Jean McCarthy is the host of the Bubble Hour Podcast, an award winning blogger + recovery advocate. Jean is an author of two books.

Her book, The Unpickled Holiday Survival Guide - staying alcohol free during the festive season is a wonderful resource about sobriety for people in recovery and for their families.

Her collection of poetry, The Ember Ever There - Poems on change, grief, growth, recovery and rediscovery was published in early 2020.

I interviewed Jean for this podcast in episode nine about her poetry and her story.

Jean started her blog, Unpickled in 2011, and has continued to chronicle her alcohol free lifestyle. Since her first day of sobriety, thousands of readers have credited Unpickled as a motivating factor in their decision to quit drinking.

SHOWNOTES: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Links and resources mentioned

Connect with Jean Mccarthy

Link to buy Jean’s Holiday Survival Guide and The Ember Ever There books: www.jeanmccarthy.ca/books

Instagram @jeanmccarthy_writes

Facebook pages for Unpickled (www.facebook.com/unpickled) and The Bubble Hour (www.facebook.com/thebubblehour)

Also websites: https://jeanmccarthy.ca/, https://unpickledblog.com/, https://jeanmccarthy.ca/the-bubble-hour/, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999299906

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab your Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Get support during the holiday season from women who are on the alcohol-free path with the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 30: The Enneagram and Transformational Habits Nov 12, 2020

The Enneagram is a tool of self discovery. It can help you understand yourself and why you respond and act the way you do.

Today my guest is Jim Zartman. Jim is a certified Enneagram coach who walks us through the Enneagram types as well as transformational habits that can change our lives.

Since Jim has done Enneagram work and typing interviews with over 50 women who are on the alcohol-free path, I asked him to talk about how the Enneagram work can be viewed through the lens of women who have relied on alcohol as a coping mechanism and are now leaving it behind.

If you’re stepping away from alcohol the Enneagram can help you understand your unique core drivers, core needs, beliefs and patterns that have been influencing your choices and decisions.

Jim shares that your core drivers can show up as superpowers or as a shadow that can sabotage the best parts of you.

Jim shares, “The best of you is permanent. The worst of you is temporary. You never want to be less of yourself. You want to be the best of yourself with fewer sabotaging patterns. The Enneagram can help you uncover the best parts of you.”

In Jim’s Enneagram work with clients he sees that:

Understanding your Enneagram type can help you gain a better understanding of your core motivations, driven by your desires and fears
Your Enneagram type is not a landing place, but a launch pad - it’s a tool in your growth, not the list of behaviors you are now held to
Your Enneagram type doesn’t put you in a box. Rather it gives you a framework for your tendencies and the lens through which you interact with your surroundings

In this episode, Jim and I chat about:

What the Enneagram is and how you can use the Enneagram as a tool to help you stop relying on alcohol as a coping mechanism
Transformation habits that can make a big difference in your sobriety
How you show up + being consistent
Acceptance
Curiosity
The three types of the main intelligence centers: the body center, heart center, & head center

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/30

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About Jim Zartman

Jim is a certified enneagram coach and the co-founder of The Art of Growth, which is a team of coaches and consultants who work with individuals and organizations to help them achieve the transformation they want in themselves, their work and their relationship.

Connect with Jim Zartman

Website: www.theartofgrowth.org

Listen to The Art of Growth Podcast

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Get the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

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Ep.29: How is Coaching different than AA with Dennis Berry Nov 05, 2020

What is the difference between Life, Recovery and Sober Coaching and a 12 step program like Alcoholics Anonymous?

Most people who are trying to stop drinking have preconceived notions about what goes on in 12 step recovery programs such as AA based on what they’ve seen on TV and in movies and are also confused about what exactly “life coaching” or “sober coaching” involves.

Some people wonder if a life and recovery coach is just a private paid AA Sponsor (spoiler alert - it’s not!)

Going through a 12 step program, like Alcoholics Anonymous, typically involves attending meetings where members follow the 12 steps laid in the Big Book of Alcoholic Anonymous as a process that recovering alcoholics work through to successfully achieve and maintain sobriety. Many of these steps are ideally taken with the help of a sponsor, an individual who has gone through the AA program and helps others who are new to AA as they navigate early sobriety.

Unlike AA, most life and sobriety coaches use a flexible approach to identify your personal goals around not drinking and succeeding in other areas of your life and create a plan to achieve them based on individual needs, motivations and preferences.

I think that hiring a coach to stop drinking is similar to the decision you might make to hire a personal trainer or a nutritionist to increase your fitness levels or refine your eating habits.

I’ve invited my guest, Dennis Berry, to have this conversation with me because he’s not only a skilled life coach who is passionate about the benefits of coaching, but he is also in recovery and found recovery in AA and for many years was an active participant in the program. He both sees all the benefits of 12 Step programs and the difference between AA and coaching.

In this episode, we discuss:

How life, sobriety and recovery coaching differs from the approach used in 12 Step Recovery Programs such as Alcoholic Anonymous.
Why most people need layers of support to stop drinking which may include a combination of coaching, therapy, exercise, 12 step programs, podcasts, books, online support groups and other hobbies, habits and healthy pursuits.
How coaching differs from the work done by sponsors in AA or therapy in being goal and future-focused.
The benefits of the Alcoholics Anonymous as a program which is widely available (with an estimated membership of 2 million people around the world), free of cost and offers fellowship, support and a structured program of steps to take to stop drinking.
The limitations of AA as a program created 85 years ago, in 1935, by two white men. In 1939, the Fellowship published its basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous and in 1953 AA’s 12 steps (the guidelines by which to get sober and recover) and 12 traditions (the principles behind the steps meant to keep members focused on the primary purpose) were written. Criticisms of AA have been that it can be seen as a one-size-fits-all approach that is rigid and antiquated.
The importance of developing independence in sobriety and why Dennis believes AA’s philosophy and approach can foster dependence on the program.

About Dennis Berry

Dennis is a Life Coach based in Colorado, who has been working with people recovering from addiction worldwide for over 15 years. Dennis has been in recovery from drug abuse for 17 years. His recovery has helped him find his mission in life, which is to help others on their journey through sobriety and achieve inner peace and success in every area of their lives. Dennis is also the host of The Funky Brain Podcast.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/29

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Connect with Dennis Berry

Website www.dennisberry.com

Listen to The Funky Brain Podcast

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Ep. 28: Healing Codependency In Family Relationships - Breaking Unhealthy Patterns Established in Childhood Oct 29, 2020

How can you heal codependency in family relationships and break unhealthy patterns established in childhood?

That’s what we’re here to talk about today.

Codependency is a buzzword you might hear often, but it can be confusing and misunderstood.

My guest today is Brandi Merrill, she’s a life and recovery coach, a She Recovers coach, a licensed clinical social worker and a “boundary boss”. Brandi’s going to help us understand what codependency is (and is not) and how to break unhealthy patterns that may be sabotaging your health and happiness.

Codependency is an excessive reliance on other people for approval and sense of self.

It can cause you to worry about the lack of response from people, to feel anger about what you said or didn’t say in situations because you are relying on others for approval, not honor your own opinions and thoughts, and believe that putting yourself first is rude or selfish.

And codependency can make it challenging to set healthy boundaries, or cause guilt or anxiety when you do set them.

In this episode, Brandi and I are going to dig into:

The 4 steps to healing codependent behavior
7 signs of healing from codependency
Why overly harsh or loose boundaries can cause you to avoid close relationships
How and why codependency manifests in many family relationships
How to break unhealthy patterns established in childhood as an adult
The complicated relationship between codependent feelings and boundaries

About Brandi Merrill

Brandi lives in Idaho and is a single mom to three amazing daughters. She's a life and recovery coach, a She Recovers coach and a licensed clinical social worker who has provided counseling services for many years. Brandi is passionate about coaching and the transformations that are possible with the use of positive psychology and spirituality.

Her personal journey has been one of forgiveness, self love, becoming a boundary boss, and single parenting in recovery. She's in recovery from alcohol and codependency and believes that anything is possible. Brandi is passionate about inspiring her clients to make the changes they desire and to live their best lives. Brandi also works closely with moms in recovery that have experienced loss, including time with their kids, divorce or death.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/28

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Links and resources mentioned:

Books mentioned:

Connect with Brandi Merrill

Website: www.thepassionatepath.com

Instagram: @thepassionatepath

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Get the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

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Ep. 27: What’s Next in MidLife - Creativity, Change + Finding Your Purpose Oct 22, 2020

‘What’s Next?’ is a huge question for midlife women who have quit drinking or are working on quitting drinking.

You're evolving, you're changing, your coping mechanisms are changing.

Lots of times when you stop drinking, suddenly you have a lot more free time and energy than you used to.

When you were drinking and recovering from drinking. You are sort of in a holding pattern.

You were stuck. And now you're wondering what to do with all that time.

In today’s episode, I’m speaking with Sondra Primeaux. Sondra is a multi passionate maker, a photographer, a sustainable designer and seamstress, a writer, a coach and a podcast host. She hosts the Unruffled Podcast through a private Facebook group for the podcast.

Sondra started the Unruffled Podcast to talk about the intersection of creativity and recovery in what she terms the midlife solution, which I absolutely love. Sandra says midlife is only a crisis if you make it one.

Sondra was 45 when she quit using alcohol as a means to cope with life. And in the last six years, she's figured out through intensive learning, trial and failure, and loads of practice to answer ‘now what?’

We are discussing:

The intersection of creativity and recovery helps midlife women not only survive, but also thrive.
How conscious journaling can give you the momentum and creative space to explore more internal thoughts and how this process is a good tool to have during early sobriety
The transition into your mid-life and why you should dig deep into what you’ve done or haven't done. And it's also a time to take a glimpse into your future self.
Being honest with yourself and with others and how to set boundaries.
Using the enneagram to learn about yourself and what motivates you
Why creativity is a important part of your recovery and how to find different ways to bring joy and creativity to your life
How to find the middle space or sweet spot where you can create
Intersection of your personality type and going to AA and realizing there are other successful ways to recovery

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/27

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Links and resources mentioned:

Book mentioned: Artist Way by Julia Cameron

Connect with Sondra Primeaux

Website: www.theunruffled.com

Want to work with Sondra, check out her Change your Story Program

Go to Sondra Talbert Primeaux Facebook page and message her to join her secret Facebook group

Listen to Sondra's podcast The Unruffled Podcast

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Get the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

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Ep. 26: The Wine O’Clock Myth with Lotta Dann Oct 15, 2020

My guest today Lotta Dann, recovery advocate, blogger and author of three books: the best-selling memoir Mrs. D is Going Without, her second book Mrs. D Is Going Within, and the just released The Wine O’Clock Myth.

Lotta’s personal memoir of drinking, quitting drinking and living alcohol-free in a drink-filled world is witty, funny, and uplifting. Many memoirs are raw and gritty, but Mrs. D Is Going Without is both charming and real. I loved her book and completely related to Lotta’s experiences in early sobriety.

Today Lotta and I talk about The Wine O’Clock Myth, and why alcohol occupies such a privileged position in our society.

It’s almost universally represented as a magic elixir to all our problems which makes life both fun and glamorous. And the fact that alcohol also negatively affects the lives of people is practically invisible in conversations about or representations of drinking.

In this episode, Lotta and I discuss:

The truth that if you are struggling to moderate drinking, you are not alone and you are not the problem: alcohol is the problem.
The way the liquor industry has targeted women and the damaging 'Wine Mom' social media culture.
The importance of reframing the treat and reward concepts we’ve been taught (and internalized) around wine. That drinking is our treat at the end of the day and a much needed reward for hard work.
Why after the initial hit of dopamine wine is a depressive substance that is numbing and cuts you off from yourself and the people around you.
How to find other rewards and ‘sober treats’ that will nourish and ground you and that will actually make you feel better.
How to intentionally create a social media feed that inspires you to see all the awesome ways to enjoy life without alcohol rather than one that glamorizes drinking at every turn.
Why it’s critical to tap into a positive sober support community that shares the full picture of drinking - not just the one marketed to you. One that highlights both how good life can be without alcohol and shares truthfully the messages you will not see in popular culture, marketing or your social media feed - that drinking isn’t always harmless and fun. It can be dangerous and suck a lot of women (and men) into an unhealthy and unhappy cycle.

About Lotta Dann

Lotta built a successful career as a TV reporter, producer, and director, while simultaneously developing a remarkable aptitude for drinking a lot of alcohol.

Lotta began an anonymous blog called “Mrs. D is Going Without” when she was first stopping drinking - as a way to work through her thoughts and feelings, and keep herself accountable when she was starting her journey without alcohol.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/26

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Connect with Lotta Dann

The Wine O'Clock Myth: The Truth You Need To Know About Women and Alcohol: https://www.amazon.com/Wine-OClock-Myth-Truth-Alcohol/dp/1988547229

Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-D-Going-Without-Memoir/dp/1877505390

Mrs D is Going Within: https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Going-Within-Lotta-Dann/dp/1877505862

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrs_d_alcoholfree/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mrsdisgoingwithout

Lotta Dann's Blog: http://livingwithoutalcohol.blogspot.com/

Mrs. D's Blog on Living Sober: https://livingsober.org.nz/category/mrs-ds-blog/

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

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Ep. 25: Gray Area Drinking With Jolene Park Oct 08, 2020

What is Gray Area Drinking?

It describes the space where most drinkers live: a place between being able to ‘take or leave’ alcohol and hitting some kind of a ‘rock bottom’ where you are experiencing external consequences associated with being on the alcohol use disorder spectrum or identified as signs of alcoholism.

In a world where everything seems to be black and white, where either you have a problem with drinking or you don’t, there are so many of us who try to moderate our drinking and struggle to do so.

You might not experience outward consequences from drinking, but struggle internally.
You have silent conversations with yourself about your own drinking.
You intend to have one glass of wine, but then find it easy to finish the whole bottle.
You stop drinking for days, weeks or months, but then start drinking again and find yourself back in the same place.

It’s a really confusing place to live when you realize that the way you drink isn’t helping you have the life you want but you live in a world where drinking is all around you.

So how do you know if it’s time to make an “early exit” from the drinking life?

And what does that even look like and feel like?

Those are the questions we're digging into today with my guest, Jolene Park.

Jolene is a functional nutritionist, a health coach, a TEDx speaker, a former gray area drinker and the creator of the gray area drinking recovery hub.

Jolene describes the term “gray area drinking” as the kind of drinking where there’s no rock bottom, but you drink as a way to manage anxiety and then regret how much and how often you drink.

In this episode, we discuss:

What gray area drinking is. How to determine if you’re a gray area drinker and what to do about it.
Why so many of us use alcohol to downshift and calm down at the end of a busy, stressful day.
Jolene’s personal alcohol and anxiety story and why she decided to make an early exit from the drinking life.
What drinking does to your body.
How to eliminate alcohol and sugar cravings and reduce anxiety by using real food, high-quality nutrients and cutting-edge mind/body techniques.
The functional impact of food, emotions, environment and movement in relation to our physical bodies.
The importance of replenishing our neurotransmitters and nourishing our nervous systems in a comprehensive and consistent way.
The missing pieces that have been overlooked in traditional recovery programs such as neurotransmitters (GABA, serotonin, dopamine), blood sugar imbalance, and nutrient deficiencies like B6 and zinc (pyroluria).
Specific supplements that boost your GABA
Holy basil
Lemon balm
Passion flower
Inositol
L-theanine

About Jolene Park:

Jolene Park coaches high achieving professionals who want to eliminate alcohol and sugar cravings and reduce their anxiety by using real food, high-quality nutrients and cutting-edge mind/body techniques.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/25

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Connect with Jolene Park

Visit Jolene’s Website: https://www.healthydiscoveries.com/

Follow Jolene on Instagram @jolene_park

Watch Jolene’s TEDx talk: https://www.healthydiscoveries.com/tedx-talk/

Listen to the Editing Our Drinking and Our Lives Podcast with Jolene Park & Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Book: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

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Ep. 24: Ann Dowsett Johnston - Wine as the Modern Women’s Steroid Oct 01, 2020

Ann Dowsett Johnston, the best-selling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, has described the positioning of wine in popular culture as “The modern woman's steroid, enabling her to do everything she needs to do or tries to do”.

And there’s one problem with that description of alcohol. It’s not true and it doesn't work.

Instead of helping the modern woman do everything she needs to do - wine is a mal-adpative, and highly addictive coping mechanism that’s exacerbating stress, anxiety and depression for the modern woman.

On the podcast today Ann and I unpack the complicated and intimate relationship between women and alcohol.

We talk about:

How drinking after a long day of work has become a universal practice. It’s being repeated in house after house as women are standing at their kitchen counters in the evening and pouring themselves a glass (or a bottle) of wine.
How successful, professional women are increasingly struggling with drinking even as they rise high on the corporate ladder.
How women are using alcohol to self-medicate anxiety, depression, loss and loneliness - including suffering through events like empty-nest syndrome and depression in menopause.
How the messaging that “Mom needs to drink to get through her day, life, kids and work” is being pushed on us - in surround sound - in popular culture and by our alcogenic society.
Why are you able to move forward in a healthy way only once you get out of the drinking cycle. You’re finally able to work through underlying issues of anxiety, codependency, trauma, depression, and other factors that are driving you to drink.
Why the growing movement of women telling their stories of drinking and quitting drinking, with pride and not shame, is helping other women recover in a way that the culture of anonymity in AA does not.
Why it’s so important for women who want to stop drinking to develop many layers of support to heal - which can include connecting with women on the alcohol-free path, reading books and memoirs of women who have stopped drinking, learning about the science of alcohol and what it does to your body and mind, joining support programs and creating new coping mechanisms through psychotherapy, counseling or with a sober or addiction coach.
How you can build layers of support to help you change your relationship with drinking - through psychotherapy, coaching, other women in private free Facebook groups online or in person, books, exercise, nutrition and more.

About Ann Dowsett Johnston

Anne Dowsett Johnston is the best-selling author of the book Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol. It was named by the Washington Post as one of the top 10 books of 2013. Ann is a psychotherapist who provides trauma informed relational care to clients with a focus on women in recovery, and works from a holistic perspective using the principles of focusing oriented psychotherapy, to bring awareness and compassion to the mind-body connection. Ann also offers an online eight week course on Writing Your Recovery based on her decades of experience as a journalist and a best selling author on memoir and writing your recovery.

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Stephanie Wilder-Taylor article on A Heroine of Cocktail Moms Sobers Up

Connect with Ann Dowsett Johnston

Website: http://www.anndowsettjohnston.com

TEDx talk on drinking and how it changed Ann’s life: http://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/media/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anndowsettjohnstob/

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

https://sherecovers.co/together-online/

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

Connect with She Recovers

https://sherecovers.co/our-retreats/

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Ep.23: Feeling Bored In Sobriety? Things To Know + What To Do Sep 24, 2020

Are you worried that life without drinking will be boring?

Or are you currently in early sobriety and feeling bored?

Are you scared that you’ll never really have fun or let loose again without alcohol?

Or wondering if you’ll lose all your friends and favorite activities if you don’t drink?

Here’s a secret: Almost all women who love to drink worry about being bored (or boring) without alcohol.

In this episode I’m going to talk about all the tips, tricks, suggestions and advice I have to make life without alcohol fun, comforting, interesting and gratifying.

I’ll talk about:

Why drinking is actually keeping your life small, isolated (and boring).
Why all of us have tunnel vision when we’re drinking. We see only the people and activities around us that are centered around alcohol (and look past all the other activities hiding in plain sight).
What to do if you're feeling bored in your first 15, 30 or 40 days and how to reframe your mindset about the important work you’re doing.
Why there is NO CHANCE you're “doing nothing” in early sobriety. Even if you feel like you are just taking baths, reading books, going to bed early and taking long, slow walks you are doing big, important work and emotional heavy lifting.
Why part of the work of early sobriety is learning to sit with feeling “blah”.
Why to ask yourself “What do I love MORE than wine?” [and why it’s OK if you can’t think of anything at all to answer that question].
Why you should give yourself “assignments” to find joy and pleasure after you quit drinking.
Examples and ideas of new passions, activities, pastimes and hobbies from other women who have stopped drinking & found joy and excitement without it.
Why vision boards of future adventures and travel (Coffee in Paris? Bike tour in Amsterdam? Hiking in Greece?) can be a powerful way to get excited about your fun life in sobriety.
How to edit your social media accounts to inspire you about how good life can be without alcohol vs. making you feel like you’re missing out on something (or everything).
How to meet new friends who don’t drink and have new adventures without alcohol.
And why it’s up to you to make things happen in your life. It’s both a responsibility and an invitation.

You’ve got this.

Life without drinking is not smaller. It’s not boring.

It’s big and exciting and beautiful and you will have the time and energy to go after your dreams.

And if you’re not there yet I’m here to hold your hand and walk you through the quiet times until you’re ready for good stuff ahead.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/23

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Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Check out my previous episode with the authors of The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free, Amanda Eyre Ward + Jardine Libaire here

Listen to my episode on how to find friends in sobriety.

Download the Guide to my Favorite Secret Facebook Groups For Women Quitting Drinking.

Download The Vision Board Starter Kit.

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

https://moneyminderonline.com

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

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Ep. 22: Reduce Money Stress- Financial First Aid With Linda Parmar Sep 17, 2020

Who doesn’t carry around some emotional baggage around money?

Most people have a complicated relationship with money that can show up in different ways.

This may look like:

A constant weight on your shoulders or guilt about carrying debt
Buying things to get a short term hit of happiness
Fear of maintaining financial stability in an uncertain job market
Staying in a job that isn’t making you happy because you feel trapped by the “golden handcuffs”
Worries about putting your kids through college or paying your mortgage
Or not being on the same page as your partner on spending

Money is a loaded subject and one we rarely talk about with friends and colleagues.

And often our “money story”, what drives our fears, guilt and avoidance around money, is unconscious. It’s something we picked up in childhood and from our parents.

You may not even be aware of the patterns you’re repeating or the thoughts that are not serving you.

Unresolved issues, tension or stress related to money is something that can keep us drinking (to bury our heads in the sand) or a trigger to drink.

And that’s why I’m so excited to bring you today’s episode!

My guest today is Linda Parmar, she’s a financial recovery and money coach.

Linda specializes in helping women in recovery heal their money, thoughts and behaviors.

Linda learned in recovery, that money (like alcohol and drugs) can be just a symptom of negative patterns and behaviors.

Fear around financial security, fear of not knowing how to manage money or “adult”, fear around being able to take care of ourselves or making the wrong decisions financially can be a big source of stress in our own lives, as well as with family and in relationships.

There’s a lot of shame and self-judgement around debt, financial missteps, not having as much money as the people you know or not being able to provide your kids with the same vacations and gifts that their friends may be getting.

A few years into recovery, Linda was ready to look at these patterns and behaviors, which led her to become a certified money coach.

Linda has worked in the financial industry for 20 years, and has made a career from helping people with their finances.

In this episode, you will learn:

How to uncover your money story
What values you have around money
Why spending money can be addictive behavior
How to forgive yourself and start to understand how money is a trigger driving you to drink
Why both Linda and I hate the word “budget”
How to create a spending plan that is aligned with your dreams and needs

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/22

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Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Apps Mentioned:

https://www.everydollar.com

http://imdonedrinking.com

Connect with She Recovers

https://sherecovers.co/together-online/

https://sherecovers.co/our-retreats/

SHE RECOVERS on Facebook: facebook.com/sherecovers

The SHE RECOVERS Intentions & Guiding Principles

Connect with Linda Parmar

Grab your Financial First Aid Kit at www.lindaparmar.com

Facebook Group: Your Money, Your Recovery

Podcast: Your Money Your Recovery Podcast

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Book: Highlight Real: Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

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Ep. 21: The Truth Behind Those Online Drinking 'Highlights' Sep 10, 2020

The Truth Behind Those Online Drinking “Highlights”. Getting Real With Emily Lynn Paulson.

How “real” are all those images you see online?

The perfect Instagram families? The fancy business trips? The carefree Mom’s Night Out?

Today my guest is an author, a speaker and my friend, Emily Lynn Paulson.

In our conversation Emily and I dig into the truth behind the “Online Drinking Highlights” you see as you scroll through your social media feed.

Emily and I know that so many women struggle with their drinking, quietly, in private, and in their own heads - just like we did.

You might look around and see everyone else is posting a photo of the sophisticated cocktails at a bar on a date night, the pictures of friends all drinking together around the firepit, or the vacation pictures with the margarita at the beach.

And the truth is, you have no idea what anyone else’s relationship with alcohol looks like, or what their marriage feels like, or how well they’re coping with being a parent and with their jobs.

In this episode Emily and I talk about:

Why Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook set expectations so high for what a successful woman, mother and wife is “supposed” to be that most women inevitably can’t measure up.
The reality of what our lives, our jobs, our marriages and interactions with our children looked like as compared to the pictures we posted online.
Why posting your highlights on social media is such a draw. As Emily says “In those Instagram squares was the life I wished we were living: a happy marriage, a healthy wife, a happy motherhood. Behind the scenes though, we were barely surviving.”
How you can both love your kids and feel grateful for them, and also feel that motherhood is hard, draining and (yes) unfulfilling.
And why finding a safe space of women to share your struggles and honest experiences - both good and bad - can be a game changer in living a happier life.

In this episode, you learn:

How to navigate the drinking culture of parenthood and “mommy juice”
How to connect with your partner again after quitting drinking
Why it's hard to quit alcohol when it has become part of your love language
How not to gravitate toward the pretty images on Instagram and take those photos as real life because the hard stuff is hard to look at both on Instagram and in our own lives.

Emily Lynn Paulson is the author of a powerful memoir about her life, her family, her successes and struggles, excessive drinking and disordered eating, and her realization that drinking wasn’t working in her life anymore.

Emily is a certified professional recovery coach, She Recovers Designated Coach, This Naked Mind Certified Coach, founder of Sober Mom Squad, and a member of the long-term recovery community.

She has appeared on media outlets including The Doctors, Parade, Today Parents, and USA Today, discussing how to end the shame and stigma of mental health by and substance abuse disorder.

Emily has been sober since January 2, 2017, her recovery path is focused on ruthless honesty, grace, self-love and is documented in her memoir, Highlight Real: Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life. Paulson’s resources include one-on-one coaching, to help others evaluate whether or not alcohol is serving them in their lives. Paulson resides in Seattle with her husband and their five children.

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Connect with Emily Lynn Paulson

Website: www.highlightreallife.com

Instagram: Highlight Real Recovery

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson)

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Ep.20: Learning to Know, Like + Trust Yourself Sep 03, 2020

When you stop drinking, doing inner work around knowing, liking and trusting yourself again can be healing and empowering.

For years you may have been meeting external expectations and caring for others over listening to your inner voice and intuition.

By the time you’ve stopped drinking you may be so removed from your authentic self that you no longer know who you truly are or what you want and need.

Today my guest Tanya Ouhrabka is going to share ways that we can regain our “know, like, and trust” factor in life.

Tanya’s a Life Coach who works with women to shift their mindset and perspectives in order to achieve self-acceptance.

Tanya believes that when you realign the mind, body, and soul with the truth of who you are, what you desire, and your purpose - you “know, like and trust” yourself again, and can live a purposeful and passion filled life.

By releasing self-judgement and increasing self-confidence and self-awareness we’re able to be the healthiest and happiest version of ourselves.

As someone who lost too many years of her own life to self-critical thought patterns and destructive behavior, Tanya knows the power to change our life lies within us, not externally.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why to stop looking outside yourself for validation
How to be empowered by your inner compass and inner knowing
How the ability to know, like and trust yourself will help you uncover what's truly best for you
How to process inner and outer growth
How to listen to your inner voice and follow your inner compass through the guidance of these 4 pillars:
Self-care
Nourishment
Movement
Authenticity

Tanya is a survivor and thriver, former self-critic, and truth seeking storyteller, who is changing women’s lives as a certified life coach.

In addition to coaching, Tanya shares her inspirational story of transformation to groups of girls and women across the country. Additionally, she has just founded POWAR™, a community for women to authentically and transparently share and rise together.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/20

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Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Connect with Tanya Ouhrabka

Website: https://www.tanyaouhrabka.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanyaouhrabka/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tanya.b.ouhrabka

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

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Ep. 19: Best Quit Lit For Women Aug 27, 2020

There's a whole genre of books that you might not ever hear about if you're not a woman who has a complicated relationship with alcohol. It's called “Quit lit"- books about drinking, quitting drinking, getting sober and life without alcohol.

There are novels and memoirs, essays, fiction, and how to guides. They are deep and soulful, entertaining and honest, eye opening, hysterically funny, raw and hopeful. Quit lit books were a lifeline to me in early sobriety.

In this episode, I want to share not only my favorites but the voices of other women and the books that have inspired them and helped them along the path of re-evaluating their relationship with alcohol.

This episode is about the best quit lit for women.

To get the full guide of the best quit lit for women go to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/quit-lit

Enter your email address and the guide will be sent right to your inbox.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/19

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Books and Resources mentioned in this episode

Drinking a Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life by Glennon Doyle
Tired of Thinking About Drinking: Take My 100-Day Sober Challenge by Belle Robertson
The Sober Diaries: How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living by Clare Pooley
We are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of Sober Life by Laura McKowen
The Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace
The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free by Jardine Libaire + Amanda Eyre Ward
Blackout by Sarah Hepola
Quit Like A Woman by Holly Whitaker
Girl Walks Out of A Bar by Lisa Smith
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray
Mrs. D is Going Without by Lotta Dann
Sober Stick Figures by Amber Tozer
Nothing Good Can Come of This by Kristi Coulter
Idiot by Laura Clery
Drink by Ann Dowsett Johnston
The Little Book of Big Change by Amy Johnson
My Fair Junkie by Amy Dresner
This is How by Augusten Burroughs
High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins
The Ember Ever There and The Unpickled Holiday Survival by Jean McCarthy
Almost Alcoholic by Joseph Nowinski Ph.D
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
12 Steps and 12 Traditions by Bill Wilson
Waking Tiger by Peter Levine
The Good House by Anne Leary
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
Highlight Real by Emily Paulson
The Year of No-Nonsense by Meredith Atwood
Lit by Mary Karr
Bottled: Mom’s guide to early recovery + How to be the Perfect Like Me by Dana Bowman
Between Breaths: A memoir of panic and addiction by Elizabeth Vargas
Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
A Happier Hour by Rebecca Weller
Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery by Erica C. Barnett
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison
Kick the Drink Easily by Jason Vale
Alcohol Explained by William Porter
Easy Way for Women to Quit Drinking by Allen Carr
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill Wilson
The Women’s Way Through The Twelve Steps by Stephanie S. Covington

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

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Ep. 18: Kristi Coulter on Drinking, Working + "Being A First World Woman" Aug 20, 2020

If you’re a woman who’s trying to quit drinking it’s normal to look around and suddenly realize that booze is all around you.

There’s Rosé All Day, Hot Yoga and Happy Hour, beer at the finish line of the 10K and “Mommy Juice” at playdates with the kids.

You look up from your wine glass to see that everyone around you is drinking, all the time.

We live in a culture that tells women that drinking is their treat for getting through the day. It’s our reward for working so hard and taking care of our kids.

We’re told alcohol is what we should consume to be ‘cool’ and ‘relaxed’ and ‘fun’.

We’re taught that drinking will make us less frustrated, less angry, less tired, less bored with the monotony of adulting.

And then we blame ourselves for not being able to ‘moderate’ or ‘cut back’ or ‘drink less’ of an addictive substance.

In today’s episode I have a long conversation with a friend and one of my favorite authors, Kristi Coulter, about Working, Drinking and Being a “First World Woman”.

Kristi and I talk about:

Why women drink as a signifier for free time and self care and conversations - the luxuries we can’t afford.
The myth of meritocracy at male dominated workplaces, and how it gaslights women into thinking it’s their fault for failing to achieve what their male coworkers do - in a system that’s stacked against them.
Why moderation sucks and why it’s just so much easier to not drink.
Why most women make the mistake of waiting to “want” to stop drinking and how that’s a recipe for staying stuck in the drinking cycle.
How stopping drinking is a superpower that allows women to ask for what they deserve and say what they mean.
Why drinking is not serving you if you’re wanting to advance your career

About Kristi Coulter

Kristi Coulter is the author of the 2018 memoir-in-essays Nothing Good Can Come from This, a writer who is currently working on her next memoir - Exit Interview - about gender, ambition, and her twelve-year stint as an executive at Amazon, and a former drinker. Four years ago (in 2016) Kristi published an article on Medium that went viral and changed the course of her life. "Enjoli" is an essay about what happened after Kristi decided to stop drinking and realized that all the women around her were tanked. It hit a nerve among women (and men) around the world and has now been downloaded over 700,000 times. Kristi's work has appeared in The Paris Review, New York Magazine/The Cut, Elle, Amazon Original Stories, Glamour, Vox, and elsewhere.

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

Nothing Good Can Come From This by Kristi Coulter: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Good-Can-Come-This/dp/0374286205
Enjoli essay on Medium:https://humanparts.medium.com/https-medium-com-kristicoulter-the-24-hour-woman-3425ca5be19f
The Otter Of Sobriety Essay (Want Not): https://medium.com/@kristicoulter/the-otter-of-sobriety-f7065c29b764#.x6a24bxbx
Since Right Now Podcast Interview with Kristi Coulter: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/klen-sobr/since-right-now/e/1617-kristi-coulter-offdry-44143811
Belle Robertson Tired of Thinking About Drinking (Book)
Belle Robertson Tired of Thinking About Drinking (Website)

Connect with Kristi Coulter

Website: http://www.kristicoulter.com

Off-Dry Blog: https://offdry.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kristicccoulter/

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

https://soberlifeschool.com/

Ep. 17: Rebuilding Self-Esteem And Ending Self-Sabotage Aug 13, 2020

Have you ever sabotaged yourself and you can’t figure out why?

You want to get promoted, improve your health and your relationships, achieve a big goal, and somehow you get in your own way and wreck your best-laid plans.

Self-sabotage was definitely a part of my story when I was drinking.

I would be getting ready for a big opportunity at work - a business trip or presentation - and I’d drink the night before. The next day when I was on center stage I was hung over and just trying to make it through the event.
I’d have a social gathering that I was looking forward to for months and drink and then not remember most of it.
I’d want to talk to my husband about something that was really bothering me, and I’d drink and not be able to express myself and my needs rationally and coherently.

The truth is that self-sabotage is the result of low self-esteem.

We only allow into our lives what we feel and believe we deserve.

Building self-esteem is a foundational piece of recovery work.

When you change your self-esteem, your deep, subconscious beliefs about what you think you deserve, you stop self-sabotage.

You can improve your relationships, job, ability to achieve your dreams and goals, financial abundance, the love you attract and your health.

If you don't change those beliefs, regardless of how hard you work, you will sabotage your progress in achieving them, either consciously or unconsciously.

My guest today is Arlina Allen. She’s a Certified Life and Recovery Coach and Host of the award winning recovery podcast, The ODAAT Chat Podcast.

Arlina helps busy professional women to get the clarity they need to get unstuck, and achieve their goals so that they can live the life of their dreams.

Arlina is also the creator of the Reinvent, a six week self-esteem course, where she works with women to get to the root of what's holding them back and change their beliefs so that they can realize their dreams.

In this episode Arlina dives into the framework of her self-esteem course, including the importance of creating the right support system, tools for long term change, and new self image and a vision for what's possible in your future.

In this episode, you’ll learn about:

The law of attraction
How to leverage this universal law to manifest your deepest desires
How to identify negative beliefs and a process to resolve them and let them go
Addressing the causes of fears and anxiety and how to create a compelling future self image
The connection tour, a step-by-step process to create a strong support system
Daily activities to build self-esteem
The fundamentals of how to create healthy boundaries for inner peace and healthy relationships

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/17

Grab my free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Links and resources mentioned in this episode

Connect with Arlina Allen

https://selfesteemcourse.com/

Arlina's Podcast: https://odaatchat.com/

ODAAT Chat Private Women's Facebook Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1244862275613746

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

https://sherecovers.co/yoga-with-taryn-strong/

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Ep16: Yoga For Recovery + Essential Oils For Healing With Taryn Strong Aug 06, 2020

Have you ever wondered what exactly is Yoga For Recovery or Trauma Informed Yoga?

How does it differ from Bikram, Ashtanga, Power Yoga or Kundalini?
Can yoga help you heal your mind, body and spirit as you walk away from drinking?
How can releasing a traumatic experience from your body through yoga help you heal before illness, chronic fatigue, dis-ease, autoimmune disorders may manifest.

And what about essential oils?

How do they work and are they worth the hype?
What’s the difference between all the different options?
What’s the oil of a Buoyant Heart? The Inner Child? Energetic Boundaries? Sexual Healing? Truth and Connection?

Today we’re here to answer these questions and more with one of my favorite teachers in recovery, yoga and life: Taryn Strong,

Taryn is a founder of the SHE RECOVERS Foundation - a global grassroots movement currently consisting of more than 300,000 women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, other behavioral health issues and/or life challenges.

Taryn is a trauma-informed yoga instructor, recovery coach and an aromatherapist.

Taryn has developed a unique yoga retreat program and led over 40 yoga for recovery retreats since 2012.

She is also the host of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast and most recently created and taught the inaugural trauma informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Taryn identifies as being in recovery from trauma, a substance use disorder and self-injurious behavior and believes that recovery is a journey to wholeness – in which we take care of our mind, body and spirit.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why healing your body is an important part of your sobriety journey.
How essential oils can play a huge role in your recovery
How balancing the energy around your heart can help you heal from codependency, isolation, depression, or fear of intimacy.
Why a grounding yoga practice can help center you when you’re feeling anxious, overwhelmed or unsettled.
Taryn’s step-by-step morning meditation practice (which can be done without ever leaving your bed!)

A strong yoga practice and essential oils can be an important tool in your "sober toolkit" as a pathway to holistic healing and recovery.

Today we dive into everything you need to know about these practices to get started!

More about Yoga with Taryn

As part of her online yoga signature recovery series and online monthly membership Taryn takes you on a gentle, trauma-informed journey of exploration that will help heal your body, mind and spirit.

Links and Resources mentioned in this episode

The Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking

Connect with She Recovers

https://sherecovers.co/together-online/

https://sherecovers.co/our-retreats/

SHE RECOVERS on Facebook: facebook.com/sherecovers

The SHE RECOVERS Intentions & Guiding Principles

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/16

Connect with Taryn Strong

https://sherecovers.co/yoga-with-taryn-strong/

https://www.instagram.com/tarynstrong/

Click here to become a member of Taryn's dōTERRA Essential Oils for Recovery Group

Taryn’s Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/tarynstrong

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.klugman.3

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Thanks for listening!

Ep.15: Quieting Your Inner Critic Jul 30, 2020

Do you have a loud inner critic voice?

You know the one that starts when you wake up and tells you that you're not good enough, thin enough, productive enough, patient enough, strong enough, smart enough or whatever?

I used to believe that these daily repetitive negative thoughts were helping me.

I thought I could berate myself into 'being better' or shame myself enough that I would stop drinking, start running or lose weight.

I thought if I was just hard enough on myself - I'd get my shit together.

The truth is it didn't work.

I didn't work for me and it probably isn't working for you. It's just making you miserable.

Somehow we've convinced ourselves that embracing the ways in which we ‘should’ be better will help us achieve more in life.

But that's not true.

In fact, our inner critic can lead us to drink or numb out to turn it off and quiet your mind. And reaching for substances will only lead us to anxiety and more self-criticism.

It's the opposite, limiting self-criticism and offsetting its negative effects, that will build resilience, reduce stress and lower anxiety.

And there’s an easy way to quiet your inner critic.

In this podcast episode we’ll dive into how and why to release the voice that tells you that you’re not enough and less than others.

My guest today is Vanessa Klugman, She’s an MD and a Certified Professional Coach and a Certified Professional Recovery Coach and she’ll share how healing your inner critic starts with self compassion.

You’ll learn:

Why working to quiet your inner critic is important
How to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects
Myths about self-compassion (what it is and what it is not)
How self-compassion builds resilience and decreases anxiety
How to take a self-compassion break (the 3 part practice)
How to heal yourself with mindfulness, kindness and the knowledge that you’re not alone.

About Vanessa Klugman, MD, ACC.

Vanessa is a physician, and mother of three.

She balanced the demands of a career and family for many years until the stress became overwhelming.

Vanessa turned to poor coping mechanisms to escape the demands that she placed on herself.

Vanessa had a harsh inner critic who told her messages that she was not good enough.

She believed that her worth was equated with how much she achieved, how well she was liked, and how much she gave to others.

She wasn't living an authentic life. In recovery, she learned effective ways to face negative emotions: set boundaries that protected her sobriety; faced limiting beliefs and healed old wounds.

Vanessa’s passion is to guide others battling to find a healthy balance in their lives, to disconnect from their inner critic and reconnect with their inner wisdom.

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/15

Links and Resources Mentioned

Vanessa Klugman

vanessalifeandrecoverycoach@gmail.com

http://resiliencerecoverycoaching.com/

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

Listen to more podcast episodes to drink less + live more.

Books mentioned:

Dr. Kristin Neff: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power Of Being Kind To Yourself

Ep.14: How To Get Over Yourself + On With Your Life Jul 23, 2020

We all have our own personal brand of nonsense - self sabotage, blame, people pleasing, control issues. A lot of women deal with almost all of these but especially scarcity versus abundance and making decisions out of your fears.

We all have things we're doing that are standing in the way of our health, happiness and success. Learn to get out of your own way, to identify the nonsense in your life, and how to move past the big ones.

My guest is Meredith Atwood. She's a former attorney, a podcaster and a motivational speaker. She is a sobriety advocate, and the founder of Grateful Sobriety. She's also a four time Ironman triathlete. She's the author of a best selling triathlon book Triathlon for the Every Woman, in addition to her new book, The Year of No Nonsense: How to Get Over Yourself and On with Your Life. She’s the host of the iTunes Top 50 fitness podcast, “The Same 24 Hours.” She has been featured in The Boston Globe, The New York Post, the Seattle Times and dozens of online publications. Meredith is a contributing writer to Psychology Today online, Triathlete Magazine and Women’s Running. She is a USA Weightlifting Level II, USA Triathlon Level I, and Precision Nutrition Level I Coach.

In this episode, you’ll learn

How to identify what’s working in your life and what’s not
How to deal with the underlying reasons that drive you to drink
What bad habits drive you to make the decisions you do in life and how to change them
Why you need to make a list of all the nonsense in your life and how to deal with them
How to get over yourself and get on with your life

Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/14

Links and Resources Mentioned

Connect with Meredith Atwood

Website: https://swimbikemom.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/swimbikemom

Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/swimbikemom

The Same 24 Hours Podcast www.Same24HoursPodcast.com

Books Mentioned

The Year of No Nonsense: How to Get Over Yourself and On with Your Life

Triathlon for the Every Woman: You Can Be a Triathlete. Yes. You.

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

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Ep.13: Managing Anxiety In Sobriety Using Rain Mindfulness Jul 16, 2020

Do you use drinking to shut off your mind? Do you use drinking as a coping mechanism to push away your feelings? Many women, just like you, who drink have underlying anxiety issues they might be coping with, and they use drinking to make those feelings go away.

Anxiety is the number one side effect from drinking. If you drink often, you may have anxiety more deeply and more pronounced than you would have otherwise.

Jessica Foody and I are discussing anxiety and the tools to cope with anxiety that you can take away and implement in your life.

Jessica is a registered nurse, a recovery coach, and a She Recovers signature coach. Her expertise is in working with women who struggle, both with addiction and with anxiety. She helps women not only drink less, but transform their relationship with anxiety.

Jessica shares her favorite mindfulness techniques and how to unconditionally love and accept yourself, anxiety and all. Jessica believes that recovery is the return to the joy of living.

In this episode, you’ll learn about a Buddhist mindfulness technique that can help you work with any difficult emotion for anxiety. This technique is called the Rain technique. The rain technique can be used either in formal meditation practice or when a strong emotion is coming up.

Rain stands for RECOGNIZE, ALLOW, INVESTIGATE and NURTURE.

RECOGNIZE - Recognize what you’re feeling. With anxiety, this can be something that you are very attuned to and are very good at recognizing it.

ALLOW - Allowing your anxiety to be here just as it is. The more you resist something, the more you’re trying to get rid of it, the more you’re trying to push it away, it actually gets stronger, it gets bigger. You can't push away feelings, you can't get rid of feelings outside of numbing. So when you allow your anxiety to be here, just as it is, it's like you give your anxiety space to breathe.

INVESTIGATE - Investigate your body. Investigate with kindness. Get out of your head and get into your heart. Ask yourself, what's happening with me right now, where am I feeling this anxiety? Is there a tightness in my chest? Is my back getting tense? Step out of the mind and actually be in your body and sometimes taking a few deep breaths can really help because something that makes anxiety worse is the more you think about your anxious thoughts the worse it gets.

NURTURE - You embrace yourself with love and compassion, and you provide that comfort to yourself. You’re allowing our anxiety to be here, but you need that comfort. Be kind to yourself, especially when you’re hurting.

If you’re looking for tools to help you cope with your anxiety, listen to this episode.

Show notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/13/

Links and Resources Mentioned

Connect with Jessica Foody

Website: Jessicafoody.com

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

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Tara Brach

www.tarabrach.com

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Ep. 12: Is Work Driving You To Drink? Jul 09, 2020

Do you feel trapped in a job or career that doesn’t make you happy?

Is work a trigger that makes you want to drink?

If the answer is yes, this podcast episode was created for you.

For years when I was climbing the corporate ladder I felt like I needed (and deserved) wine at the end of a long day to unwind. And I know I’m not alone.

So many women have spent a decade or two working hard, paying their dues and climbing the career ladder, only to find themselves in midlife dreading opening their emails and the work awaiting them tomorrow.

Between pressure from your boss, long commutes, deadlines and deliverables, struggling to balance the needs of your kids and your clients and trying to be everywhere at once - it’s no wonder so many women feel unfulfilled and driven to drink.

If you feel tired, deflated or uninspired at work know that you have options, you have agency and you can change the way you’re living.

There are opportunities available to you when you take time to get clarity on who you are, what you value, your strengths and the work you want to do.

Betty Kempa is my podcast guest today, and she’s here to help us figure out how to reduce our stress and tension in our current job and how to work through the fear, frustrations and limiting beliefs that are keeping you from leaving your role and finding a career that you truly love.

Betty’s a certified professional coach one of the industry's top career change strategists. She specializes in helping mid to senior level corporate women transition out of unfulfilling jobs and into careers they love.

She is a thought leader in the industry, who writes, speaks and coaches on topics such as building six figure coaching businesses, overcoming imposter syndrome, dream career clarity, and effective career change strategy. And Betty quit drinking 9 years ago.

In this episode, Betty talks about how to get unstuck in your career and in your life.

She takes us through two of the five steps in her career bliss formula and how to implement them in your life.

Step 1: Overcoming self sabotage and getting out of your own way. How to deal with the fears, limiting beliefs, impostor syndrome and your assumptions about what’s possible that are keeping you stuck.
Step 2: Identifying your dream role. How to do it and what NOT to do (hint - it’s scrolling the job boards). She’ll take us through the steps of going inside with visioning exercises to meet your future self, building out your ideal life plan so you can find a career that aligns with that, creating your personal mission statement and more.

If you feel triggered by work and are ready to get unstuck, feel empowered and move to a more positive place in your career - listen to this episode.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/12/

Links and Resources Mentioned

Connect with Betty Kempa

Website: BettyKempa.com

LinkedIn: Betty Kempa

Facebook: www.facebook.com/coachbettykempa

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

Ep.11: Release Negative Emotions with EFT Tapping Jul 02, 2020

What is Tapping or The Emotional Freedom Technique?
How does tapping work to manage stress and anxiety?
Can you use tapping to relieve negative emotions that can lead you to drink or tap to reduce drinking cravings?
Did you know you can tap with your children to help calm them and release overwhelming emotions?

If any of these questions spark your interest, today’s episode is for you.

My guest is Kate Moryoussef, a UK based EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, Coach. Kate helps busy moms manage overwhelm and stress.

EFT Tapping has been referred to as psychological acupressure. It’s a 5-step technique for anxiety relief.

I had heard of tapping but never tried it before this conversation with Kate. Following our podcast interview I hired Kate to walk me through the tapping techniques for 3 sessions.

We did the sessions over zoom (with me sitting in my office with coffee in the morning in Seattle and Kate settled in after dinner with her family in Manchester, UK).

I loved the process of tapping. It felt like a massage - but one in which I was able to tap on a problem I was having and where I felt stuck.

I felt more relaxed after our sessions and I uncovered a lot of fears and limiting beliefs that were holding me back that I didn’t know existed. They were in my subconscious - yet impacting my thoughts and choices each day.

By our third session I felt like I’d made some major breakthroughs in the thoughts and feelings I was carrying around with me everyday - and I was able to set some down and get some more emotional distance from them.

Kate describes EFT Tapping as a practical self-help method that involves using the fingers to gently tap on the body's acupuncture points along the meridian lines of Chinese medicine.

EFT Tapping helps you tune in to the negative patterns that form around uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or troubling memories. You ‘tap’ on the correct pressure points while bringing the thoughts or emotions into consciousness. The aim is to find relief, relaxation, and promote healing around the emotional or physical issues that are holding you back.

For issues with drinking, you can tap around your cravings and triggers.

To get you started Kate created a tapping video specifically for women dealing with drinking cravings for The Hello Someday Podcast listeners. You can find the video at www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/11.

In the podcast you’ll hear what parts of the “drinking cravings” tapping sequence made me nervous while working through it, and how I understood the process better and felt better by the end.

I love talking with Kate. She lives in Manchester, UK with her husband, four kids and two dogs. She’s a wellbeing coach trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping). As a coach Kate works with women to find more emotional freedom, happiness, fulfillment and health. She believes in choosing to focus on what brings you joy and continued happiness, removing shame and guilt that many women feel in their life.

Kate is passionate about wanting to help women rediscover their inner voice, tap into their expansive potential and realise themselves outside of their family dynamic. She wants to help women recognize what’s holding them back and teach them to hear and then listen to their inner guidance and connect to a force they didn’t know they had.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/11/

Connect with Kate Moryoussef

www.coachingbykate.me.uk

‎The Ambitious Mum Podcast

Instagram: Kate Moryoussef (@coaching_by_kate_)

Facebook: Coaching by Kate

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

Ep.10: 10 Things You Need In Your Sober Toolkit Jun 25, 2020

Once you’ve decided that it’s time to take a break from drinking you need to set yourself up for success.

That means you need a really good sober toolkit.

In this episode, I’ll share 10 things you absolutely need in your sober toolkit:

Your iPhone. And that includes your earbuds and your charger.
Audiobooks, podcasts and messages of sober support.
Food and beverages that will help you get through a craving, help you during the witching hour, and make you feel satisfied and a bit indulged.
A list of your favorite “sober treats”. Bubble baths, fresh flowers, baked goods, a new book, a list of binge-worthy shows, coloring books, a massage, a pedicure, take out sushi, new sheets, essential oils, a milkshake, a bike ride, a picnic, a
A way to track your progress. My favorite app is I’m Done Drinking.
Community and support. It’s so helpful to connect with other cool women who are on the alcohol free path. I have suggestions of how to find them and a guide to joining my 2 favorite private sober Facebook groups for women.
A safe space in your home to retreat.
The ability to move, to be outside, get some fresh air and take a walk. Anytime you want to drink, feel frustrated, resentful or angry, it helps to get moving.
Create a new evening routine.
Sober coaching. I know this sounds self-serving but I want to be clear that this doesn’t have to be one-on-one coaching and it doesn’t have to be with me. But it does really help to know that you’re not the first woman who has decided that drinking isn’t working in your life - and there are coaches, sponsors, programs and resources out there that can give you short cuts, tips and advice to make this “living life without alcohol thing” so much easier!

In my free guide, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days, I have a ton of resources listed that can help you get started and you can also listen to Free Sober Coaching Audios on my website.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/10/

Links and Resources Mentioned

Laura McKowen, We Are The Luckiest

Catherine Grey, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

Sarah Hepola, Blackout

Belle Robertson, Tired Of Thinking About Drinking

Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living

Annie Grace, This Naked Mind

Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

Amanda Eyre Ward & Jardine Libaire, The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life - Alcohol Free

The Bubble Hour Podcast

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get the guide on How to find and join my Favorite Private Sober Facebook groups

Get The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

Ep.9: Jean McCarthy on Change, Growth, Rediscovery and Recovery Jun 18, 2020

Many women know Jean McCarthy as an award-winning blogger, the host of the Bubble Hour Podcast, and through her work in recovery advocacy.

But in today’s episode we get to know a more personal and intimate side of Jean through her poetry. Jean describes putting out this book of poetry as if she is saying “Here’s what the inside of my head looks like. Here’s the voice no one else hears.”

In this episode Casey and Jean dive into her new collection of poetry “The Ember Ever There: Poems on Change, Grief, Growth, Recovery, and Rediscovery” which is being released worldwide on June 19, 2020.

As Jean describes the collection she says, “This isn’t the story of addiction and recovery. This is the story of losing myself and finding myself again”.

Jean goes on to describe her addiction to alcohol as a symptom of her lost self - the person behind the people pleasing, good girl syndrome and losing herself behind the masks she was wearing.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

What Jean wants to say to the thousands of women who reach out to her and say “I want to quit, but I can’t right now”.
How Jean felt in the very beginning of her own sobriety journey
The story behind when and why Jean wrote the song “I own it”, the intro song to The Bubble Hour
How women can stop playing small and embrace their true self

About Jean McCarthy

In addition to being the host of the Bubble Hour Podcast and an award-winning blogger, Jean is also the author of “UnPickled Holiday Survival Guide: Staying Alcohol-Free During the Festive Season,” a resource about sobriety for people in recovery and their families.

Her blog UnPickled began in 2011 and has continued to chronicle Jean’s alcohol-free lifestyle since her first day of sobriety. Thousands of readers credit UnPickled as a motivating factor in their decision to quit drinking.

Jean joined The Bubble Hour podcast as a co-host in 2013. She took over the weekly program as its sole producer and host in 2016.

Jean is a former performing songwriter with two albums of original music to her credit. Fans of the podcast are familiar with the show's theme song “I Own It,” a single from Jean’s 2008 album, “Blessings and Burdens.”

At a gala in New York City, Jean was named recipient of the 2017 SheRecovers Hope Award in recognition of her efforts to help others seek positive changes in their lives. She lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband Ross and dog Scout.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/9/

Connect with Jean Mccarthy

Link to buy book or further information:www.jeanmccarthy.ca/books

Instagram @jeanmccarthy_writes

Facebook pages for Unpickled (www.facebook.com/unpickled) and The Bubble Hour (www.facebook.com/thebubblehour)

Also websites: https://jeanmccarthy.ca/, https://unpickledblog.com/, https://jeanmccarthy.ca/the-bubble-hour/, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999299906

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Get the guide on how to find and join these groups:

https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/sober-facebook-groups/

The Free Sober Girl’s Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For your First 30 Days

Casey’s interview by Jean McCarthy on The Bubble Hour

Ep. 8: Using Myers-Briggs to Navigate Sobriety Jun 11, 2020

Have you heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator [MBTI]?

Are you an ISFJ or an ENTP? An ESFJ? ISFP?

As you’re quitting drinking and navigating the world in sobriety, understanding your Myers-Briggs Personality Type can give you insight into your strengths, preferences and why some people, places and situations trigger you to want to numb out and escape - and others don't.

Understanding your personality type can help you become more aware of your relationship with yourself and with others, and will help you navigate sobriety with more ease and less stress.

In this episode we’re diving into all things MBTI with Kate Kimberley!

Kate is a workplace coach who is certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment. She is also trained in Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, which helps women step out with greater courage in any area of their lives.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How to give yourself grace and forgive others for not measuring up to what others have told them they should be
How to understand yourself, how to navigate the world, and establish a path for lifelong personal development
Become aware of your individual personality Type preferences, including how you prefer to communicate, make decisions, and respond to conflict
Realize the energy and self-knowledge that understanding your Type can bring to your life and allow you to capitalize on your unique strengths

MBTI ASSESSMENT, INTERPRETIVE REPORT, AND INTERPRETIVE SESSION WITH KATE KIMBERLEY

If you enjoyed learning a bit about the MBTI assessment and are interested in learning more and find out your Type, Kate is offering a MBTI Introduction to Type package to all Hello Someday Podcast listeners for $99.00 US.

This package includes:

Online access to complete your official MBTI® personality assessment
A personal MBTI® Interpretive Report based on your assessment results
A 50-minute interpretative session to review your Type, including your Type preferences for:
Communication;
Decision-making; and
Responding to Conflict

To sign up for the package and identify and explore your unique Type preferences, visit www.kwkimberley.com or send Kate an email at k8kimberley@gmail.com.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/8/

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Myers Briggs Type Indicator

She Recovers Retreats

Kate Kimberley, MBTI-certified Workplace Coach

www.kwkimberley.com

Free MBTI Resources

IDRlabs.com

The Bubble Hour Podcast Episode with Casey McGuire Davidson

Ep.7: Interview With Authors Of The Sober Lush, Amanda Eyre Ward & Jardine Libaire Jun 04, 2020

In this episode I got to interview two incredible authors and really cool women, Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire about their new novel, The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life - Alcohol Free.

The book is all about the joy to be found in life after you step away from wine as your constant companion.

Jardine and Amanda have called this book “an ode to the technicolor playful side of sobriety” because it evokes the pleasures, feelings of connection and deliverance from the ordinary, that come once you start living life without numbing out.

In our conversation Amanda shares how she was able, through her friendship with Jardine, to get a taste of a sumptuous, beautiful, art-filled life where booze didn't have a place.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

What Amanda and Jardine learned about dismantling your drinking life and rebuilding it so you don’t want booze anymore.
How you might feel in early sobriety and why you should hold on for the sweet and beautiful life that’s coming your way.
How to navigate a date night, trip or holiday without alcohol.
How to have early conversations with your husband or partner about what you're doing and finding the support you need
Amanda and Jardine’s favorite ways to live a decadent, sober life.

Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of eight novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Jet Setters, which was also a book club pick by Reese Witherspoon, and it features a character trying to stay sober on a cruise ship. Amanda's work has been optioned for film and television and published in 15 countries.

Jardine Libaire is a novelist and a screenwriter. Her novels include Here Kitty, Kitty, and White Fur. She also co-wrote a film that was just released called Endings, Beginnings, starring Shailene Woodley, whose character has just given up alcohol. She's from New York and spent a decade in Austin where she became good friends with Amanda. Jardine now lives in LA.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/7/

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

The Sober Lush (@thesoberlush)

Connect with Jardine Libaire

http://jardinelibaire.com

JardineLibaireProjects (@jardinelibaireprojects)

Connect with Amanda Eyre Ward

https://www.amandaward.com

Amanda Eyre Ward (@amandaeyreward)

Connect with Casey Mcguire Davidson

http://www.haileymagee.com

Ep.6: How To Find Friends In Sobriety May 28, 2020

QUITTING DRINKING DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LONELY.

Finding friends can be hard. Finding friends who are on the same sobriety journey as you can be really hard.

But we’re here to help!

In this episode my sober bestie, Ingrid Miller, and I will talk about why finding support from people who have been where you are now and who are going through what you’re going through, in this “quitting drinking thing” is so important to your success.

No matter how much your friends and family love you and support you – they don’t know how you feel in this process.

My guest in this episode is Ingrid. She’s a friend I met 4+ years ago when I was first quitting drinking, the owner of the cutest book store in Seahurst Washington and an all around badass of a human being. I met Ingrid in a secret Facebook group at the beginning of my sober journey, 4 years ago.

Together we discuss how we met and the challenges we faced when trying to find a community of women who were going through or had been through the same things we were experiencing on our sobriety journey.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How to find the support you need – including a number of our favorite online and in person sober groups for busy women quitting drinking.
How to get over the fears you have about joining sober groups.
Why finding your people in sobriety makes the process of quitting drinking and creating a life you love without alcohol so much easier (and more fun).
Why your spouse, partner, mom or best friend might not be the best person to hold your hand through this process.
How you might feel in your first 90 days and why you need women who have “been there and done that” to get you through to the good stuff.

Show Notes: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/6/

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Find My Favorite Sober Facebook Groups [The BFB “Booze Free Brigade” and She Recovers Together]

Get the guide on how to find and join these groups: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/sober-facebook-groups/

Connect with Ingrid Miller

https://www.threetreesbooks.com
Read about Ingrid Miller’s first 30 days: My quit drinking timeline: 0-30 days.

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free
www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Resources mentioned

Kelly Beck Recovery Coach
She Recovers Retreats on Salt Spring Island, BC
She Recovers Sharing Circles (Seattle + other cities)

Book: The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

Ep.5: Boundaries & People Pleasing With Hailey Magee, CPC May 21, 2020

Are you a people pleaser? Do you put others' needs, wants, and values ahead of yours?

Do you need help with setting boundaries in your relationships and around your sobriety?

Today’s guest is Hailey Magee! Hailey is a certified codependency recovery coach who has worked with over 100 clients across the United States, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, and more break free from the shackles of codependency. Hailey dives deep into how to become the woman you want to be and what that looks like without alcohol.

Speaking your truth, setting boundaries, and putting yourself first is not something that comes easy. You have to work for it everyday. The more you do, the easier it will be to live a life you love.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

The meaning of codependency recovery
How to master the art of speaking your truth
How codependency shows up in your relationship with friends, family and your partner
How to find the space you need on your road to recovery

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

https://www.instagram.com/haileypaigemagee/

Author mentioned in episode: Harriet Lerner https://www.harrietlerner.com

Ep. 4: Why I Quit Drinking - My Story May 14, 2020

In this episode, I’m introducing myself and telling you a little bit about who I am. Before I quit drinking, and after. I’m sharing that I no longer drink anymore, that I used to drink a lot, and how I went through the process of questioning my drinking and deciding it didn’t work in my life anymore. This is an important part of my life, but it doesn’t define who I am. I saw quitting drinking as my absolute worst-case scenario but now having done the work, I consider it something that is foundational to helping me achieve everything I want in my life. It's something I'm really proud of. It's made me more honest and more real. It's helped me develop better and healthier coping mechanisms. It's made me more courageous and less fearful about changing In my life, and it's made me closer to my husband and my kids, my friends, and my family. My worst-case scenario really helped me lead a better life.

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Ep. 3: 7 Strategies To Get You Through Your First Week Without Alcohol May 14, 2020

Do you wish you had a roadmap that will guide you through your first week without alcohol?

The first, second, and even the third week without alcohol are the hardest and most important as you try and take an extended break from drinking. Knowing what to expect and setting yourself up for success can be the difference between feeling good or feeling miserable. And the difference between continuing on your alcohol-free journey and starting to feel better versus giving up on day four or day five.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How to stock up on what you need
How to plan out your sober treats
How to get all of the alcohol out of your house
Why you need to write down how you feel right now, and why you want to quit drinking
What to expect and how you’ll feel in your first 4 days
What it means to bubble up
How to get through days 5-7 and putting your first week to bed

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Read about Ingrid Miller’s first 30 days: My quit drinking timeline: 0-30 days.

Ep. 2: 5 Mistakes Women Make When Quitting Drinking May 14, 2020

How many times have you tried to quit drinking? Does the thought of quitting drinking give you anxiety? Can you picture your life without alcohol in a positive and empowering way?

The thought of going without alcohol may feel like a punishment.

You may worry that life without alcohol will be a time of deprivation and isolation.

You might be thinking that not drinking isn’t something that you actually want to do. It’s the last resort to stop feeling sick and tired.

These thoughts are really common - and they’re setting you up for failure.

There’s a way to approach not drinking as a positive, empowering step you’re taking for yourself.

In this episode, I’m going to dive into the 5 mistakes most women make when trying to stop drinking - and how to avoid them.

Mistake #1 - Believing that in order to successfully stop drinking you have to know in your heart that you “have a serious problem with alcohol” or that you “have to stop”.

Don’t ask yourself if you’re “bad enough to have to quit”. Instead, ask “is this good enough to keep on going”.

Mistake #2 - Telling yourself that “This time” you are quitting drinking “FOREVER”.

Forever isn’t helpful as you’re just starting on this path.

Instead, tell yourself that you’re giving yourself the opportunity to see how good you could feel if alcohol wasn’t your constant companion.

Mistake #3 - Treating not drinking as a form of self-punishment rather than an opportunity.

Taking a break from alcohol is a wonderful gift you are giving yourself.

Mistake #4 - Many women combine trying to stop drinking with a bigger “health kick, initiative, diet overhaul, Whole 30 thing you are doing to lose weight and get fit”.

If you try to eliminate everything at once you won’t succeed. Not drinking requires a SINGULAR focus for a while.

Mistake #5 - The last mistake women make when trying to stop drinking is that they’re waiting for the perfect time. There is no perfect time.

There will always be a dinner party or a wedding or a Thursday night. Don’t allow yourself to stay stuck. Just begin.

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Ep.1: Stumbling Around In The Dark May 14, 2020

Do you have a serious love affair with alcohol? Is drinking your favorite hobby? Are you creating guidelines and rules for yourself around drinking?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live your life without drinking?

I’m sharing what I have learned, through years of research and experimentation, through my personal experience of quitting drinking and my coaching work with women to stop drinking.

I dive into how to enjoy hanging out with your friends and family, other ways to reduce stress after a long day at work, and how to set yourself up for success when you feel the urge to open that bottle of wine. I also dig into your mindset around not drinking and how to live a happy and fulfilling life without the need to drink.

In this episode you’ll learn:

Tips on how to reduce stress and anxiety without turning to alcohol
The resources available to support your journey to a alcohol free life
How to change your mindset around what it means to be sober

RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free