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Stop Drinking and Start Living

341 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 87 ratings

Do you ever feel like you've out growing alcohol, that you are longing for a deeper connection to life? If alcohol is keeping you playing small and feels like the one area you just can't figure out, you are in the right place.  I'm a holistic alcohol coach who ended a 20-year relationship to alcohol without labels, counting days or ever making excuses. Now I help powerful women just like you eliminate their desire to drink on their own terms. In this podcast, we will explore the revolutionary approach of my proven five-shifts process that gets alcohol out of your way by breaking all of the rules, and the profound experience that it is to rediscover who you are on the other side of alcohol. I am so thrilled to be your guide. Welcome to your journey of awakening

Are you ready for the next step to release alcohol?  Uncover the five myths of quitting drinking and the Five shifts You need for lasting change in my free masterclass: 

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#197 Celebrate The Holiday's Alcohol Free (Part 1 of 3)

November 09, 2022 20:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. Fill your cup with something new this year.  Find true holiday cheer that will help you stay connected to what's really important in your life.  Join me for this 3 part podcast training, to help you bring the magic and meaning back into the holiday's season without the consequences of alcohol.  I will help you overcome any obstacle the holiday's throw at you that make it feel impossible to say no to a drink. This year, let's throw a better party!  Let's do this!  -...

#196 Under The Influence With MartinJon Garcia

November 02, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. In today's episode the wise and humble, MartinJon Garcia, of Recover Yourself Podcast, brings us "the middle way" of what it really means to "recover ones self" not away from alcohol, yet towards your authentic self. To remove the conditioning of the countless believes we are under the influence of. MartinJon and I share many of the same view on sobriety and recovery. One is that sobriety isn't a personality trait, it's a beverage choice. It's what you do with it ...

Ep. #195 Creating Change Without Resistance

October 26, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Will you inevitable have to face resistance? Yes.  Will you have to feel hard things and expose the truth of alcohol. Yes. BUT... When you practice being in your body. You will also get really good at FEELING and THINKING on purpose.  Today I will teach you how to place your attention on the result you want from abundance vs. lack so you can move beyond the fear of resistance and generate evidence that your life is already amazing. Changing your relationship to alc...

Ep. #194 Reciprocity Is Everything

October 24, 2022 20:00 - 12 minutes - 8.42 MB

Send us a Text Message. Why reciprocity matters in changing your relationship to alcohol.  I have a very special favor to ask you. Please take 5 minutes for me today and leave a review on apple podcasts. It's SOOO important to help make the world a better place. Then you will have a high vibing emotion to create your future from.  I left you a free mediation on my website too for your efforts. Thank you so much! Step by Step: 1) get out your phone 2) click on apple podcast icon 3) Go to "l...

Ep. #193

October 21, 2022 07:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MB

How much time do you spend while you are trying to not drink focusing on failing? What if you had a bunch of wins, days that you didn't drink and you knew exactly WHY and you focused on what was working instead? How would that be a game changer? Find out on today's show! Don't forget to email me what you want to know more about for the next podcast!  [email protected] Thank you for being an amazing part of my circle.  I love you. Register For The Free Training NOW: Click HERE What...

Ep. #193 Focusing On Failure

October 21, 2022 07:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. How much time do you spend while you are trying to not drink focusing on failing? What if you had a bunch of wins, days that you didn't drink and you knew exactly WHY and you focused on what was working instead? How would that be a game changer? Find out on today's show! Don't forget to email me what you want to know more about for the next podcast!  [email protected] Thank you for being an amazing part of my circle.  I love you. Changing your relationship...

Ep. #192 Daddy Issues

October 20, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. How can our trauma be our biggest blessing? Because it shapes  us. It makes us who we are. It sets us down a path to learn all of our greatest life lessons.  And the deeper we go, the higher we rise, but only if we are ready to take personal responsibility for our present and future.  Are you a ready for some reality TV gossip? I wanted to share with you a little about my "hero's journey". Get the popcorn and enjoy. Changing your relationship to alcohol begins with ...

Ep. #191 I can't handle it

October 19, 2022 18:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. How often do you say some version of "I can't handle it"? But do? What would someone who loves themselves do? Where does the habit of alcohol having you lying about what you are cable of? Alcohol will validate every negative statement you have about your self and reinforce it.  I can't handle it.  It's too hard.  I'm so overwhelmed.  It's too stressful.  I'm too tired.  I'm boring.  It's not enough.  Are these even true? Where do you have evidence to the contrary of ...

Ep. #190 Make Space For Who You Are Becoming : Astrology Forecast With Nura Rachelle

October 18, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MB

Send us a Text Message. "It's got to grow or it's got to go", is just one of the power themes available on today's show. Do not miss this jam packed episode of astrological wisdom downloaded from the Astro Queen herself, Nura Rachelle and how it applies to your current transformation around alcohol.   Nura talks also about the impact of how changing her relationship with alcohol through the lens of the 5 shifts, moving from conformity to self authority, has impacted her life on all levels a...

Ep. #190 Make Space For Who You Are Becoming : Astrology Forecast With Nura Rachelle

October 18, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MB

"It's got to grow or it's got to go", is just one of the power themes available on today's show. Do not miss this jam packed episode of astrological wisdom downloaded from the Astro Queen herself, Nura Rachelle and how it applies to your current transformation around alcohol.   Nura talks also about the impact of how changing her relationship with alcohol through the lens of the 5 shifts, moving from conformity to self authority, has impacted her life on all levels and allowed astrology to s...

Ep. #189 I Should Be Able To Figure This Out On My Own

October 17, 2022 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. Do NOT miss today's episode! You have achieved a lot and logically you get that alcohol isn't working.  That's the problem. You have to go beyond the logic. Beyond reason to create what is not mirrored to you in everyday life.  To tap into your wisdom and intuition.  If you think you should be able to figure alcohol out on your own, this thought it's self is why.  Today and the show I tell you why and what you can do to go beyond your logical reasoning.  Changing yo...

Ep. #188 Live Oracle Reading

October 16, 2022 20:00 - 13 minutes - 9.38 MB

Send us a Text Message. Find out what the powers that be have in store for the Stop Drinking & Start Living Community, today, in a live oracle reading and how to use the elements as tools for manifestation.  Changing your relationship to alcohol begins with more awareness. Lasting change is created with a new perspective. Tracking your urges/cravings to drink will allow you to experience your relationship to alcohol with more neutrality.  Click Here to Download your free tracking guide a...

Ep. #187 Effort and Surrender

October 15, 2022 18:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB

Send us a Text Message. There is a lot of talk about "work life balance". But what dose that really mean? What if we could life the effort and surrender in everything we do. Work wouldn't have to become a chore, and surrender could be available to us in every moment. Tune in to explore this concept. Ease and flow. Effort and surrender. Focus and soften. Inhale and exhale. If you haven't yet, please make sure to rate and review the show as well as share it with a friend. It means so much!...

Ep. #186 Determination To Finish Strong

October 14, 2022 19:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB

Send us a Text Message. When motivation, inspiration and willpower runout,   determination is what will get you through the hardest of hard times. Set your sites on something bigger than yourself right now, and don't look back.  Changing your relationship to alcohol begins with more awareness. Lasting change is created with a new perspective. Tracking your urges/cravings to drink will allow you to experience your relationship to alcohol with more neutrality.  Click Here to Download your ...

Ep. #185 Why Resistance Is So Important (Part 3. Emotional Safety)

October 13, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. The main reason people don't create a new relationship to alcohol is because of resistance. Resistance to change. To a new way.  To an idea they thought they had about themselves. To not being in control.  Being okay with resistance is the most important skill you can learn in life and with alcohol that will create the peace and joy you are desiring so you can focus on what matters most.  Learn why it's important to make peace with resistance and how to do it on toda...

Ep. #184 Why we quit

October 12, 2022 07:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MB

Send us a Text Message. There are three main reasons we quit something, much of the time before we even start.  Sometimes it's a simple as a lack of awareness, knowing that there are other options available to you. Most of the time it's out of our basic need to stay safe and avoid the pain of the unknown.   If we can find the answer right in front of us, then we have no more excuses for why we can't change.  Explore why we quit and how to help yourself stick it out through the challenging t...

Ep. #183 Emotional Safety Part 2

October 11, 2022 20:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB

Send us a Text Message. How do you shift from wanting to avoid the present moment to feeling safe exploring the inner landscape? So much of coaching is moving from our habitual reactions to responding to life through neural observation. In today's episode I share the practical steps to go from the habitual "escape" formula, to exploring from a place of grace and ease.  Changing your relationship to alcohol begins with more awareness. Lasting change is created with a new perspective. Track...

Ep. #182 Emotional Safety

October 10, 2022 18:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. What emotions don't you feel safe to feel? Where have you been using alcohol in your life to create a sense of safety and security? We judge our emotions and our unmet desires.  Alcohol reinforces the invalidation by dismissing the thought and creating an all too familiar vibration we do feel safe in. Unfortunately, this comfort of familiarity is compounding our unmet needs and lack of self security.  Getting alcohol out of your way isn't just about not drinking, it'...

Ep. #181 Heart Coherence Meditation

October 09, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB

Amplifying the energy of the emotional state we would like to achieve before we arrive there is possible through the use of the mind, body and intuition. Get your heart in alignment with the state you want to feel when alcohol is no longer in your way and take action from that place. That it is possible for you to no longer want alcohol and feel amazing about letting it go as an example of next leveling your life and awakening to a new version of you. Enjoy and share! Are you ready for th...

Ep. #181 Heart Coherence Meditation

October 09, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Amplifying the energy of the emotional state we would like to achieve before we arrive there is possible through the use of the mind, body and intuition. Get your heart in alignment with the state you want to feel when alcohol is no longer in your way and take action from that place. That it is possible for you to no longer want alcohol and feel amazing about letting it go as an example of next leveling your life and awakening to a new version of you. Enjoy and sha...

Ep. #180 Why Ritual Matters In Your Alcohol Journey

October 08, 2022 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. Getting alcohol out of your way is the next step in your spiritual awakening, that is why you are here. Our lives are a sacred ceremony. Alcohol belittles the magic of the present moment. Ritual is an opportunity to invoke the elements and the senses in the present moment. When we practice being in the present moment we live through the wisdom of the heart vs. the habitual patterns in the head. Living life through heart coherence amplifies our desires. It allows u...

Ep. #179 Taking The Guess Work Out Of Alcohol

October 07, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes - 9.87 MB

Send us a Text Message. Why do I keep drinking when I say I'm not going to? Why is it okay sometimes and not others? Why do I feel so convicted in the morning only to cave at night? Why can some people drink one and be okay? All of this and more can be answered with my revolutionary 5 Shifts Process. The best part, it's much more simple than you think. Learn how on today's show. I help you take the guess work out of the why: schedule your complimentary call HERE.   Changing your relati...

Ep. #178 Tangible vs. Intangible Results

October 06, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB

Send us a Text Message. We have been conditioned to believe that if we can taste, hold it and touch it, it has more value. We have been taught to look to the TANGIBLE in our life to make us feel better and solve our problems, IE: alcohol. We invest our time, money and energy in that which is ultimately out of our control and end up disappointed with it doesn't work out the way we think it should. Looking to the intangible, or at least the subtle, is where all real change, power, happiness ...

Ep. # 177 Indecision Is Stealing Your Light

October 05, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MB

Send us a Text Message. We make decisions all day every day. Decisions equate to time. Staying in indecision is taking your time away from things that matter most. Focusing your attention on thoughts that create more fear, vs. deciding on the result you want is robbing you of your vital life force keeping alcohol in the head lines of your life. In today's episode I share  what to look for when you are making decisions so you don't get stuck where you are. Need help having a new convers...

Ep. #176 The Parent Trap

October 04, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. Episode up dated and fixed! In today's episode, learn how to escape parenthood without wine. Wine time = escape from parenthood. But why? Why do we need to escape? What are the expectations you are putting on yourself that requires the need to check out? What are the expectations you are putting on yourself that says you can't check out so you hide in your head? How would it benefit all beings everywhere if you allowed yourself to checkout of all labels? Need help ...

Ep. #175 Commit Ahead Of Time

October 03, 2022 13:00 - 11 minutes - 8.09 MB

Send us a Text Message. We often wait to figure it out before we decide to commit. The opposite is true when it comes to creating what has never been created before. Commit and go all in. When you decide a head of time, you don't set yourself up for failure, you set yourself up to think for solutions outside of the box. Outside of your brains habitual BS. Need help having a new conversation with yourself : To schedule your complimentary call HERE.   Changing your relationship to alcoh...

Ep. # 174 Resistance to Acceptance

October 02, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. We resist  " the things we can not change" about our relationship with alcohol, because we think it's US, when in fact, it's the alcohol. Accepting the reality the alcohol is no longer suited for the life I want to live, is the first step in resisting change. When you take a break from alcohol, you have to examine your why and what you have really been believing about alcohol. If a break is only to "figure alcohol out" then it's never going to work. If a break is...

Ep. #173 What you say to yourself when you are by yourself

October 01, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutes - 8.71 MB

Send us a Text Message. Self talk is where you HAVE to start. First, become aware of what you are saying to yourself in your head all day. Learn the next 3 steps to cultivating the compassionate witness and use it to take your fear with you anyway. Once you have your own back, fear is a bully who's bark is bigger than it's bite. Need help having a new conversation with yourself : To schedule your complimentary call HERE.   Changing your relationship to alcohol begins with more awarene...

Ep. #172 The Success Switch

September 30, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Success is a mussel you can build. It's not just for the select few who are born with a natural talent.  Using tools for mindfulness and intentional mindset creation gives you a systematic approach to understanding what your brain is doing and how to override your habitual patterns. Through this process, success becomes easier and quitting becomes harder. There are hurdles to over come. But once the success switch flips, you can't turn it off. The reward is life cha...

Ep. #171 Alcohol & Your Health : My take away from the Huberman Lab Podcast

September 29, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MB

Send us a Text Message. Dr. Andrew Huberman, of The Huberman Lab Podcast, is creating a huge contribution to society through his passion for research and neuroscience. In his episode on Alcohol and Your Health,  he goes through the current research on what alcohol is doing to your health, body and brain. The results are in, nothing good. Although the sciences over lap to help explain the entire human experience. What Huberman neglects, unintentionally, is the BIGGER impact of the behavi...

Ep.# 170 Imposter Syndrom

September 28, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Let's examine who you really are.  Is NOT drinking being an imposter or is drinking the imposter? What do you have to convince yourself of more that FEELS the most aligned? Where are you reaching for resources, inside or outside? Today I share what to look for when you have thoughts that you are being an imposter and a tool of how to fake it until you make it without anyone knowing. I am going ALL IN on a 30 day INSTAGRAM and Podcast Challenge for you, for all w...

Ep. #169 The 12 Gifts Of Brith

September 27, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes - 9.94 MB

Send us a Text Message. Join me for a sacred story time to inspire you and remind you of the innate gifts we are all born with. The Twelve Gifts of Birth : by Charlene Costanzo I am going ALL IN on a 30 day INSTAGRAM and Podcast Challenge for you, for all women everywhere who were handed the inefficient tool of alcohol and told they were fine, then it turned into a crutch. As women continue to run this MF, the systems that got us here, won't take us forward. Follow me on IG and Tune int...

Ep. #168 The Both And

September 26, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes - 9.82 MB

Send us a Text Message. If we accept our role as an integral part in the whole, we can honor and pay reverence to the space inbetween planting the seeds and the harvest. And the harvest and planting the seeds. The rest, grief and letting go is a necessary part of the journey of awakening and finding who you are on the other side of alcohol.  Without it , you keep trying to put dead plants in a vase, hoping they might come back to life, rather than using them as compost to support your grow...

Ep. # 168 Your Womb, The Moon & Drinking

September 25, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes - 6.13 MB

Send us a Text Message. Alcohol is thwarting your Goddess given magical compass. Your unmet desires, passions and KNOWING, is available to you through your natural cycles and rhythms. Without aligned access to this, your emotions appear to be problems vs. powerful information to keep you a fully pleasured woman, from internal resourcing. Don’t let any body tell you different. Alcohol is a symptom of your unmet desires and invalidated feminine power. I teach my clients how through the pract...

Ep. #167 Being in the room (with a bottle of tequila)

September 24, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Hear me when I tell you, emotional freedom from alcohol IS possible for you. Today I share how I started waking up to my potential, when I put myself in a new room. On my way to the Goddess Yoga Arts Retreat, with a bottle of tequila in my bag... Focusing on becoming the solution vs. fixing the problem is the real shift in perspective. It can only happen when you "put yourself in the room." When you show up to build evidence against the thought: that a life with...

Ep. #166 Go All In

September 23, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 7.11 MB

Send us a Text Message. Today I share a little secret about why coaching works, that you can't get on your own. Why it's a process and why accountability matters to make the most of your efforts. What would happen if you went all in on YOU, like you have on alcohol? What would happen if you OVER COMMITTED your self to the process of unlearning alcohol? If you KNEW one day you would no longer WANT it, would you at least try? I am going ALL IN on a 30 day INSTAGRAM and Podcast Challenge for ...

Ep. #165 Your Potential Is The Solution

September 22, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Alcohol has a way of helping you forget & remember your potential. This is the struggle. The screw it and the I know there's more. The question to ask is : which one has more benefit? If we move towards unlocking our potential, it will carry us down a path away from alcohol, always. Today I am going ALL IN on a 30 day INSTAGRAM and Podcast Challenge for you, for all women everywhere who were handed the inefficient tool of alcohol and told they were fine, then it...

Ep. #164 The Clients Journey Of Awakening

September 21, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. What is it actually like to go through the process of 1:1 coaching? The Client's Journey Of Awakening is the actual process of how we unlearn, learn and relearn.  But not in a 100% traditional way. Not through the process of institutionalized dogma, yet by growing cultivating your awareness and strengthening your trust in your intuition. We use principals of cognitive behavior, feminine wisdom and self inquiry through mindfulness practices. Awareness, Education & G...

Ep. #163 How to make it past Friday

September 14, 2022 07:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MB

Send us a Text Message. You are "good all week", then Friday comes and all bets are off. Why can't you keep the same conviction or mindset you had all week and get you through the weekend.  In today's episode learn how to transition not just into the weekend gracefully and without needing alcohol, but make all of your transitions graceful.  Why getting good at transitions will make all areas of your life just as satisfying so you can stop working for the weekend. I want to personally invit...

p. #162 Alcohol Is Not A Destination

September 07, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. You never planned on getting where you are with alcohol. Because it didn't help you get to where you are. For this reason, you know it's not necessary for your future. It appears to be such a huge, famiar part of your past, that the future with out it feels like a void. Alcohol is not a destination.  It wasn't the big part of your journey you think it was.  It's a drug that over rides your experiences because of the unnatural response it has in the body AND how it in...

Ep. #161 What it feels to win the lottery

August 31, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. Winning the lottery experience is emotional freedom from alcohol all day, everyday. Life happens, but it the dramatic distinction between alcohol exhaustion and alcohol freedom, is a very easy place to get into, and it feels SO GOOD. Eliminating your desire and attachment to alcohol is the solution to alcohol exhaustion,  but the real result is: freedom, liberation, vitality. Freedom from alcohol is a self concept, it’s a state of being, it’s an experience.  In ...

Ep. #160 Preventing A Downward Spiral

August 24, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. We've all been there. Screw it, or some version of NOTHING'S working. How can you  be proactive and preventing a downswing from having a bigger impact than it needs to and solve the problems you use alcohol for. Cycles and rhythms are part of our nature as humans. We love being in the waxing phase of our lives, ( when live is happening FOR US.) But we don’t know how to work with the downswing.  When life seems to be happening TO us, we become our own worst enemy and...

Ep. #159 Your Questions Answered

August 17, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

Committing to a process helps you solve problems at every level of growth.  Today I respond to four different circumstances from listeners on the show. I apply the 5 shifts, the E.T.A process and Emotional Intimacy to showcase how we can use the same tools for various circumstances again and again.  What if committing to a process vs over consuming new information was how you guaranteed your results? When we do the same thing again and again, we get better at it.  This is the power of coach...

Ep. #159 Your Questions Answered

August 17, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MB

Send us a Text Message. Committing to a process helps you solve problems at every level of growth.  Today I respond to four different circumstances from listeners on the show. I apply the 5 shifts, the E.T.A process and Emotional Intimacy to showcase how we can use the same tools for various circumstances again and again.  What if committing to a process vs over consuming new information was how you guaranteed your results? When we do the same thing again and again, we get better at it.  T...

Ep. #158 The Path Of Most Resistance

August 10, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

Send us a Text Message. "In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times." -Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul In today's episode you will learn: Why resistance is the path to freedom. Why you avoid resistance. How to eliminate half of the pressure creating the resistance. Alcohol is both the method of protection and the something you are trying to protect. Why you haven't been successful at quitting drinking. How to get ...

Ep, #157 Overcoming Overwhelm

August 03, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

Send us a Text Message. Did you know overwhelm isn't created by a set of circumstances? In a world vying for your attention at every turn, overload is inevitable, but YOU can nip it in the bud before overload turns into: "Nothings Working!" Today empower yourself to learn how to take control were you can: In your mind. If your overwhelm often leads to drinking, this episode is for you. GET YOUR COACHING QUESTIONS ANSWERED ON THE SHOW ON AUGUST 17TH! Send your question into: mary@marywag...

Ep, #157 Overcoming Overwhelm

August 03, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MB

Did you know overwhelm isn't created by a set of circumstances? In a world vying for your attention at every turn, overload is inevitable, but YOU can nip it in the bud before overload turns into: "Nothings Working!" Today empower yourself to learn how to take control were you can: In your mind. If your overwhelm often leads to drinking, this episode is for you. GET YOUR COACHING QUESTIONS ANSWERED ON THE SHOW ON AUGUST 17TH! Send your question into: [email protected] Subject: C...

Ep. #156 Name It To Tame It

July 27, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

Send us a Text Message. Alcohol is a symptom of unprocessed / interrupted emotions. Always. Good, bad, happy, sad. We have to have a new conversation with the sensations created by energy flowing through our body, all day, everyday. Today I teach you a technique to use in conjunction with the 5 Shifts process to come into a closer relationship to your inner energy rather than moving away from it. How to be with your emotions, normalize them, and let go. I also read an excerpt from Mic...

Ep. #155 Lessons I Learned From The Roof

July 20, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MB

Send us a Text Message. We are bothering ourselves with our own thinking. Mindfulness isn't a one and done situation. It is a muscle you build over time.  Seeing your thoughts as suggests for interpretation.  Which ones' are useful. Which one's you don't even believe that just bump up against some uncovered insecurities or scarcity mindset.  In today's episode I share with you a personal story of what I learned during a roofing project my family and I participated in. How the impact of min...

Ep. #154 Never Say Forever, Ever Again

July 13, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

Send us a Text Message. One of the most destructive thoughts keeping you stuck in the rut of alcohol is the dreaded FOREVER. Forever feels scary for most things, especially when you have felt so out of control. However, when you reduce your desire and attachment to alcohol, alcohol will ALWAYS be a choice, but you won't be making the daily decision to drink. The truth is, it's not a useful thought when you are trying to create lasting change. Making decisions around alcohol can be exhausti...