Welcome back to the Love Sober Podcast — the podcast for the sober and sober curious.

In this first episode of the new season, Kate is joined by new guest host Helen Lees for a heartfelt conversation about tiny joy — those small, sensory, grounding moments that can help us through grief, overwhelm, cravings, stress, and the sheer weight of life.

Together, Kate and Helen explore how alcohol can disconnect us from real pleasure and presence, and how sobriety helps us gently rebuild a toolkit of comfort, connection and self-resourcing.

They talk about grief, motherhood, nervous system care, sensory rituals, dopamine, play, cravings, and the surprising power of tiny things — from soft clothes and candles to pesto, poached eggs, cold water, dogs, lipstick and woodland light.

This is an honest, compassionate conversation about finding anchors in difficult times, and learning how to stay in the solution, one small moment at a time.

In this episode, we explore:

• What “tiny joy” means in sober life
• Why small comforts matter in grief, stress and early sobriety
• How alcohol promises relief but disconnects us from real joy
• Building a sober toolkit for cravings and emotional overwhelm
• Sensory interventions and micro-pleasures that help regulate the nervous system
• Play, ritual, nature and self-parenting in recovery
• Why sobriety is about what we add in, not just what we remove

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Embodied Queen Retreat with Rachel Brady and Cybele Botran
• Love Sober Life School — our 12-week spring/summer programme for sober and sober curious women

Reflection questions from this episode:

• What does tiny joy mean to you personally?
• When have you noticed alcohol promising joy but disconnecting you from it?
• What small pleasures help interrupt cravings or bring you back to yourself?

If this episode resonated, we’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch: www.lovesober.com

Links:

• Love Sober website: https://www.lovesober.com
• Love Sober Life School: https://www.lovesober.com
• Contact us: hello@lovesober.com

Cybele is a trusted guide for women on the path of emotional healing. She is a Certified Trauma-Informed SHERECOVERS® Coach, an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and a Mother Hunger® Trained Facilitator. Her work centers on reparenting as a powerful modality for transformation. Through one-to-one coaching, courses, groups, and retreats, Cybele creates supportive spaces where women can reconnect with their most tender selves.

✨ Where to find Cybele

Instagram 

Facebook

LinkedIn

https://www.cybelebotran.com/

🌿 Retreat Invitation 🌿 Cybele and Rachel are delighted to be co-hosting a Luxury Healing Retreat for Sober or Sober Curious Women this November in Cornwall, UK.

A Luxury Healing Retreat for Sober or Sober Curious Women to Reclaim Their Power 📅 November 9–15, 2025 | Cornwall, UK 👭 Women Only | Alcohol-Free 🏡 5-Star Luxury

https://www.rachelbradyyoga.com/luxury-cornwall-retreat-sober-yoga-women

My substack 

AMAZING OFFER!!! Email me for a £333 discount code for the retreat at kate@lovesober.com

👉 Join Midlife Alchemy Mentoring — a 12-week journey for sober women in midlife. Early Bird ends 1st Sept. Secure your place here 🌿 EARLY BIRD ENDS SEPT 1st use code ALCHEMY20 to claim. Only 5 places left. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat! 

Kate x 

In this episode, Kate Baily interviews Maggie Klaassens, a certified alcohol-free coach and founder of The Sober Summit and Sober Circle community.

Maggie shares her inspiring journey to sobriety, navigating Mommy Wine Culture and Covid and her motivation to create the free transformative online event The Sober Summit (23.04.25 -25.04.25) and the powerful impact of being part of a supportive sober community.

Join us as we explore the benefits, challenges, and tools of the sober lifestyle, and discover the empowering journey towards living an alcohol-free life.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat!

KX

Register for your free seat at THE SOBER SUMMIT online event on April 23-25 2025. Here 👇👇👇👇👇

https://soberlifecollective.spiffy.co/a/7m3cxEn1BG/4343

Follow Maggie in Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesobersummit/

Casey McGuire Davidson is a Certified Life + Sobriety Coach who helps busy women quit drinking and create lives they love without alcohol at Hello Someday Coaching and the host of The Hello Someday Podcast.

The Hello Someday Podcast For Sober Curious Women is a Top 100 Mental Health podcast, ranked in the Top 0.5% of all global podcasts with over 1.5 MM downloads.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, NBC News, CNBC and over 100 sobriety, motherhood, mental health and wellness podcasts and publications.

Links: Love Sober Community 

Love Sober Coaching

Love Sober Life School 3 month program for Holidays, Christmas and Dry Jan 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Kate x

Fiona Catchpowle is a Menopause Doula and the Creator and Founder of The Menopause School -  a centre of excellence for holistic practitioners to become menstrual health informed.

Even with a background in Biology and Holistic Therapy, Fiona’s own experience of menopause was like hitting a brick wall. How could it be possible to reach 47 and not know about something called perimenopause? Had she missed the menopause memo?

It soon became apparent that there was no education, formal or otherwise, for menstruators of any age to learn about the menstrual health journey and how to best support themselves. 

Driven to make a change in menstrual and menopause health education, Fiona built The Menopause School.

Fiona is on a mission to change the face of menopause care by creating a global collective of Menopause Doulas who will guide, nurture and support others along the menstrual health timeline from periods to perimenopause and beyond.

Social Media Links

Facebook

@TheMenopauseSchool

https://www.facebook.com/TheMenopauseSchool

Instagram

@TheMenopauseSchool

https://www.instagram.com/themenopauseschool

Twitter

@menopauseschool 

https://twitter.com/MenopauseSchool

LinkedIn

@TheMenopauseSchool

https://www.linkedin.com/company/themenopauseschool

With her trademark down-to-earth, humorous take on life and sobriety you are going to want to hang out with her for the next hour, I promise! We talk about our differing approaches to sobriety, semantics of the steps, how to reframe them to fit a female friendly, secular experience and how to find empowerment even within the language of 'powerlessness,' and how the menopause is for us gals and why booze has no place there. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Kate x 

Arlina Allen is a Certified Recovery Coach (IAPRC), Certified Hypnotist CH, the Founder of Sober Life School, and host of the award winning recovery podcast "The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast" with over 300 episodes. She helps busy women quit drinking and create a life they love!

She has been sober since 4/23/94, happily married for 27 years,  Mother of two amazing young adult men and Mama to Teddy, the family English Bulldog.

Through her 30 years of lived experience in sobriety and working with other women to heal their relationship with alcohol and other addictions, she developed a special intuitiveness and insights into resolving the blocks to behavior change. With a combination of science based mental, spiritual, physical and emotional practices she has seen profound and lasting changes in her clients.

Her class "Reinvent-How To Rebuild Self-Esteem & End Self-Sabotage" is being taught to those who've suffered from low self-esteem, addiction, codependency, toxic relationships and many other issues. 

"We only allow into our lives what we believe we deserve on a subconscious level. You can change what you believe and create the life of your dreams. Change your mind, change your life." ~Arlina Allen

Links:

Sober Life School- http://www.soberlifeschool.com

Reinvent - Self Esteem Course http://www.selfesteemcourse.com

Podcast http://www.odaatchat.com

Social Media:

Facebook Page: facebook.com/odaatchat

Instagram: @odaatpodcast @arlinaallen

Boundaries, the importance of our connections, our attachments styles, how to let go, how to keep, new sober friends and old drinking friends and what happens if sober friends drink again and the surprising power of a frenemy... oof, it's a biggie! 

So grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Kate x

Resources: 

'Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships' by Robin Dunbar 

Alcohol Change UK for #alcoholawarenessweek

The Self Development Coach, Johnny Lawrence is a coach, public speaker and podcast host and his mission is to help as many people as possible with their self-development. Johnny is a popular in-person and online speaker for businesses, charities, schools, sports teams, and universities. He regularly holds MasterClasses and is passionate about delivering live sessions and engaging with his self-development community, The Changing Rooms. This online community is open to anyone with a passion for self-development, and membership is available for only £10 per month.

Connect with Johnny:

https://www.instagram.com/theselfdevelopmentcoach?igsh=MWkzNnR5ZHZod3lsZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

https://www.facebook.com/theselfdevelopmentcoach

https://www.tiktok.com/@theselfdevelopmentcoach?_t=8nKRPvbIAAi&_r=1

Transforming his life in January 2019, David Wilson, Trauma Informed Coach and Accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach and Public Speaker, he is dedicated to motivating others to transform their lives, overcome personal challenges and embrace life with a renewed mindset. Using his unique delivery and no nonsense approach, Dave is both personable and relatable.

His Top 10 Apple Podcast 'One For The Road' reaches a global audience with over 300K downloads in the first year. Dave's rich and varied guest list includes RTT founder Marisa Peer, SAS Who Dares Wins Ollie Ollerton and author of 'The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober' Catherine Gray and recently popstar Matt Willis.

Connect with Dave: 

https://www.soberdave.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/one-for-the-road/id1565341712

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CN86KLT8?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_1MXZRRDXXZ7BGT374RWR_1

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Love Kate x 

Kate is the co-author of two books Love Yourself Sober - a self care guide to alcohol free living for busy mothers and Love Your Sober Year - A seasonal guide to alcohol free living. She is an holistic,  ICF accredited coach, She Recovers Coach, a menopause coach and currently doing her yoga teacher training. 

Find out about LOVE YOUR SOBER SUMMER: Starting June 22nd 7pm GMT. EARLY BIRD AT CHECKOUT SUMMER20 for 20% off. 

Love Kate x 

Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist writing for the Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, and Conde Nast Traveller, among others. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and five children.

Pre-order 'The Giant on the Skyline-On home, belonging and learning to let go.'  Signed copies! Available to pre-order now. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-giant-on-the-skyline/clover-stroud/2928377236977

Such a beautiful, affirming and honest conversation with Clover....so let's grab a cuppa and chat.

KX 

Connect with Clover: 

Website: cloverstroud.com

Substack: https://cloverstroud.substack.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clover.stroud/?hl=e

Tawny Lara is an NYC-based journalist and public speaker with 8+ years of reporting on the sober (curious) space, focusing on the role liquid courage plays in interpersonal relationships.

She is a podcaster, host of Recovery Rocks and has her own AF drinks brand Parentheses.

You can find all of these here

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

Substack https://substack.com/@tawnymlara

Grab a cuppa or a cool drink - it's getting hot in here!

Kate x 

Sarah is a multi award winning Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach, a menopause accredited coach, a motivational speaker and a passionate ambassador for helping as many women as possible to live their best life.She's also an ex-Grey Area Drinker who finally quit booze in April 2019 and has NEVER looked back!

Grab a cuppa and let's chat!

Love Kate x 

You can find Sarah's website and book below. 

We know that, as Johann Hari says, connection is the opposite of addiction and so this  season has a focus on relationships with self and others. 

We introduce ourselves and delve into a bit of our respective histories, and why we do what we do. Dufflyn got sober 30 years ago, before we had the language around grey area drinking. 

Dufflyn talks to us about how she helps women thrive in relationships once they stop drinking or identify as being in recovery. 

She will popping  on regularly to take questions about relationships throughout the season and you I will be exploring sobriety questions so please feel free to write in to  hello@lovesober.com if you have a relationship  or sobriety quandary. 

You can find Dufflyn at :

https://www.dufflyn.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/dufflyn/ 

https://www.facebook.com/Dufflyn 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Kate x 

Suzy is a mother of two, an author, Chartered Psychologist and Coach. She specialises in self-care, helping people manage their stress, emotions, and energetic bank balance. It was her life experience of motherhood colliding with the terminal illness of her father that sparked her passion for self-care which she now teaches to her clients, young and old, to cope during periods of stress, loss and change and to boost their resilience in the face of future challenges. Suzy is the Psychology Expert for wellbeing brand Neom Organics and is a founding member of the ‘Nourish’ app. She figure-skated her way through her childhood, growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, and now makes her home in the hills of Hertfordshire, UK. Her first book ‘The Self-Care Revolution’ published by Aster came out in 2017, 'Stand Tall Like a Mountain: Mindfulness & Self-Care for Children and Parents' and 'The Little Book of Self-Care’ came out in 2019. ‘Self-Care for Tough Times’ and her first children’s book ‘This Book Will (Help) Make You Happy’ were published in 2021. Her first journal And Breathe,  Sit to Get Fit and her new deck of cards, “The Little Box of Self-Care” came out in 2022. Rest to Reset is hot off the press now, just in time to shake off the winter blues and boost the rebirth of Spring.

Join Suzy’s Wellbeing Community at:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/suzyreading/ 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SuzyReadingPsychologyAndYoga/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SuzyReading  

www.suzyreading.co.uk

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Love kate x 

Hot sobriety was created by therapist and author Veronica Valli, creator of the Soberful program & Kate Baily, author, coach, Menopause Doula and co-founder of Love Sober to help women understand their cycles, support their sobriety and live a healthier lifestyle.

SELLING FAST - GRAB YOUR SEAT HERE! 

This unique online masterclass combines up to date research-backed menopause information with Sobriety Lifestyle Coaching to guide women towards bossing their midlife transitions and thriving in Perimenopause, Menopause and Beyond.

Why midlife is a unique time for women The best way to support your hormonal changes in sobriety  How to transform your past into wisdom The Hormone Collective and how it works The link between hormones, stress and alcohol  How to deal with anxiety Liver Health & Hormones How to use the Holistic Health Sheet Tools to help you take control, understand your needs and thrive in your midlife.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat...

KX 

Resources: Second Spring by Kate Codrington.

Courtney is a Holistic Sobriety Coach and founder of The Radical Wellness. She helps individuals make (seemingly) radical lifestyle changes that improve their overall health and empower them to trust their intuition so they can remove the booze, break the loop of self-sabotage, create healthy habits and start living a life they love.

Courtney is certified in Holistic Health and Addictive Behavior Coaching. She has been sober since June of 2019. She lives in Connecticut with her husband Tyler and their two dogs, Leo and Olive. 

She is a beautiful soul and a sober sister - check her out! 

Kate x 

Find Courtney Here:  www.theradicalwellness.com https://www.instagram.com/theradicalwellness/ https://www.tiktok.com/@theradicalwellness

The stories and advice McKowen shares are specific to alcohol addiction, but the tenets are universal in their application and useful no matter what challenge you face. With profound honesty and boundless compassion, Push Off from Here provides an actionable framework for healing what pains us and proves that a life of sobriety can be synonymous with a life of magic, peace, and freedom.

When Laura McKowen was two years sober, she received an email from a woman whose sister was struggling with alcohol addiction. McKowen had barely climbed out from the dark place the woman’s sister was in, but she made a list of the things she most needed to hear when she was deep in her own battle.

No matter how far astray you’ve gone or how many times you’ve tried and failed before, as long as you’re still sitting here, breathing, and reading these words, freedom and joy are still possible.

In this episode we explore her Nine Truths. 1. It is not your fault.  2. It is your responsibility. 3. It is unfair that this is your thing. 4. This is your thing. 5. This will never stop being your thing until you face it. 6. You cannot do it alone. 7. Only you can do it. 8. You are loved. 9. We will never stop reminding you of these things. In Push Off from Here, McKowen delves deeply into each of her nine points: what they mean, how they work, and how every person can live them. She addresses topics such as the correlation between trauma and addiction, the importance of radical honesty, letting go of the illusion of control, the value of community, a reminder that healing is a continual process, and that the process is a gift. Whether you’re just starting out or have been sober for decades, McKowen instructs us to be kind to ourselves: Change is messy and progress is rarely linear, but we can always push off from here.

It's a gem so grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate x  Buy the book: 

Connect with Laura at The Luckiest Club

'Love Your Sober Year' is a seasonal guide to sustainable alcohol free living. It starts in Spring so it's the perfect time to grab your copy and start or continue your holistic sober journey. 

And a wee favour - If you liked the book please could you leave a review on Amazon? It really helps. Thanks so much x 

So grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Love 

Kate xxx

Janet has had many years of experience of corporate life in both Europe and South Africa.  When she decided to stop drinking alcohol, she could find very little available support in South Africa. Janet got sober by her own efforts and by attending a workshop in London. As her journey continued, she decided to use her professional background in training and development to design and facilitate her own Tribe Sober workshop in order to help others to do what she had done.

She is married with one son and a chihuahua called June. Originally from London Janet relocated to Cape Town in 2001.

Website is tribesober.com and all social media and weekly podcast is "Tribe Sober"

Smart Recovery advocates having a  VACI as part of the sober toolkit - (Vital Absorbing Creative Interest) and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi conducted extensive research into states of Flow and how creativity boosts resilience and helps post-traumatic growth and healing. 

So let's grab a cuppa and chat 

Kate x 

Links and resourses:

Ann Dowsett Johnston Course - Writing Your Recovery (starting 18th Jan 2023) https://writingyourrecovery.com/register/

How to find Sarah: 

Reflective practice from the beautiful https://www.tarynstrong.com/

Intention practice from the legendary https://www.bernadetterussell.com/

Journaling prompts from my book Love Your Sober Year

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Our tools need to evolve and grow as we do through seasons, life challenges and getting older and we need to be on our stress management, routines, socialising, mindset as well as keeping up those sober treats and keeping motivation and resilience when the going gets tough, as sometimes is just does. This course is the toolkit. 

Written by: Kate Baily, who is a trauma-informed, ICF Sobriety Coach and habit change coach & author specialising in stress, midlife and addictive behaviours.

Also by Mandy Manners - who is a trauma informed life and recovery coach & author.

Sessions are facilitated by Kate & Nancy Evans, who is a certifices Life & Addictive Behaviours Coach and a trainee Compassionate Enquiry Practitioner, training with Dr. Gabor Mate. 

Course Starts November 13th - Feb 5th. Calls at 5pm GMT Sundays.  

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

KX 

You can sign up here or find out more : 

https://www.lovesober.com/offers/jpkUZhVi/checkout

https://www.lovesober.com/love-sober-life-school-copy-2

Any qs: email me at kate@lovesober.com 

For more information about Nancy or to get in touch with her it's: 

https://www.nancyevanscoaching.co.uk/

Ellie Crowe is a Senior Certified This Naked Mind Coach, a Certified Gray Area Drinking Coach and co-host of the Present & Sober Podcast.  Her coaching practice helps overwhelmed and sleep-deprived mums parent peacefully and happily, without needing alcohol to escape at the end of the day.

Focusing on both mind and body aspects, Ellie works with mums who want to drink less and be able to manage stress without drinking.  She teaches how to make alcohol small and irrelevant in your life, whilst showing how to get in control and build emotional strength and resilience.  Running both 1:1 and group programs, Ellie has a curiosity-driven approach, knowing the power of understanding ‘why’ in sparking transformative change and expanding life potential.

Ellie lives with her husband, three young kids and three hounds in a very old pub in Cambridge, England.  She’s a passionate yogi, Wim Hof-fer and gymnast (back in training!).

You can find out more about Ellie at www.pumpupthepresent.com and follow her at @pumpupthepresent on Instagram and Facebook.

Dufflyn Lammers, AKA “The cool aunt who took you to Rehab and Planned Parenthood but made you tell your mom,” is the go-to relationship expert for women in recovery. 

Lammers is the founder of www.rockrelationshipsinrecovery.com where she offers online courses, an online community, and one-to-one coaching for women who want to succeed at sex, love and dating without resorting to tequila, Ben & Jerry’s or *69. She combines a unique background in Tantra, Attachment Repair, Intervention and Coaching to help women create optimum relational wellbeing. 

She spent the first 12 years of her own recovery single until at last she met her match. It was a long, hard, painful road for her. But it doesn’t have to be for you! Her mission is to be the coach she would have wished for back then. Of course once she met her match she realized the relationship was not the destination, it was the beginning of a whole new journey. Listen, it takes courage to look deeply at ourselves and allow ourselves to show up fully. And, if we want true intimacy that is what it takes.

Dufflyn's Free Talk IS IT LOVE OR IS IT ADDICTION? is available this weekend, Oct. 8th and 9th and also on the 19th. 

You can register here:  https://dufflyn.newzenler.com/webinar/is-it-love-or-is-it-addiction/register

She'll be breaking down a 4-part strategy for identifying the hallmarks of process addiction. She'll reveal the single most effective way to spot problem behavior. We'll share stories of women just like you who have struggled to love and be loved. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Kate x 

Claire has so many tips and tools about how to navigate all this stuff in the real world and how to keep it real while bossing her toolkit. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

KX 

She shares the joy and connection of learning to party sober and finder her way back to her first love of music. 

London's House of Happiness first event is just a few weeks away on  Saturday 8th September 12 noon - 5pm. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate x 

DEETS 🥳👇👇👇👇

Each of us has a story to tell and in sharing our stories we know we are not alone. Love Sober Podcast brings you tips, tools and inspiration from the sober community to brighten your autumn days and Max is a brilliant and funny shining example of being a thoroughly good girl who always keeps it real - so grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Love Kate x

If you would like to support the Love Sober Podcast you can become a Patreon supporter here or give a one of donation here: https://www.patreon.com/lovesoberpod

https://www.gofundme.com/f/love-sober-podcast?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

Anna Lembke, MD is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate, has served as an expert witness in federal and state opioid litigation, and is an internationally recognized leader in addiction medicine treatment and education. In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018).  Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.  Her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times bestseller and explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Kate x 

Winner of seven National Magazine Awards, she is also the recipient of a Southam Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. It was for the latter that she prepared a 14-part series on Women and Alcohol in the Toronto Star, looking at the closing gender gap on risky drinking. In 2013, she wrote Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post.

We talk about why writing is such an important tool for women in recovery, how to look after yourself emotionally in the process and rules of self-disclosure. Ann also gives us her expert tips on how to get started as a writer. Ann has advised many authors including Holly Whittaker when she wrote 'Quit Like a Woman' and so I'm honoured to have her sharing her experience and passion on the podcast. 

What a treat!

Grab a cuppa and let's chat

Love Kate x 

There were so many wow and ahhh moments, dancing with Payton and yoga-ing with Taryn. Still holding on and processing and smiling.

On another note... change being part of life and necessary for growth and health, Mandy talks about her decision to step back from Love Sober & the podcast, to honour health, wellbeing, family and transitions after much deliberation. Kate will continue to run Love Sober & they remain great friends and collaborate on their coach training and their second book which is out in September.

For now a sacred pause to honour Mandy and her incredible contribution to the sober community in her work with Love Sober & her coaching and awareness raising - she's not going anywhere - you can find her at https://www.instagram.com/mandymannerscoach/

The best way to keep in touch with Kate and all things Love Sober & her coaching practice is at https://www.lovesober.com/ Sign up to the newsletter for all the monthly news and resources, courses and offerings and hello@lovesober.com

to DM. 

Grab a cuppa your sober stars and let's chat. 

Love K&M X 

This week we talk about losing our sh** then putting ourselves back together again! It happens... Sh** happens and that's ok. We talk about emotions and how to release our feelings, Mandy also has a giggle fit! A general round up of life through the sober lens so grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love K & M x

Our book is now available from all bookshops such as amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Yourself-Sober-Mandy-Manners/dp/1789561442/

If you would like to support the podcast and the lovesober community you can become a Patron (Matron!) https://www.patreon.com/join/lovesoberpod

Please rate and review the podcast & book it helps people find us xxx

As an RN, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional, and creator of the Food Attachment Model ™, Tiffany helps people with disordered eating finally find freedom, balance, and satisfaction. She personally struggled with disordered eating and found a path to peace. It was so transformational that she dedicated her work to helping others do the same. Tiffany's passion is helping people stop wasting their precious energy drained by the food and body struggle so that they can use that energy to be powerful leaders in the world. She has also been alcohol and substance free since 1998 and feels that recovery has informed all areas of her life, especially her work as a nurse and a coach. When she isn’t coaching, speaking, and podcasting, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, being in nature and creating more fun, adventure, and play in life.

Find Tiffany here: https://www.coachtiffanyrn.com/quiz.html

Grab a Cuppa and let's chat. 

Kate & Mandy x 

Resources mentioned:

The Body is Not an Apology 

The Human Library at Copenhagen 

Co-Women group Sussex, UK. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Resources mentioned: Untamed Journal, Glennon Doyle 

Playing Big, Tara Mohr 

Love Kate & Mandy 

Treen got sober at 59 and in this episode we discuss the challenges of kicking the drink later in life and how to harness the power of 'Life's Third Trimester' to create a mindset for successful sobriety. Nana Treen is a truly inspiration woman, proud to consider herself an Elder and a Sober Sister. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

K&M X 

We also reference the Vision Boarding Workshop with Kate , this coming Sunday on Mother's Day in the UK at 5pm. This is an opportunity to engage your creativity in envisioning a life you love sober or bringing more of what you love into your sober life. 

Booking link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-vision-boarding-for-sobriety-tickets-291730663267

Grab a cuppa and let's chat

K&M X 

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It was a real pleasure to talk to Michael and for him to share his incredible journey to sobriety. It shows us all that there is possibility and we do recover and how comedy, community and connection can provide the tools to a life without alcohol. There is talk of overdose and suicidal ideation and attempt in this conversation. So please do make sure you are in the right space to listen, it is also a conversation of hope, survival and recovery which is really inspiring.

Michael Sargood is 39 years old and from Southend-on-Sea in the UK and is over one year sober. At the depths of his alcohol addiction, he was drinking up to a litre of neat vodka per night and was diagnosed as being alcohol dependent. Despite this, he managed to hold down a good job until the last few months of his addiction. He decided to quit alcohol in March 2020 and went to live with his parents for the first three months of his recovery. He was sober seven months before relapsing in October 2020. That "one" drink lasted four months and saw him placed under the care of the local mental health team. On the 17th of February 2021, after losing over 24 hours to blackout, He went sober again. That was the last time he drank.This time round, He is trying to recover differently. Instead of just "subtracting" substances, people and places, he is focussing on adding things to his life: new friends, interests and ambitions.

He runs alcohol-free social events in his local area and is on a mission to meet IRL with other sober people he's connected with on Instagram. "Life has never been so good for me and I want to help others who are struggling with alcohol and substance abuse discover the joy of sobriety." He says.

Michael is off to Scotland with @welovelucid 20th - 23rd of Scotland - so if you're up for some laughter, connection and bagpipes don't miss out!

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love M & K xx

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K&M X 

We explore Emma's journey to sobriety, what was the thing that made it stick and why finding your 'thing' - something you love , is so important for happy, sustainable sobriety. We explore how the fun, joy and creativity are at their lightest about play and at their most badass are survival as mums, carers and sober women. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat! 

Love K & M 

She has a monthly pack that she curates with wisebartender - such a great way to sample drinks with a premium mixer to find out if you like them before committing to a full sized bottle.

https://wisebartender.co.uk/miniature-monthly-spirit-subscription-2390-p.asp

In this episode, just in time for Valentine's Day we dive into Rachael's sober story and into the juicy topic of sober dating, romantic relationships and ultimately with our relationship with ourselves. We look at why the decision to go alcohol free is the foundational piece of self-love which enables all the other pieces to come together in the self-care sober toolkit.  

Rachael  trained with Mindful Talent Coaching Academy, is also a trained Nutritional Therapist, an entrepreneur, a small business owner and a former secondary school/ high school Spanish teacher. Her mission with her writing and coaching is to help as many women as possible get unstuck and live fulfilling, wholehearted lives. 

Rachael May lives in her native Warwickshire, England with her partner and their gorgeous border collie. 

Radically Sober  is her first book and is available on Amazon worldwide.

You can find her on Instagram @rachaelmay_coaching and her website, which is coming soon  is rachaelmaycoaching.com

We reflect on reflection, and bringing light in terms of growing awareness and embracing and allowing the light of happiness in.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat 

Love K&M XXX

Veronica teaches that alcohol is not the problem—it’s only a symptom of a deeper underlying problem. She helps women dig deep, embrace change, and become who they are meant to be. “I return people to themselves,” she says. Veronica has helped thousands of women not only recover from alcohol but also transform their lives.

Veronica works with women and men all over the world through her successful and innovative online recovery programs. She developed the Soberful program into an online subscription community; Soberful Life. Now based in the US after relocating from the UK, she is married and lives on Lake Tahoe, NV, with her husband and two sons.

Free Facebook group: Soberful

Instagram: @veronicajvalli

Website: Soberful.com

Details of Veronica's new book can be found here: 

https://soberful.com/soberful-book-launch

The secret of our success is built day by day, so keep going, grab yourself a cuppa and let's chat. 

Love Kate & Mandy x 

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Nancy is a  49 year old mum of three boys aged 9, 15 and 16 and has been sober since April 2018. She was diagnosed with ADHD in April 2020 she says  'after a lifetime of feeling like I didn't quite fit in and struggling with low self esteem." She is  a sobriety and self discovery coach, (in training) and can currently be found on TikTok and Instagram as Sober Loving Radical.

Her mission is to define and promote 'Radical Sobriety' as a positive, joyful, lifestyle choice. A vehicle for self discovery and living a fulfilling and empowered life. In her private life my biggest drive is to break the cycle of generational trauma, to enable her children to feel better about themselves than she did growing up.

The is real talk for real times, how we actually feel in the run up to Xmas this second pandemic winter and what we think we might need to soothe, connect and light up our inner fairy lights to keep on keeping on. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate & Mandy 

We also discuss approaching this through self compassion - modelling that to our kids rather that this hyper perfectionism which feels  so stressful and actually stops us being present - which is that greatest gift we can give them - and ourselves. 

Hunker down, turn off all notifications, grab and cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate & Mandy 

Head over to https://www.lovesober.com/blog/the-advent-ure-starts-here-your-guide-to-an-alcohol-free-december

for more inspo about the toolkit. 

You've got it, we've got you - let's do this! 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate & Mandy 

After taking one month off the booze to boost the launch her company, she realised the tip of the iceberg had just been scratched in terms of the benefits and lessons that can come from sustained sobriety, and since then has navigated quitting nicotine, coming out as trans, living with chronic illness, losing friends and family to isolation, illness and death, and of course, the adaptation to life in a pandemic. She works on herself and with women and queer folk as a coach, exploring the hindrances to sustained sobriety and the shadows that can appear when the sober light gets stronger.

Her support group (The Deep Duckpond) is currently only in English, but she works 1:1 with clients in English and French and hopes, *once things settle down* to be more actively involved in the alcohol free world in France, and to produce more resources and supports for members of the queer community who struggle with addictive substances and behaviour. Community, therapy, boundary work (inward and outward-facing), non-violent communication, and radical self-love and self-care (it's not all fluffy slippers) are the cornerstones of her sobriety, healing and recovery.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

M & K 

Website: www.jowalduck.com

focus this year is on the  impact of alcohol on our relationships. We chat through our relationships when we were drinking, on our marriages, in our families and with ourselves . Part two of this discussion looks at how to build sober friendships. We talk about the power of connections and moving from places of isolation to connection in the beauty that is the sober journey and how we heal. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Love K&M XX

Jonny has a background working for technology companies servicing the hospitality industry and it was with the combined technology knowledge and personal experience of giving up alcohol that the idea for the app came about. 

His vision was to create a space for the millions of people who are sober or curious about changing their drinking habits, whether full or part-time. Having realised the number of drink options available and the growing range in both retail and hospitality, Jonny wanted to bring this together into one source.

The App is free https://betterwithout.app/ and a great tool for #soberoctober and beyond. Jonny is a great guy, and we really support everything he is doing for the sober community. Go check them out!

Grab a cuppa and let's chat

Love K&M

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In this episode we dive into the important subject of conscious menopause and menstruation, how to start prepping for this change in the peri-menopause, respecting the wisdom of our cycles to make intelligent choices for our better well-being and sustainable well being.

NB. HRT, mental health support and lifestyle choices are all important and individual choices at this time and today's chat is focussing on the narrative and psycho-spiritual elements of this life-transition, which is one element of this journey. If you are struggling reach out to your healthcare practitioner. 

The Red School Menopause School is coming soon, starting on Nov 1st  with a free introductory event on October 20th - all details can be found on: https://www.redschool.net/menopause

Alexandra & Sjanie are the co-founders of Red School, and co-authors of  the iconic and hugely celebrated book from Hay House, Wild Power: discover the magic of the menstrual cycle and awaken the feminine path to power. 

They are pioneering the new emerging field of menstruality, creating a new lexicon and approach to women’s health and wellbeing; creativity and leadership; and spiritual life based on the power of our menstruality consciousness. 

Between them they bring over 45 years of experience. And today they teach worldwide on the psycho-spiritual process of maturation that unfolds from menarche to menopause and beyond. They’re committed to training the menstruality leaders of the future.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Love Kate & Mandy 

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EARLY BIRD OFFER TILL 25th October 2021. 

Love Kate & Mandy x 

About Bex:

Rebecca Weller is a Health & Life Coach, Author and Speaker. Named ‘one of Perth’s leading Healthpreneurs’ by The Sunday Times Magazine, Rebecca helps women from around the world to get their sparkle back and create a life they love. Author of the bestselling sobriety memoir, A Happier Hour, creativity memoir, Up All Day, and her newest book, Chameleon: Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser, 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

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Our Book Love Yourself Sober  is on Kindle offer at 99p to honour  National Recovery Month & Sober October.

This time of year can be tough so grab a cuppa, dial it down where you can and let's chat. 

Love Kate and Mandy x 

Naetha & Calliese are a mother and daughter with credible lived experience and professional experience from the USA and UK. They are part of a chaotic but full of love intergenerational home (4 generations, age 8-80 under one roof!)

When Naetha brought her daughter to the UK nearly 4 years ago, they were looking for the resources and community to support their family in Recovery, but they could not find it, so they decided to build it.

Trigger warnings * In this episode we mention domestic violence and death by suicide. Please take care of yourselves. 

Recovery Coach Academy was created to bring Recovery Coaching to the UK: training, coaching, implementing and supporting implementation.  

Naetha and Calliese are the FIRST and ONLY CCAR Authorised Facilitators/Trainers and the first Certified Professional Recovery Coach Designates in the UK.   They have partnered with CCAR (Connecticut Community for Addiction and Recovery) to deliver the CCAR Recovery Coach Curriculum including the flagship CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© 5-day training course, that is now CPD Accredited to bring recovery coaching to life in the UK.

They are also working on Recovery Coaching Communities, a CIC to create a community to collaborate and share all resources and services that support Many Pathways to Recovery.   

Find out about the free 30 day event in support of National Recovery Month UK.

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Kate had just finished training with The Coaching Academy and now we are working with them on a course! Just shows how things can change. 

Check out the Taster Session on 21st August 10-12 am  HERE

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Dave is a 57 year old man who after 40 years of drinking decided to kick the booze back in January 2019. He started his page on Instagram @soberdave and shared the rough and smooth of his sober journey hoping to inspire and support others along the way. His coaching site is https://www. davidwilsoncoaching.com He has several articles published in the national press, and has appeared on numerous podcasts. Dave is now a grey Area Drinking Coach, an Ambassador for @Alcoholchangeuk and he also has his own podcast called “One For The Road.”

As carers we have extra weight on our shoulders and that can accelerate a problematic relationship with alcohol, as we try to cope with overwhelm, lack of support and isolation. Here we chat about the gifts and challenges of caring and how to build support and find support and why it takes a village. 

Trigger warning: In this episode we discuss death by suicide. Please take care of yourself if you listen to media by respecting your boundaries around subjects you may find upsetting or triggering. 

Writer, podcaster and photographer, Penny Wincer.

 www.pennywincerwrites.com

Instagram: @pennywincer

Twitter:@pennywincer

Podcast: Not Too Busy To Write

Tender: The imperfect art of caring is out now 

This one year soberversary time is so often laden with expectation and anxiety as well as feelings of pride and achievement. How do we navigate the transition from the first year to year two?  What should we expect of ourselves? Why is it a thing? Surely we should be bossing it by now? What was missing? Our expectations and minds can hinder more than help at this delicate time for sure. 

So in this episode, we talk about things that tripped us us and what we have learned along the way in terms of stress management, support, boundaries and our on ongoing journeys in the hopes that it resonates with anyone out there feeling the wobbles. 

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Grab a cuppa and let’s chat. 

Love Kate & Mandy 

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Irene Lyon, MSC. and nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. To date, her online programs have reached thousands of people in over 60 countries. Irene has a Master’s Degree in Biomedical and Health Science and also has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She has extensively studied and practices the works of Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais, Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing) and Kathy Kain (founder of Somatic Practice). Irene spends her free time eating delicious food, hiking in the mountains or walking along the Pacific Ocean in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.

https://irenelyon.com/

about sobriety, trauma recovery and his brilliant work as a coach. We also want to give a shout out to the sober dads for Father's Day. 

Johnny’s coaching journey started in 2006 when he qualified as a health and fitness coach. It wasn’t long before he realised that he was coaching across so much more than physical health. Supporting people to improve and change all aspects of their lives became his passion which led him to become a self-development coach. He found from working with a diverse range of people, and also from healing from his own childhood trauma, that he had a passion and a talent for supporting people with their self-development. Johnny also hosts a popular podcast called LIFE TALK, The Self-Development Podcast, where he has conversations with industry leaders surrounding self-development in a vast array of areas and topics.

There is a lot of laughter, authenticity and honest conversation. There is also discussion of domestic violence and childhood abuse so please take good care of yourself and make sure you are in the right headspace/environment to listen. It was an absolute pleasure to chat with Johnny a real sobro. So grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Love K & M XX

In this episode we talk about Casey's journey to sobriety, the importance of self-care, sober treats and  building the belief that you're worth it. You cannot not  feel better after your talk to Casey. She is a true inspiration and a girls' girl who keeps it real. 

Casey McGuire Davidson is a Certified Life Coach who helps women quit drinking and create lives they love without alcohol and the founder of Hello Someday Coaching. 

Sign up for 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. https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/

If you would like to join us on the Addictive Behaviours Taster Session, 2 hour online class on June 28th book here: https://www.the-coaching-academy.com/online-events/addictive-behaviours-coaching/june-2021/

This is some great science-based learning to understand addictive behaviours with some takeaway  tools around habit change.

Grab a cuppa and lets chat:)

K&M XXXXXXX

This is a fantastic conversation about Janique's personal story her work and the complex questions around addiction and recovery. Janique is incredibly knowledgeable and an advocate for pushing quality and qualifications in the field of recovery coaching, intervention and treatment. Mandy herself trained with Janique as part of her coach training and you can find out more about Janique's work at https://www.internationalrecovery.net/ Grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love K & M xx

and its theme #ConnectWithNature #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek.

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate & Mandy x 

This week on the pod Mandy chats to Camille @thinkbeyondthedrink Camille Kinzler is an alcohol-free lifestyle/habits expert with a Master’s in Science and Physician Assistant (PA) Studies. She is passionate about helping the high-achieving over-drinker unwind, have fun, and connect instead of instinctively reaching for her go-to cocktail by learning to trust herself again. She does this through a process she calls the COZY Method in 1:1 and intimate group coaching. She offers an intimate 4 month container for 10 women 2 times a year with an optional retreat component. We had a great chat about our similar journeys, seeing Alcohol-Free living as exploration and gaining rather than losing and the important element of trust. Camille is heading up 7 Days and 14 Ways to Break Your Drinking Habit Challenge of which we will be in conversation with her live in the Facebook group on May 15th at 8pm your time, which is 2pm CST US. If you would like to join the challenge and not only work with Camille but be invited to guest interviews each night click on this link - it's free! https://thinkbeyondthedrink.lpages.co/may-2021-awareness-challenge-love-sober/

Grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love M & K xx

We loved talking to Laurie about the light and shade of sober living. The importance of talking about our mental health and healing from it. We talk about the difficulty in accessing services and how brilliant and vital it is to lean on the sober community for support whilst talking to your GP and getting the right support on board. It’s a great and important chat. So grab a cuppa. Love K & M xxx 

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This week we revist Mandy's story. In this episode Kate interviews Mandy about her relationship with alcohol. Please do contact us with questions, potential topics or situations you’d like to be discussed – we’d love to hear from you, all our contact details are available at www.lovesober.com

Resources mentioned: CBT, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt/   Soberistas – www.soberistas.com  The Sober Revolution, Lucy Rocca - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18320328-the-sober-revolution  Instagram – @mandymannerscoach Club Soda - https://joinclubsoda.co.uk/  Clare Pooley TED Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKfuGMzmfTs Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis - http://www.happinesshypothesis.com/

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We have decided to re-release our stories over the next two weeks at it is a timely reminder for us both and for any of you who are new to the podcast. In this episode Mandy interviews Kate about her relationship with alcohol.

Resources mentioned: Add Action - https://www.addaction.org.uk/ Soberistas - https://soberistas.com/ Jason Vale - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kick-Drink-Easily-Jason-Vale/dp/1845903900 Lucy Rocca - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sober-Revolution-Calling-Addiction-Recovery/dp/1783752084/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525542556&sr=1-1&keywords=the+sober+revolution Allen Carr - https://www.allencarr.com/ Jack Trimpney, Rational Recovery - https://rational.org/index.php?id=1 Rebecca Weller – www.sexysobriety.com Tara Brach - https://www.tarabrach.com/ The rain of self-compassion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfmarLIBo0 Club Soda - https://joinclubsoda.co.uk/ Please do contact us with questions, potential topics or situations you’d like to be discussed – we’d love to hear from you, all our contact details are available at www.lovesober.com

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This week on the podcast Mandy talks to the incredible Jen Elizabeth @resurrektion_of_me a

Jen is a writer, speaker, trauma educator, Harm Reduction Specialist with The Sidewalk Project, and the founder of Resurrektion of Me, a community for people healing from trauma and addiction. She is the author of the book, “Shape of a Woman.” And host of the “Sober Mom Squad.” As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, familial abuse, addiction, the prison system, and spending the majority of her adult life experiencing houselessness... she has taken her power back and dedicated herself to supporting others as they heal from trauma. Her incredible story and triumphant recovery has been shared worldwide in publications including The Mirror, LAD Bible, The Sun, and The Daily Mail. She is a mother to two incredible children and lives in beautiful Southern California.

This conversation is incredibly insightful and empowering, *trigger warning* on a discussion about trauma and sexual abuse, please do take good care of yourself and use discretion if you feel you are not in the right space to listen x There is a lot of learning to be done around language, stigma, shame, harm reduction and addiction. We really hope you get something from this and greatly thank Jen for her work and sharing her story with us. Grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Love K & M

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We are diving into Chapter 12 in our book Love Yourself Sober to mine those treasures about bossing sober & social. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat

K&M X 

Because it's Autism Awareness Day in the Uk on April 2nd we wanted to keep talking and doing work to understand and support our families and to raise awareness. There are big links there for the sober community - Dr Gabor Mate has written books about ADHD and part of what we can do is try to raise awareness for schools and workplaces to be diversity supportive - neurodiversity  is one of the layers of othering that is traumatic for kids and adults and can affect peoples' lives and outcomes dramatically if not understood and supported. With20% of people identifying as neurodiverse we hope the tide is turning and we can embrace and foster different ways of learning and being in the world and these incredible gifts, not just saying that there is something wrong. 

We also explore the phenomenon of Kate's 'Covid Armpit'.

It's Ok , it's gone now. 

Grab that cuppa and let's chat:) 

Love Kate & Mandy x  

This week we had the great honor of talking to one of the early pioneers in the conversation about women and alcohol. Ann Dowsett Johnston she is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, turned psychotherapist.

Winner of seven National Magazine Awards, she is also the recipient of a Southam Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. It was for the latter that she prepared a 14-part series on Women and Alcohol in the Toronto Star, looking at the closing gender gap on risky drinking. In 2013, she wrote Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post. Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, the book exposes the “pinking” of the alcohol industry. Says Gabor Mate: “The writing is gripping and vivid, the voice personal, the research exacting, the stories revealing if sometimes heartbreaking, the conclusions essential. A triumphant life, a triumphant book.” Since the publication of Drink, she has worked hard to destigmatize mental health and addiction, earning an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen’s University for her efforts. She is also the recipient of a Transforming Lives award from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the American Research Society on Addiction’s Media Award, plus the T. A. Sweet Award from the Ontario Psychiatric Association for helping address stigma related to mental health and addiction. In 2017, she decided to follow her heart, applying to the Master’s of Social Work program at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. What this represents is the fulfillment of a decades-old dream: to become a psychotherapist. Writing remains a significant part of her life, and she is  hard at work on her second book. She also has recently started a writing group and workshops https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/workshops .

In this interview Ann talks openly about her mental health and drinking. Her recovery and finding purpose in her writing to change the conversation around alcohol in society and especially how it is marketed to women. Such a great conversation, we might have been a little over excited! Grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love K & M xxx

In this episode we had a really, really interesting discussion with the International President of Movendi https://movendi.ngo/ Kristina Sperkova. Kristina is a psychologist, alcohol and other drugs policy advocate, development aid specialist, feminist, civil society activist, Human Rights defender and humanist.

Kristina has a master degree in psychology from the Comenius University in Slovakia.

She has been active in the field of substance use prevention within civil society for 20 years starting in a peer program in her hometown community. Later on Kristina engaged in prevention work on European level and served as a Secretary-General of a European Youth Organization, Active – sobriety, friendship and peace. She worked both with capacity building of youth organizations active in the prevention field in Europe and with youth and alcohol policy advocacy on EU level.

From 2012 onwards, Kristina worked for a Swedish NGO, the IOGT-NTO movement that conducts development aid work with partner NGOs in Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Balkan countries, in the field of official development assistance. She worked as a Programme manager, Strategic coordinator and subsequently as Junior Advisor with questions relating to alcohol as obstacle to development.

Kristina has been in the board of Movendi International since 2006, first as International Vice President and since October 2014 as International President.

Kristina leads Movendi International with wit and compassion, heart-driven diligence and persistence. Kristina’s work is guided and inspired by our vision for a world where free and healthy citizens actively contribute in all levels of society.

This chat is about switching the focus away from individual alcohol use and towards the responsibilty of industry and government. It's about question social norms around alcohol and making space for living alcohol free. It was pretty inspiring and validating to hear that this is a movement for social change, gave us some fire in our belly that's for sure! So grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love K & M xx

Connect with Janey at the following: 

www.thesoberclub.com

facebook@janeyleegraceloves

instagram@janeyleegrace 

Happy Healthy Sober 

We also talk about Love Sober Life School spring term which starts on March 21st - there's an early bird offer on at the mo so if you want to join us click here and enter the code EARLY. 

Lastly we discuss Kate's shoplifting incident turned joyful micro-connection and the best sex on TV. 

So grab a cuppa and let's chat. 

Kate & Mandy 

Please just a note that Josh’s story refers to suicide so take care listening and if you’re feeling fragile come back to it when you’re feeling stronger. It’s a great conversation about resilience, sobriety and finding purpose, well worth a listen so grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Love K & M xxx

This week Mandy is joined by the wonderful @dufflyn to discuss recovery and relationships, fitting before Valentine's Day!

If you are yoga curious and wondering how this might add to your sober toolkit you can try a free class with Bryony at  https://www.be-yoga.uk.com/

or follow the socials: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yogabryony/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Be.yoga.Sussex

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6YSSwrmRtYMINpqmsNCESA

To help Be-Yoga to survive the financial impact of COVID you can, if you would like, donate to the Just Giving page Kate has set up because they are a huge factor in her not losing her shit and being sober XXX 

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/kate-baily-1

This week we had a brilliant chat with the wonderful Lotta Dann.

Lotta Dann has a degree in broadcasting and communications and a master’s degree in film, television and media studies. She worked for over twenty years as a TV journalist and producer while also developing a nasty addiction to alcohol. She got sober aged 39 with the help of an anonymous blog called 'Mrs. D Is Going Without' which eventually became a best-selling memoir of the same name. Another memoir, 'Mrs D Is Going Within', came next and she has just released her third book, 'The Wine O'Clock Myth: The truth you need to know about women and alcohol' which is an exploration of the alcohol-centric culture we live in and the impact it's having on women. She manages the large online community Living Sober (www.livingsober.org.nz).

So grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Love K & M

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This week on the pod we discuss our BALANCE model for holistic wellbeing. We go through was actions and adds we are using for B = Body, A = Awe, L = Lifestyle, A = Alignment. We also have a chat about living life in a pandemic and how our Sobriety serves us at this time – So grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

Love K & M

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This week Mandy is joined by our friend and fellow Coach and Trainer Stephanie Chivas.

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Happy New Year! In this episode Mandy chats to our good pal and sober daughter lols Millie Gooch. Millie is a writer, speaker and alcohol-harm campaigner. She is the founder of Sober Girl Society and the author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook.

Her new book available for preorder now https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sober-Girl-Society-Handbook-empowering/dp/1787634124/ref=sr_1_1?crid=OFWTCJ5I4E4S&dchild=1&keywords=sober+girl+society+handbook&qid=1608649602&sprefix=sober+gir%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-1 released Jan 14th 2020. You can also buy it in a book bundle with our book! https://www.thebookbundle.com/products/the-sober-girl-society-handbook-love-yourself-sober-easy-way-to-control-alcohol-3-books-set?_pos=3&_sid=9e620cc0d&_ss=r

Millie does so much to change how people perceive alcohol free living and we really admire and appreciate all she does. So grab a cuppa and let's chat. K & M xxx

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Happy Christmas one and all, just a short pod this week to say we are thinking of you. Kate takes us through R.A.I.N. Recognise, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. We hope and wish all the best for you. Love Kate and Mandy xx

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Jean McCarthy is an award-winning recovery blogger, author and podcast host from Alberta, Canada. Jean has spent much of the past decade sharing her story in her blog UnPickled, holding space for others on The Bubble Hour Podcast, and writing books about the lessons learned along the way. Find more about Jean plus links to her projects at www.jeanmccarthy.ca

Jean is a long term advocate of recovery. She is a poet and author of the Unpickled Holiday Guide and today she shares some top tips for surviving the holiday period and Christmas with grace and good humour. Jean is also a mother, wife, daughter and grandmother and shares that wisdom with us too. 

Social media links: www.facebook.com/unpickled www.facebook.com/thebubblehour www.instagram.com/jeanmccarthy_writes

This week we had a really brilliant chat with the author Cait Flanders @caitflanders about sobriety, intentional living and living with less - VERY INSPIRATIONAL.

Cait Flanders is the author of Wall Street Journal bestseller, THE YEAR OF LESS. Described by Vogue as “a fascinating look into a living experiment that we can all learn from,” it has been translated into 10 languages, and sold more than 190,000 copies.

Her new book, ADVENTURES IN OPTING OUT, is a field guide to opting out of expectations, changing paths, and leading a more intentional life. Powell’s Books says it, “offers a sturdy and flexible framework to navigate whatever path you are currently on.”

Cait’s story has been shared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Oprah.com, Treehugger, Forbes, and more. She always has an adventure in the calendar, and believes in leaving every place better than she found it. She is from Victoria, BC, Canada.

We really enjoyed this chat and we're sure you will too. Also mentioned by Kate B RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS

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Grab a cuppa and let's chat :) Love K & M xx

Love Kate & Mandy

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Love Yourself Sober - a self care guide to alcohol free living for Busy Mothers Kindle edition by Kate Baily & Mandy Manners is available now for 99p for Alcohol Awareness Week ( 16-22 Nov 2020). HERE

The Greater Good Science Centre gratitude quiz and resources

Tammi Salas Gratitude Practice 

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On this episode we had the great pleasure of chatting with Andy Ramage - Author, entrepreneur, alcohol free and wellness expert.

www.andyramage.com @andyramageofficial on FB & Insta where he is  LIVE every day at 7:45 am GMT. Andy was the co-founder of OYNB, for AF challenges: www.oneyearnobeer.com and is now concentrating on his own coaching and wellbeing practice including the Office-Athlete Course and next year launching an accreditation for Coaches. Andy has written two books. The 28-day Alcohol-Free Challenge with Ruari Fairbairns and his new book Let's do this! How to use motivational psychology to change your life.

You cannot help by be cheered up and inspired by Andy and his story into sober living and all the gifts it has given him in his career, relationships and health. It's a great episode, so grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love K & M x

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We also invite all coaches or those interested in coaching and expanding their experience in the area of addictive behaviours to join us in an introductory FREE event via zoom on Tuesday 3rd Nov ant 10am : LINK to join to find out a bit more. 

Things we think ROCK and are in the toolkits ATM are asking the question does this spark joy?: 

Podcasts: 

Brene Brown- Unlocking Us Homosapiens Ear Hustle Conversation with Alanis Morisette Home Cooking Sober Sex How to be a boss at Ageing Conversation with Nova Reid

Books : 

Atomic Habits 

Craving Mind 

Smellies

Neals Yard Seaweed and Arnica Body Soak

Neal's Yard Women's Balance Essential Oil Blend 

Headphones and music Comedy on Facebook

Le’Nise has helped many women with hormonal issues ranging from PMS, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, heavy, painful, missing & irregular periods, post-natal depletion, peri menopause and menopause. 

She set up her practice Eat Love Move to help empower and educate women to understand their bodies, advocate for better healthcare and heal. 

We had a great discussion about sobriety, nutrition, self-care and women's health, so grab a cuppa and let's chat.

To find out more about Le'Nise https://eatlovemove.com/ or insta @eatlovemove and her podcast @periodstorypod

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Rose Romain is a Certified professional creative and trauma informed recovery coach and she recovers designated coach , with a range of experience in supporting clients with substance misuse, debating, depression, anxiety, intimacy issues and creative burnout. Rose has worked extensively in the entertainment world (wearing many a different hat) before retraining as a coach. Rose specialises in helping clients transform their inner voice to become their ally whilst re-connecting with their body, mind and soul with intuition, integrity and inspiration. Rose is a member of the (MITC - music industry therapists and coaches collective) and proud co-host of the podcast SOBER SEX.

She is ALSO the voice of the audiobook of our book Love Yourself Sober 

Find her at roseromain.com

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This week on the pod we had the great honor of talking to the wonderful @welfordwellbeing Rachael Welford. Rachael is the founder of Welford Wellbeing and Clear Club and the host of Things I Wish I’d Known Podcast.

She is on a mission to empower people to take control of their mental, emotional and spiritual health so they can live fuller and happier lives. If you’re looking for a self-love overhaul, newfound confidence and a mindset reset,  you’ve found the right place. Rachael’s infectious energy sparks motivation and change. She shares practical tools, and life strategies which take her clients from stressed out, anxious and stuck to confident, positive, happy and really living their best lives. She’s worked with some significant names since setting up, including celebrity influencers, Hollywood actresses and companies like Reuters, Spotify, TikTok and DMG Media Group. She was voted one of London’s best alternative therapists by Time out and has been featured in VICE, New, Stylist, Evening Standard and Huffpost and now you can work with her this autumn to build self-love, confidence and realise how awesome you are! Whether you’re looking to clear the COVID-fear, start a new business, find love, build self-confidence and self-trust, she has the tools you need to get your head straight, find your passion and become your best self.

We had a great chat with Rachael about spirituality, mental health and sobriety so grab a cuppa and let's chat

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All of the stuff we talk about can be found at lovesober.com

So please feel free to have a look around X 

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With love as always 

Kate & Mandy XXXXX

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She has been sober since 4/23/94, married for 23 years, and mother of two amazing boys. Her class "Reinvent-How To Rebuild Self-Esteem After Addiction, Heartbreak & Trauma" is being taught to those who've suffered from low self-esteem, codependency, workaholism and many other issues. It is also being taught in the CA Prison System to help provide healthy coping skills to inmates before they are released. 

"We only allow into our lives what we feel we deserve, consciously or unconsciously. You can change what you believe and create the life of your dreams. Change your mind, change your life." ~Arlina Allen 

Her course sounds amazing, she is such an inspiration, this was a great conversation, so grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Links: Reinvent - Self Esteem Course http://www.selfesteemcourse.com Podcast http://www.odaatchat.com

Main Website - http://www.soberlifeschool.com 

Our book Love Yourself Sober is now available to buy https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Yourself-Sober-Mandy-Manners/dp/1789561442/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= or in any bookshop it can be ordered in XX

How to Be Hopeful BUY HERE Your Toolkit to Rediscover Hope and Help Create a Kinder WorldBernadette Russell

Elliott & Thompson / £12.99 / 10 September 2020

Bernadette presents the ‘How to be Hopeful’ podcast. More information at: https://www.bernadetterussell.com/ Instagram: @bernadetterussell Twitter: @betterussell / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bernadetterussellwrites /

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This week on the pod we talk book baby, the labour of love and it's creation, we also chat through what we're catchily naming the "best laid plans not carried out" or "the least relaxing holiday ever" It's been a journey folks. We are SO so grateful for those of you who pre-ordered the book, seeing photos of it on social media is SUCH a joy. If you enjoyed it please leave a 5 star review on Amazon and Goodreads it helps ALOT, and hopefully will help other people in need of support to find our book. We have been really touched by your support throughout the growth of this pod and then book and now our coaching practice, even our website is having a rebrand www.lovesober.com

Grab a cuppa and let's chat and thanks again. Love Kate & Mandy xxxx

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Mandy Manners is the co-founder of Love Sober, a community and podcast host. She is Certified Professional Life and Recovery Coach, a She Recovers® Designated Coach and a Gray Area Drinking Coach, author and speaker. She specialises in mindset and recovery coaching, focusing on the impact trauma and mental wellbeing has on problematic alcohol use.

She coaches women to feel empowered by their choice to stop drinking alcohol and use their decision to go sober to pivot from surviving to thriving in all areas of their lives. Using evidence based strategies to create their own toolkit of resources for stress management, nervous system regulation and self-supportive living.

She uses her training coupled with her own experiences to work with clients to transform their own lives to find balance, gratitude, satisfaction and a life they love sober. LEGEND! 

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We absolutely loved chatting with Ella about her journey to sobriety and all the gifts it has brought her, she's a great guest, so grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love M & K xxx

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Connect with Emily Lynn Paulson on Instagram @highlightrealrecovery and visit  www.highlightreallife.com

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This week we celebrate Kate's 4 year soberversary by looking at what she has learned and what the shadows and sparkles have been for her since she went sober for the final time on the 23/07/2016. It was a brilliant episode to record to really look at the whole picture and to reflect. It's such an amazing achievement to stop drinking, we think you are all really brave and very awesome. If you are starting out, we are always around for a chat or to offer support. Lots of love K & M x

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She helps her clients to identify areas where they feel stuck, and provides a well regulated and supportive environment for them to begin gently touching past trauma or overwhelm, and heal these states through presence and awareness of the body in the present moment.

She specialises in working with sober and sober curious women who are seeking additional tools to manage stress, increase a sense of calm, and move forward in creating their lives. This is gold to sober people to help us deal with triggers and move swiftly from fight/flight response to calm and to regulate our autonomic nervous systems so we don't hit the F it button and the bottle.

Dr Alice Kerby's online course about nervous system regulation for sobriety, 30 Day Sober & Calm course will start next Monday, July 13th 2020 

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As the founder of Served Up Sober, and a Teetotaler, I'm honored to be a part of the recovery community. My name is Shari Hampton and I've been sober since Valentine's Day 2015. I battled alcohol and drug addiction for over 35 years until I landed in the arms of a retired psychiatrist and anthropologist turned holistic wellness enthusiast. This couple merged their perspectives into a regime that combined various holistic modalities and focused on introspective examination and healing. Through the experience I was able to build a life of recovery and the experience taught me that sustained recovery exists at the crossroads of traditional methods and holistic ones. I knew I wanted to create a program that blended the two together.

I founded Served Up Sober because there is a stigma attached to healing that needs to be broken. Served stands firm in the power that we get to change and heal into our better selves. Our organization offers holistic support services in the form of weekly and monthly classes curated specifically for sober and sober curious women of color. And its community over everything — always.

I am a founder, a podcaster, and on and off again blogger. But more than anything, I’m healing just like you and I’m cheering for all of us to win.

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Both Lee (The Gay Sober) & Scott (Proud & Sober) alerted us to Matthew's work and the impact that Straight Jacket has had on their lives and unpicking their drinking stories as gay men and it is such an important conversation.

It was very illuminating and once again affirming that such a common thread in addiction, SUDs or other addictions is the experience of shame and 'othering' in our early lives and formative years. Matthew talked about gay shame and trauma and we too have talked about trauma and shame before, ACEs, poverty, neurodiversity - ADHD, autism, sensory processing, which all increases your likelihood of SUDs and other addictions. These are all key conversations about why people develop a problematic relationship with a substance - to numb the fear, anxiety and shame because for whatever our story we have told we are less than for being us. Then of course there is the trauma of racism - and the call to see and call bullshit and rise up against systemic racism and to come together to change and learn.

It's sitting heavy on us as we are processing once again, the othering that goes on from the heterosexual, white, male, neurotypical train tracks and systems and constructs we have lived within, felt unseen, othered, in pain and sought to ease that pain with addictions. What we feel hope in is these conversations, knowing that we heal together collectively and that sobriety really is a gift for growth, change and acceptance.

We are so thankful for Matthew for taking the time to talk with us, if you are looking for  his support group mentioned it is A Change of Scene on FB Grab a cuppa and let's chat x

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Please get in touch if you are struggling. You can also listen back to earlier episodes. Reach out -you are not alone. Love Kate & Mandy X P.S. We may have got this wrong and will probably continue to get it wrong but we are committed to listening, learning and saying sorry. Practice not perfection in all areas of our lives.

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To find out more

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So grab a cuppa

Love K & M xx

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Janey Lee Grace is an Amazon No 1 Best-selling author, speaker, and co-presenter on the UK’s biggest radio show, BBC Radio 2’s  Steve Wright in the Afternoon.  She runs the popular recommendations blog www.imperfectlynatural.com

Janey has written five books on Holistic living including the number One Amazon best seller Imperfectly Natural Woman and currently writes columns for many magazines, and runs training workshops and consultations on Media Breakthrough for holistic businesses and solopreneurs.  She hosts the annual Janey Loves Platinum Awards to recognise the best in natural and organic products and services with categories for practitioners and wellbeing authors.  After ditching the booze Janey launched a podcast ‘Alcohol Free Life’ focusing on sober self-care, she gave a TEDx talk Sobriety Rocks-Who Knew! in July 2019 and launched The Sober Club in Sept 2019, a membership portal and community for people who are committed to sobriety and want to ‘upscale’ their life without the booze.  Its all about the ‘Whats next?’ so members range from Day 1 to 6 years.

Janey is passionate about encouraging people to ditch the chemicals, focus on great nutrition, selfcare, and finding their purpose as she found for herself that quitting the booze was the missing link in the ‘holistic living’ picture. She also offers coaching and is trained in EFT and Matrix Re-imprinting.  Janey is married, lives in Herts and has 4 children aged 14 to 21.

We had a great time talking to Janey, she is such a positive advocate for sober living and doing so much for the sober community, so grab a cuppa and let's chat X

@janeyleegrace https://www.thesoberclub.com

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Not one to miss so grab that cuppa and let's chat. 

Love Kate and Mandy xxx 

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Love K & M xx

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Polly is an accredited life coach with lots of other qualifications, including NLP, Reiki and mBIT. She has overcome trauma and  adversity and says her choice to be alcohol-free has improved every aspect of her life

Polly says' I am passionate about educating you that there is another way to think, feel and behave. So you can live the life you want by stepping into self-empowerment. Then you can wholeheartedly feel you are enough as this what everyone deserves regardless of their past or life experience.'

Find out more about Polly at : 

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Body: nutrition, somatics, physical exercise, caring for our physical selves.

Awe: Practices that connect us to something greater- nature, community, the night sky, ritual or wonder. 

Love: Ourselves, self care practice, self-compassion, compassion, loved ones, what we love. 

Alignment: Works with our 'why' our values which tend to surface in sobriety as we can hear the whispers of our hearts and find the agency to work with them. 

Nurture: Feeding ourselves , our minds and hearts with knowledge, creativity and inspiration as we ask 'What do I really need?' 

Connection : Community and the ways we connect with loved ones and our tribe, the importance of honouring our pro-social natures to co-regulate and belong. 

Enjoyment: Fun, laughter, shits n giggles, creativity, bungee jumping etc .. what lights you up? The importance of a variety diet of happy hits to keep us from feeling deprived. All work and no play making Jackie a dull girl etc....

Drive: Direction, true north and our spirits and energy that keep us moving towards our goals and fullfilling our dreams and sense of purpose. 

Grab a cuppa and let's chat.

Love Kate and Mandy 

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This week we talk anxiety in light of the current world situation and especially in relation to media panic. There is a real need to work together, look after each other, regulate our nervous systems and protect our sobriety when anxiety kicks off, so we unpick how we feel at the moment and what strategies we are employing to get through this uncertain time. So grab a cuppa, snuggle up and let's chat this one through, with love from us. K & M xx

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Their friendship is a beautiful thing to witness, and there is nothing better than listening to people's stories, being in awe of their bravery, spirit and journey, we really enjoyed this chat and we know you will too, so grab a cuppa and let's chat. X

Learn more about Alex and Lisa on their website www.soberexperiment.co.uk The Sober Experiment was founded by Alex and Lisa, best friends for almost 30 years. They have worked together, drank together, emigrated together and after a short period of time spent on their own life journeys, have now embarked on a sober experiment together.

Despite both having successful careers and settling down to family life, both had been using alcohol as a crutch for all sorts of relatively ‘normal’ reasons, alcohol began to play too much of a part in their everyday lives. One morning, Lisa called Alex to announce she was experimenting with sobriety for 100 days.  A year later, after Lisa had decided sobriety was a permanent fixture, Alex joined her.  Together they have shared experiences beyond their wildest dreams and decided sobriety was just too good to keep to themselves.

They both realised that it wasn’t necessary to be labelled alcoholic in order to want to improve your lifestyle and become a healthier version of yourself.  Through shared and different life experiences, they realised that although on the same journey, their pasts and present situations were so different that they could touch the hearts and minds of so many different people and turn their negative past into help for others. 

They agreed that change was needed and wanted to create a platform where the stigma surrounding alcohol and alcoholism could be removed.  The Sober Experiment was born and in such a short amount of time, they have been able to bring their services to help others.  As an IPHM accredited training provider, The Sober Experiment now works interactively with groups of people in the workplace to allow them to ask anything and say anything in a safe environment with no stigma attached.  Alex and Lisa ensure everyone they touch has a raised awareness surrounding the impact of alcohol on wellbeing, from CEOs to Managers to Staff to Students, and provide the tools to allow people to support others by knowing how to identify and refer concerns.

So many people use alcohol along life’s pathway.  From wetting the baby’s head, to raising a glass at a funeral but the conversation of alcohol as an addictive substance is avoided until it is too late.  Alex and Lisa want to change this and start having these conversations before a person becomes addicted. The Sober Experiment provides a safe space and support for everyone who chooses not to drink alcohol (either for social, religious, cultural or personal reasons) for people to be a part of and to talk without the fear of being labelled and encourage open and honest conversations. 

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This week we talk through the rather sticky subject of comfort zones, are they good? Do they hold us back? When to push them and when to retreat, it's not always easy to know and so we mull this over and how we can help ourselves if we feel stuck in a rut. So grab a cuppa and let's chat x

Love K & M xx

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In this episode we discuss what comes up for a lot of people we talk to and our clients, the transitions between the roles we play, we are thrown from career person to parent to child to spouse, often without a moment to breathe and we have gotten used to using alcohol to ease the transition or temporarily calm the nervous system. So we have a chat about this, our it affects us personally, what tips or tricks we can employ to regulate, pause and not reach for the bottle.  So grab a cuppa and let's chat x

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Samantha once dreamed of being a performer; however a un-nurturing culture back in the 80s saw her being stigmatised as fat, and unsuitable to be a performer, after a performing arts school misused her vocal abilities, and she suffered from overused vocal cords, that ruined her voice and prospective career in musical theatre.

She went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in production and stage management, and In the 1990s she began her mission to provide for others a nourishing and safe environment for creatives and those that had something to say, unlike her experience which left her full of shame and the burden of failure. Samantha founded the Brighton & Hove Fringe Festival, a yearly festival promoting talent and desire through arts, sports and outreach activities to include families and young people, reaching a wide audience and increasing the tourist footprint of the city. The festival is a leading event in the cultural calendar.

In 2001 after fighting her demons she acknowledged she was an alcoholic and sought treatment and has for the last 16 years been sober and drug-free and an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Samantha Quinlan has worked in the Behavioural Mental and Emotional Health sector for 15 years and is a founder of iCAAD. The International Conferences for Addiction and Associated Disorders, she programmes and directs conferences for professionals and the general public across Europe and the UK.

Samantha founded the Leading Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (LEAP) charity, alongside starting a residential addictions facility in 2003. She completed a foundation degree in general counselling in 2012. She is also a qualified facilitator of Equine Therapy. She has devised and delivered programs for vulnerable adults and young people, adolescents with extreme childhood trauma, workplace leadership and solutions and adults with learning disabilities.

Sam is committed to her personal development and leadership skills and regularly attends conferences and intensive courses, including the LCP at ONSITE workshops.

She sits as co-chair on the UFENow ethics committee as the co-chair to the “International Collaborative Committee (Cultural, Migration and International Ethical Issues)” and she is on the fundraising committee of International Animal Rescue.

In 2008 Samantha became a live kidney donor and today is happy to report the father to her children is alive and healthy, she believes this is nothing short of a miracle considering her history as an alcoholic and feels blessed that she has been able to be of services for the greater good.

Over the years Samantha has in her own time and as a volunteer, helped support 100s of people some referred to sober support, some treatment and others to therapists across all Behavioural Mental and Emotional health care issues. She reflects that when she needed help, she felt she was one of a lucky few and was able to access help without charge or bias, so today she strives to connect those in need to the right help or to signpost them to organisations that can help.

Samantha believes that many people in the UK do not know where they can go to get help and support but is hugely in favour of the sober movement and the stamping out of stigma she tries through iCAAD to offer clear signposts for those that are displaced, or struggling or isolated, and she hopes that through her work and iCAAD, that families and professionals may learn about and get the help they need. She would love for more of the general public to attend iCAAD x

In her spare time, she likes to build theatre sets and would one day love to perform again!

Sam would like to offer these  words of encouragement with other women in the world?

When the whole world looks dark and those around you can not find a good word to say about you, when their cruel words keep on digging deeper under your skin and when no one can see you are crumbling and screaming inside. Turn around and start walking, keep on walking until you face someone and say can you help me, and if at first you don’t get heard, don’t give up, keep on asking for help; eventually, you will be heard and held. I promise x

This episode is an absolute gem and we really encourage you to check out the amazing resources, blogs and conferences at www.icaad.com and Kate and Mandy will be presenting at ICAAD London, we would love to see you there, so grab a cuppa and let's chat.

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It’s happened to so many of us, everyone seems to have an opinion about mothers, and everything seems to be laid at our doors, attachment, our kids mental health, mothers are under enormous pressure and we are trying our best to get it right, but what if there are huge gaps in this conversation? What if the conversation needs an update? What if what modern mothers need is support?

We know how impactful childhoods can be, but how about shifting to focus on everyone’s role? Societies role? How about women supporting women, and us moving towards a narrative that puts mothers in the firing line.

This is very much an opinion piece, but it’s our story and we don’t think we’re alone. So apologies for the swears, grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

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We are delighted to welcome Simon Chapple on the pod this week. Simon Chapple is the founder of Be Sober, the author of The Sober Survival Guide and a senior alcohol coach for This Naked Mind. He has made it his life mission to spread the word about the benefits of an alcohol-free life and has helped thousands of people change their relationship with drinking. This was SOOO good, we chatted through strategies for people starting out in sobriety how to view sobriety as an exploration and to be your own detective, write about your experiences, add in rather than relying on Willpower alone. We talked personally about what sobriety has brought to Simon especially in his relationships with his wife and son. We talk about his journey which is very inspirational! We also talk about barriers to men getting help in Sobriety and his mission to change that which is fantastic. We really enjoyed this, so grab a cuppa and let's chat.

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

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

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

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

Happy New Year everyone XXX

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So grab a cuppa and let’s chat X

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

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

Kate & Mandy XXXX

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Resources mentioned:

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

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

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

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So grab a cuppa and let's chat X

K & M xxx 

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Both her art practice and work in the heritage sector aims to provide platforms for those under-represented in the mainstream.

Her current series ‘Seeing Ourselves’ explores identity, beauty standards and race through hand assembled collage. Using magazines and photographs she is inspired by botanical, natural beauty and urban scenes and the beauty of natural afro hair. 

Her use of simple source materials, a craft scalpel and quite often an A4 cutting mat means you too can continue this craft from the comfort of your own home. Each collage is a reaffirmation of the right to ‘take up space’ even when you don’t see yourself.

Find Sharon on Instagram @london_artist1

We love this Ep and we’re sure you will too, so grab a cuppa and let’s chat X

Love K & M xx

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If you are looking for support for an alcohol free life at Love Sober we GET sober, we STAY sober and we LOVE sober.

Visit our website www.lovesober.com you can:

Join our online community LOVE SOBER LIFE, where you can benefit from peer support and discussions on sobriety & personal development, participate in virtual weekly meetings and sober powerball webinars.

Sign up to our monthly NEWSLETTER.

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Kickstart your sobriety with our 30 DAY COURSE.

Book a discovery COACHING call with Kate who is an accredited Mindset, Wellness & Sobriety Coach.

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In this episode we start off by reflecting on our Summer Holidays (Period of school closure). Using an exercises from Jane Hardy at https://www.blurtitout.org/ - Blurt are actually running a Crowdfunding campaign atm so if your like their work as we do, they really need support right now.

The exercise is as follows: Describe how you feel right now in three words. What has been the highlight reel and the lowlights over the last month? What tools did you use to overcome them? What lessons did you learn about yourself? Is their any habit/boundary/mindset you want to tweak for next month? Try it yourself! In this episode we also talk about the offerings that Love Sober can now bring to the sober community. Kate is a qualified coach so you can do 1-1 sessions with her contact kate@lovesober.com you can sign up to the monthly newsletter, purchase the 30 day email course and join our Mighty Network - Love Sober Life all on our website www.lovesober.com

We are so thrilled and excited to be expanding to share different ways we can help women boss their sobriety and with that anchor in place really boss their lives! Vivre la sober revolution.

So grab a cuppa, settle in for a chat on #reasonstolovesober

K & M xxxx

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This week on the pod we are delighted to be joined by @wandacanton. Wanda will be co-hosting our next Workshop in Brighton on the 13th of July. Tickets are available here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-sober-life-speak-for-yourself-sober-with-wanda-canton-tickets-61801665445 and Wanda explains in this episode what participants can expect from this workshop. We're super excited about this event and we are looking forward to seeing you then. Not only is a workshop about personal development, it is also a great opportunity to come together in a safe space to share with other sober and sober curious women. Wanda has extensive experience in facilitating workshops, group courses and individual mentoring exploring how spoken word poetry, hip-hop and creative writing can enhance mental health and wellbeing. She has worked across community projects, mental health services and forensic psychiatric hospitals. In 2018 she was the Spoken Word Judge for leading prison arts awards scheme, the Koestler Trust and recently featured on Fearne Cotton’s ‘Happy Place’ podcast which reached Number 15 in the iTunes UK Top Episodes Podcast Charts. As an artist herself she is published in the ICA and performances include VFringe Festival and the Southbank Centre. She works independently as founder and facilitator of Sound Out UK. Website: www.wandacanton.co.uk Instagram: @wandcanton Email: info@wandacanton.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soundoutuk/ In the pod we talk words and language, female emancipation and what we love about being sober, it's a good one, so grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love Sober Workshop with Wanda Canton - Brighton - 13th July. Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-sober-life-speak-for-yourself-sober-with-wanda-canton-tickets-61801665445

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We want to promote the Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival this autumn.  https://joinclubsoda.com/event/global-mindful-drinking-festival-2021/ and to highlight the brilliant work of changing the landscape of alcohol-free drinks in the UK and what a brilliant shero she is. The Festival is coming up soon- it will be fully online and we will be involved at some point 😊

Club Soda has 30,000 active members, 5,000 pubs and 200 drinks brands registered. It has made fundamental changes to way sobriety is being viewed in British society, campaigning for real tasty alternatives to be provided for people that do not drink and to make pubs inclusive spaces for all people. Club Soda also works to provide a space for people to think about their drinking, and how they drink around others to be mindful. They have groups on facebook for those who want to go alcohol free or drink less, and hold regular meetups around the UK. The Mindful drinking festival attracted 10,000 visitors this year, the tide is changing, and Laura and her team have been instrumental in bringing alcohol free living into the mainstream. We'd like to thank Laura for taking the time to speak so honestly and openly with us about her story. It truely was inspirational. So grab a cuppa and listen to our chat. x www.joinclubsoda.co.uk @joinclubsoda INSTA joinclubsoda TWITTER joinclubsoda FACEBOOK

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