alcohol free life

What a ride season 2 has been! Maso has been on a huge journey after an 8-year relationship ended, she has shared the ups and down with you our listeners, and in return, Maso has received some beautiful heart-warming messages of support.   Maso has ridden the emotional rollercoaster sober, it's a huge accomplishment.  And for all the work she put in, she is wrapping up season 2 on a high!

For Breeza, it's been her first crack at sobriety, and as you would have learned this season, she has dipped her toe back in and has been drinking alcohol here and there.  In this ep Breeza questions, if booze will stay around for much longer in her life,  and she questions what value it has brought her life over the past 9 months.

It's been another cracking season all because of YOU!  Thanks for tuning in, thanks for DMing the girls, and thanks for your reviews (hint - please give the poddy a review).
Breeza and Maso will be back in your ear holes in 2 weeks time.

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If any of today’s discussion is triggering, please reach out to your local support centre.  In Australia, that’s Lifeline 13 11 14. 

Andrea from the Adult Child Podcast joins the show this week.  Andrea is honest, vulnerable and in your face and this is a raw conversation about alcoholism and the trauma received of being an adult child of alcoholics.

Matt and Andrea are both sober and both children of alcoholics.  In this show, Andrea discusses:

• Their path to getting sober at 18
• Getting to 7 years of sobriety and realizing, after a bad break up, that the trauma of her childhood was echoing in her present
• How the 12 steps, therapy and a higher power helped her recovery
• Realizing she will never be fixed, but will make progress each day

As part of her recovery, Andrea created the Adult Child podcast.  You can click here to listen or download it wherever you get your podcasts.  Andrea has also created a community on Patreon where she helps others who are Adult Children of Alcoholics with:

• Weekly virtual support groups
• Exclusive content not shared on the pod
• Episode topic and guest question suggestions
• AMA (ask me anything - nothing is off limits!)

You can support Adult Child Patreon by clicking here.

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GUEST INFORMATION: AMANDA E. WHITE, LPC'S BIO

Amanda E. White, LPC, is an author and a therapist. She is the founder and director of Therapy for Women Center, a therapy practice based in Philadelphia with therapists across the country. As someone who has recovered from the trauma, substance abuse, and an eating disorder, Amanda knows about struggle. Her widely popular Instagram @therapyforwomen offers fantastic insights as well.

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GUEST INFORMATION: AMANDA'S BOOK + OTHER WAYS TO CONNECT WITH HER

• Preorder Amanda's Book (Release Date: January 4, 2022)
  • Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love
• Follow Amanda on Instagram: @therapyforwomen
• Visit Therapy for Women Center Website
• Visit Amanda's Website

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RESOURCES MENTIONED BY AMANDA IN THE EPISODE

• Reframe App
• The Luckiest Club
• Tempest
• Her book (release date of January 4, 2022)
  • Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love

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PODCAST INFO

• A new podcast episode drops every OTHER Monday
• Music credit: L-Ray Music, Courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc.
• Learn more about your host, Cordelia, by clicking  here
• Be sure to follow Cordelia on Instagram: @codependentrecoveryW

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RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS + HELPING SURVIVORS

• Access free Google Drive materials here
• Helpful organizations
• Finding affordable therapy
• Check out the post index - Cordelia has tons of posts on today's topic as well
• Post Cordelia made about being an active bystander

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WORKBOOK + COMMUNITY + RESOURCES

• Are you going through a breakup or divorce?  Here is the link to the 98-page workbook.  Print version + ebook version available worldwide.
• Check out Cordelia's book recommendations here
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Integration is the final step of our sacred journey of the self. To Choosing Love Instead, we MUST see our selves as an integral part of the whole, not separate or less than. This IS a universal truth we often live outside of. But it is the truth that we need to LEAN into most. 
Offering the fruits of your labor for the sake of love, to something bigger than just your pleasure alone. Claiming your inner divinity, choosing love instead, is how you embody and anchor your unflinching WHY, in all you do.

Albert Einstein said: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Choosing to live like life is a miracle is the only way to find lasting peace and inspiration we need to see our thoughts as constructs not of WHO WE ARE, but as part of the fleeting experience of being human.

Self Inquiries for this final week!! Don't forget to email your Q&A mary@marywagstaffcoach.com

What contributes to your calmness and balance?

What tools can you use to achieve this?

How long does it last?

How can you recalibrate that feeling throughout the day? 

What can reality draw you back to center?

What is your definition of SELF (big S), separate from the ego?

What ways to you express this sense of self in your life and the world around you?

Where do you feel separate from all of life and creative consciousness?

How can you fill the gap?

What is your vision of the ultimate expression of integration of self?

What is your definition of divinity, god/goddess or creative consciousness?

How do you connect to that energy?

What archetype do you identify with most?

Where do you see yourself and divinity/creative consciousness as separate?

How can you be in service not just to humanity, but the divine expression of life?

If every act was an act of love and service, how would that change how you show up?

How can you initiate your self, into the SELF of all of existence?

Write a declaration of your commitment to love, claiming your birth-rite as an equal participant of life. Claim your sovereignty and where you are DONE playing small. Declare that alcohol is no longer a part of who you are or what your purpose is in this life. 

Remember it’s not what you do, but how you do it.

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Join us for our Transformational Women's retreat in Mexico in April! Create the intentional space to reconnect with yourself in a community of like minded women. Follow the link here to register and say YES to yourself. 

My private coaching program, which combines a feminine with holistic perspective, guides you towards a easeful and sustainable sobriety so you can make alcohol unimportant. Learn the #1 tool to sustainable sobriety: Schedule a discovery call here.

Join our On-Line community sanctuary here!

You'll discover the process I'm using to help me deal with change and how you can apply this same process to your relationship with alcohol.

You can reach out to me with you name ideas here.

This is an episode on the flying from my hotel room in Houston, TX. To make alcohol irrelevant in your life, it requires being present, paying attention and moving forward from the space of interest and curiosity instead of shame and judgment.

Listen in as I share with how to know which one you are doing.