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Life through the sober lens from the original UK podcast for the sober and sober curious with author and coach, Kate Baily.
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Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
Ep 68
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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Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Episode 67
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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Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
This week on the pod we are delighted to welcome Sam Quinlan, Founder of ICAAD. Sam is a real sobershero having worked in the field of mental health, addiction and recovery for many years.
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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Friday Feb 07, 2020
Friday Feb 07, 2020
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Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
This episode maybe what you technically call a rant lols. We just had to get something out and that’s Mum shaming.
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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Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
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Friday Jan 10, 2020
Friday Jan 10, 2020
Episode 62:
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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Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
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Friday Dec 27, 2019
Friday Dec 27, 2019
We are delighted to end 2019 with a very special guest @tarynstrong
Taryn is the co-founder of @she_recovers the international women’s recovery movement with her mother @recoveringdawn Taryn is also a qualified yoga teacher and aromatherapist and runs the She Recovers Yoga teacher training program and online yoga classes.
It was wonderful to hear her incredibly inspiring and open hearted story of recovery, the dynamics of mother and daughter relationships, the work of She Recovers of which we will be helping to develop as designated SR coaches for the UK.
We talk the new year, how important the body is in recovery and being trauma informed how SR isn’t just for women in recovery from substance abuse but all women who are recovering from something. We talk her morning routine, setting intentions and the importance of self-care.
It was truly a joy to speak to her, we are sure you will enjoy this gem. So grab a cuppa and let’s chat.
Happy New Year everyone XXX
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Friday Dec 13, 2019
Friday Dec 13, 2019
This week, our second special episode sponsored by Sainsbury's we talk to our friend and very inspirational woman @milliegooch Millie Gooch is a writer, speaker and founder of Sober Girl Society @sobergirlsociety - an online and real-life network of independent not gin-dependent women. She gave up drinking in Feb 2018 after noticing how her party girl binge-drinking was negatively impacting her mental health and 7 months later started Sober Girl Society to show girls like her that you can still be young, wild and hangover-free! With Millie we talk through her experiences with alcohol and how brilliant it is for us as mums to see someone empowering young women. To have someone on social media who is really living and loving her life sober AND social and encouraging women to ask themselves better questions about alcohol in their lives is FABULOUS. Well done Millie and THANK YOU for all the work you do.
We talk bossing the party season with lots of tips, and drink recommendations - Millie co-hosted @sainsburys pop-up pub the Clean Vic this summer so we discuss mixology and the brilliant range there is now. We discuss what else you can do which is social and yet not booze-focus... ever heard of Massaoke? (Look it up!) Its a great chat, so grab yourself a AF cocktail and let's chat x
Sainsbury's has a free drink for you to try - Follow the link here https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/freemule and read the T&C - we chose this drink ourselves for you guys as it's versatile and deliciously fresh, so happy Xmas from us and from Sainsbury's!!!
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