Episodes
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Love Sober Podcast 157 - Xmas Toolkit Prep
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
In this episode we chat about how to put our best feet forward for the Xmas period and boss our sobriety with a badass toolkit. We are talking about willpower and how to build our sober identities, liminal thinking, diary being the weapon of choice, respecting the ebb and doing it OUR way.
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
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Love Sober Podcast Episode 156 - Guest Jo Walduck
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
In this episode, Mandy talks to sober shero and coach Jo Walduck. Jo Walduck (she/they) @zesobercoach @jowalduck loves long naps, white chocolate, social justice, walks on the beach and fluffy cats. Currently working remotely, she lives in Lyon, France but has grand plans to relocate to the seaside as soon as possible. Sober since October 2019, her journey to sobriety came off the back of burnout from teaching, and retraining as a life and business coach.
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
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
It's Alcohol Awareness Week in the UK and https://alcoholchange.org.uk/
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
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Love Sober Podcast Episode 154 - Guest Dr Bumni Aboaba
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
This week Mandy is joined by @thefoodaddictioncoach
Dr Bunmi Aboaba is a Recovery Coach specialising in Food Addiction, helping clients to achieve a healthy relationship with food to meet long-term health goals. Dr Bunmi’s work covers the full spectrum of disordered eating, including overeating, compulsive eating, emotional eating, addicted eating and other associated patterns. Dr Bunmi is also creator of the first Certified Food Addiction Certification to support nutritionists, personal trainers, dieticians, nurses and clinicians to help their clients achieve long-lasting results.
We had a great chat about Bunmi’s own story to sobriety, cross-addiction and her vision for helping people, breaking stigma and looking at how we eat, what we eat and why we eat it. We also talked about the way we can spot patterns of addictive behaviours no matter how they manifest. Bumni is a great friend of the show and a brilliant coach, don’t hesitate to get in touch if this resonates you are not alone.
Love M & K
Web: www.thefoodaddictioncoach.co.uk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bunmiaboaba/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefoodaddictioncoach/
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Love Sober Podcast 153 - Guest Lou Lebentz - Trauma Thrivers
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Love Sober Podcast Episode 152 - Johnny Better Without
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
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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Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
In this Episode Kate talks to Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, co-founders of Red School and authors of Wild Power-Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power.
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.
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Love Sober Podcast Episode 150- Rekindling your Sobriety,
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
In this episode we talk about what we can do when we are sober-fatigued, sober-bored or just lost our sober mojo. We look at why our tools get tired, what to do about it and how this is actually a growth moment. If we have plateaued we are ready for the next bit of growth.
Grab a cuppa and let's chat.
Love Kate & Mandy
Details for the upcoming Love Sober Life School 3 month group coaching programme can be found here! https://www.lovesober.com/courses
EARLY BIRD OFFER TILL 25th October 2021.
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Love Sober Podcast 149 Bex Weller - Chameleon
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
In this episode Kate talks to one of her favourite people- ubersobersister, sober shero and bonefide girls'girl, author, coach and speaker, Bex Weller, about her new book 'Chameleon - Confessions of a People Pleaser.' This memoir is funny and ouch-making and looks at how approval seeking and people-pleasing underlies so much of our drinking and comes at a high price. We talk about how to recover from people pleasing and set healthy boundaries for ourselves with a modicum grace diplomacy and self-compassion in our sobriety. As always Bex is funny, relatable and tells it how it is. It's a goodun' people- grab a cuppa and let's chat.
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
and https://sexysobriety.com.au/
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Love Sober Podcast 148 Harrison Ward - Fell Foodie
Friday Sep 24, 2021
Friday Sep 24, 2021
In this episode Mandy talks with the very inspiring Harrison Ward, also known as Fell Foodie @fellfoodie, who discovered a love of the mountains just as his life had hit rock bottom. A sufferer from
crippling depression and suicidal thoughts since puberty, life spiralled
out of control in early adulthood as he turned to alcohol to sedate his mind. By age 20, he was regularly consuming over 20 pints a day, was a full time smoker and had ballooned to 22 stone. A major life change in 2016, after coming to terms that he had become an alcoholic, brought him home to Cumbria. After vowing to leave booze and lethargy behind, he threw himself into a life of fitness. A close friend then introduced him
to hiking the local fells. A new passion was ignited and a fresh lifestyle began that remains to this day. Harrison is now over 5 years sober and can often be found merging his lifelong passion for cooking with his contemporary appreciation for the outdoors, producing restaurant-quality dishes in remote locations. This is such a good Episode, so grab a cuppa and let’s chat.
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Love Kate & Mandy