Love Sober Podcast

Episode 139 Guest Penny Wincer

In this episode, Kate speaks with author Penny Wincer a bout her book 'Tender - The Imperfect Art of Caring.' Penny's story of being a young carer for her mother which comes full circle to finding herself as carer for her son, who has Autism is moving and stirring and throws a light on othering in an ableist society, articulates the struggle of finding help as a carer and raises important questions about how we can support carers. 

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 

 

Episode 138 Guest Chris Marshall from Sans Bar

This week on the pod Mandy chats with Chris Marshall from @sans_bar Chris Marshall is the owner and founder of Sans Bar, an alcohol free space and community based in Austin, Texas. He has been alcohol free since February 16, 2007.  Chris started working as Substance Use counselor at Integral Care in 2009 and witnessed his clients struggle to remain abstinent from alcohol after they exited treatment. He created Sans Bar in 2017 with the belief that everyone deserves a safe, sober, and inclusive environment where they can authentically connect with others. Chris identifies as a person who is thriving despite a mental health diagnosis, and is an advocate for mental health across North America. This is a brilliant uplifting chat about thriving despite adversity, looking for the fun and sparkle in life and working from your authentic self. It's a great chat. So grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love M & K xxxx

Love Sober Podcast 137 One Year Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them

Kate and Mandy get in the same room! Recording together in London, and at the request of one of our US listeners, we reflect back on our one year milestones, why we went back to drinking and discuss tips for people approaching their soberversaries, and how to stay the course and push through that year mark. 

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 

Love Sober Podcast 29 Guest:Bex Weller 28/02/2019

On today’s podcast we have the delight and privilege to be joined by the mighty Bex Weller all the way from Perth , Australia. Bex is an author, speaker, coach and founder of award winning www.sexysobriety.au.com. Bex’s pioneering on line program filled with wellness, self-care, interviews with sober female entrepreneurs, recipes, coaching and reframe with her focus on feeling good sober was ground breaking in framing sobriety positively and as a powerful and positive choice. She brings lightness, warmth and humour and shines a light into those dark spaces which she has shared as well. A true hero and sober sis, she shares her inspirational journey from chaotic party girl to sober joy seeker and sharer . Thanks Bex! Resources: https://sexysobriety.com.au http://www.healthydiscoveries.com/about/ https://www.lovesober.com/events/workshop-13-april-2019/ A happier hour: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=a+happier+hour&index=aps&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_28v8u60ns1_e&adgrpid=61753863068&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=259077618227&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3909174914828010887&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006583&hvtargid=kwd-306919141426

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Love Sober Podcast 136 Irene Lyon

In this episode Kate talks to her science girl crush - the AWESOME Irene Lyon about the science and process of nervous system regulation and why it's need to know real life stuff for sober people, stressed out mums and carers and, well, basically everyone. 

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/

 

Love Sober Podcast 135 Johnny Lawrence

In this Episode Mandy talks to Johnny Lawrence https://www.instagram.com/theselfdevelopmentcoach/

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

Love Sober Podcast 134 Casey McGuire Davidson

In this episode Kate talks to the ray of sunshine that is Casey McGuire Davidson, Founder of Hello Someday Coaching and host of the Hello Someday podcast and dear sober sis Stateside.

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/

Love Sober Podcast 133 Language Revisited

In this episode we revisit some of the language and around sobriety and being alcohol free, recovery, addiction, trauma and grey area drinking. We talked in episode 3 about language and now having trained as coaches, set up a community and written courses, and delved into this subject, we decided to look again at what the language around this subject is doing now. It's so great to reflect on this as we as the sober community co-create the language of our experience. 

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

Love Sober Podcast Episode 132 - Janique Svedberg

This week Mandy talks to Janique Sveberg CSAT-s, MCC, CPC, CAI-s. The Founder of the International Recovery Specialist Institute.  Janique is an interventionist and public speaker who loves working with people, Janique first set out to work as a recovery coach helping people on their road to recovery. She became an entrepreneur and wrote the autobiography Blood, Drugs, Rock & Roll an account of her own rise to fame and fall from drugs.  In recovery, Janique has been a tireless advocate of, and voice for, people needing help from substances and behavior disorders, by becoming a highly sought after recovery coach. Janique has spoken to hundreds of people at conferences and in workshops, and in 2006, seeing the incredible need and short supply of recovery coaches, she began providing training for recovery coaches and sober companions creating her own training company “Road To Recovery.” Her dream and ambition is to bring the knowledge she has learned to even more parts of Europe and to be part of the growth and changes to the field of addiction and mental health it so desperately needs. 

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

Love Sober Podcast 131 Danusia Malina-Derben - School for Mothers

Episode 131

This week Mandy has an incredible chat with Danusia Malina-Derben @school.for.mothers.podcast and author of Noise - Danusia is a mother of ten children, and still her own woman. From teen mother to tenured Organisational Behavior and Development academic, and onto award-winning, internationally published leadership expert. Danusia traded academia to head a global firm that fixes corporate boardrooms and develops top talent. She also hosts two critically acclaimed companion podcasts; School for Mothers and School for Fathers. Danusia has received praise and recognition from The Sunday Times to Metro, Psychologies to Good Housekeeping. She lives in the South Downs, UK with her family, and their mini-dachshund, Dickie. Visit her online at danusiamalinaderben.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/school.for.mothers.podcast/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danusiamalinaderben/
Twitter:https://www.facebook.com/SchoolForMothers
Clubhouse: https://clubber.one/@danusiamd 

schoolformothers.com 
danusiamalinaderben.com 

 

This was a great chat about motherhood, feminism and sobriety and how powerful Danusia’s own journey to sobriety has been on writing this incredible book. So grab a cuppa and let’s chat.

 

Love K & M xx

 

Her book NOISE: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood - 30 March 2021

THE BOOK THAT ANSWERS: HOW CAN I BE A MOTHER AND STILL BE ME? 

Part manifesto, part memoir, part guide; this book unflinchingly flips conventional thinking surrounding motherhood on its head. On the one hand, this book is about being a mother, but it's also about how, once we become mothers, we're not allowed to be ourselves. NOISE is a powerful dismantling of the barriers and central tenets that hold women back. 

This manifesto was built to start a conversation; it's a call-to-arms to get ideas flowing through our communities, and an invitation to think differently about what we're repeatedly told about motherhood. An intimate, bold blend of memoir, thought-leadership and research, Danusia provocatively reframes the NOISE around motherhood and repositions mothers as the social change agents our world desperately needs.

“A debrief on motherhood for today” The Telegraph

"Danusia makes motherhood political - giving tangible steps to help shift our societal views on motherhood and make a change.” Eve Rodsky, author of NYT Bestseller Fair Play

“It is a beautiful thing when a book about motherhood is about people; about remembering that mothers are people in their own right. I think we so often forget that. This is a soothing slap in the face reminder.” Hollie McNish, author of Nobody Told Me & Slug

Triumph Press: https://www.triumphpress.co/books/p/noise
Available for purchase at (amongst others): Amazon UK — Foyles