Confident Sober Women

My guest today is Mary Beth O’Connor. Mary Beth is an author, attorney, and speaker and has also incorporated multiple sources to build a secular, non-12-step, or faith-based recovery plan. In this episode, we talk about dealing with toxic family relationships and the importance of doing a self-analysis to understand your own emotions and behaviors. Highlights: The impact of toxic family dynamics...

My guest today is Peggi Cooney. Peggi is a fellow social worker, an instructor coach for the UC Davis in California, an author, and the host of Hola sober. In this episode, we delve into the often-overlooked topic of secondary trauma.  This is a particularly important topic for therapists, social workers, and other professionals who work in those fields, as they are frequently exposed to the traum...

We are immensely grateful for your patience in our season of podcasting pause. But enough already! Starting Tuesday, February 7, we'll come to you with our regularly scheduled programming. As promised, here are the links to the most popular episodes: Episode 41: Building Habits Using Your Central Nervous System w/ Amy Guerrero Episode 51: Reparenting Yourself Using Sustainable Tools w/ Sicily...

The Confident Sober Women podcast welcomes you into meaningful conversations where we help sober women uncover the truth about the lies they believe, transform their lives, and love themselves beyond recovery—hosted by Shelby John, therapist, coach, and author who has walked through the desperation and despair of active addiction.  In this podcast, Shelby shares her own personal journey, as well a...

2022 has been an AMAZING time for the Confident Sober Women podcast. We celebrated our 2 year birthday this month AND 100 episodes in October. Go check out the 100th episode celebration. Part of being a confident sober woman is living with healthy boundaries. And that’s why I am taking a break from producing the show until the new year. If you haven’t gotten my 6 Healthy Boundaries for Sober Holid...

Christine Malek is a Coach, Speaker, International Advocate for Women Against Abuse & Domestic Violence, and the founder of The SASSI Academy. SASSI is an acronym that stands for Strong, Assertive, Smart, Sexy, Independent, and through this program, women will rediscover their true selves, their minds, and their purpose in life. Christine has an incredible story of survival, strength, and resi...

Today's guest is Lauren Windle, an author, journalist, and public speaker who has shared her story from the TEDx stage. Lauren opens up about how her struggle to cope with anxiety and difficult emotions led her to start drinking at the age of 13 and eventually using cocaine in her 20s. She explains what it was like to go from desperately seeking acceptance from the people in her life to findi...

Tamra LaRese is a Spiritual Mentor and coach who uses her personal healing journey and Spiritual gifts to help others align themselves with their authentic self.  In this episode, Tamra talks about the power of emotions and how they have a physical impact on our bodies. She shares her story from early recovery when she discovered that the cause of her hand pain and swelling was not arthritis but,...

After the conversation I had with Lindsay Sutherland Boal on Tuesday there were three things that stood out to me. Listen in for 3 ways to answer the question Who am I? And then let me know what you come up with. Be sure to share this with a friend who you think would benefit. We can't keep all the good stuff to ourselves. Learn more about what I do to clear away the BS from your past so you...

Lindsay Sutherland Boal is an actress. opera singer, long distance runner, certified life coach and founder of She Walks Canada, and podcast host of The Covid Chronicles Canada. Lindsay tried to get sober six times before she was successful--namely because she didn't know what her recovery options were. She shares what finally saved her was confiding in a group of women on the same path as he...

Megan Peters is a sober woman, a writer, photographer, and a podcaster. She started out as a social drinker, but her relationship with alcohol turned into something much more lonely and she began to really struggle with her identity. She was inspired to get sober by other sober women, and has now been in recovery for nine years. Megan and I talk about labels and identifications as women who have s...

100 Episodes of the Confident Sober Women podcast . I still can’t believe it. Someone with more knowledge of this stuff than me told me that only 10% of podcasters make it to 100 episodes and only 1% make it to 200! Wow if that isn’t motivating I don’t know what is! So this is cause for celebration.  In this episode, I meet with three of my most downloaded guests to get an update on what has been...

Dr. Andrea Vitz is the founder and CEO of Levelheaded Doc and the primary developer of Emotional Sobriety (EMSO) Training, as well as the author of the book The You You've Never Met and a doctor of chiropractic. While Dr. Andrea has never had a problem with substance abuse, she did struggle with being attention-seeking, dishonest, manipulative, and controlling--and she became involved in the...

Laura McKowen is the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life , the founder and CEO of The Luckiest Club , and the host of Tell Me Something True Podcast . Laura started drinking in her teens and continued through college, her marriage, and early motherhood. She shares that she was forced to get sober after hitting her rock bottom following her separation fro...

Janey Lee Grace is a sober woman who wears many hats--including being the author of many books. While writing several books on holistic living over many years, she herself was keeping the secret of her alcoholism. She was a gray area drinker and did not hit "rock bottom" with her alcohol addiction, yet recognized that her alcohol consumption was not healthy nor was it what she wanted to...

Erica Barnett is a journalist, the author of the memoir Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery , and the co-founder of the Seattle news website PubliCola . Erica quit drinking many times but kept falling back into relapse--which she now actually accredits to her recovery. She tried several different things to get sober, including Alcoholics Anonymous, rehab, and cognitive behavioral...

Mindi Huebner is a sober woman and a mindset mastery coach. She comes from a long line of alcoholics, and though she never thought of herself as an alcoholic, she decided one day that she didn't like who she was or how she felt when she drank, so she made the choice to get sober. Mindi shares an important reminder that it's not about what you're giving up, but rather about what you...

Martha Krejci is a sober woman in long-term recovery, a business strategist, author, and motivational speaker. While Martha had a good upbringing, she did experience childhood trauma that resulted in abandonment issues when her older sister--who played a large part in raising her--left for college when she was a young child. She used alcohol as a way to help her overcome being an introvert and exp...

Martha Hughes is a sober woman, runner, fitness expert, and podcaster. She got sober not because of the bad experiences she had with alcohol (though she did have them), but because she was bored of doing the same things over and over again. One day she decided to take the leap and start attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and get an AA sponsor, and has since never looked back. Martha shares th...

Tamika Thomas is a transparent author, podcaster, life coach, and inspirational speaker. Addiction was a large part of the generational trauma that took place in her family and played a big role in her life during childhood. As an adult and former alcoholic now in recovery, she went to school to become a drug and alcohol counselor but ultimately moved to prevention and early intervention.  Tamika...

Lisa is the author of the memoir Girl Walks Out of a Bar as well as the cohost of the podcast Recovery Rocks. She had a 12 year descent into an alcohol and cocaine addiction, but hid her addiction and would have been known as a "high-functioning alcoholic". She checked herself in to an outpatient program as well as attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and finally felt that she was at...

Arielle is a recovery coach, life coach, and the CEO of My Sober Compass. As a child and a teen, she was always trying to find ways to escape herself. After having her first drink at the age of 18, alcohol began to take over her life and she lost sight of who she was, and she went to a holistic rehab facility in Canada in 2015. After going to therapy when in recovery from alcoholism, she realized...

Hope Andersen is a published poet, memoirist, and novelist who got sober in 1981 through a 12-step program. In her first few years of recovery from her alcohol addiction, she started focusing on other addictions (food addiction and addiction to men). She experienced manic depression after having children  and experiencing trauma with the death of her mother and father, had a suicide attempt, and l...

Chrystal Cuellar is a sober, Christian Life Coach who helps women ditch alcohol and become a warrior of Christ. Going through her own journey of sobriety and finding Christ again, led her to where she is today. Before letting go of alcohol she was a huge binge drinker, in a very toxic relationship, and without a relationship with Christ. Chrystal talks about codependency in relationships as an add...

Veronica Valli is a woman in long-term sobriety and as a recovery coach and psychotherapist, she understands that there is no ONE path to sobriety. Veronica is the author of the book ‘Soberful: Uncover a sustainable, fulfilling life free of alcohol’, co-host of the Soberful Podcast, and creator of successful online recovery programs,  Veronica and I share how parenting our children teaches us to b...