Confident Sober Women

Personal core values are such a big part of building strong confident sobriety. Its not something many of us are familiar with  but it does put our lives in alignment. Leslie Center shares her personal core values and why she chose them. She shares intimately about her struggles with a chronic illness and how that contributed to addiction and affected her recovery and her relationships.   If you d...

This week I had the pleasure of talking with with Teresa another sober women in the Confident Sober Women Facebook group.  She share her story of hope and recovery and also the importance of having guides in your life to come along side you.  Living well in recovery requires support.  Service to others is another form of spirituality. Using gratitude as an action leads to deeper connection with ot...

Connecting with your spiritual side is a personal journey that requires deep introspection and consideration. Often we take what we learned growing up and then mesh it with things we learn in adulthood to land in a place of connection and peace that feels right for us. Nicole is a friend to Confident Sober Women and has a beautiful story of how she grew from what she learned in the Catholic Church...

What do you believe in? Where do you get your strength and purpose from? Is it from God, the Universe, Nature, yoga or something else? We are chatting about the difference between spirituality and religion and the ability for all of us to find connection outside ourselves in some way. For you spirituality might be having a zest for life. Maybe you enjoy being outside in  the yard tending to the gr...

Today I had a very special guest on the podcast Jen Kautsch from Sober Sis. She is a ray of sunshine in the recovery community with a fairly unique story. Listen in while we talk about making the decision to go alcohol free, how she helps women in the very beginning of their journey and doing things afraid!  You can learn more about Jen at her website https://www.sobersis.com/ss-home. If you enjoy...

Building Unshakeable confidence is the task of living well beyond recovery. That skill you need to pursue your desires with ease. One of the questions I hear most from women in my community is Who Am I? What do I like to do? Who do I want to do my life with.    It's time to find out by learning more about yourself, your strengths, beliefs, weaknesses and values. And get some healthy assessmen...

Connection is the opposite of addiction. And one of my favorite things to do is talk to women in my community. So that's what I did today with Sara. Sara talked about her experience with therapy, her view on self-care and how her values have come to light and changed since she became a sober woman. She works in the recovery field and is starting her MSW program to become a clinician.  If you...

Have you ever been in a funk? A rut? A downhill slide? Perhaps there are parts of your life you used to feel pretty confident about. And then for some reason or another the situation changed.  Today I want to share with you 5 simple ways to get yourself out of that space and back into alignment with who you really want to be. Most of the time after carful consideration we can see that the "of...

Core values provide direction and internal dialogue that influence ALL of our other decisions. Your values inform your choices and decisions and your choices lead to opportunities, behaviors, thoughts and feelings.  In fact you gain a sense of purpose and fulfillment when you are living/choosing in alignment with our personal core values, BECAUSE you are aligned! Today I share a practical exercise...

Understanding our personal core values is a key component for building emotional sobriety and living well beyond recovery. My friend Casey Davidson from the Hello Someday Podcast joined me for a dynamic conversation about this very topic. We talked about what personal core values are and why its important to know them. And we shared the ways we help sober women go through the process of discoverin...

We have been talking about transforming daily habits and routines for several weeks. The episodes have been jam packed with loads of practical wisdom you can put in place today!! If you are ready for more of the work on emotional sobriety, to move your recovery from fear to confidence the Sober Freedom Inner Circle is your next step. Come join us so you can have the unshakeable confidence to get o...

Most of us know that physical activity is super important for maintaining good health.  But many woman HATE exercise. The word itself just brings up images of sweating men in gyms and skinny girls in sports bras! But movement means so much more than that. And there are many ways to incorporate it into your life on a regular basis.  Chris and I get into into more ways during this episode.  Chris is...

Transforming our daily habits and routines is a huge part of doing the work of emotional sobriety and building confidence beyond recovery.  Today we are jumping head first into another area of this important but often one of the most challenging for so many American women.  Let’s talk about food! If you are anything like me I am in LOVE with food. I like most foods including most healthy foods esp...

You have heard me talk and share in the Confident Sober Women Facebook group quite a bit about to how you start your day.  But how you end your day is just as important! Building emotional sobriety means you must radically transform your daily routines in order to get healthier sleep, have more energy and a clearer mind.  This means establishing a sustainable evening routine you can count on or wh...

Shauna Cummins is a hypnotherapist, published author and a sober woman. She has a unique way of sharing how to release the shame we carry to make changes and support ourselves. In our conversation she shares a concept called self-collaboration and couples it with a simple practice you can start doing tonight and every day to support yourself.  We dig up some real golden nuggets together and I can&...

If you have been sober for a little while or are curiously exploring your options, The Bubble Hour Podcast is a place you need to be! Jean McCarthy brings the heat with people walking the walk every sing week! Today we share stories of our own sober journeys with a special focus daily habits and routines we use to support and care for ourselves.  Jean calls them comforts. AND she offers some ideas...

Do you struggle to even get up in time to get where you need to be let alone budget in extra time to do things like have quiet time, journal, meditate, pray or exercise.  Today we are talking about mastering your morning routine, one tiny thing at at time. Sustainable change only happens when we do the same things every day consistently over time. Productivity experts agree that how we begin our d...

Perhaps there are things you are still doing or saying that just don’t feel right for you.  They aren’t aligned with who you are or want to be.  Maybe your family raised you in a certain beliefs and they were ALL in, but even looking back as a child you never really identified with it or fit in and now you are struggling to figure out what your beliefs are or how to practice them. The developmenta...

This is a special episode from one of my Sober Freedom Inner Circle Guest Expert Trainers, Michelle Taylor at Perfectly Imperfect Counseling .  Michelle uses Gottman techniques with couples , learning the tools to have effective communication and repair. And with individuals , she focuses on Brene Brown techniques of vulnerability, compassion, and shame stopping. Michelle is a direct, goal-oriente...

The FREE 5-Day Understanding Your Negative Thoughts Challenge is happening January 25-29! Click here to register today! The last few weeks of the year I spent time with myself considering what I wanted for this upcoming year, what needed to change what would stay the same and I decided to finally give in to the urge I have had for a long time to take an adult hip hop class.  It was so fun. The thi...

We are what we think! And our thoughts generate energy and can move us forward or keep us in the darkest places of our live!  Go with me while I geek out a little on some brain chemistry and share with you my what's coming up in a couple weeks. The FREE 5-Day Understanding Your Negative Thoughts challenge , doing the work so you can love your life beyond recovery.  You can register for that c...

With the turn of the calendar its easy to be delusioned by thoughts that things will be very different.  But sometimes it feels like the hits just keep on coming right.  That’s kind of how things went for us the last few weeks of 2020 with my oldest daughter’s driving.  If you got my email today you heard this story but I’ll share it here anyway.   My oldest daughter, Grace got her license about a...

2020 is what's on everyone's minds lately and the idea of kicking it to the curb and starting fresh with 2021.  Of course a new year does mean a great opportunity to reflect on the year that just passed ask yourself what went well and what didn't, choose a word and consider new habits or way of living to test out in the next 12 months. However, in reality we know that nothing much d...

Did you know identifying your values increases your confidence?  Wait what? Haven’t you seen the poster saying something like this in your office.  Oh or did your HR department mention it in your orientation. Probably yes to both as this is heavily used in the business world to create mission, vision and take a stand on what is important to the company. But you have never heard it talked about on...

With this week being a strange time between the holidays, people are off work, kids are off school I wanted to do something a little different. So what could be better than having a chat with another sober woman!  Shannon is a member of my Confident Sober Women Facebook Group , and has been sober over 18 months.  She shares how she knew it was her time and the support she has gotten from her kids...