Empowered Sobriety

This weeks Episode is a bitter sweet one for us here at Empowered Sobriety Podcast. It is Lindsay and Abby's FINAL EPISODE! Thank you all so much for being here with us and following along this beautiful journey. We have created such a beautiful space for people to continue to come and find powerful, informative and playful episodes about sobriety, personal development and everting in between!...

Welcome back, Empowered Sobriety Podcast Community! We have a super potent episode this week packed full of tips and self-reflection questions.  We really dig into the fall season! 00:00 Intro 04:10 Nourishing your mind and body during the fall season 07:45 Tao Te Ching’s take on the fall season and learning to slow down 11:15 Three questions to ask yourself: “What old stale parts of you do you ne...

On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay and Abby are talking about Breaking up with your Parents! Lindsay and Abby share their own experiences with this and our own understanding of breaking up with our parents and everything in between! 0:00 Intro 2:24 "We cannot heal in the same place we were wounded" 4:07 "Our parents did the best that they could, even if they didn&#3...

Welcome back, Empowered Sobriety Community.  This podcast is part 2 to last week’s episode with our dear friend, Tami.  Last week, she spoke about growing up in addiction and how it felt to be married to an addict.  She eventually helps and supports his sobriety to this day and all of the wonderful gifts that came out of his powerful decision to get sober.  On today’s podcast, she continues to sha...

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Community! Lindsay and Abby have a super special guest on the podcast today. We are joined by Tami, a long time friend of Abby’s and she is a wife and mother of two who grew up in addiction.  She shares her story of how her parents’ addictions affected her and also how she married an addict but helped him to consider sobriety and stay sober!   00:00 Intro 03:05 What is wa...

Welcome to Empowered Sobriety Podcast! On this weeks Episode Lindsay asks Abby to Coach her and support her on air with her Binge and Restrict Eating Habits. This is a very powerful and vulnerable episode that has some amazing insight and TRUTH. 0:00 Intro 5:00 Abby begins the session and asks such deep, powerful, intuitive questions to Lindsay. Abby provides so much space, validation, reflection,...

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Podcast community! Abby is joined in the studio by Sober Coach Shane Checkan today. Shane’s road to recovery includes leaving rehab early against all advice and blazing his own path. Shane works with clients who are interested in finding alternative ways to quit drinking and start their sober path. 00:00 Intro 02:24 Shane’s life spiraled out of control with his alcohol ad...

In this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay poses a little Q&A for Abby and herself! What have you done with the space you have created in your life, working with and working through the trauma and your pain? 0:00 Intro 2:20 Abby drops an honest and powerful answer for us all and then elaborates on recovering from doing! 06:17 Releasing victim-consciousness and a humbled ego....

This week on Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Abby and Lindsay breakdown shadow work and why it's important to our sober journey. They discuss 3 steps to transmuting your shadows into empowerment! 00:00 Intro 02:22 What is Shadow Work and how it relates to addiction 06:17 How awareness and pausing is a lot of the "work": shifting addictions, relationships, etc. 09:58 Cultivating compassio...

We are bringing you part 2 of Anger and How to Release It! Abby shares vulnerably and powerfully about her own anger and how it was dealt with in her family. She speaks to 0:00 Intro 5:16 Abby talks about not experiencing a lot of anger as a child, how her anger was weaponized when she was experiencing it and the fear of anger. Anger was not welcome! 10:25 Where Abby's anger hangs out in her b...

We have such a powerful episode this week! Lindsay takes a deep dive into her anger and how it led to addiction to alcohol. Allowing herself to release her anger created so much space in her life and also the capacity to hold big things and big feelings.  All from learning how to safely release her anger and set empowered boundaries!  00:00 Intro 02:34 Lindsay describes how anger felt in her body...

On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay and Abby welcome fellow Coach Sam Gibbs Morris! Sam shares his journey to becoming 11 years removed from destructive behaviors involving alcohol and cocaine, how psychedelics were a huge contributor to his growth and healing, and what is happening in his life today! Sam is a men's embodiment coach, breath work facilitator and psyched...

Abby is a few days post Ayahuasca ceremony and she shares a few key aspects of her download from the powerful Peruvian medicine. 00:00 Intro 04:55 Abby shares how deeply humbled she was by the medicine and how her world-view was challenged by the medicine 09:02 Ayahuasca helped her expand her release judgments and limiting beliefs so she can expand her consciousness in order to see things from all...

Welcome Back to Empowered Sobriety! Lindsay and Abby have some insight to share this week with you! On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay shares about a sober event she attended with her new sober women’s group. She went to a dance party in San Francisco and her intention for the day was magnetism and living in it. So many amazing reflections in her share! Abby tells us about her up...

Welcome back to Empowered Sobriety Podcast! Lindsay and Abby download their insights around grief and why grief work is so important in sobriety. Stuck grief in our bodies may show up as various ailments and may even by covered up by other feelings. Tune in as they share their own experiences with grief and how grief wants to move. 00:00 Intro 03:02 Grieve work is important to those new in recover...

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Community! We are back with you this week with another powerful episode and this topic crosses many of our lives, whether you are sober or not.  Feeling “stuck” is a topic that we both see in so many personal development and self help areas.  Hopefully this episode sheds some light for you on what exactly feeling “stuck” means and how to move through it. 00:00 Introductio...

0:00 Intro 2:32 Abby opens us up with how she got to her own understanding of a conscious relationship, beginning with the question, "what do you want?" She takes us through her list of non-negotiables. 5:37 Lindsay acknowledges a BIG fear around dating, and shares with us her intention going into the first date. 6:29 Abby continues with her list of non-negotiables 10:38 Lindsay shares h...

00:00 Intro 02:30 How it was challenging and scary for Lindsay to be the sober one in her partnership 06:37 Lindsay takes us through what she noticed was starting to change in her relationship with her partner who was still drinking 11:53 Looking back, would Lindsay have changed anything in how she showed up in her sobriety and in her relationship with her partner? 13:25 What is regret? 14:50  Lin...

On this weeks episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast Lindsay and Abby discuss the importance of community in sobriety! Abby and Lindsay begin by sharing their friendships and community they had during active addiction and how it transitioned once they became sober. Abby shares about flying solo in the beginning stages of her sobriety and the challenges that came along with that. What she was turned...

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Podcast Community! Lindsay and I are super excited to share with you our full experience and takeaways from the very powerful coaching program that we completed last year. Elementum Coaching Institute is where Lindsay and I met and the coaching program is now enrolling for their September cohort! Elementum Coaching Institute is the premier coaching AND transformational pr...

On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Abby shares about what came through for her around rest on a recent adventure at Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center. 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Abby and Lindsay introduce our topic for today - REST and our relationship to it! 1:53 Abby shares about her recent adventure to Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center in Oregon. Abb...

On this week’s episode on the Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay and Abby break down guilt and shame, which are so prevalent in the addiction community.  They both give many examples and tools on how to identify when you are in shame or guilt and how to heal them both. 00:00 Intro 03:30 What is guilt and steps to relieving and healing guilt 13:34 Breakdown of shame and examples of what shame can...

This week on Empowered Sobriety Podcast Lindsay and Abby discuss the topic of "is sobriety boring?" Lindsay and Abby speak to their own understanding, interpretation and point of view on sobriety and is sobriety really boring? Or is your sobriety boring? What is boring to you? What is fun for you? What are you willing to let go of right now in your life, such as people or places? Abby an...

Today's episode on Empowered Sobriety, Lindsay guides us through her relapse and gives so much clarity on how it can happen if we aren't resourced enough or when we start to question our addiction. She also gives a ton of tips and practices to prevent a relapse. 00:00 Intro 02:23 Lindsay starts us off with the beginning of her sober journey and how working with a life coach lovingly illuminated he...

This week on Empowered Sobriety Lindsay and Abby welcome Jo from Spacious Expression! A Women's Sobriety Coach who helps her clients create sustainable systems of empowerment in all stages of sobriety! 0:00 Intro 2:52 Friendships in our addictions and in recovery 3:20 Lindsay shares her journey with friendships in addiction and early on in sobriety 6:26 Jo shares her journey with friendships i...