Soberful

"Resentments are the number one offender." In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss the nature of resentments, how they are like drinking poison and wanting the other person to die. How they seduce us into staying stuck and block us from growing. They confess their own resentments and the methods they use to get free of them. To learn more, visit the show notes .

Did you know that your mindset affects everything you do? From getting sober to how much money you make? In this episode, Chip and Veronica explore why mindset work is the most critical work you can ever do. They explain how your limiting beliefs in our subconscious mind were formed in childhood and shape your experience as an adult. Most importantly, they explain how to start changing them.   To...

Lynn Matti, psychotherapist and author of 5 Weeks to Self Confidence: A Guide to Confronting Your Inner Critic and Controlling Your Relationship with Your Thoughts joins Veronica to talk about how we can dismantle the inner critic to build our self-confidence and self-esteem.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

***Trigger warning****Joshua Shea is a recovering alcoholic and pornography addict and the author of The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About: How I Let My Pornography Addiction Hurt People and Destroy Relationships, released in January 2018 and co-author of He's a Porn Addict…Now What? In this episode, we discuss how porn and sex addiction start, the depths they can take you, and how to safeguard our...

In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA). ACOA's have particular characteristics that they carry into adulthood, particularly in their intimate relationships. To learn more, visit the show notes .

Intuitive eating with Coach Tiffany Thoen RN. In this episode, we look at the dysfunctional relationship, so many of us have with eating and how when we get sober, we often use food as a substitute for alcohol.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

Everything changes, even when we don't want it to. In this episode, we discuss what it's like to start over. How even when we thought everything was terrible we rebuilt our lives into something better than we could have imagined. To learn more, visit the show notes .

In the final episode of the year Chip and Veronica discuss all the things that changed their lives this year.  **Trigger warning*** the Michael Jackson documentary and child sexual abuse is briefly discussed.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

How does a mother overcome her shame and guilt? In this week's episode, Veronica interviews Laura McKowen about her new book 'We are the luckiest.' Laura talks frankly about how her drinking affected her daughter, the shocking incident that left her crushed with shame and how she overcame her guilt to finally get sober. To learn more, visit the show notes .

Chip and Veronica discuss the phenomenon of 'drinking on success.' It's when things are going well that we forget quickly where alcohol takes us and what happens when we drink. Opportunities to be successful come because we are sober but because we don't know how to handle success we sabotage ourselves.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

In this enlightening and educational episode, Veronica talks to Linda Carter, an acupuncturist and fertility coach. We discuss how menstruation and menopause affect women and the impact this can have on getting sober. Linda talks us through the different stages of menstruation how hormones affect our feelings and moods and what women can do to support themselves at each life stage when they want t...

Building resilience is essential to sobriety. We have often had these opportunities stolen from us as children or were just never taught them in the first place. In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss what resilience is and how it's never too late to build it.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

Brook Morton is the founder of 'Sober Outside' she creates travel experiences for sober women. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of being outside and how this can regulate our emotions. We also discuss how getting sober gives you 20% of your bandwidth back so you can experience life in an extraordinary way.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

Movement is one of the five pillars of sustainable sobriety. In this episode, Chip and Veronica take a more in-depth look at what that means. Movement is about using physical exercise to help manage your mental health as well as being purposeful about the direction of your life.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

What is harm minimization? Does it work? Is it enabling or life-saving? In this episode, clinical social worker, co-founder of 'The Fix' and addiction expert Joe Schrank and Veronica discuss the differences in harm minimization between the UK and USA.  Joe also discusses his radical and cutting edge response to the opioid crisis.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

When we get sober, the world takes it personally. There are four types of characters you may meet when you stop drinking: 'The overnight addiction expert, 'the drunk persuader, the 'moving the goalposts friend,' and the 'fun police.' Chip and Veronica talk you through how each one will approach you, what they will say, and how you can deal with them.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

Adrienne Miller, the President of the Women for Sobriety program joins the Soberful Podcast to delve into the 13 acceptance statements that are the foundation of the recovery program. Adrienne shares how Women for Sobriety offers unique support for women to stop drinking and how the 13 statements can be applied to our personal lives.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

Fear is a universal feeling, we all feel it, but not many of us talk about it. Managing fear is a skill we have to learn so we can grow. When fear takes over our lives, it keeps us small, and we make choices based on our perception of safety -- this keeps us stuck. In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss ways they have broken through fear and how they manage it in their daily lives.   To learn...

Fear, insecurity, and loneliness often leads us to feeling disconnected from ourselves, our loved ones, and the world -- and alcohol gave us that false feeling of connection we craved. In this episode, Veronica and Chip talk about authentic connection as the solution to addiction, how to achieve a sense of connection during sobriety, and the joys that come with the experience.   To learn more, vis...

Joanne Bradford is an author, certified healing practitioner, and life consultant. She got sober at the tender age of 24 and has been inspiring young women ever since by presenting  'not-drinking' as a valid life option. In this interview, Joanne tells her story, how she was inspired to get sober, and how this has developed into her healing practice with Motherheart. She believes that we can learn...

Getting sober feels like hard work, and we get asked if we have to do this work for the rest of our lives. The answer is yes, and it's fantastic. What we are actually talking about is maintaining our emotional and mental health for the rest of our lives. Chip and Veronica discuss the rewards of doing just that.   To learn more, visit the show notes .

The Holy Grail of anyone with an alcohol use disorder is moderation. In this episode, Chip and Veronica look at why moderation (or social drinking) is very rarely achievable. We discuss the energy and effort that people put into trying to achieve it. The reason that we struggle with moderation is because of the perception that alcohol can benefit us when the reality is very different.   To learn m...

Whatever the question is, balance is always the answer. Balance is key to sobriety because if we become unbalanced; it can lead to relapse. In this episode Chip and Veronica discuss the mistakes they have made and how to achieve balance using some simple suggestions.    To learn more, visit the show notes .

We all have difficult people in our lives. Often it's family members, or colleagues they trigger us, and we find ourselves flooded with feelings of anger, frustration, and fear. Because we can't change these people, we have to learn to deal with them in different ways. In this episode, Chip and Veronica discuss how they have dealt with difficult people, what they have learned, how they remain calm...

Step Gaudreau mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives - by building health from the inside out. In this episode, we discuss body image, health, nutrition. Step advises us how we can get started with exercise how we can deal with cravings in early sobriety as well as discussing her own reason for ditching the booze.   To learn more, visit the show notes .