Wild Sobriety

What is it actually like to go through the process of 1:1 coaching? The Client's Journey Of Awakening is the actual process of how we unlearn, learn and relearn.  But not in a 100% traditional way. Not through the process of institutionalized dogma, yet by growing cultivating your awareness and strengthening your trust in your intuition. We use principals of cognitive behavior, feminine wisdo...

You are "good all week", then Friday comes and all bets are off. Why can't you keep the same conviction or mindset you had all week and get you through the weekend.  In today's episode learn how to transition not just into the weekend gracefully and without needing alcohol, but make all of your transitions graceful.  Why getting good at transitions will make all areas of your l...

You never planned on getting where you are with alcohol. Because it didn't help you get to where you are. For this reason, you know it's not necessary for your future. It appears to be such a huge, famiar part of your past, that the future with out it feels like a void. Alcohol is not a destination.  It wasn't the big part of your journey you think it was.  It's a drug that ove...

Winning the lottery experience is emotional freedom from alcohol all day, everyday. Life happens, but it the dramatic distinction between alcohol exhaustion and alcohol freedom, is a very easy place to get into, and it feels SO GOOD. Eliminating your desire and attachment to alcohol is the solution to alcohol exhaustion,  b ut the real result is: freedom, liberation, vitality. Freedom from alcohol...

We've all been there. Screw it, or some version of NOTHING'S working. How can you  be proactive and preventing a downswing from having a bigger impact than it needs to and solve the problems you use alcohol for. Cycles and rhythms are part of our nature as humans. We love being in the waxing phase of our lives, ( when live is happening FOR US.) But we don’t know how to work with the down...

Committing to a process helps you solve problems at every level of growth.  Today I respond to four different circumstances from listeners on the show. I apply the 5 shifts, the E.T.A process and Emotional Intimacy to showcase how we can use the same tools for various circumstances again and again.  What if committing to a process vs over consuming new information was how you guaranteed your resul...

"In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times." -Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul In today's episode you will learn: Why resistance is the path to freedom. Why you avoid resistance. How to eliminate half of the pressure creating the resistance. Alcohol is both the method of protection and the something you are trying...

Did you know overwhelm isn't created by a set of circumstances? In a world vying for your attention at every turn, overload is inevitable, but YOU can nip it in the bud before overload turns into: "Nothings Working!" Today empower yourself to learn how to take control were you can: In your mind. If your overwhelm often leads to drinking, this episode is for you. GET YOUR COACHING QU...

Alcohol is a symptom of unprocessed / interrupted emotions. Always. Good, bad, happy, sad. We have to have a new conversation with the sensations created by energy flowing through our body, all day, everyday. Today I teach you a technique to use in conjunction with the 5 Shifts process to come into a closer relationship to your inner energy rather than moving away from it. How to be with your emot...

We are bothering ourselves with our own thinking. Mindfulness isn't a one and done situation. It is a muscle you build over time.  Seeing your thoughts as suggests for interpretation.  Which ones' are useful. Which one's you don't even believe that just bump up against some uncovered insecurities or scarcity mindset.  In today's episode I share with you a personal story of...

One of the most destructive thoughts keeping you stuck in the rut of alcohol is the dreaded FOREVER. Forever feels scary for most things, especially when you have felt so out of control. However, when you reduce your desire and attachment to alcohol, alcohol will ALWAYS be a choice, but you won't be making the daily decision to drink. The truth is, it's not a useful thought when you are...

You can't swing a dead cat without being triggered by something it seems these days. The good news is, your emotional reactions, including your desire to drink are 100% in your control. In a world where so much is out of our control, taking our emotional power back where we can, can lighted the blow, bring greater blacked, healing and more clarity to how to be of service in the world.  It als...

"Do things you have never done before to have what you have never had." - Emily Smith. This and so much more wisdom is waiting for you inside today's epode.  Join my guest, Emily Smith as she shares with us her journey to find wholeness on the other side of her past and conditioned beliefs, not only from alcohol but what it means to be happy in a career and beyond. In today's E...

Have you ever asked yourself, what about alcohol is actually FUN? Why altering WHO we are and not being fully present is the version of the best time you have ever had? Why do we have inhibitions in the first place? What if we changed the belief that created the inhibitions vs. just trying to drink less, would you solve the problem? If fun is a choice based on your thinking, why are we so stuck on...

One of the reasons many people feel out of control with alcohol is they think drinking "just happens." Part of this is true.  Alcohol has become as habitual as brushing your teeth, not to mention the extra large influence the chemical of alcohol has on conditioning your behavior to want more. However, drinking is always a choice. The question is WHY and how to take back control where the...

If you have been feeling like there is more to life than drinking or not drinking, you are correct and you are in the right place. On today's episode I go into a personal deep dive on what I really mean about awakening from alcohol and how you don't know what you are missing, until you find it. If you are a seeker or just getting a glimpse of the path of an awakened life, I invite you in...

Goals and Intentions both lead to taking an action in the present moment for a future result. When you make drinking a tangible goal, based on numbers and rules, you aren’t getting to the root of the problem: your beliefs system for alcohol. then When the GOAL is to drink less, you use more will power because you are staying on the surface. When the intention is to live a healthier life, for examp...

In today's podcast ep. #147, we explore how your Judgements and Conclusions are blocking the path to get alcohol out of your way. Our judgments and conclusions about life are important to keep us safe, but if left unexamined, "safety", turns into a comfort zone we fear leaving.  When we are learning something new, especially outside of the mainstream, we have to empty our minds of w...

Alcohol as a catalyst for connection only ever allows you to go as deep as your thoughts that you need alcohol to connect will allow you. Is alcohol creating more connection or just inhibiting your thoughts that stop you from going deeper?  When we interrupt our limiting thoughts by dissociating vs. examining them, we never give ourselves a chance to move past them. We condition our behavior and s...

Growing your drinking discernment the ability to judge well. When it comes to alcohol, this is everything.  The voice of the habit and nostalgic memories, create feel good chemicals themselves. When you think of NOT doing that, feelings of deprivation compound.  So how do you stay in your TRUTH and grow new pathways for changing your relationship to alcohol and not feel like you are missing out? H...

Are on the fence about alcohol? Waiting for the perfect solution that will make it easier, all the while, the habit is getting stronger? The secret to changing your mind about alcohol is changing the thought that it's going to be hard. This thought is WHY it is hard when you take a break. Not because it really is. There will be new emotions that are uncomfortable and unfamiliar, but you'...

Need some inspiration to make the journey away from alcohol feel more joyful, exciting and full of purpose and passion? Then this episode is for you. We are often more focused on what we think the downside of change will be. Today's episode gives you every upside to living a life FULLY AWAKE. And I'm not talking about better skin and more energy, I'm talking about your purpose BEYON...

When we are changing our relationship to anything, we face resistance. When drinking is black and white, it's on and off. Good or bad. You can't see your way through all of the unhelpful thoughts your mind gives you about the future of NEVER drinking again, and why that is doom and gloom. It creates black and white thinking, which has you going in one direction, to the past and moderatio...

From today's LIVE Q&A on instagram join me for a practice of DIRECT EXPERIENCE: This overrides your habitual reaction network that seems like alcohol is an uncontrollable impulse. -What is holistic alcohol coaching? -Why ritual and ceremony are important in our modern world. -How to keep the battery of the prefrontal cortex charged so you can make NEW decisions from the present moment, no...

Jill truly believed she was obsessive compulsive and was just going to have to live with the overwhelming and exhausting thoughts about alcohol and the desire to drink, until she found a new approach, The Five Shifts process. When she realized there was another solution to getting alcohol out of her way, that she didn't have to just stop drinking and hold on for dear life, she started believi...