This week, Kim and I discuss #6 of Women for Sobriety’s Acceptance Statements.
Life can be ordinary or it can be great. Greatness is mine by a conscious effort.
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Podcast: “Living Sober,” Ep. 6
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Insecurity
Someone recently asked me if I went to rehab to get sober, and I was like, “No, but I wish I could go now.”
I mean, generally speaking, there’s nothing I would rather do than put responsible adult life on “pause,” indefinitely, to go read, reflect, hike, do yoga, get therapized, yak with likeminded folks about recovery, philosophy, history, humanity…which, incidentally, is what I do with my friend Kim on our “Living Sober” podcast. It’s worth a listen, if you’re into all that deep stuff, too! 🗣️🎙️👂🏻
I should probably warn you that some off-color language occasionally slips outta my mouth on the pod. In the only listener feedback we’ve received (from someone other than my mom), an emailer took issue with my “use of profanity.” 🙊
Figures! It’s been that kind of season lately, when my square-peg edges seem particularly rough, and all the world seems especially round. Like any good self-protective human who feels cornered, and like any recovering addict who buried their old trusty escape hatch, I find myself really yearning to run away and leave it all behind. Thus, I guess, the rehab fantasy. 🤷🏼♀️
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Podcast: “Living Sober,” Ep. 5
This week, Kim and I discuss #5 of Women for Sobriety’s Acceptance Statements.
I am what I think. I am a capable, competent, caring, compassionate woman.
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New Podcast: “Living Sober,” Ep. 4
In this episode, my co-host Kim and I chat about Statement #4 in the Women for Sobriety program book:
Problems bother me only to the degree I permit.
I now better understand my problems. I do not permit problems to overwhelm me.
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New Podcast: “Living Sober,” Ep. 3
In this week’s episode, Kim and I break down #3 of Women for Sobriety’s 13 Acceptance Statements:
Happiness is a habit I am developing. Happiness is created, not waited for.
New podcast: “Living Sober,” Ep. 2
In this week’s episode, Kim and I break down #2 of Women for Sobriety’s 13 Acceptance Statements:
Negative thoughts destroy only myself. My first conscious sober act is to reduce negativity in my life.
You can also find us on Spotify!
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When I said I had been working on a podcast with a sober pal, I wasn’t kidding! Here’s the first episode of our “Living Sober” series, inspired by Women for Sobriety’s 13 Acceptance Statements and expertly produced by Kim, my co-host.
Our topic is Statement 1: I have a life-threatening problem that once had me. I now take charge of my life and my well-being. I accept the responsibility.
Return
It was Sunday morning around 3AM, and I was more than just wide awake. I was awestruck, star-gazing from the balcony of an oceanfront room on the third floor of Turtle Bay Resort, listening to the relentless wind whip through the palms and stir up the Pacific.
Being in Hawaii was like plugging permanently into the “Calm” app, if it had an “intense” setting.
Bliss on steroids…that’s the best way I can describe my return to Oahu, where I soaked up the sun, sand, surf, seafood — and room service! — on my husband’s company dime for four lovely, lazy days. I lounged on the beach in a two-piece bathing suit in the middle of February, when I was supposed to be slaving away at work/school…and, based on the faint rumblings I heard from back home, at shoveling snow.
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