Starting Over - Facing Yourself After Relapse

Many people who try to quit drinking alcohol have at least one relapse before achieving long-term sobriety. For many, a relapse is part of the recovery process. If you had a relapse, all is not lost. It is time to face the facts, pick yourself up, and start back on the road to recovery. A relapse can be a valuable lesson that helps to strengthen resolve and continue to live an even more authentic and fulfilling sober life. Relapsing is not an indictment, it is simply a reality. The problem is that once it has happened to you, it can be overwhelming to face what has happened. There is a tendency to heap blame on yourself, to feel that you are a failure. That is counter-productive. This week on the show, we will be looking at constructive ways to face yourself and move forward after relapse.

Join us as we hear stories from guests who have relapsed. We will take an honest look at relapse as it relates to recovery.

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Re-Broadcast: Vulnerability and Recovery

For the summer months, we will be broadcasting live shows every other week, instead of every week. 

During the "off" weeks, we will re-broadcast popular or topically relevant shows. This Sunday we will be airing "Vulnerability and Recovery".

The three co-hosts of the show will be sharing their experience with vulnerability, sharing some feedback we have on some informal research/poll of what people think of vulnerability.

The show will air on Sunday, July 14th, at 9pm EST, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific.

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The Importance of Boundaries

Healthy boundaries create healthy relationships.  Unhealthy boundaries create dysfunctional ones. 

By establishing clear boundaries, we define ourselves in relation to others.  To do this, however, we must be able to identify and respect our needs, feelings, opinions, and rights.  Otherwise our efforts would be like putting a fence around a yard without knowing the property lines.

On this show, we will discuss boundaries - how we establish them, how we know when they are (or aren't) healthy, and why boundaries are important to sobriety.

Please join us for this important conversation!

Show airs at 9pm EST, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain, 6pm Pacific.

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Summer Announcement

For the summer months, we will be broadcasting live shows every other week, instead of every week. 

During the "off" weeks, we will re-broadcast popular or topically relevant shows - for example, this Sunday we will be airing "Creating Your Holiday Bubble" as we head into the July 4th holiday.

July 4th is one of the drinkiest (yes, we just created that word) holidays, and for people who are newly sober it can be a particularly challenging time.  Now is a good time to start preparing, so you can enjoy the holiday weekend SOBER. 

The show will air on Sunday, June 30th, at 9pm EST, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific.

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The Importance of Balance

We all strive for balance in life - a manageable blend of things we have to do and things we want to do is the ideal.  We also all know what it feels like when things get out of whack - too much work, not enough play or relaxation, not enough of the important things we do for ourselves to stay happy, healthy and sane.

We decided to do this show on balance because all three of us are struggling with it at the moment - year-end school activities, big work projects -- everything is busy.
We only announced the show today because we've been so busy we didn't have time to plan a topic.  We figured this was a clear sign from the universe that we needed to do a show on balance

Listen to the three co-hosts - Lisa Amanda and Ellie - talk about why balance is important in recovery, how we know when our balance is off, and ways we try to re-prioritize things like self-care which are so important in sobriety..

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Special Guest - Dawn from She Recovers

After surviving colon cancer in 2005, a breakdown from workaholism and a subsequent layoff from a job that she loved in 2011, it didn't take much soul-searching for Dawn Nickel to decide that what she really wanted to do for a living was help other women to recover.

Dawn has been in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol since 1989 and is well-qualified to work with women who want to recover their lives and pursue their passions. Building on her degrees in women's studies, women's history and a PhD in health care policy (all earned in recovery), Dawn is currently completing life coach training with Crossroads Recovery Coaching.

Dawn’s true passion is for the community that she has helped to create on her Facebook page, She Recovers and for other online communities like it. 

What started out as a daily meditation practice using social media coupled with a heartfelt belief in her own life's purpose has since turned into a business called She Recovers that, at the present time, offers yoga retreats and workshops for women in recovery (click on the link in this paragraph to learn more about the recovery retreats!).

Please listen to our conversation with Dawn where we talk all things recovery, including different pathways to recovery, recovery resources and the importance of a sober community online and/or offline.

Thank you, Dawn! We are so inspired by you and all you do.

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Let's Talk About Asking For Help

One of the most important things we do to get sober is to ask for help.  We've probably tried everything we can to stop drinking on our own, but when we finally realize we need help - how do we ask? Who do we ask? What works and what doesn't?  Who is safe to turn to?

On this show we will explore how we asked for help - when we finally surrendered, what we did, how it went, what happened.

We will also talk about asking for help to STAY sober - otherwise known as accountability.  How do we keep accountable? What does that mean to us? Who is in our support network?  What happens when we do (and don't) stay accountable?

Please join us for this important conversation on what is perhaps the most important part of getting and staying sober.

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