After Alcohol

It's the last episode of Season 1 (yes we know it's been a long season!) and Leanne and Leisa are chatting about all the changes that are happening in their life currently and getting excited about a new chapter. We discuss how things have fallen away from their lives since they got sober, getting out of toxic relationships, and how they have dug deep to cope with crazy life changes in 2020. We also talk a little about what's coming up for Rise and how excited we are to share this with our community.

Enjoy this episode and we will see you in Season 2!

This week we’re chatting to Hannah Crerar a soul psychologist. Hannah blends modern psychology with ancient wisdom to bring her clients into deeper alignment with their true nature.

I was super excited for this weeks chat as we got to delve deep into my latest obsession - Human Design. It has been hands down the most enlightening tool for me in sobriety and my journey towards self love and acceptance. As Hannah says, self-love begins with self-awareness and she’s on a mission to bring a greater sense of awareness to as many people as possible. 

If you’re intrigued about what Human Design actually is then you’re going to love this episode….all will be revealed!

*Side note - apologies for the sound quality from Leisa and I in this episode, had a few technical issues - although Hannah is clear as crystal and really that's all that matters ;)*

You can find Hannah here:

Instagram - @hannahcrerar

website: https://hannahsoulpsychology.com/

If you want to access your Human Design body graph: https://www.mybodygraph.com/

This week we talk to Amy C Willis from Hol + Well, a Sobriety and Mindset Coach based in Toronto Canada. After starting a wellness business it wasn’t until after her father sadly passed away that she really started to address her problematic relationship with alcohol and dove headfirst into self care. After overcoming years of disordered eating, unhealthy relationships and alcohol use disorder, she now uses her own lived experience to support women in making powerful, positive change in their lives and to step fully into their power so that they can also lead lives of purpose and passion.

We discuss her journey to where she is today, the tools she uses in sobriety and her coaching practise and do a deep dive into EFT (otherwise known as tapping) to show what powerful tool it is in releasing old habits and behaviours.

You can find Amy on: Instagram @msamycwillis

Her website is holandwell.com

You can grab a copy of The 5 Step Guide to Kickstart Your Sobriety Workbook on the site.

After Alcohol Listeners can take advantage of 10% off 1:1 coaching packages with the code “AFTERALCOHOL10”

Amy also offers 1:1 tapping sessions which you can learn more about on her website.

Maz Compton has lived a life. Landing a job as a VJ with MTV in her early 20s , Maz travelled the globe interviewing everyone from Lady Gaga to Kanye West. In 2010 she moved into radio eventually winning a Cosmopolitan Women of the Year award in 2014. After a decade of working hard and paying even harder Maz started to question her relationship with alcohol and decided to set herself a challenge of going alcohol free for a while. A while turned into 5 years later, a new career in health and wellness and a book that sparked a movement inviting others to do their own alcohol free experiment.

We discuss why there needs to be a social rebellion around drinking culture in Australia and how her sobriety became her foundation for getting through whatever life threw at her. Maz speaks so eloquently around this topic and you can see how much she cares about empowering her community to redefine their relationship with alcohol.

Find Maz online here:

www.thesocialrebellion.com

Instagram: @thesocialrebellion

This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Khadi from Sober Black Girls Club. Khadi lives in New York and in 2018, after slipping into alcohol addiction, decided to get sober. She struggled to identify with any of the recovery communities out there and felt underrepresented as a sober black woman. So she went ahead and created her own community and has been on a mission to help and support black girls, women and non binary folks ever since. As a lawyer she also supports these women by giving legal advice and raising funds in order to provide specific resources to them.

We talk about the issue of inclusivity in the recovery space, how important it is to have these safe spaces that are specific to and talk to the trauma black women experience and how everybody has the right to recover.

We hope you enjoy this chat with such an inspiring woman!

Here's some links to SBGC:

website: www.soberblackgirlsclub.com

IfundWomen Campaign: 

ifundwomen.com/projects/sober-black-girls-club

Instagram: @soberblackgirlsclub

facebook: @SoberBlackGirlsClub

twitter: soberblackgirls

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This week we’re talking to sober BFFs Annie and Bianka.

Hosts of the hilarious yet always inspiring podcast ‘We Want to Be Better’, Annie and Bianka talk big serious topics and challenge themselves to be better (even though they are already pretty fabulous!). Their balance of humour and honesty has allowed them to shine a light on the often dark and unspoken things people are dying to talk about but are too afraid to. Earlier in the year they tackled the subject of sobriety after Bianka decided to kick the booze. Being the amazing supportive friend that she is Annie decided to go alcohol free too.

We talk about the beauty of female friendship - especially in sobriety and how quitting alcohol was ‘the thing’ that led to so many other awesome things. These girls are hilarious and more than a few times we peed ourselves a little from laughing so much!

We hope you enjoy this chat as much as we did.

You can listen to the ‘We Want to Be Better Podcast’ on iTunes and Spotify and visit

https://annieandbianka.com.au/ to keep up to date with what the girls are up to. They are also on the ‘gram as @wewanttobebetter, @biankaismailovski & @uncannyannieblog

This week we take the poddy global and speak to Ashley James in the UK. Ashley is a tv presenter, social commentator, model, DJ, empowerment coach and has appeared on shows such as Made in Chelsea and Celebrity Big Brother:Year of the Woman’. This is one woman with many strings to her bow!

A campaigner for mental health, body positivity and social media honesty, Ashley has appeared on both BBC News and Sky News to discuss topical issues and draw on her own past battles with self-harm, bullying and body dysmorphia. Ashley has been a journey from people pleasing to self love to become the femme de force that she is today.

We discuss single positivity, changing your relationship with alcohol in a society that doesn’t want you to and how to strive for happiness.

We hope you enjoy!

This week we discuss the topic of identity. How do we define who we are and what we stand for in this world?

Identity is something that both Leanne and Leisa have experienced a shift in post drinking career. When you take away alcohol you wave goodbye to your drunk persona and changes the way you interact with people in a social capacity. We'll discuss ways of working through a sober identity crisis and how you can learn to love the new you.

Enjoy!

On this episode we talk to Shanna Whan - the CEO, founder, and force behind national charity Sober in the Country. She's a self-described ''garden variety recovered alcoholic'' who was fortunate enough to make it back from the brink of death - and chooses to use her very imperfect life and story to pay it forward and offer hope for those still in the fight.

She risked it all when going public after rebuilding her life from ground zero at the age of forty and going on to spend 15,000 volunteer hours in the 'trenches' to start a conversation around making it okay to say no thanks to beers in the bush.

We talk about speaking your truth in sobriety, how insidious booze culture is in the bush and how the lack of anonymity in the bush drove her to create her platform the helps folks be ok with saying no to booze.

We hope you enjoy!

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This week we discuss the highs and lows of our first 365 days of sobriety. Everybody's journey is different but this may be valuable to those early on in theirs. Buckle up, you're in for a hell of a ride!

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