Welcome to the second episode of season 9 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober! In today's episode, Bee Sobers' hosts Lisa and Alex chat with Sonia Kahlon, the founder of EverBlume.

EverBlume is an innovative recovery program that provides small group meetings where members are matched based on their struggles. Through meaningful conversation and peer support, EverBlume aims to create a community for individuals on their recovery journey.

Sonia, the founder of EverBlume, is a successful orthodontist who sold her multi-location practice in 2016 and got sober in 2017. Since then, she has become a recovery coach and devoted her life to making a difference by investing in social impact and volunteering with the incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and victims of trafficking. In this episode, Sonia shares her inspiring story and discusses how she hopes to create her biggest impact yet through the power of peer support and community building.

Listeners will learn valuable insights into the world of addiction recovery and how peer support can be a powerful tool for those on their journey to sobriety. Join us for an enlightening conversation with Sonia Kahlon on The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober.

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https://www.joineverblume.com/

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Welcome to the first episode of season 9 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober. Following a recent member’s workshop with breathwork coach Christina Rae Almeida, Alex and Lisa chat about the benefits of breath work, their own experiences, and other methods of self-care, having a good laugh (as usual) along the way.

We would like to thank Rae Rituals for sponsoring this episode and providing our membership community with an amazing breathwork session.

Please follow Christina Rae Almeida on Instagram and TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/christinaraealmeida/

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Welcome to the final episode of season 8 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Live Energizing Breathwork with Recovery Advocate Christina Rae Almeida.

In this episode, we meet breathwork, life coach, and recovered addict, Christina Rae Almeida, who talks to us about her breathwork sessions, community and on-demand membership platform, Rae Rituals.

Christina is on a mission to help people transform their lives through breathwork and taking their power back. She is an entrepreneur, a conscious content creator, a podcast host, a philanthropist, and the founder and CEO of Rae Rituals.

Find Christina here:

Podcast: Power for Good

Membership: raerituals.com (sign up for the mailing list on this page to receive your free breathwork practice!)

Instagram: @christinaraealmeida

TikTok: @christinaraealmeida

YouTube: @ChristinaRae

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Welcome to season 8 Episode 5 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Bee Sober Book Club ambassador and sober coach, Jane Sproston.

Jane is a 52 year-old Mum of a 7 year old pocket rocket and got sober in 2017 after five years of trying and a long stint “moderating”. Jane previously had a drinking career of some 30 plus years. She survived student days, raving, and the ladette culture only to find herself using alcohol to cope and numb after lots of complicated trauma.

Jane’s journey has been full of highs, lows, twists and turns, including a period spent in The Priory, AA, an attempt at moderation, relapse and recovery.

Jane is now a qualified person-centred therapist (a journey which took 9 years instead of the usual 4) and a qualified sober coach and also volunteers as a counsellor for a Well woman’s centre.

Jane talks about her road to recovery, and how finding Bee Sober and becoming the book club ambassador finally helped her to find the connections she’d been missing.

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Welcome to season 8 Episode 4 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Fiona Orrell.

Fiona has a passion for the outdoors and is currently grabbing life’s opportunities with both hands. She loves hiking, outdoor swimming, paddle boarding and camping in her van, but she’s always up for giving anything new a go! She squeezes in as many adventures as possible around being a mum and her other work. Fiona is an integral part of the Love Her Wild Community as an event and corporate fund raising manager and says she finds her work hugely rewarding. Fiona says the Love Her Wild Community and its members are really something special and she feels very fortunate to be a part of it. Perhaps that’s what drew us to her and the Love Her Wild Community

Find out more about Lover her Wild here: https://www.loveherwild.com/

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Welcome to season 8 Episode 3 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Carolyn Clark.

Carolyn is a Bee Academy qualified Sober Coach and our North Wales Ambassador. She is absolutely amazing and this is an episode you do not want to miss.

You can follow Carolyn’s journey on Instagram https://instagram.com/soberhappysixty or check out her ambassador page https://instagram.com/beesobernorthwales

If you are interested in coaching with Carolyn, email her [email protected]

And check out her website here: www.carolynclarkcoaching.com

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Welcome to season 8 Episode 2 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Vicki Rebecca.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses rape in significant detail

Vicki Rebecca has run a successful private Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming practice that includes one to one therapy, both in-person and online, classes, retreats, live-in intensives, books and products since 1999. Since 2003 that practice has included retreats all over the world including Egypt, India, Turkey, the sacred sites of Scotland and more.

She wrote her first book: ‘The Me I Want To Be: Simple Shifts To Authentic Wellbeing’ initially for the clients and students she’d worked with for over twenty years. It was also a way of pulling all her knowledge together, but most of all she wrote it for those who could not manage to go along to sessions or classes because of cost or distance. It had always been a source of frustration to Vicki that she could not help them too. To make her work accessible to a larger audience she wrote the book and recorded over ten hours of instruction and guided journeys to accompany it.

In response to “The Me I Want To Be” when she has opened up during public talks, informal chats, and most especially her own realisation that a huge part of her sadhana IS to share her story, Vicky has now written her autobiography, no holds barred:

“Naked Truth: Diary of a Glamour Model” is a time document ranging from 1956 to today. The true story of a young runaway who made her way through the seedy photo booths of Soho of the 1970s into a career as a page three girl and Monroe lookalike. A broken heart left her fluctuating between stardom, drugs and despair and when she hit rock bottom a spiritual experience changed her life.

Vicki Rebecca has certainly lived!

You can find out more at https://vickirebecca.com/

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Welcome to season 8, episode 1 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Aodhan Benson.

A 25-year old who could be described as in somewhat of a quarter life crisis. After 12 years of masking the effects that the continuous partying/excessive drinking was having with overachieving and aiming to appear to have everything under control he couldn’t continue on the constant cycle of drinking - doing something stupid - feeling anxious and fearful only to do it all over again the following Friday. Aodhan had to step off the hamster wheel because he knew there was better out there and he wanted better for himself. He had moved abroad with hopes of starting afresh only for the problems with alcohol to soon reappear Aodhan had to say enough is enough and for once try and discover who he is behind the hangovers

https://www.instagram.com/aodhanwithoutalcohol/

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Welcome to season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Dr Melissa Kelly.

Melissa Kelly, PhD is a psychologist and coach for sober women who want to make meaningful changes to their careers. Melissa is passionate about helping women define and design their own version of a meaningful life in sobriety. She is also the founder of Sober Girls Ireland - a community that hosts online and in person events for sober and sober curious women in Ireland.

Find Melissa here:

https://www.melissakellyphd.com

https://www.instagram.com/melissakelly.phd

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Welcome to season 7 of The Sober Experiment Podcast by Bee Sober where Alex and Lisa chat with Lea Watson, founder of Glow Sober.

Originally an Instagram page to review alcohol-free drinks and literature, it has now evolved into working with organisations to support their employees by raising awareness of the impact of alcohol.

Lea has always had a complicated relationship with alcohol which escalated after the death of her only son, in 2018. She finally became alcohol free on 12 July 2020 and is committed to making profound and lasting change by promoting the positive benefits of sobriety and supporting those that wish to take a more mindful approach to their own alcohol consumption.

By working with employers, Lea’s aim is to remove the stigma from having conversations about drinking and encourage a non-judgemental, objective approach to the benefits of reducing one’s alcohol intake.

Lea’s son was killed in a road traffic collision when he got into a car with his friend who drunk. He crashed and Jack was left with catastrophic and fatal injuries. Lea works with a charity called Safe Drive Stay Alive and talks to teenagers of driving age about the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Lea has a first-class degree in English, and is also PCET (DTLLS) trained. She also holds an MA in Lifelong Learning. Much of Lea’s working life had been in business development, and product management. She has written and developed many training courses on a variety of subjects and delivered presentations to corporate audiences on a regular basis. She is also a designated Recovery Coach Professional.

Lea relocated to Bournemouth from South Gloucestershire in 2021 where she and her partner have bought an old house with a sizeable garden to renovate. She says she can already feel the benefit of coastal living. Lea is a a keen runner and has completed several marathons, including New York.

Find Lea here:

https://www.facebook.com/glowsober

https://www.glowsober.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/glowsober/

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