Empowered Sobriety

This weeks Episode is a bitter sweet one for us here at Empowered Sobriety Podcast. It is Lindsay and Abby's FINAL EPISODE!

Thank you all so much for being here with us and following along this beautiful journey. We have created such a beautiful space for people to continue to come and find powerful, informative and playful episodes about sobriety, personal development and everting in between! What a blessed life and an amazing journey. We are grateful to all of you dedicated listeners and people that will hear us even after we are gone.

Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or are looking for an additional resource. We are still here for you and to support you in your journey of healing.

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If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

Welcome back, Empowered Sobriety Podcast Community! We have a super potent episode this week packed full of tips and self-reflection questions.  We really dig into the fall season!

00:00 Intro

04:10 Nourishing your mind and body during the fall season

07:45 Tao Te Ching’s take on the fall season and learning to slow down

11:15 Three questions to ask yourself:

12:04 Balancing death and rebirth in sobriety

16:00 The importance of learning to be alone with yourself in sobriety

23:58 Lindsay discusses what is not serving her anymore

32:46 Abby talks about what she is releasing

40:00 Treat yourself like you're pregnant in sobriety

Resources:

Laura McKowen's "We Are The Luckiest"

https://www.lauramckowen.com/books

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If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay and Abby are talking about Breaking up with your Parents! Lindsay and Abby share their own experiences with this and our own understanding of breaking up with our parents and everything in between!

0:00 Intro

2:24 "We cannot heal in the same place we were wounded"

4:07 "Our parents did the best that they could, even if they didn't do a great job."

7:38 "You have to grieve the loss of your parents twice" Lindsay and Abby talk about co-dependent relationships with your parental figures

12:40 Judgement, anger and resentment towards our parents and the projected image of what a parent should look like

13:54 Awareness that the relationship and patterns between you and your parent(s) just aren't working anymore

15:17 Are you taking them with you on your journey through healing or are you leaving them where they are?

19:50 This is an invitation to you, to meet your own needs

22:19 Breakthrough. You have got to acknowledge your pain and validate it!

26:30 Boundaries to keep ourselves safe in our relationships with our parents

28:54 Abby shares about her experience with her family on her recent vacation. A powerful reflection and vulnerable share about her experience and how she showed up.

30:05 More about co-dependency with our parents

32:02 What are you making it mean about you?

33:07 Final thoughts and shares from Abby and Lindsay

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If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

Welcome back, Empowered Sobriety Community.  This podcast is part 2 to last week’s episode with our dear friend, Tami.  Last week, she spoke about growing up in addiction and how it felt to be married to an addict.  She eventually helps and supports his sobriety to this day and all of the wonderful gifts that came out of his powerful decision to get sober.  On today’s podcast, she continues to share about what she observes from his seven years of sobriety and how his sobriety may or may not be “empowered”, meaning, is he living a full life after deciding to give up alcohol? Also, how is his sobriety affecting their social life?

00:00 Intro

02:00 Is her husband “empowered” in his sobriety?

05:33 She and her husband go into a bar for the first time since getting sober

07:52 How she and husband beautifully navigate being in social situations

10:45 How his sobriety gave them a chance to renew their vows and also a chance to let go of friendships that didn’t support his sobriety

15:05 How his sobriety affects their social life 

20:44 Tami shares vulnerably about resentment and Lindsay guides Tami through that very common feeling

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If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Community! Lindsay and Abby have a super special guest on the podcast today. We are joined by Tami, a long time friend of Abby’s and she is a wife and mother of two who grew up in addiction.  She shares her story of how her parents’ addictions affected her and also how she married an addict but helped him to consider sobriety and stay sober!  

00:00 Intro

03:05 What is was like growing up in addiction for Tami

19:08 What her husband’s addiction to alcohol was like for her

28:58 What prompted her husband to get sober and how she has supported him 

37:30 How she helped him celebrate his first year of sobriety

39:19 How she became aware of how she and her husband needed to learn to connect in a new way and how his sobriety affected their marriage

Follow us on IG instagram.com/empoweredsobrietypodcast/ and email us at [email protected] for comments or questions. We would love it if you could take the time to leave us a rating and review! If you'd like to be coached by us or to be a guest, please email us.   

If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

Welcome to Empowered Sobriety Podcast! On this weeks Episode Lindsay asks Abby to Coach her and support her on air with her Binge and Restrict Eating Habits. This is a very powerful and vulnerable episode that has some amazing insight and TRUTH.

0:00 Intro

5:00 Abby begins the session and asks such deep, powerful, intuitive questions to Lindsay. Abby provides so much space, validation, reflection, compassion and love to Lindsay in this episode!

Follow us on IG instagram.com/empoweredsobrietypodcast/ and email us at [email protected] for comments or questions. We would love it if you could take the time to leave us a rating and review! If you'd like to be coached by us or to be a guest, please email us.   

If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Podcast community! Abby is joined in the studio by Sober Coach Shane Checkan today. Shane’s road to recovery includes leaving rehab early against all advice and blazing his own path. Shane works with clients who are interested in finding alternative ways to quit drinking and start their sober path.

00:00 Intro

02:24 Shane’s life spiraled out of control with his alcohol addiction and how he carved his own path to sobriety

05:45 Shane’s first step to his program is to identify and look at “why we drink?” and how socializing was his own biggest trigger and how it led to his addiction to alcohol

09:58 How he learned to grow from other addicts’ experiences and mistakes and shares how Michael Jordan’s coach, Tim Grover, helped Shane on his sober journey

11:20 How his drinking affected his wife, children and family and how important forgiveness is in sobriety

15:00 Shane shares a few details of his coaching program and how he tailors his programs to each client’s needs for an in depth experience

18:30 His mission to heal the stigma of quitting drinking

22:48 He shares how important a positive attitude is to the success of his clients’ sober journeys. 

25:35 Family dynamics and past traumas contribute to addiction

Reach out to Shane:

Website: shanecheckan.com

Email: [email protected]

Tiktok: @shane_checkan_mindset

IG: @shane_checkan

Follow us on IG instagram.com/empoweredsobrietypodcast/ and email us at [email protected] for comments or questions. We would love it if you could take the time to leave us a rating and review! If you'd like to be coached by us or to be a guest, please email us.   

If you'd like to work with Lindsay, you can reach out to her through her IG: instagram.com/lindsayfano/ or email her at [email protected] 

If you'd like to work with Abby, you can reach out to her through her website: https://abbygcoaching.com/ or her IG: instagram.com/abbygcoaching

In this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay poses a little Q&A for Abby and herself! What have you done with the space you have created in your life, working with and working through the trauma and your pain?

0:00 Intro

2:20 Abby drops an honest and powerful answer for us all and then elaborates on recovering from doing!

06:17 Releasing victim-consciousness and a humbled ego.

7:05 How family can help you gauge where you are at in your healing journey and how to prep yourself for family time.

12:07 Insight droppings, wisdom hits, and intuition.

13:24 Lindsay gives her answer! Relaxation, holding herself and doing less.

14:38 DO LESS, RECEIVE MORE

17:57 Radical Acceptance!

22:19 Addiction is lonely and you are cut off from deep, deep connection.

26:45 Radical Acceptance to Radical Responsibility - Embrace!

This week on Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Abby and Lindsay breakdown shadow work and why it's important to our sober journey. They discuss 3 steps to transmuting your shadows into empowerment!

00:00 Intro

02:22 What is Shadow Work and how it relates to addiction

06:17 How awareness and pausing is a lot of the "work": shifting addictions, relationships, etc.

09:58 Cultivating compassion is key to healing addiction and Lindsay breaks down her main compassion practices

14:19 "Parts Work"

25:45 How to Transmute your pain and addiction into empowerment!

Resources for Parts Work:

https://ifs-institute.com/

Christine Hassler's interview with Dr. Richard Schwartz

https://christinehassler.com/2021/08/coaches-corner-295/

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We are bringing you part 2 of Anger and How to Release It! Abby shares vulnerably and powerfully about her own anger and how it was dealt with in her family. She speaks to

0:00 Intro

5:16 Abby talks about not experiencing a lot of anger as a child, how her anger was weaponized when she was experiencing it and the fear of anger. Anger was not welcome!

10:25 Where Abby's anger hangs out in her body based on the repression of it. Short fuse or long fuse?

15:00 Natural responses to repressed anger

16:51 Storing anger in your body

19:20 Greif as the invitation

24:56 Quick to judge!

26:14 Power of the Pause

31:00 Anger release techniques

35:10 What's happening in your body when anger comes up, today?