Empowered Sobriety

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  • EP35 Anger and How to Release It (Part 1)

    We have such a powerful episode this week! Lindsay takes a deep dive into her anger and how it led to addiction to alcohol. Allowing herself to release her anger created so much space in her life and also the capacity to hold big things and big feelings.  All from learning how to safely release her anger and set empowered boundaries! 

    00:00 Intro
    02:34 Lindsay describes how anger felt in her body and how she released frustration and rage as a child
    06:29 How she experienced her father and mother’s anger
    09:10 How she dealt with her father’s anger and how her own anger transferred on to others as she was growing up
    11:00 How alcohol and nicotine allowed her to feel relief from shame after losing her temper
    15:25 After getting sober, Lindsay discusses insights on her anger and shame
    18:18 The importance of setting and maintaining boundaries in relationships
    27:33 The gifts of anger release 
    30:18 Lindsay’s personal tips on how to regulate your nervous system and how to release anger
    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


    39 min
  • EP34 Coach Sam Gibbs Morris Shares His Journey With Us

    On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay and Abby welcome fellow Coach Sam Gibbs Morris! Sam shares his journey to becoming 11 years removed from destructive behaviors involving alcohol and cocaine, how psychedelics were a huge contributor to his growth and healing, and what is happening in his life today! Sam is a men's embodiment coach, breath work facilitator and psychedelic facilitator. This episode is powerful and we are so excited to share it with you all!


    0:00 Intro

    2:25 Sam shares his journey through destructive behavior, college tennis, to AA, becoming a trainer, sitting with psychedelics and becoming a coach!

    12:00 Abby asks Sam about his insights in rehab

    12:20 Sam explains to us about his insights from AA and rehab, being separate from other and starting looking for similarities

    14:53 Abby asks Sam how psychedelics have played a role in his recovery

    15:10 Sam shares his answer with us around the hurtle he had to get over around his belief of psychedelics breaking his sobriety, and how limiting it was to name himself an alcoholic everyday in AA meetings. Sam also explains how psychedelics have deeply supported him in his growth and healing.

    22:00 Lindsay asks Sam his perspective on men journeying with plant medicine with the intention of growth and healing

    22:50 Sam calls the men out! 75% women 25% men in his groups. Men - come get in the arena already. Sam speaks on the resistance and hesitancy that men have towards being vulnerable. The resistance is in the middle. Sam shares so many powerful insights here about masculine and feminine energies and polarity.

    27:23 Abby shares an experience in her marriage about sending mixed messages, expecting vulnerability and protection from her partner, all while not being willing to step into vulnerability.

    29:54 Sam adds to Abby's share about the polarities being off in the relationship. Lindsay shares her experience about softening into her feminine energy after being in her masculine for so long and how that biologically ignites the masculine in the men to come forward.

    32:24 Lindsay asks Sam what has been happening for Sam in the last 3-4 months - Sam shares with us about the transformation that has been happening for him in the last 8 months!

    37:45 Abby asks Sam, "what are the gifts of your trauma?"


    If you would like to work with Sam, you can find him on Instagram @samgibbsmorris or you can find his website at samgibbsmorris.com

    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

    41 min
  • EP33 An Ayahuasca Download

    Abby is a few days post Ayahuasca ceremony and she shares a few key aspects of her download from the powerful Peruvian medicine.


    00:00 Intro

    04:55 Abby shares how deeply humbled she was by the medicine and how her world-view was challenged by the medicine

    09:02 Ayahuasca helped her expand her release judgments and limiting beliefs so she can expand her consciousness in order to see things from all sides

    10:50 How strong the pull of people pleasing can be and how manipulative it can be

    13:00 The power of letting go, the role of the facilitator and releasing grief from the womb

    17:12 As Abby expresses her desire to have a child, shame and fear show up

    20:09 How the spirit of the medicine grounded Abby in her essence-nature and reconnect her with her body 


    Resources:

    Connect with ancestors, plants and your environment using herbs as part of ritual! Check out Tori Yoder, Singing Soil Apothecary

    singingsoilapothecary.com


    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

    32 min
  • EP32 Magnetism, Ayahuasca & Alcohol Free Living

    Welcome Back to Empowered Sobriety! Lindsay and Abby have some insight to share this week with you!


    • On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay shares about a sober event she attended with her new sober women’s group. She went to a dance party in San Francisco and her intention for the day was magnetism and living in it. So many amazing reflections in her share!
      • Abby tells us about her up and coming Ayahuasca ceremony and what her intentions are for this particular ceremony. She shares some history around her experience with Aya and how it has contributed to her healing.
      • Lindsay and Abby then go into discussion around sobriety, addiction, living alcohol free and psychedelics. Our own interpretation and understanding of all of our addictions, how we define addiction and dependency and how psychedelics have contributed to our healing.

        • 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


        42 min
      • EP 31: How to Move Through Grief

        Welcome back to Empowered Sobriety Podcast! Lindsay and Abby download their insights around grief and why grief work is so important in sobriety. Stuck grief in our bodies may show up as various ailments and may even by covered up by other feelings. Tune in as they share their own experiences with grief and how grief wants to move.


        00:00 Intro

        03:02 Grieve work is important to those new in recovery and new to sobriety

        04:19 Abby shares her grief journey around the death of her father

        06:43 How grief is stored in our bodies

        10:15 Lindsay shares her grief journey with her last relationship and her insights around grief

        15:09 Grief comes in waves and how can we ride the wave?

        20:13 Lindsay shares a personal experience of how sadness and anger can store in our bodies

        25:30 What really happens when you push down grief

        32:00 The importance of community and support in healing grief

        34:02 How suppressed grief can show up in our lives and bodies

        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

        41 min
      • EP30: When You Feel Stuck
        Hello, Empowered Sobriety Community! We are back with you this week with another powerful episode and this topic crosses many of our lives, whether you are sober or not.  Feeling “stuck” is a topic that we both see in so many personal development and self help areas.  Hopefully this episode sheds some light for you on what exactly feeling “stuck” means and how to move through it.
        00:00 Introduction
        03:24 How Abby looks at feeling stuck and the lessons that can come from it 
        05:00 Lindsay coaches Abby through where she is currently feeling stuck in her life
        17:10 The Tao of Allowing 
        18:29 Steps to move through feeling stuck
        23:28 “Everyone is having their own experience”
        29:58 We get to be the creator of own reality and we get to be empowered
        33:19 What happens when you let go
        39:30 Signs you are "stuck"
        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
        43 min
      • EP29 Calling in Partnership in Sobriety

        0:00 Intro

        2:32 Abby opens us up with how she got to her own understanding of a conscious relationship, beginning with the question, "what do you want?" She takes us through her list of non-negotiables.

        5:37 Lindsay acknowledges a BIG fear around dating, and shares with us her intention going into the first date.

        6:29 Abby continues with her list of non-negotiables

        10:38 Lindsay shares her non-negotiables with us and speaks to having a choice. She talks about the main block that has held her back in relationship.

        26:12 Abby asks Lindsay to go deeper into one thing on her list, communication. Lindsay shares more about how she has come to learn what she desires communication to look like in partnership.

        28:10 Abby shares her thoughts on communication and how she relates to long, drawn out conversation. Her experience with communication in her last relationship.

        30:32 Lindsay brings up the topic of fighting and disagreements in relationship and what she knows now.

        32:38 Abby acknowledges the differences in our non-negotiable lists. And explains how she came up with her list in the first place.

        33:58 Lindsay asks Abby where she is ideally meeting this person, her future partner.

        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

        41 min
      • EP28 Being the Sober One in a Relationship

        00:00 Intro

        02:30 How it was challenging and scary for Lindsay to be the sober one in her partnership

        06:37 Lindsay takes us through what she noticed was starting to change in her relationship with her partner who was still drinking

        11:53 Looking back, would Lindsay have changed anything in how she showed up in her sobriety and in her relationship with her partner?

        13:25 What is regret?

        14:50  Lindsay breaks down the clarity that started coming through for her when she got sober

        18:45 How Lindsay coped without alcohol early in her sobriety

        21:46 Abby walks us through her experience of self compassion, loneliness and a Hail Mary thrown at her marriage

        30:03 Why meeting your own needs and having values are so important to recovery and sobriety and how they affect your relationship.

        33:34 You can’t drag people into sobriety!

        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


        44 min
      • EP27 The Importance of Community in Sobriety

        On this weeks episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast Lindsay and Abby discuss the importance of community in sobriety!

        • Abby and Lindsay begin by sharing their friendships and community they had during active addiction and how it transitioned once they became sober. Abby shares about flying solo in the beginning stages of her sobriety and the challenges that came along with that. What she was turned off by in the sober community and what she was able to resource for herself during that difficult time. Lindsay talks about her ignorance in sobriety around community and how supportive it can be to change your environment and community when you choose to experience sobriety. She speaks to her experience in AA after her relapse and how that community in those rooms supported her back to sobriety. Lindsay was able to see the importance of having a sober community while getting sober and staying sober.
          • Abby and Lindsay discuss their relationship to God and Spirituality. How it has helped or hindered them and where they are at with it today. Abby has a vulnerable share about why her relationship to God is what it is today and how she is working on it.
            • Lindsay tells us all about how she loves her current relationships and she wants more support from a sober community. She shares with us how she joined a Sober Facebook Group and how she has wrestled with this for such a long time. Her doubts, fears and willingness to continue to step in because it is what she truly desires. She is done sitting on the bench and she is putting herself in the game!
              • Abby shares with us how her relationship with nature has truly supported her on this journey to and through sobriety. Feeling deeply connected while in the woods and how she ventures out with her friends and with just herself. Lindsay asks her to share about her experience of being in nature alone. Abby shares about a hot dog statistic... followed with some beautiful laughter about the hot dog statistic!
                • Lindsay gives us information about AA or the 12 step program being a very supportive community at any stage of your sobriety. Please visit: https://alcoholicsanonymous.com/ if you are looking for a meeting near you.
                  • Abby provides us with information about Buddhist Recovery Network as well. Please visit: https://www.buddhistrecovery.org/meetings.htm
                  • Meet up, where you can find local groups or meet ups near you: https://www.meetup.com/home/?suggested=true&source=EVENTS

                    • 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


                    44 min
                  • EP26 Elementum Coaching Institute

                    Hello, Empowered Sobriety Podcast Community! Lindsay and I are super excited to share with you our full experience and takeaways from the very powerful coaching program that we completed last year. Elementum Coaching Institute is where Lindsay and I met and the coaching program is now enrolling for their September cohort!


                    Elementum Coaching Institute is the premier coaching AND transformational program for personal development. Even if you do not want to be a life coach, this program has so much support for you. It is where we learned that addiction is a symptom of trauma; it is not the issue itself. That is the foundation of our podcast and our "why" for doing the work we do.


                    You will learn a ton of different modalities that include: parts work (IFS), NLP, masculine and feminine dynamics, trauma healing, developmental psychology and healing sexual trauma. Listen in for our favorite modalities!


                    Healing addiction starts with healing ourselves and our connection to the Earth and our connection to each other. Whether you are sober curious, newly sober or sober for 50 years, this program will change your life for the better!


                    Some helpful resources mentioned in the podcast:


                    Elementum Coaching Institute

                    https://elementumcoachinginstitute.com/⁠

                    Christine Hassler's podcast, "Over It and On with It"

                    https://christinehassler.com/podcast/⁠

                    The podcast with Christine Hassler & Alexi Panos

                    https://christinehassler.com/2023/06/coaches-corner-386/


                    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




                    34 min

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                  Empowered Sobriety is a weekly podcast for all stages of sobriety and open to all addictions. Lindsay Fano and Abby Gerber are trauma informed Life Coaches who are empowering individuals to look…