Euphoric Alcohol-Free

When I turned 30 years old, I felt completely aimless. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and wasn't happy with the way alcohol was making me show up. I knew deep down that I was meant to make an impact, but how? Where do I start? The answer came to me through my intuition. Start with your relationship with alcohol. And by going on that path, all the other doors opened up. Today I'm sharing why going alcohol-free will help you discover your bigger why and the SIX GIFTS that will help you go from feeling aimless to discovering your bigger purpose and passion.

Show Notes:

The 5 Day Restart

Alyssa is a fellow life coach and joins Karolina to talk about how the principles of coaching have drastically helped change her life and both her relationships with alcohol and food. Alyssa is a senior life coach with the Handel Group and today we talk about how keeping promises to yourself and building a life based on honesty is the key to feeling aligned and fulfilled. She shares some incredible exercises on how to tackle fear, inconsistency, and low self-esteem.

Show Notes:

The Handel Group - Inner U

The 5 Day Restart

The CEO of One Year No Beer, Ruari Fairbairns, joins Karolina on this episode about why taking a break from drinking will radically change your life. Ruari's drinking took place in the fast-paced world of oil brokerage, where the motto was work hard play harder, eventually leading him to burnout and exhaustion. Challenging himself to a break, he never expected he would become fitter, faster, better, happier, AND grow his business and relationships. Today, Ruari is the leader of a worldwide organization that links the challenge of taking a break with things like spartan races, mountain climbs, and doing something cool for your mental health. One Year No Beer, are you down for the challenge?

Listen in as Danielle sits down with the Sobriety Queen, Connie McMillan. Connie is an impact speaker, author of Alcohol Fiend to Sobriety Queen: 25 Steps to Putting Down the Bottle and Picking Up Your Crown, host of Sober Sessions podcast, and owner of Cocktails with Chocolate Non-Alcoholic beverage service. Danielle and Connie talk about spirituality and how discovering a higher purpose can take your alcohol-free journey to the next level and end the back-and-forth struggle. They also share insights on the subtle destruction of drinking alone, telling your story, and dealing with the "why" question from friends and strangers.

Show Notes:

Connie McMillan

Cocktails with Chocolate

Alcohol Fiend to Sobriety Queen: 25 Steps to Putting Down the Bottle and Picking Up Your Crown

The 5 Day Restart

Best friends since they were teens, Alex and Lisa grew up in local pub-culture in the UK. Everyone they ever knew drank. And together as best friends, so did they for almost 30 years, until one day, they decided to experiment with a new lifestyle. Lisa explored alcohol-free living first, and found so much happiness and integrity in AF living. A few months later, Alex realized alcohol was holding her back too and decided to "experiment" as well. With all the joy, fun, and self-love they discovered on the other side they're not looking back. Today, Alex and Lisa host sober meetups in Manchester UK and provide alcohol-free programs for corporate wellness efforts.

What if your friends lifted you up and supported your incredible growth?

Show Notes:

The Sober Experiment

The 5 Day Restart

It never occurred to me to ditch booze completely. It was only through experiencing the most profound break that I decided to never go back. When I was first questioning my relationship with booze, I wanted to get more mindful and was so glad when I found Caitlin Padgett. Her gospel is that you can make changes to your relationship with alcohol on your own terms and invite in more awareness no matter where you are. Her focus on feeling your feelings, articulating your needs, and self-parenting yourself help you reconnect back with you.

Caitlin is the author of Drink Less Be More: How to have a great night (and life) without getting wasted and transformational coach for successful women who struggle with alcohol. When she was about 29 years old, her work-hard / play-hard lifestyle started taking its toll. Thirsty for alternatives to mainstream treatment, she combined her background in psychology, nutrition, fitness, harm reduction and holistic health to craft an unconventional approach called Redefining Sobriety.

Today she's on Euphoric the Podcast sharing:

• Why unmet needs drive you to drink

• How to find compassion for yourself

• How to use autonomy for your benefit

• How to honor how you want to feel

Show Notes:

Redefining Sobriety

The 5 Day Restart

Anti-Racist Resources

William Porter, author of multiple books, is an expert in taking a topic most people don't have a scientific understanding of and sharing logical explanations on how alcohol works on your bodies and brains. When you have information to understand the phenomenon, you have power and awareness that no one can take away from you. Tune into our episode to learn:

• Why alcohol doesn't actually relax you

• Why it's hard to stop drinking after one drink (it's not you)

• The effects of alcohol on sleep

• Why drinkers are always on edge

• How to deal with the first days/weeks off alcohol (your body is rebalancing and it's totally normal to not feel too hot at first--honor your body for healing!)

Alcohol Explained - Read the first five chapters free

Buy Alcohol Explained

The 5 Day Restart

On this episode, Danielle gets to interview our latest Euphoric Expert, Julia Balto, a Health and Wellness Coach specializing in Mental Health Women's Coaching. You may recognize Julia as our guided meditation guru from the very first Mindbar event! Danielle and Julia go deep, talking about their shared life-altering Girl Scout experiences, and personal struggles with mental health and impostor syndrome. They also explore how to go beyond self-care and practice "re-parenting" ourselves, the importance of rituals, how movement helps us to foster self love... and they even get a little witchy near the end!

www.juliabalto.com

Julia's Taming Your Inner Critic Mini-Training

She Recovers Yoga

Brianna Wiest essay

Quit Like a Woman

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers

What's Your Dream Alcohol-Free Life QUIZ

It's the all or nothing thinking. It's focusing on the destination not the journey. It's procrastinating. It's fitting yourself into small little boxes and checking off to-do lists. On this episode of Euphoric the Podcast, I'm talking with a fellow life coach on the phenomenon that makes us should all over ourselves and never feel good enough: Perfectionism.

Loren Cellentani is a life and wellness coach and a recovering perfectionist. She shares her own journey of high achievement and burnout and how she finally learned to embrace her feelings to teach and propel her forward intuitively. Listen in to learn:

• How to know when you're striving for perfectionism versus holistic growth

• Why processing your emotions gives you energy to create

• How to stop shoulding yourself

• How to feel and experience the rawness of your feelings

Show notes:

Loren Cellentani

Heal Your Body

Love is the Law

Book of Awakening

What's Your Dream Alcohol-Free Life QUIZ

Karolina sits down with Meg Johnson from Kansas City to talk about how much FUN an alcohol-free life really is.

Step back to the holidays of 2018. Meg was overweight, overdrinking, and fell into a pessimistic complaining attitude. One day she looked into the mirror and didn't recognize herself anymore. That moment catapulted a new resolve.

Today Meg is a vibrant and radiant inspiration! She's been alcohol-free for over a year and realizes how much more fun she can have without the baggage booze brings. She does it all now, football games, bachelorette parties, happy hour etc., but with a clear head and showing up as her authentic self. She has fun because she is fun, not using a beverage as a crutch. Meg really does show us that we can have fun on our own terms!

Show notes:

Meg's IG

8 Weeks to Become Euphoric