If you've struggled with Dry January, if your life goals are feeling difficult or if you're facing unexpected difficulties or challenges, this episode will help you out.

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The Lunar Retreat

My book. Sober Bliss. Quit Drinking, Feel Good

This post about the worst year of our lives 

Substack. The Shadow of a Butterfly

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Powerful Journaling Prompts

How to Rock Dry January with Casey Davidson from the Hello Someday Podcast.

Who doesn't want to feel inspired, uplifted and motivated about Dry January? Join the wonderful Casey Davidson and me as we share some of our top tips and most supportive advice on how to Rock Dry January and beyond. Sober is fabulous, this conversation will set you up for success!

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“A wise companion on the sober journey, Gayle Macdonald offers nurturing support. A gem of a book for all those new to recovery.” —Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of Drink

I am beyond excited to share with you the launch of my new book. Sober Bliss: Quit Drinking Feel Good.

In this special edition of the podcast, I read the first setion of my book.

This is a warm, uplifitng and insirng book that will help you through the first three months of your sober journey feeling nourished and supported.

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Ten ways to feel good this Sober October if you’re

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Sober Bliss Book - Quit Drinking. Feel Good

Journal prompts for sobriety

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Join me in this inspiring and uplifting conversation with Courtney Andersen, sober life coach, podcast host, and author. She is the founder of Sober Vibes and National Sober Day. She helps high-achieving women quit drinking alcohol and thrive in sobriety. 

Plus, Courtney's new book that will help you thrive in your first three months of sobriety.

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***Get the book: Sober Bliss, QUIT DRINKING. FEEL GOOD.***

Courtney's website

The Sober Vibes Podcast

Sober Vibes Book

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Sober Bliss

This side of alcohol is a fun, inspiring and deep conversation with the gorgeous Peggi Cooney. Peggi is a sobriety advocate, a UC Davis professor, and well-known author of “This Side of Alcohol.”

But Peggi didn't just 'quit drinking' Oh no! So profound was her experience she began sharing her journey with others resulting in a really powerful book and hugely popular community and collaborating with the fabulous 'Sober in the City' events.

We discuss all of this, the joy that Peggi feels to not be beholden to alcohol anymore, plus some of Peggi's devastating early life events, family, parenting, menopause, toxic work environments, and more. This is a not to be missed episode!

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This side of alcohol Facebook Community

For Sober in the City:

Zero Proof Experiences

Over the years I have been extremely lucky to work with some really wonderful, gorgeous people, many of whom stay in touch and become friends. Dawn is one such person. We met six months into her alcohol-free journey when she joined my membership. We recorded a podcast together on her one year anniversary and have stayed in touch. Today I am so excited to share with you the conversation we had on the day she celebrated 3 years of alcohol-living!

Dawn is the most generous, uplifting, inspiring person I know with such great infectious energy. If you were ever in any doubt about how much fun it is to be sober then let Dawn remove those thoughts once and for all. In the two years since our last podcast, Dawn has so much to share so get ready to be inspired and uplifted!

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The first podcast Dawn and I did together

Sober support - 1:1 Coaching

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How Michael Jordan helped me to quit drinking is something I write about in my book and I thought it would be good to share a little snippet of this with you today. Because it literally shifted everything for me and helped me to quit drinking and feel good about it with no worry or fear that I would pick it up again, which is very powerful, I know.

 What I am going to share with you today is also the reason that I am over five years alcohol free, feel 100% secure and confident that I will stay alcohol-free, and have been able to face life and the awful events of the past few months without the thought of alcohol entering my head, even the tiniest little bit. I hope you enjoy this inspiring and hopefully motivating poddcast episode to help you to quit drinking and feel good about it.

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Finding your Why Meditation

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Sobriety & Suicide - The Podcast I didn't want to make, yet I feel is necessary. I have not shared anything new with you for two months because I’ve been in a very difficult place, trying to cope with the unimaginable loss of my son. As the title suggests, this is a podcast about loss and love, suicide and sobriety, extremely hard things to talk about, but I feel that it is my duty to talk about them.

This is a very distressing sbject, so please listen with caution and if you feel triggered by the content or it affects you in any way then please get support. I don’t want to burden anyone with this or cause pain. However, I do feel like I am being blocked somehow by this and need to get it out in order to move through and forward.

This won’t be a neat and tidy podcast, with helpful hints for you take away, it’s not that kind of podcast, but I do hope that by sharing my experiences it will help you to see that there is another way, various ways in fact to deal with life, to cope with tragic, heartbreaking events, tend to our emotions and find tiny moments of comfort in what is otherwise and impossible situation.

Alcohol is not the way, not the way at all and I am extremely grateful for my sobriety, without which I would not be here now, there’s no way I would be still upright if I was drinking.

** At the beginning I say two weeks - it should be two months. And, when I say 2003, I mean 2023 (fuzzy brain!)

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Do Mummies really need wine? An important conversation with Celeste Yvonne. Like me, you might know Celeste from 'The Ultimate Mom Challenge' and her writing around motherhood, the difficult and challenging aspects of parenting, and the Mummy wine culture which is what we're talking about today. We chat about how Celeste first got into writing, how she gave up drinking secretly and how her first year of sobriety felt lonely and steeped in shame and fear. Now over five years sober, Celeste uses her writing and community involvement to suport other mothers who are struggling with alcohol and we talk about the support available to help other mothers including the Sober Mom Squad of which Celeste is a founding host. Celest also shares her favouite and most effective tools that continue to support her on her sober path and we hear about Celeste's book which is coming out, all about the mental load of motherhood and mommy wine culture and how they interconnect.

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Sober Mom Squad

Celeste on Substack

Celeste's book - It's Not About The Wine

Sober Bliss Website