Sober is Dope!

By POP BuchananEducation Self-Improvement

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October 23, 2020 How to Cope with Grief with Faith Dickens (A Talk on Processing Pain, Hurt, and Disappointments in Life)
TOPICS INCLUDE: Grief, Complicated Grief, Bereavement, Loss, Mental Health, Coping with Death, Processing Emotions, Therapy, Grief Counseling, Relationship Counseling, Arrested Development, Self Care, Neuroplasticity, Depression, Anxiety, How To Deal with Familiar Loss, Candlelight Therapy, and Staycations
FULL YOUTUBE Video: https://youtu.be/t4Yiap8BnSs
LIVE AGAIN BOOK DESCRIPTION: https://youtu.be/_eLokTJKkmY
Welcome to the Sober is Dope Podcast with your host and fellow Sober Evangelist, POP Buchanan. This episode features Faith Dickens a Certified Counselor and the CEO of LIVE AGAIN Counseling Services. Faith Dickens teaches us techniques on how to cope with grief.
LIVE AGAIN BOOK (A Guide To Processing Pain, Hurt, and Disappointments in Life)
by Faith Dickens: https://www.amazon.com/Live-Again-Faith-Dickens/dp/1984369768
Faith Dickens is a certified counselor, author, speaker, and Chief Executive Officer of Live Again Counseling Services. Live Again Counseling Services was created to assist people in processing relationship challenges, grief, pain, hurt, and disappointment. Faith is experienced and trained to help people overcome adverse life-changing events. She is a native of South Florida where she currently resides with her family. Faith is a graduate of Nova Southeastern University with certifications from the North American Association of Counselors and Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief. Although, we will have ups and downs throughout the course of life. Having a counselor to walk you through the most difficult times in life make a tremendous difference. Allow Faith to counsel you in this thing called "Life". One of her greatest fulfillment's is being able to navigate people through the dark tunnels of relationship issues, grief, trauma, and self-improvement into the bright avenue of hope.    Faith’s heart desire is to see people become completely whole while living out their purposed destiny.
Contact Faith Dickens
https://www.liveagaincs.com/
https://linktr.ee/faithdickens
Video Produced by POP Buchanan For the Recovery Community.
#FaithDickens #SoberisDope
FREE LIFE TRANSFORMATION EBOOK: by SOBER IS DOPE PODCAST LINK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope
1 hr 5 min
October 22, 2020 Sober Saturdayz with Kaitie Degen (Surviving Child Abuse, Rape, and Toxic Lifestyles)
Podcast Topics: TRIGGER WARNING: Surviving Child Abuse, Date Rape, Narcissistic Absue, Therapy, Surviving a Broken Foster Care System, Fake Friends, Toxic Lifestyles, Drug Abuse, Sobriety, Sober Fun, Sober Events, Hemp Adaptogens, Alcohol Free Liquor Stores, Alberta, Canada, and more!!!!
Welcome to the Sober is Dope Podcast. I am your host and fellow Sober evangelist, POP Buchanan. Today’s episode takes us on a fascinating journey of survival, resiliency, and growth. Our special guest is the Founder of Sober Saturdayz, Kaitie Degen.
Watch Full Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/MW1NQ8Uquqk
Kaitie Degen had a chaotic upbringing riddled with abuse, social service intervention and bullying. She never met her father and cared for her drug-addicted mother which meant growing up quickly in a great deal of stress. Her life had been a humbling experience of searching for self worth, but she craved more: more love and honesty towards herself and more confidence to help others do the same. That’s why she created Sober Saturdayz in 2018!
Contact Kaitie Degen at https://linktr.ee/sobersaturdayz
Instagram @sobersaturdayz
Music by Loure - Keep it Real https://youtu.be/A-gS2z55mX4 All Rights Reserved
1 hr 31 min
October 21, 2020 Early Sobriety, Grief, Military, and Fitness with Jenn Linck of LinckFit
Topics include: Fitness, Early Sobriety, Military Life, PTSD, Grief, Loss, Bereavement, Mindfulness, 11:11, Running 5k Marathons, Plant Based Diets, Dr. Micheal Gregor, Rich Roll, Brené Brown, and More...
Welcome to the Sober is Dope Podcast. I am your host POP Buchanan. Today’s episode features Chief Warrant Officer Two, Jenn Linck of LinckFit.
Full Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/r0-c17trevA
Jenn is a fitness and nutrition coach, a Chief Warrant Officer Two in the US Army, a champion collegiate rower, a bodybuilding competitor and a mom, and wife.
Through decades of trial and error, she’s learned how to integrate practical fitness and nutrition habits into the craziest stages of life. She’s run 5K’s with fellow soldiers during combat tours, completed a marathon after her first baby, entered a bodybuilding competition after the loss of her father. She made the difficult decision after 15 years of alcohol misuse/abuse to become and stay sober despite popular opinion. She currently has 9 months of continued sobriety.
She’s learned movement helps people move through emotions. It creates self-help, self-awareness and self-wellness. Through fitness, growth happens, and not just in your muscles (!), but, in your mind and spirit, too. Continued sobriety help provided new depth and clarity to this every layer of this wellness process. Jenn’s passion for training and coaching is in her blood. When Jenn was just fourteen, her late father (who was a body-building competitor in the eighties) took her to the gym and taught her how to use every.single.piece of equipment. It’s no surprise then, that when it came time to get her National Association of Sports Medicine certification, she studied for just two weeks and passed.
She’s also part of the Army’s Master Fitness Trainer program, which helps soldiers prepare for physical fitness tests. Through LinCkFIT, Jenn is taking years of training, knowledge and straight-up hard-learned life lessons and delivering in an easy, maintainable plan. No more struggling alone to create new habits. No more suffering alone, in silence.
Music by
Coldplay Yellow
https://youtu.be/yKNxeF4KMsY
58 min
October 07, 2020 Abuse Recovery and Success with April Hill (Surviving Hell and PTSD)
Topics Include: TRIGGER WARNING - Child Abuse, Molestation, Sex Trafficking, Drugs, Alcohol, Addiction, Rehabilitation, Trauma, PTSD, Addiction Recovery, Finding Success, and Healing One Day at a Time.
Welcome to the Sober is Dope Podcast with your host, POP Buchanan. Today's episode is dedicated to anyone that is a victim of Child Abuse. Today’s special guest is the successful and powerful April Hill. April is the host of the "Abuse Recovery Success Podcast.”Please enjoy Aprils' s heartwarming testimony. FREE LIFE TRANSFORMATION EBOOK: by SOBER IS DOPE PODCAST LINK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope
Full Video Interview:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/MVRcKkJhPuk
April Hill's Story:
As a survivor of early childhood trauma and recovered alcoholic April Hill looks to shatter the stigmas and shame that surround both these experiences. At the ages of 2-5 she was sexually molested, starved, and beaten. After enduring these life altering experiences that many people could not fathom I went on to struggle emotionally in life for quite some time. This truly displayed itself later in adult life through addiction and other toxic relationships, and behaviors.
April's purpose now is to be a voice for those suffering. To shed light on abuse, recovery and the journey that it takes to dig through the pain and wreckage they both cause. I believe the veil needs to be lifted on the prevalence of sexual abuse on children as well as sex trafficking. Survivors of abuse deserve a voice and victims need to be helped.
In April's podcast she talks about the shame cycles and how it can dictate a survivors life, and how they can break the cycle. Abuse Recovery Success podcast is a tool for those survivors, as well as those with addiction to find themselves, and hear their story being told. We talk about whats going on in the world and how to handle any struggle. To not only move forward but reach our goals and help others.
"It's about taking your life back from your abuser or from the substance that bound you in chains. You find the power that lies deep within you and you shine that light for others to follow. My mission is to bring others to healing, and in turn finding themselves, and living a truly inspired life because of it." - April Hill
Contact April Hill:
Social Media Links:
Instagram: @april_thehills
Podcast website : abuserecoverysuccess.com
http://abuserecoverysuccess.com
1 hr 1 min
October 06, 2020 SOBER IS DOPE RADIO VOL. 10 - Ambient MIX - Gregorian - LOFI - Healing - Relaxing - Violins - Music
Enjoy Stress Relief Music: Sleep Music, Gregorian Chants, Afro Beat, Celtic Epic Music, Irish Music, Violin, Dubstep, Meditation, and Calm Sober Music. COME CHILL with the Sober is Dope Family and relax to some chill music and content to help you release tension and anxiety. Watch Full YOUTUBE VIDEO HERE AND SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/s1jPxklwcM8 FREE LIFE TRANSFORMATION EBOOK: by SOBER IS DOPE PODCAST LINK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope GIFT SHOP : https://hygoshop.com/?ref=popfun Video Produced by POP Buchanan For the Recovery Community. #GregorianChants #SoberisDope #MindfulnessMusic
Hi Everyone. I am POP Buchanan, the host of the Sober is Dope Podcast. I am excited to share some reflections on my journey and mindset. The Sober is Dope Podcast highlights the transformative qualities of Recovery. By the grace of God I have been sober for 8 years. Sobriety gave me my life back. I quit cigarettes, negative and fear based thinking, improved my spirituality, and reversed pre-diabetes. Sobriety helped me to find true happiness and purpose. I transformed my health, mental health, and mindset. I am now at peace. This Podcast is about healing and redemption. I am fully recovered from the darkness of addiction. I aim to inspire others to find healing and hope through my story. Thanks be to God. Welcome to Sober is Dope! FREE E BOOK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope Thanks a lot For Checking Out Sober is Dope! Audio Source Public Domain ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
40 min
September 26, 2020 Alcohol Fiend To Sobriety Queen with Connie McMillan (Breaking Generational Curses of Addiction)
Sober is Dope Interviews Connie McMillan the Author of "Alcohol Fiend To Sobriety Queen" 25 Tips To Putting Down The Bottle and Picking Up Your Crown.
Contact Connie McMillan:
Ig @sobriety_queen_connie
Website: https://www.conniesmcmillan.com
Connie’s Mission:
To help Queens rebuild their lives by healing the pain mask by alcohol abuse to regain their crowns as QUEENS & Live Purpose the way
God has always intended it to be.
IT ALL STARTED WHEN....
“Every event held inside or outside of my home alcohol was there. It never mattered the occasion good or bad alcohol was always an invited guest. Because of the feeling it gave me I used and abused alcohol for a lot of my adult life. I had a great job making great money, yet I was the women who still never felt good enough unless I was drinking.
I could not see how much my life was increasingly spiraling out of control. Whenever difficulties would arise in my life I would turn to the reliable liquid courage to mask my pain and or drown out my sorrows.
Finally, in 2014 I decided to take EVERYTHING to God. I honestly expressed, “This substance is going to kill me. I cannot escape it on my own. I need you to help me. Take the taste out of my mouth, my heart and even out of my mind.”
God granted my request and removed the desire of alcohol from me.
Today, my life is quite different from my life before alcohol abuse. My decisions are better, my health is much better because I stop making excuses and began making adjustments and doing the work. I took back my power and began listening to that small still voice of God and allowed him to heal and empower me. I got sober!” - Connie McMillan
Contact Sober is Dope For Podcast
FREE LIFE TRANSFORMATION EBOOK:
by SOBER IS DOPE PODCAST
LINK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope
Video Produced by POP Buchanan
For the Recovery Community. #PayerForHealing #PrayerForProtection #PrayerForAnxiety
FREE LIFE TRANSFORMATION EBOOK:
by SOBER IS DOPE PODCAST
LINK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope
Hi Everyone. I am POP Buchanan, the host of the Sober is Dope Podcast. I am excited to share some reflections on my journey and mindset. The Sober is Dope Podcast highlights the transformative qualities of Recovery. By the grace of God I have been sober for 8 years. Sobriety gave me back my life. I quit cigarettes, negative thinking, improved my spirituality, and reversed pre-diabetes. Sobriety helped me to find true happiness and purpose. I transformed my health, mental health, and mindset. I am now at peace. This Podcast is about healing and redemption. I am fully recovered from the darkness of addiction. I aim to inspire others to find healing and hope through my story. Thanks be to God. Welcome to Sober is Dope! FREE E BOOK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope
Thanks a lot For Checking Out Sober is Dope!
Audio Source Public Domain
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
1 hr 5 min
September 18, 2020 Heal Responsibly (New Mental Health Coping Strategies) National Sober Day Recap
This episode covers Mental Health coping strategies, Dopamine Health, Restoring Dopamine, Healing responsibly in Addiction Recovery, Comorbidity, and Therapy. This is a recap of my talk for National Sober Day on 9/14. In this talk, I cover Mental Health. Thank you to Courtney Andersen for having me on as a guest speaker. Courtney Andersen is the Founder of National Sober Day and the Sober Vibes podcast. Please enjoy.
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12 min
September 13, 2020 Sober Vibes with Courtney Andersen the Founder of National Sober Day 9/14
National Sober Day, having fun in recovery, finding sobriety without rehab, and women empowerment. These are some of the many topics discussed in the episode with our special guest Courtney Andersen. MEET COURTNEY Andersen ~ Courtney is a Sober Coach, podcast host and YOUR personal sober cheerleader. Courtney is the Founder of National Sober Day (9/14), and the Founder of Sober Vibes, an online support community for recovery and sober-curious women of all ages. Courtney is a wife and cat mom to her little fur pants, Fiona. She is a lover of all Bravo shows, personal development, being in the flow, fall time in Pure Michigan, travel, the F word, sweet treats, being kind, and laughing every single chance she can. Her favorite day is August 18, 2012, because that is the day that Courtney finally stopped the madness of addiction and started to do some real LIVIN! National Sober Day and Sober Vibes Podcast Links: https://linktr.ee/sober.vibes
25 min
September 08, 2020 BLND: Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) | Dr. John R.L. Evans Ph.D. Mental Health and Performance
Mental Health | ACT | Acceptance Commitment Therapy | Recovery From Depression and Anxiety | Neuroplasticity | Brain Therapy | Hippocampus Health | Performance Therapy | BLND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES with DR. John R. L. Evans.
Welcome to the Sober is Dope Podcast with your host, POP Buchanan. Today’s episode features BLND’s Director of Mental Conditioning Dr. John Evans, Ph.D., Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC). In this episode, we discuss ACT, Trauma, Abraham Maslow, Depression, Mental Health, Neuroplasticity, Training the Hippocampus, and more. BLND: https://linktr.ee/blndhealth
“BLND is not the same couch, same time every week.”- BLND
John R.L. Evans, Ph.D. Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) Along with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, John earned a doctorate in Kinesiology – Sport and Performance Psychology from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Working alongside a wide range of athletes and elite performers, John also worked 7 years with U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), training mental performance and human engagement skills. John sees clients for mental skills development for performance in sport (and other areas) in Ann Arbor, Royal Oak, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. He’s also available for virtual coaching wherever you’re based.
BLND delivers accessible, personalized mental health experiences through innovative therapy and professional coaching to improve quality of life. BLND approaches mental health as a collaborative process to navigating life more intentionally. Our mission is to provide a blend of accessible, personalized therapeutic experiences, creative approaches, and effective skills-based interventions to overcome obstacles to live well. Our team delivers a blend of professional expertise in the fields of social work, psychology, mental performance, holistic health as well as highly qualified instructors in yoga, creative arts and meditation. We meet our clients where they are – literally and figuratively. BLND connect with clients in the comfort of their home, over coffee, at the yoga studio, in the conference room, on the sports field as well as with text and virtual sessions. We deliver our integrative style through one-on-one sessions, customized workshops, and group events.
BLND offerings include: * Addiction & Recovery * Performance Psychology * Identity Development & Enhancement * Life-span Navigation * Valued Based-Living * Couples & Family Therapy * Healthy Lifestyle Management * Interpersonal Skill Development * Conflict Resolution & Negotiation BLND Collective Team Marissa Chobai, RN, LLPC Marin Heinritz, MA, PhD, RYT 500 Victoria Orbe, LMSW, CAADC Mark Varney, LMSW Stephanie Murphy, LLMSW Wes Goslin, LLMSW FREE LIFE TRANSFORMATION EBOOK: by SOBER IS DOPE PODCAST LINK: https://linktr.ee/Soberisdope
51 min
August 29, 2020 Pawsitively Sober with ZACH SKOW (Founder of Marley's Mutts)
Welcome to the Sober is Dope Podcast with your host, POP Buchanan. In this episode we cover topics on Sobriety, Rock Bottom, Recovery, Addiction, Service, 12 Steps, Love, Acceptance, and going back to the basics in recovery. Our special guest and sober superhero is the one and only Zach Skow; Founder of Marley's Mutts. https://www.marleysmutts.org/themanbehindthemutts/
Zach Skow was diagnosed with end stage liver disease in July of 2008. At this point, he didn't care much what that meant, only that he could continue living day to day as he had been-constantly drunk, constantly numb. Zach explains in hindsight that his inebriated state was his baseline-this was his normal, and a necessity to his everyday life. He needed to be drunk to drive, to work, and certainly to interact with other people, especially if those other people were new faces. Without alcohol, he was vulnerable and scared-much like the dogs he now rescues from shelters daily. When Zach walks into a shelter, he sees himself in the destitute dogs, and they in him. He knows intimately what it is like to feel worthless and unwanted. He felt like a "throwaway human", and to most people, the dogs in the most hard-knock shelters are throwaway dogs. He tells that he had begun a life dedicated to transformation, and the dogs were a parallel existence in which he could find meaning and progress that he often didn't find in himself. And now, these dogs and Zach work together, creating magic out of fear and rejection, lifting each other up and infusing an infinite amount of love into their surroundings wherever they may be.
Zach's ultimate wakeup call came in October 2008, when he resolved to take on life without the crutch of alcohol. The inception of Marley's Mutts coincided with this decision. Through working with the Humane Society, Zach knew that he had a connection with rescue dogs and had fostered several, but he saw a hole in the world of rescue-no one was taking on the really tough cases. The giant Mastiffs, the mangled and mangy mutts, the aggressive and the scared. . . Marley's Mutts would be a home (albeit a temporary one) for these "undesirables." What happened in the process though is that Zach and the Marley's Mutts crew has begun to change the conversation surrounding these types of dogs. They relentlessly educate and inform their followers and fans (350,000 and growing!) to let them know that the dogs are not the problem, but their training and circumstance. The crew at Marley's Mutts provides training resources to dog owners too, to help prevent new problems from arising. Their holistic approach to dog rescue extends even to the community and to their ambitious future goals.
Marley's Mutts has plans to expand their human/ canine programs in which rescued dogs will help to rehabilitate people-prisoners, addicts, the mentally challenged. Zach calls the symbiotic relationship between the people and the dogs a "benevolent mechanism" which he experienced first hand, and plans to focus on and fully utilize in the future of the rescue. Today, Zach is healthy-he has worked hard to create a lifestyle in which his liver can heal, and his focus on a work of pure service keeps him grounded and connected to a purpose. Zach knows that he owes his life to the dogs, and through Marley's Mutts, he makes good on a daily debt of gratitude that is truly a labor of love and his life's highest calling. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Amy Klein Full Bio: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6979155/bio Intro Zooland: https://youtu.be/ecUYguN2168
1 hr 4 min

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