Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Please listen for updates on Alive AF! and Sober October.. and what's coming at the end of October!

And I am dissecting the 1st step in my signature way to interrupt our automatic behavior with drinking.

It's STOPPING.

We think this should be easy and simple and it can be, but you need to be conscious that you are making a decision and then stopping and becoming aware of the decision you are making.

This is part one of a three part episode series where I go into detail of the SNP Stop Notice Process tool.

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ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

With October right around the corner, I thought I’d bring back this podcast rewind for anyone considering doing Sober October.

Please enjoy:

Yesterday, I hosted a live session—Sober October: How to Take a 30-Day Break and Truly Enjoy It—and over 100 women tuned in, ready to feel better. If you missed it, don’t worry!

In the class, I cover:

**Alive AF! is not open for enrollment at this time.

Ways to work with me:

The Magic House, My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

Private coaching One on one, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com

Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram

ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

This is a fun one! I share what the pink cloud feeling is when you quit drinking and how you can get it. The pink cloud is like 'having your head in the clouds' it feels like elation, joy, gratitude, aliveness and nothing can bring you down during this time.

You are so grateful for how you feel, you compare and contrast before with drinking to now with not.

It's a common expression in the recovery and alcohol-free lifestyle communities.

So, during the episode I share my initial pink cloud experience in my first. year of living alcohol-free.

And then, I share my 2nd pink could experience that is HAPPENING NOW!!!

I didn't realize it was happening until a day ago. I kept describing how I was feeling to having all this energy.. i just want to climb mountains and do something with all this energy. My productivity is off the charts, I'm in a HUGE creative flow in my business, I'm meeting new people, networking, creating friends, spending quality time with my husband, helping my kids and more. It's wild!!!

Tune in, feel inspired, and JOIN ME!

Come to a retreat at The Magic House - stay tuned for my 2027 retreats that go beyond Lisbon. This website will be updated very soon... https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

Hire me as your private coach: https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com

Consider joinging my next round of the Transformation Program: https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram

400 Episodes of the Stop Over-drinking and Start Living Podcast!! WOW.
I started this podcast way back in 2018.. and now here we are 8 years later and 400 episodes.
This episode is going to help you understand why just planning isn't the tool that will save you at 5:00 pm on a Tuesday when your brain is whining to you about a glass of wine. Planning is A tool, but not the only one.

We need to look at what is happening earlier in the day and how we are responding and tending to ourselves before we think we are going to easily not drink when the urges come.

I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for being here and listening every week!

The Magic House My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

Private coaching One on One, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com

Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram  

ABOUT:
Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

This podcast is sweet little reminder that change follows the exact path it does. It's the beginning of a new season for a lot of us.. kids back to school, perhaps cooler weather settling in.. maybe a slight color change to the leaves, if you really slow down and notice.

What if you allowed the change you are working on to take the time it takes?

What would happen if you stopped comparing yourself to others?

What would happen if you tried to ENJOY this process more?

Tune it and see where you can allow yourself to notice the changes that have already occurred and appreciate yourself as you enter into this next season.

ABOUT:
Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Magic House My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

Private coaching One on One, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/

Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram

"I know all the things."
I hear this constantly. On calls, in my membership. She's read all the quit-lit. She's listened to hundreds of podcast episodes. She's done therapy, maybe twice. She can name her triggers and explain her own drinking patterns better than most professionals could.
And she is still pouring a glass at five o'clock.

Here's the thing about that.. at the moment, nobody is reflecting anything back to you. Nobody is helping you see what you can't see by yourself.

That's what this episode is about.

You have never seen your own face. Not once, not directly. And the same thing is true about your patterns, your language, the story you've told so many times you've stopped hearing it.
Which means whatever is keeping you stuck is sitting in the part you can't see.

You're a capable woman who has solved enormous problems. If you could see this one, you would have handled it years ago.

In this episode I'm talking about why reading more books won't get you there, what a real person can do for you that a book never will, and why "I know all the things" might be the most effective way to keep help out that I've ever come across.

This episode is for you if:

Please give it a listen!

ABOUT:
Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

You can work with me privately -https://form.typeform.com in a small group called the Transformation Program- www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram, or at one of my sober retreats at The Magic House, my retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal -www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

If you want to stop over-drinking but you keep abandoning every journal, tracker, urge that hits, and morning routine you start, this episode is for you. Quitting drinking gets a lot easier when the work stops feeling like a punishment.

For twenty years, I gave alcohol the good glass, the beautiful thoughts, the longing feelings, the candle, the music, and the best hour of my day.

Then I started doing the work to stop over-drinking and I handed that an exhausted self at the end of the day, no patience left and no kind words.

And then I wondered why I kept going back to the wine. Obviously, I changed that and learned how to be with myself and accept what was happening inside of me and made that ritual something I wanted to connect with.

The problem for most of you is that you've started a practice you don't want to return to.
We come back to places that have been tended. That's true of a kitchen, and it's true of the ten minutes you spend with yourself every morning. So in this episode I'm walking you through how to make the work of quitting drinking beautiful enough that you actually want to come back to it tomorrow. Almost none of it costs money.

What we cover:

This one is for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside, the career, the family, the house, and is quietly exhausted from the cycle of over-drinking and breaking promises to herself. Especially if you're in a season of change: retirement, an empty nest, a career shift, newly single, caring for aging parents.

You already know how to make something beautiful enough to return to every single day. You did it with wine for twenty years.

We're taking that back and pointing it at you.

ABOUT ANGELA:
I'm Angela Mascenik, a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living.
I over-drank for twenty years while raising three kids, building a career, and keeping a good marriage and a nice home — functional on the outside, struggling on the inside. Life coaching changed everything for me, and I've been alcohol-free for eight years. Now I do this work with women all over the world.
My approach is compassionate and completely shame-free. We get to the root of why you're drinking in the first place, and we work on boundaries, emotions, mind management, and learning to put yourself at the top of your own priority list. A big part of what I teach is learning to feel and process your emotions instead of reacting to them — getting out of your head and into your body.

You can work with me privately - https://form.typeform.com
in a small group called the Transformation Program -www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram, or at one of my sober retreats at The Magic House, my retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal - www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle
         

Who's good at being patient? I know I didn't used to be! I wanted things FAST. I wanted to get results in weight loss as fast as possible, to get over my drinking ASAP, for my husband to change quickly or my co-workers to function faster.

Our culture is built on getting things done the fastest and most effecient way possible.
So, it's our conditioning and programming that has told us to not have tolerance for discomfort and things taking longer.

Good news, it's ok, you are not alone and there is nothing wrong with you.

The idea of patience usually is prefaced by a LACK of patience. We mostly recognize when we are NOT patient.. when we are feeling frustrated or irritated or angry.

So to be more PATIENT, we actually need to learn how to be with the difficult feelings.

When we are faced with an issue that isn't going as we hoped it would be we traditionally thing 'we need to be more patient.'

NO - the first step is ALLOWING the feeling that IS present.

That is patience, allowing the discomfort in the thing that isn't working out the way you thought it would.

Tune into this episode and hear a new way to think about patience and benefits of being patient.. there are many!

The Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast is for high-achieving women who are tired of the cycle. Drinking more than you meant to. Waking up at 3am. Promising yourself tomorrow will be different. This isn't about white-knuckling your way through Dry January. We get underneath it. Why you're drinking in the first place, what you're actually feeling at 5pm, and how to build a life you don't need to escape from.
Every week I'm talking about boundaries, emotions, mind management, and putting yourself at the top of your own priority list, which is the part most women skip.

Ways to work with me:

Subscribe wherever you listen, and if this episode helped, a review helps another woman find it.

Scared to stop drinking because you don't know what happens next? We'll cover what actually happens when you stop drinking, what happens to your friendships when you're the one who changes first, and why Dry January was never a preview of anything. If you're afraid to quit drinking because of everyone else, this one's for you.

In this episode I'm walking you through why your brain is so bad at determining the future. Why it freezes your entire life in place and only takes away the wine. What really happens to the people around you when you're the one who moves first.
And why that Dry January you white-knuckled through was never a preview of anything.

In this week's episode I'm covering:

About Angela:
I'm Angela Mascenik, a certified life coach helping women stop over-drinking without shame, willpower, or a label. I over-drank for 20 years while raising three kids, building a career, and keeping a good marriage and a nice home together. Functional on the outside, falling apart on the inside. Coaching changed all of it, and I've been alcohol free for eight years.
The Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast is for high-achieving women who are tired of the cycle. Drinking more than you meant to. Waking up at 3am. Promising yourself tomorrow will be different. This isn't about white-knuckling your way through Dry January. We get underneath it. Why you're drinking in the first place, what you're actually feeling at 5pm, and how to build a life you don't need to escape from.
Every week I'm talking about boundaries, emotions, mind management, and putting yourself at the top of your own priority list, which is the part most women skip.

Ways to work with me:

Subscribe wherever you listen, and if this episode helped, a review helps another woman find it.

Quick update episode before I head out to walk the Camino! A few episodes ago, I told you about coming off my medication and sleep aids, the brain zaps, and the nights I barely slept.

Here's where things landed: I'm fully off everything, sleeping better than I have in months, and I'm sharing exactly what worked.

I'm also telling you about the day I broke my own rule, paid for it until 12:30am, and what I did the next morning — because that part is the whole lesson. If you've ever blown a boundary with alcohol and used it as a reason to give up on the whole thing, this one's for you.

In this episode, you'll learn:

Quick reminder: this is my personal experience with medication. Always talk to your doctor before starting or stopping anything.

Also, I recommend you listen to 'How to Stop Talking Yourself Out of It When It Gets Uncomfortable' before you listen to this one, to get the full context! Listen to that here: 
https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149227702

Now accepting applications for the next cohort of the Transformation Program, check that out here: https://www.angelamascenik.com    

ABOUT ANGELA:
Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.