Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

We hear “be present” all the time. But what does it actually mean? And why does it matter so much, especially if you’re trying to change your relationship with alcohol?

In this episode, I break down presence in the simplest way I know.

Being with what you’re doing while you’re doing it. We talk about how living three steps ahead of yourself steals the little pleasures right out of your day.

And why all that future thinking doesn’t actually help, because you can’t do anything about Thursday from your kitchen sink on Tuesday.

In this episode:

Links mentioned in the podcast:
Zoom link for Come Home Stronger Retreat on Saturday November 14th: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xih1t_QkQYmkn1qxHeSUVw

Women in Business Retreat, Letting Go and Inviting In, 2 spots left:
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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.

Please enjoy this podcast REWIND - In this episode, I talk about the difference between accidental change and intentional change when it comes to your relationship with alcohol.

Maybe you’ve had stretches where you didn’t drink for a while and thought, “Hey, maybe I’m done.” But then life happened — stress, celebration, habit — and drinking quietly slipped back in.

That’s what happens when change isn’t built on purpose and awareness.

I’ll help you see how to recognize when you’re stuck in that same cycle on repeat, and why being intentional is the key to breaking it for good.

You’ll learn what it means to decide on purpose, stay connected to your “why,” and create real, lasting change that doesn’t depend on luck or willpower.

We need to be aware of 'wishful thinking' about things changing.. and decide with intention to make it happen, if we want to see real change with our drinking.

Check out my brand new course Make Friends With Your Feelings: http://www.angelamascenik.com/makefriends

Check out The Magic House Retreat Center: https://www.magichouseretreats.com/

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

Today I walked into my yoga class and they told me it was my 100th class!!! That was exciting.

Tune into this week's episode and hear me explain what has changed in my life after doing 100 yoga classes.. just to give you a hint:

-I am a lot stronger
- I have much better balance
- I have more confidence
- I am more at peace
- I have made some amazing friends and business connections through the studio
- I have set in motion a fitness retreat at The Magic House
- I have more muscle tone
- I want to continue to challenge myself physically
- I have established a NEW habit of going to yoga 4-5 days a week
- I have noticed that everyday I get to experience new amazing surprises, ones that I could never have predicted - like new people I meet, opportunities that present themselves, or a pose I couldn't do the day before.

What would happen with your drinking if you did something 100 times?

Let's find out!

Check out my new course Make Friends With Your Feelings HERE:
www.angelamascenik.com/makefriends

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 episode discusses some common difficult emotions and what they might be trying to tell us.

We need our feelings to tell us important information. If we continue to douse our feelings with alcohol, scrolling, or anything else that helps us avoid discomfort, we lose the ability to know what we actually need and instead now, rely on things outside of ourselves for comfort, which can lead to less than ideal outcomes and a very unhappy and unfulfilled life.

Tune in and hear what your most difficult feelings might be trying to tell you and what to do with them when they are there!

Don't forget to sign up for the free classes on October, 28-30th, www.angelamascenik.com/wineoclock

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.

Today's podcast is the final part of the 3-part series where i teach my proven technique to interrupt automatic behavior (drinking, over-eating, reacting, etc) called Stop-Notice-Process aka SNP.

I am guiding you through the 3rd step called Process. You'll want to have context to what I am teaching you today, so please listen to part 1 and part 2 if you haven't already. You can find those links here:

Part 1 - https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149262336

Part 2 - https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149265376

Also, make sure you are registered for my free class called How To Interrupt Wine O'clock HERE: https://www.angelamascenik.com/wineoclock

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.

Check out The Magic House, my Lisbon retreat center HERE: https://www.magichouseretreats.com/

Today's podcast is a continuation of a 3-part podcast series where I teach my proven technique to interrupt automatic behavior (drinking, over-eating, reacting, etc) called  Stop-Notice-Process.

I am diving into the Noticing.

If you haven't listened to the 1st step, Stopping, please do so before listening to this. You can listen to that here: https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149262336

Today is all about noticing what your body and emotions are trying to tell you about what you need.

We are all very good about thinking.. now is the time to turn to your body and notice what it's trying to communicate to you.

Don't miss this important step in the Stop-Notice-Process technique!

Also, sign up for my free class, Interrupting Wine O'Clock here, 3 times to choose from:
https://www.angelamascenik.com/wineoclock

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.

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.

Make sure you are on my email list at www.angelamascenik.com

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.