Arlina Allen is a Certified Life & Sober Coach and Hypnotist, and host of the award winning recovery podcast "The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast" since 2016. Arlina is the founder of Sober Life School where she works with women to achieve sobriety, and create a life they love. She brings 30 years of research and personal experience to help others become the best version of themselves. She is from Sunnyvale, CA and now lives near Boise, ID with her husband, two sons, and her English Bulldog, Teddy.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Common misconceptions about 12-Step Recovery
• The difference between the AA fellowship and the 12-Steps
• Common barriers people face with 12-Step Recovery
• How Arlina has shifted her mindset around words like "alcoholic," "powerless," and "God" that often deter people from the program
• How working the steps has transformed Arlina's life
• The process of self-examination
• The sponsor / sponsee relationship
• Being of service

Disclaimer: The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment
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Links to learn more and connect with Arlina:

The 12-Step Guide for Skeptics: https://the12stepguideforskeptics.com/
Sober Life School- http://www.soberlifeschool.com
Reinvent - Self Esteem Course http://www.selfesteemcourse.com
Podcast http://www.odaatchat.com

Social Media:
Facebook Page: facebook.com/odaatchat
Instagram: @odaatpodcast @arlinaallen 

Jesse Harless is a coach and facilitator in trauma-informed facilitation, addiction recovery, and mental health space. He facilitates training and events for companies, recovery community organizations, non-profits, accountability/drug/recovery court programs, addiction treatment, and mental health centers from around the country. His training is helping create recovery supportive workplaces and empowering organizations into deeper connection, regulation, safety, and resilience. He's worked with thousands of individuals ranging from entrepreneurs, corporate clients, and moms. You can learn more about Jesse's story and toolkit in his new book called If Not You, Then Who? on Amazon.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Jesse's recovery journey
• The relationship between trauma & addiction
• Seeking safety in substances
• Morning routines & habit change
• Entrepreneurs in Recovery
• Psychological safety
• Recovery-informed workplaces
• Language & stigma
• The power of meditation
• The many ways addiction shows up in the modern world
• What it means to be “in recovery”

To connect with Jesse and learn more about his work, visit: https://www.jesseharless.com/

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An internationally recognized clinician, organizational consultant, lecturer, and author, Dr. Covington is a pioneer in the field of addiction and trauma. For more than 35 years, she has created gender-responsive and trauma-informed programs and services for use in public, private and institutional settings. Her extensive experience includes consulting for and developing programs for numerous U.S. and international agencies and designing women’s services at the Betty Ford Center. Dr. Covington has also developed programs for people in criminal justice settings and has conducted seminars for behavioral health professionals, community organizations, criminal justice professionals and recovery groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Iceland, Brazil, and New Zealand. She has published extensively, including twelve gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment curricula. Dr. Covington wrote the first manualized treatment program for substance use disorder treatment and authored the best-selling book, A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps, which has a new 30th Anniversary edition. Her latest book is the well-received Hidden Healers: The Unexpected Way Women Help Each Other Survive Prison.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How addiction impacts women differently
• The role of stigma
• The connection between trauma & addiction
• The need for trauma-informed, gender-sensitive treatment
• A Woman's Way Through the 12-Steps
• The impact of language
• Healing in community
• Women in prison
• Flaws in the criminal justice system

To learn more about Dr. Covington's work, please see the links below:

Website: www.stephaniecovington.com

Instagram: @StephanieCovingtonOfficial

A Woman’s Way through the Twelve Steps, 2nd edition (book, workbook and facilitator guide): https://www.stephaniecovington.com/books/bookstore/a-womans-way-through-the-twelve-steps-2nd-edition/

Hidden Healers: The Unexpected Ways Women in Prison Help Each Other Survive: https://www.stephaniecovington.com/books/bookstore/hidden-healers-the-unexpected-ways-women-in-prison-help-each-other-survive/

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Becky Vollmer is a speaker, yoga teacher, and creator of You Are Not Stuck, a movement that empowers people to pursue the lives they most deeply desire. She guides a global community on social media that is several hundred thousand strong, teaches online courses about empowerment and choice, and leads sold-out programs that combine movement, breathwork, self-exploration, and action planning at yoga and wellness centers across the country. 

A former newspaper journalist, Becky writes on topics including personal growth, relationships, mental health and wellness, mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality. She also is a leading voice in the sobriety and recovery community. Becky lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, their four children, three pets, and more flowers that one person should be allowed. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• Becky’s powerful work “You Are Not Stuck”
• Freeing yourself from societal expectations
• Embracing your spiritual self
• The path of yoga
• How to work with fear
• Soul-guided choices
• Laughter as medicine
• Redefining your own metrics for success

To connect with Becky and learn more about her work:

website: youarenotstuck.com
IG: @youarenotstuck

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RJ Zimmerman is a This Naked Mind certified coach, podcast host and proud father of 2. With over 10 years of sobriety under his belt, RJ is passionate about helping others find freedom from alcohol and fostering connection within the sober community.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The reasons why we drink
• Strategies for staying sober
• The benefits of journaling
• Developing emotional literacy
• Shifting from self-hatred to acceptance
• Celebrating wins
• Breaking the generational cycle

To connect with RJ & learn more about his work:

Website: www.untappedkeg.com/
IG: @untappedkeg

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Oliver Browne is a qualified Mountain Leader and the Founder of True Summit Adventures. He has competed in many marathons, duathlons and climbed many mountains of 4, 5 and 6,000m including European Classics, Mont Blanc and Grand Paradiso, Andean Classics, Vallunaraju, Cotopaxi, Antisana and Chimborazo, Toubkal and Kilimanjaro in Africa, Lobuche East and Mera Peak in Nepal as well as touching Camp 3 on Mount Everest in Spring 2021, before becoming unwell with Covid19.

6 weeks after leaving hospital in Kathmandu he won the NOMAN, Barcelona to Ibiza rowing race in 93 hours and came second in the 2022 edition of the Talisker Atlantic Challenge in the 8th fastest time of all time.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Oliver’s recovery story
• Creating accountability
• Transfer addiction
• The importance of physical challenges
• Finding purpose
• Building an adventure business
• The compounding effect
• Learning to say “yes” to adventure
• Nature as a vehicle for transformation

To connect with Oliver & learn more:

Website: https://www.truesummitadventures.com/
Instagram: @truesummitadventures

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Join the waitlist for the 2025 Nepal Retreat: https://pages.sunandmoonsoberliving.com/retreat-waitlist

Instagram: @sunandmoon.soberliving

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Rachel Bilski is a qualified yoga therapist, manager of the UK’s national PTSD charity, supervisor to yoga therapists in training and philosophy lecturer for The Minded Institute, one of the leading Yoga Therapy institutions worldwide.

"I began living yoga and mindfulness after a life-changing retreat helped shift me out of chronic depression and debilitating anxiety. Little did I know at the time that these conditions were in fact expressions of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD); probably why a decade of Prozac and talking therapy did little other than make me feel completely inadequate as a human being. Broken beyond repair." 

In this honest and insightful conversation, Rachel shares how she found healing through a somatic approach to recovery from C-PTSD. Today, Rachel's mission is to empower others to discover their own innate capacity for healing, growth and personal transformation. 

In this wide ranging conversation, we discuss:

• What is Complex-PTSD?
• Emotional flashbacks
• Attachment trauma 
• Building healthy relationships with C-PTSD
• Trauma & addiction
• A somatic approach to healing
• Recovery as a process
• Embracing all of our parts
• Dance therapy 

Visit the links below to connect with Rachel and learn more about her work:

Website: www.downtoearthyogatherapy.com
Instagram: @downtoearth.yogatherapy
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In this episode, we discuss:

• The three drinking archetypes
• Why alcohol & wellness don’t mix
• How alcohol impacts the brain, gut microbiome and hormone balance
• The relationship between nutrition and mental health
• Curbing alcohol & sugar cravings with nutrition
• The importance of protein
• The gifts of sobriety

Dr. Brooke Scheller is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, the founder of Functional Sobriety, and the author of How to Eat to Change How You Drink.

After finding freedom from alcohol in 2021, Dr. Brooke took her experience in sobriety and applied her expertise in nutrition and functional medicine to help others change their relationship with alcohol. Her approach results in improved brain health, mood, energy, focus, gut health, and hormone balance.

Her launch of Functional Sobriety led to the development of her online community, the Functional Sobriety Network, and several online programs with members across the globe. Functional Sobriety offers the first-ever custom supplement program for the sober and sober-curious. As a motivational speaker, Dr. Brooke helps to spread the word about functional nutrition, alcohol-free wellness, and the power of sobriety.

Links:

Website: www.functionalsobriety.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrookescheller/?hl=en
Book Website: www.functionalsobriety.com/book
Amazon: How to Eat to Change How You Drink – https://a.co/d/6hjCXTE

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In this episode, we discuss:

• Scott’s recovery from childhood trauma & addiction
• Finding community through fitness
• The benefits of community
• Shifting your mindset around slip-ups
• Creating psychological safety at events
• The story of The Phoenix
• Welcoming allies into recovery spaces
• Scott’s vision for the future

Scott Strode, sober for over 25 years, is the Executive Director of The Phoenix, a transformational nonprofit he founded in 2006. The Phoenix harnesses the power of connection to ignite a movement that’s changing how society looks at addiction and recovery. The Phoenix provides free programs both in-person and virtually, across the globe, including yoga, climbing, music, CrossFit, art, and more. The only cost to participate is 48 hours of sobriety. Scott says, “It might be the activity that brings someone in, but it’s the community of sober friendships that keeps them coming back.” This spark of hope for recovery, that Scott himself experienced, has continued to grow and help thousands rise from addiction. Not limited to those in recovery, The Phoenix movement is for anyone who has been impacted by substance use disorder — because the solution to the addiction crisis lives in all of us. This is our movement!

To learn more, or to connect with The Phoenix community, volunteer, or donate, please go to thephoenix.org.

Download The Phoenix App to explore virtual and online events.

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In this episode, we discuss:

• Ashish's story 
• How to master your inner world
• Shifting from fear to freedom
• The intersection of positive psychology, neuroscience and spirituality 
• 9 practices to overcome stress
• How to find purpose (without quitting your job)
• The transformative power of gratitude

Ashish Kothari is the author of Hardwired for Happiness and the Founder and CEO of Happiness Squad, a Boulder-based company focused on helping individuals and organizations catalyze human flourishing to unlock their full potential.

Prior to this venture, he was Partner with McKinsey, based in Denver focused on leadership development at scale, top team effectiveness and helping companies drive organizational change especially in context of transformations.

To learn more, visit: https://happinesssquad.com/

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