Sobriety isn’t a vibe, a trend, or something you commit to once and coast through. It’s high-stakes, daily management — the kind that saves your life. After a hospital day full of tests, scans, and plain truths, Susan reflects on what it really means to stay within a treatment plan… and how sobriety demands the very same precision.

In this episode, she gives you a clear, uncompromising protocol for staying sober: medicate with truth, rest like recovery depends on it, nourish connection, guard your inputs, and run your emotional scans before crisis hits.

A fierce reminder that the cost of not managing your sobriety is everything — so manage it like your life depends on it. Because it does.

In today’s Morning Call, we’re talking about the medicine that doesn’t come in bottles — friendship. The real kind. The kind that heals you simply by sitting next to you on the sofa and laughing about the whitest school socks ever created.

As Sue reflects on a visit from her best friend, she reminds us that sobriety gives us back what truly matters: presence, connection, ease, and memories we get to keep.

December can be a tender month for many women. Not the chronic complainers — but the genuinely lonely, the ones carrying quiet burdens. This episode is a call to reach for one another, to remember that sisterhood is medicine, and to let ourselves both give and receive it.

A soothing, grounding reminder: we’re not meant to do life alone — and sobriety lets us show up for the friendships that save us.

In this Morning Call, we dive into the truth every grown woman needs tattooed on her soul: not everyone deserves a seat at your table.
Adulthood changes the meaning of friendship — it stops being about convenience and becomes about depth, honesty, and the women who can hold your silence as fiercely as your laughter. The ones who stay when life gets messy. The ones who don’t flinch at your fullness.

This episode is a reminder to guard your energy, honour your worth, and stop spending time out of guilt or obligation. We don’t chase. We don’t contort. We don’t hand out access passes to people who drain us.

Choose the women who choose you back. Protect the circle that feels like home. And remember: your worth is measured by how unapologetically you honour yourself.

A powerful Morning Call on boundaries, discernment, and the sacredness of true female friendship.

Here’s the truth: you become what you give your attention to.
Not your talent. Not your potential. Your focus is what builds the next version of you — brick by sober brick.

If your attention is scattered, distracted, or tangled in old stories, your life will follow.
But when you aim it — sharp, steady, intentional — everything begins to shift.

Today, pull your attention back from the chaos.
Back from the noise.
Back from the ghosts of who you used to be.

Feed what matters.
Starve what doesn’t.
Your attention is sacred currency — spend it on the woman you’re becoming.

Not today, lady. Not today.

In today’s Morning Call, we’re getting honest about something booze never let us face: trauma. Not the dramatic storytelling kind — the real kind. The wound that still lives in us, the echo that wakes up when life today brushes up against what hurt us long ago.

We talk about what Dr Gabor Maté teaches: trauma isn’t the event — it’s what happened inside us when we didn’t have support. And when something in the present feels similar, our nervous system doesn’t ask permission. It time-travels. Suddenly, we’re seven, or twelve, or twenty-one, reacting with the survival instincts that kept us alive back then.

This isn’t a weakness. It’s human. It’s your inner crew — the protectors, the peace-keepers, the runners, the wounded parts — all trying their best to keep you safe. That’s the heart of IFS (Internal Family Systems), and today we explore it in plain, sober language.

Sobriety doesn’t drown the echo; it lets us finally hear it. And respond as the strong, grounded woman we’ve become. This episode is about going back for your younger self with presence, compassion, truth, and boundaries — the things she never had.

If you’ve ever wondered, “Why did I react like that?” — this one’s going to hit home.

Take a breath. Whisper it with me: not today, lady, not today. Then press play.

Your gut isn’t vague, flaky, or dramatic — it’s the most loyal truth-teller you’ve got. In this Morning Call, Sue cuts through the people-pleasing, the old habits, and the “sure I’ll be grand” nonsense to remind you of one core rule: the moment your gut says no, it’s a no. Full stop.

Sobriety clears the fog and hands that instinct back to you — sharp, powerful, ancestral. This episode dives into the courage it takes to honour that inner nudge, walk away from what’s wrong for you, and stop abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.

Trust your gut. It knows before you do.
Not today, lady. Not today.

In today’s Morning Call, we slow right down — all the way down — to the simple, shocking miracle of hearing a kitchen clock tick. For years, the roar of drinking drowned out the quiet truth of our lives. Sobriety hands that truth back to us, wrapped in silence, presence, and small sacred moments we once rushed past.

Sue shares the story of the first time she ever noticed her own clock ticking, and what that sound awakened in her life. This episode invites you to savour the hangover-free morning, the warm tea, the steady breath, and the gentle certainty that you are here, upright, alive, and choosing yourself. Because you’re sober today, everything is different. Take a breath, whisper “Not today, lady, not today,” and listen for the ticking. It’s time — your time — and it’s finally yours to keep.

Abstinence isn’t a diet. It isn’t a phase. It isn’t a polite little “I’m cutting back.”
It’s the line in the sand that saves lives — mine included.

In this powerful Morning Call, Sue gets straight to the truth: moderation is a seductive lie that drains your energy, your dignity, and your mornings. Abstinence is the rebellion. The clarity. The peace. The foundation stone every sober woman builds her life on.

You’ll hear why “just one” was never one, why moderation keeps you negotiating with yourself like a hostage, and why removing the option to drink is the most liberating decision you’ll ever make. This episode is a rallying cry for the woman who’s tired of dancing with Moderation Marcus and ready to burn the boats.

If you need a reminder of who you are and what you’re fighting for, this is it. Take a breath, whisper “Not today, lady, not today,” and let this truth settle into your bones: Abstinence — the word that saved my life.

In this Wednesday Morning Call, Sue reframes the word boring as the ultimate badge of honour in sobriety.
She breaks open the old belief that chaos equals aliveness and reminds listeners that the real miracle is found in quiet routines, gentle rhythms, and a life no longer burning itself down for a thrill. This episode explores why consistency is liberation, why simple routines are revolutionary, and why the absence of chaos is the true evidence of a sober, steady, deeply healed life. Expect honesty, fire, and a radical permission slip to love the quiet, ordinary, glorious miracle of your sober days.

Keywords: sobriety, recovery mindset,emotional peace, simplicity, routines, women in recovery, empowerment, quiet living, nervous system healing, Morning Call Lounge

In this Monday Morning Call, Sue breaks down one of the most misunderstood experiences in sobriety: The Quiet Hijack— that moment when all the feelings you once sedated quietly line up and demand to be felt.

She explains why sudden tears, irritability, overwhelm, or “losing it over a dirty spoon” aren’t signs you’re failing — they’re signs you’re finally feeling.

Expect clarity, fire, and a good dose of Irish straight talk as she walks listeners through emotional displacement, buriedgrief, and the powerful process of letting your emotional house finally vent.

A fierce reminder that nothing is wrong withyou — you’re waking up.
Keywords: sobriety, emotional healing, emotional fluency, recovery, feelings, empowerment, Monday motivation, women in recovery, sober mindset,self-awareness, emotional processing