To 50 and Beyond | Midlife and Alcohol-Free Lifestyle

Whether you die tomorrow or at a 100 years old, coming home to yourself and learning to live in your truth is the greatest gift you can give yourself as you age.

Integrity is the way to angle your happiness from psychological unhappiness to live in peace, joy, and love with self and others.

In this episode, Martha Beck shares practical, gentle ways from her spot life transformation after surgery and triumph through the dark nights and sorrow to help you make new resolutions and commitment to your own truth through integrity.

Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her "one of the smartest women I know." Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. Her newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.

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In this bonus episode, which I felt drawn to record this morning, I'm giving you love, and a message of hope: you are not the only one who feels the way you do, and even if you are - you are going to be a-okay.

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Episode 174

Healing Through Nutrition with Lindsey Beveridge

Feeling your best can be challenging when coming out of alcohol addiction. However, my guest on Episode 174, Lindsey Beveridge has gone through it, and in this episode, she breaks everything down to help you reclaim your vibrancy in life at ease.

Giving your body the grace to heal and restore itself through nutrition will make you feel better emotionally, mentally, and physically than ever before.

Lindsey is a Registered Nutritional Therapist, graduating from CNM with a distinction. She is a member of BANT and is registered with the CNHC.

Lindsey is compassionate not just about quitting addictive substances but recovering well.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The dichotomy between early menopause symptoms and heavy drinking
• Nutrition and its vitality in overcoming addiction and menopause shocks
• Why healing your gut is the beginning of restoration after quitting alcohol
• Top foods and lifestyle changes to make to optimize healing without distressing your body
• Lindsey life lessons from her heavy drinking, pre-menopause life, and how she has reinvented herself in her 50s
• The impact of alcohol on your liver, gut and nutrition
• How to hammer down low blood sugar and cravings while redirecting your reward system towards healthy habits
• How to keep it simple, nutritious, and healthy for the gut and liver during recovery

To learn more about this episode, click here: https://www.lorimassicot.com/episode-174-lindsey-beveridge

To Find Lindsey:

Website: https://www.recovery-nutrition.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/recoverynutrition/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RecoveryNutritionUK/

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Episode 173 A daily self-care routine can take you from feeling anxious and foggy to a peaceful and energized day no matter what life throws at you. Self-care is a prerequisite tool for aging in peace, sobriety, freedom, and radiance, not just by trying to make it through the day. I LOVE a good self-care routine! This is the first of many episodes coming to the podcast about self-care. I'm getting my Masters degree in the topic. 🤣 You will learn about: ● What is the meaning of self-care ● Why self-care matters to us ● The seven dimensions of self-care, which are emotional, physical, mental, social, recreational, spiritual, and environmental. ● My evening routine ● Ways to be intentional and take self-care all day long ● Self-care ideas you can try Resources suggested

1. Book: Self Care Prescription
2. Blog: Blissful mind.
3. Meditation APP: Insight Timer
4. The End of Her by Shari Lapena

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Episode 172

Join me in this wonderful and power-packed episode, engaging with Dr. Christiane Northrup as she gives you masterpiece lessons on aging and menopause to achieve the desire of vibrancy, joy, confidence, and freedom, cravings that are sometimes absent in menopause years.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What women really want in life
• How wisdom is the beacon to a vibrant menopause life
• Why women need to make their bodies a priority, long before their menopause ages
• How your attitude, ideologies, and beliefs about old age significantly impact your menopause
• How cell environment is key to the aging experience and the healthy pre-menopause practices
• The impact of alcohol, addiction, and sugar on old age
• Why our dieting in the 20's and 30's may not work in menopause years
• The importance of squats on your pelvic health and pelvic flow
• Dr. Christiane's story on how she realized that she could not fix her marriage
• Dr. Christiane's life lessons that she learned from her pre-menopause years

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Dr. Northrups books mentioned

1. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
2. Goddesses Never Age
3. The Wisdom of Menopause (4th Edition)
4. Dodging Energy Vampires

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Twitter: @drchrisnorthrup

Facebook: Dr. Christine Northrup Community.

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Do you struggle with setting boundaries?

My guest on episode 171 is the brilliant Megan Logan, a licensed social worker on a mission to help women find more love for themselves.

From writing the Self-Love Workbook for Women: Release Self-Doubt, Build Self-Compassion, and Embrace Who You Are to explaining what self-love really is, Megan helps women everywhere begin their self-love journeys.

Megan Logan is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of counseling experience in domestic violence, sexual assault centers, eating disorder programs and a local hospice program.

For the past 10 years, she has enjoyed private practice, specializing in issues related to trauma, abuse, eating disorders, grief, and loss.

In this episode you'll learn about:

• Megan's book, "Self-Love Workbook for Women"
• How to set physical and emotional boundaries
• Megan's definition of self-love
• What self-love is and isn't
• The difference between gentle and fierce self-compassion
• Factors important in a healthy relationship
• How being mindful is practicing self-love

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Megan Logan Counseling Services

The Self-Love Workbook for Women

Megan's Instagram

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How do you express joy? My guest on episode 170 is the joyful and talented Shannon Kaiser, who uses her bubbly personality and incredible writing skills to share her message and joy. After a decade of addiction, Shannon knew she needed to make a change. She made it her goal to replace her unwanted behaviors, never shaming herself, and start a journey to self love and pure joy. Shannon Kaiser is the bestselling author of five books on the psychology of happiness and fulfillment, including the #1 bestseller, The Self-Love Experiment, and Adventures for Your Soul, Find Your Happy and Find Your Happy Daily Mantras and her newest book Joy Seeker: Let Go of What's Holding You Back so You Can Live the Life You Were Made For. She's been named on of the "Top 100 Women to Watch in Wellness," by Mind Body Green and "One of the freshest voices in mental health and wellness" by Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul. Shannon's the founder of Playwiththeworld.com, named "Top 75 Personal Development Websites," and "Top 100 Self Help Blogs" by the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Topics Discussed

• Shannon's experience with addictions and eating disorders
• Learning about yourself instead of shaming yourself
• Replacing some of your behaviors instead of all of them
• How to interrupt yourself
• How Shannon writes about what she needs to learn
• The difference between joy and happiness
• Our inner peace and inner voice
• A mantra from Shannon's book, "Find Your Happy"

Click here for Shannon's books. Thank you for listening! To learn more about Lori and to read the full show notes for this episode, click here. If you liked this episode, please consider taking a couple of minutes to leave a positive rating and review. Leave a rating and review. I thank you in advance:)

Episode 169

This episode comes from my heart as a socially anxious person who thought that drinking alcohol was required in order to socialize.

I know how challenging it is right now to face people you haven't seen because of COVID, especially if you are someone who is not drinking.

I created this episode based on a question I received from a woman who is 1 year and 8 months sober. I want to help you look at socializing sober in a whole new light.

Topics include:

• What does socializing mean in a society that thinks it's normal to drink
• Where my social anxiety started
• Where my drinking story started
• Feeling like I "had" to drink to socialize
• Feeling like you "need" to drink to be fun or have fun
• The difference between feeling boring or being bored
• Using alcohol to tolerate someone
• How to redefine fun
• Setting a boundary for yourself rather than other people
• Not feeling guilty for choices you make
• Coping mechanisms for your socializing toolbox
• Visualizing what will go right
• Telling other people your intentions not to drink

If you are feeling like you're going to go back to drinking because the world is opening up again or you can't find your sweet spot in being social without drinking - you are not the only one.

I stand with you in sobriety, and I appreciate you.

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Episode 168 Do you struggle with loving yourself? You are not alone! In this very special episode, I spoke with the fantastic Paul Fishman about the difference between self love and self care, and how to find more love for yourself. Paul tells his story openly and honestly and explains his own journey through self love. Paul went from sacrificing himself for others to actually practicing self care, making a huge difference in his life. We also talk about some other ways to practice self love, recovery for example, and Paul describes what real self care actually looks like. Paul knows what it is like to struggle with self love, and after years of practicing it himself, he has become an amazing example for people to live life with love for themselves. Paul Fishman is a self love coach and you do you activist on a mission to empower and inspire humanity to love unconditionally starting from within. He is the host of the top 100 podcast The Road to Self Love and star of the forthcoming reality show by the same name. Topics Discussed

• The difference between self love and self care
• How recovery is an act of self love
• Toxic positivity
• Asking for what you need
• How Paul used to be a people pleaser
• Sacrificing yourself for others
• How some acts of self-care are not actually self-care
• How Paul screams to release emotion

Thank you SO much for listening!

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Episode 167

What does doing nothing mean to you?

Are you spending too much of your time doing something for the sake of doing something and feeling tapped out at the end of the day?

This episode is created to help you take a step back, ask yourself some questions, and reflect on what you would feel like if you allowed yourself to just BE.

Resources mentioned:

Katherine Smith article - The Art of Doing Nothing

To read the full show notes: https://www.lorimassicot.com/episode-167-the-sweetness-of-doing-nothing