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Episode 49 

Quit Drinking Before You Hit Rock Bottom 

In this episode, I talk to my friend and partner, Courtney Andersen, who joins me as a co-host today.  Courtney is a Health & Fitness Coach, Sober Coach, Founder of Sober Vibes, an online community for women in recovery, and Co-Founder of the amazing support community for Women in recovery called Real Aligned Women aka RAW, and a Podcast Co-host of the RAW podcast.

Courtney and I talk about quitting drinking before you hit rock bottom hint; you don't have to hit rock bottom or be an alcoholic to quit drinking. Courtney shares her final rock bottom at twenty-nine and she is open and honest about how recovery has changed her life; but not during the first two years. 

Topics discussed: 

Are you questioning your drinking?

Do you not have a turn-off switch?

Do you feel like shit the next day after drinking?

Is drinking affecting your work like?

Do you carry shame around how much you drink?

Do you live with regret and guilt?

Do you fantasize about a new life while you are drinking?

And, we end with the many BENEFITS of sobriety.

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To find Courtney: 

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Sober Vibes Instagram

Sober Vibes Facebook Group 

Website 

Real Aligned Women

Real Aligned Women Podcast 

To find Lori: 

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Episode 49

Quit Drinking Before You Hit Rock Bottom

In this episode, I talk to my friend and partner, Courtney Andersen, who joins me as a co-host today. Courtney is a Health & Fitness Coach, Sober Coach, Founder of Sober Vibes, an online community for women in recovery, and Co-Founder of the amazing support community for Women in recovery called Real Aligned Women aka RAW, and a Podcast Co-host of the RAW podcast.

Courtney and I talk about quitting drinking before you hit rock bottom hint; you don't have to hit rock bottom or be an alcoholic to quit drinking. Courtney shares her final rock bottom at twenty-nine and she is open and honest about how recovery has changed her life; but not during the first two years.

Topics discussed:

Are you questioning your drinking?

Do you not have a turn-off switch?

Do you feel like shit the next day after drinking?

Is drinking affecting your work like?

Do you carry shame around how much you drink?

Do you live with regret and guilt?

Do you fantasize about a new life while you are drinking?

And, we end with the many BENEFITS of sobriety.

Sign-up for The Sober Sessions Waitlist and FREE Workshop

To find Courtney:

Instagram

Sober Vibes Instagram

Sober Vibes Facebook Group

Website

Real Aligned Women

Real Aligned Women Podcast

To find Lori:

Website

Instagram

Facebook Community

SUBSCRIBE to the PODCAST for new episodes twice a week.

Email

In this bonus, Sitch on Saturday, I'm talking about how fast the year is already going and how I learned on the radio how much time the average American spends doing this one task that could save us a ton of time.

If you feel like you need a reboot already, it's okay, you are not alone. I have been going back to some of my old ways in 2019 and that is the reason I'm sharing this message with you.

Please consider rating the podcast if you like what you have heard. You can rate the podcast on iTunes by simply clicking on To50&Beyond podcast and hitting the empty stars.

I appreciate you and thank you for listening.

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Download your Uplift In Five Guide here.

In this bonus, Sitch on Saturday, I'm talking about how fast the year is already going and how I learned on the radio how much time the average American spends doing this one task that could save us a ton of time. 

If you feel like you need a reboot already, it's okay, you are not alone.  I have been going back to some of my old ways in 2019 and that is the reason I'm sharing this message with you. 

Please consider rating the podcast if you like what you have heard.  You can rate the podcast on iTunes by simply clicking on To50&Beyond podcast and hitting the empty stars. 

I appreciate you and thank you for listening. 

Find me here: 

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Website 

Facebook Community

Email 

Download your Uplift In Five Guide here.

EPISODE 48

Love and Relationship Addiction with Sherry Gaba, LCSW

Topics discussed:

• What is the difference between being in love and having an unhealthy obsession with your partner? 
• What are some signs that you're too obsessed?
• Where does this obsession stem from? 
• What are the downsides to this obsessiveness?
• When is being obsessed with our partner a sign of addiction?
• What are some positive affirmations one can use to change wiring the brain?

Sherry also discusses childhood traumas and I ask her what self-love looks like for her today. 

Find Sherry: 

Website 

Recovery Today Magazine

Recovery Today Series 

Twitter

Instagram

Facebook 

Find Lori:

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Instagram

Facebook

ENROLL in Free To Love Me 

EPISODE 48

Love and Relationship Addiction with Sherry Gaba, LCSW

Topics discussed:

• What is the difference between being in love and having an unhealthy obsession with your partner?
• What are some signs that you're too obsessed?
• Where does this obsession stem from?
• What are the downsides to this obsessiveness?
• When is being obsessed with our partner a sign of addiction?
• What are some positive affirmations one can use to change wiring the brain?

Sherry also discusses childhood traumas and I ask her what self-love looks like for her today.

Find Sherry:

Website

Recovery Today Magazine

Recovery Today Series

Twitter

Instagram

Facebook

Find Lori:

Website

Instagram

Facebook

ENROLL in Free To Love Me

In this BONUS episode: Chilling Out VS Numbing Out I'm talking about the difference between numbing out vs chilling out.  Numbing out is different for us all, my numbing out came from avoidance and denial and trying to escape my life.  I numbed out with food, alcohol, and shopping and nothing in my life changed for years because I was running from why I was overeating, drinking, and overspending. 

Also, I give you some simple things you can do to chill out and relax and deal with life without feeling the need to escape and drown yourself in the numbing agents. 

Please reach out if you have feedback from the show and also to let me know how you chill out vs numb out. 

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ENROLL IN FREE TO LOVE ME 

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In this BONUS episode: Chilling Out VS Numbing Out I'm talking about the difference between numbing out vs chilling out. Numbing out is different for us all, my numbing out came from avoidance and denial and trying to escape my life. I numbed out with food, alcohol, and shopping and nothing in my life changed for years because I was running from why I was overeating, drinking, and overspending.

Also, I give you some simple things you can do to chill out and relax and deal with life without feeling the need to escape and drown yourself in the numbing agents.

Please reach out if you have feedback from the show and also to let me know how you chill out vs numb out.

Send me an email

ENROLL IN FREE TO LOVE ME

Find me here:

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My hangout

My favorite social media place

EPISODE #47

Cracking Open The Menopause Conversation with Shirley Weir

In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk to Shirley Weir, Founder of Menopause Chicks. Menopause Chicks empowers women to talk openly about perimenopause and menopause, to navigate midlife health information and to connect to women's health professionals.

Since launching Menopause Chicks, Shirley spoke at TEDx Gastown Women, Pecha Kucha, received a YWCA Vancouver Woman of Distinction Award and Menopause Chicks has been featured in the National Post, Toronto Star, and OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network.)

In 2018, her first book, MOKITA: How to navigate perimenopause with confidence & ease reached #1 on Amazon.ca in women's health.

Her online Facebook community fields an average of 15,000 questions and comments every month. Members regard the group as unbiased, trustworthy and the "go-to" place to get their questions answered and to affirm they are not alone.

Shirley's marketing & communications career spans 30 years, she holds a certificate in Peer Counseling from the University of British Columbia, and she is a mom to two teenagers and one gold doodle.

Topics discussed

• Shirley shares her own experience going through perimenopause more than ten years ago and what led her to launch MenopauseChicks.com at forty-six
• What perimenopause is and some of the feelings that women experience along with what you can do to feel better
• What menopause and post-menopause really is
• Birth Control prescribed for perimenopause - I share my own experience with taking BC during my perimenopause
• Social media and its effect on spreading the word about menopause
• Becoming a health advocate for your own health
• Shirley's book, Mokita and what it means for a woman going through Menopause
• The Placebo Effect
• How to crack the conversation open and remove the shame around menopause
• How to love the menopause transition

Find Shirley here:

Menopause Chicks Private Facebook community

Menopause Chicks Facebook Page

Menopause Chicks website

Buy Mokita here

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