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How to Embrace Imperfection with Anne Lamott
In an episode, Anne Lamott explores a variety of themes including how to embrace imperfection, self-improvement, creativity, and the journey towards self-acceptance. Anne shares candid reflections on her personal struggles with perfectionism, shame, and the inner critic, offering valuable insights into the transformative power of self-compassion. She delves into the importance of unlearning harmful teachings from childhood, emphasizing the need to release the pressure of doing things perfectly and to embrace imperfection as a part of the human experience. Anne’s journey of faith and recovery also provides a unique perspective on navigating personal struggles and finding support in community.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Embrace imperfection to unlock personal growth and self-acceptance.
- Overcome perfectionism and self-criticism for a more fulfilling life.
- Discover the benefits of community in your recovery journey
- Find spirituality in sobriety to enhance your overall well-being
- Manage your inner critic as a writer to unleash your creativity
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Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dusk, Night, Dawn; Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels. Her latest book is Somehow: Thoughts on Love: Anne is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame.
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Special Episode: 4 Different Journeys to Sobriety
In this special collaborative episode with Eric Zimmer, Gillian Tietz, Casey McGuire Davidson, and Dave Wilson (aka Sober Dave), they each share…
- The reasons they kept drinking and why they felt they couldn’t give it up
- The strategies or methods they used to get started on their recovery journey
- How their strategies evolved during the different stages of recovery
- The importance of finding a supportive community, whether it’s in-person or online
- Understanding that recovery is not one size fits all – you must find what works for you and your life
Gillian Tietz is the host of Sober Powered, a top 50 mental health podcast, and the founder of Sober Powered Media, a podcast network with 5 other top mental health podcasts. Getting sober in 2019 inspired her to start her podcast where she utilizes her biochemistry background to teach others how alcohol affects the brain and why it’s so hard to stop drinking. Recently, she left her career in biotech to start the Sober Powered Media Podcast Network. She is also an adjunct chemistry professor at a university in Boston.
Connect with Gillian Tietz: Network | Instagram | Podcast
Casey McGuire Davidson helps successful women drink less + live more. She’s a leader in the modern sober curious movement of women who are gray area drinkers going alcohol-free. An ex-red wine girl turned Life and Sobriety Coach, Casey is passionate about helping busy women change their relationship with alcohol. She specializes in working with busy women with full calendars and overflowing to-do lists, who are doing all the things and then coming home and drinking to forget about all the things. Casey hosts the Hello Someday Podcast, rated in the top 1% of global podcasts, which teaches women the tried and true secrets of breaking out of the drinking cycle and creating a life they truly love. She’s the creator of The Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking and The Sobriety Starter Kit. Casey’s helped thousands of women turn the decision to stop drinking from their worst-case scenario to the best decision of their lives.
Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson: Website | Instagram | Podcast
David Wilson – aka @Soberdave – has been making it his mission to support the sober community since his own ‘rediscovery’ began in 2019. Never one to do things by halves, Dave launched his One for the Road podcast in 2020, in which a diverse selection of inspirational guests have shared their own dysfunctional relationship with alcohol leading to sobriety. Dave has a huge community on Instagram, motivating and supporting those affected by alcohol dependence. Dave is also an accredited sobriety coach and now brings his grounded expertise in alcohol recovery to his book, One for the Road: Soberdave
Connect with Dave Wilson: Website | Instagram
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The Joy of Being Sober with Catherine Gray
The Magic of Being Sober with Laura McKowen
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How to Embrace Sobriety with Gillian Tietz
Gillian Tietz is the host of Sober Powered, a top 50 mental health podcast, and the founder of Sober Powered Media, a podcast network of top mental health shows. She has a master’s in biology and worked in research labs in the Boston area. Getting sober in 2019 inspired her to start her podcast to help others understand why addiction happens and how to develop the coping skills they need to stay sober. After 2 years of consistent, hard work she left her career in biochemistry to start her network.
Eric and Gillian discuss her journey to sobriety and how she shares what she has learned with others on her podcast, Sober Powered.
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Gillian Tietz and I Discuss How to Embrace Sobriety and …
- Her podcast, Sober Powered
- How she learned that watching TV did not support the life she wanted
- The start of her journey to sobriety
- Struggling with emotions that lead her to destructive habits
- Her struggles with body image
- Realizing how drinking caused her mental health to deteriorate
- How alcohol enhanced the problems she was trying to hide from
- Learning to accept that moderating drinking wasn’t possible
- The idea of harm reduction and the controversial opinions
- Finally seeking professional help when at the start of the quarantine
- How she wanted to start the podcast to share what she had learned to help others
- The value of finding support from sober communities on social media
- How we often don’t see the cause and effect of drinking when you’re in it
- The effects that alcohol has on the brain and mental health
- Post acute withdrawal and how the brain needs to learn to re-regulate without alcohol
Gillian Tietz Links
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The Freedom of Sobriety with Veronica Valli
Veronica Valli is a former psychotherapist who now works as a sobriety coach. With almost 20 years of experience, Veronica has helped thousands of people live happy, healthy lives and reach their full potential by being alcohol-free. She is the co-host of the popular Soberful podcast and has been the keynote speaker at annual conferences including Women for Sobriety and Soberistas.
In this episode, Eric and Veronica discuss her book, Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alchohol.
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Veronica Valli and I Discuss The Freedom of Sobriety and…
- Her book, Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol
- That alcoholism is just a symptom of a deeper malaise
- Her history with drugs and alcohol and how she got sober
- The experience she had with drug-induced psychosis
- Believing she had a very rare problem when everyone else was fine
- How and when she discovered that she wasn’t alone in how she felt
- Emotional unmanageability vs. emotional mastery
- That behavior is the truest manifestation of how someone feels – we behave how we feel
- The way our culture has normalized abnormal drinking
- The question, “would my life be better if I wasn’t drinking?”
- When you’re spending most of your time arguing with yourself about whether or not you have a problem with drinking, you’re missing out on the real and good stuff of life, including your own growth and discovery
- Toxic positivity
- Feeling comfortable in our own skin and having appropriate emotional responses to events
- Emotional sobriety
- The value of consistently having a framework in life
- What to do if sobriety meetings feel overwhelming
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The Magic of Being Sober with Laura McKowen
The Joy of Being Sober with Catherine Gray
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