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A Few Thoughts About...Supporting Someone - Part 4: Having the Conversation
We’re finally here - it’s time to talk about having the conversation! In this episode I talk about how to talk to someone about drinking. What works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to make the…
A Few Thoughts About...Supporting Someone - Part 3: Compassion
We’ve set it up: you understand the problem better, you now know what the most important part of being a support person is, so now let’s talk big ideas about HOW to actually do it! in this episode I…
A Few Thoughts About...Supporting Someone - Part 2: The MOST Important Thing You Can Do
The ideas I talk about in this episode are often overlooked - as a matter of fact one of the first things I do when I talk to a support person is ask if they are aware of it! In this episode I talk…
A Few Thoughts About...Supporting Someone - Part 1: The Problem
I often get asked by the partners or support people of my clients how they can help. I totally understand how confusing and difficult knowing what to do may be. That’s why I made this series! This…
A Few Thoughts About...Humor
We can be SO SERIOUS about this process of quitting drinking. And while the situation we find ourselves in may indeed be serious - or we could at the least be on the road towards some serious…
A Few Thoughts About...Roadblocks
Sometimes roadblocks are the reasons we don’t move forward with something. They can serve as reason (or even sometimes excuses) of why we aren’t getting where we want to be. I like to flip this…
A Few Thoughts About...Movement
How often have you given yourself credit for ALL the things you’ve done to change? Chances are the answer is “not often enough”. In this episode I talk about why doing this is important - and how all…
A Few Thoughts About...Living Your Life
In today’s episode I talk about an idea that kind of hit me in a deep way: living your life. (Emphasis on living as an active verb) It can be so easy to get caught up in thinking and just kind of…
A Few Thoughts About...Turbulence
We all hit rough patches in different parts of our life - and nowhere is that more intensely clear than in quitting drinking. One of my favorite ways of looking at this is as “turbulence”. This is a…
A Few Thoughts About...Your Whys
No matter what method you use to quit drinking, knowing your whys is almost always a foundational part of it. I like this idea - but I’ve found that writing whys in a very specfic way can be…
A Few Thoughts About...Your Experience
Thought is so powerful. And when we catch sight of how it creates our day to day, we can realize that working through the process of quitting drinking might not be what it looks like. LINKSI have a…
A Few Thoughts About...Taking the Scenic Route
We tend to think of the jounrey of leaving alcohol behind as something of a straight line - but it never really is. In the episode I talk about the beauty of that circuitous path: the scenic route!…
A Few Thoughts About...What You Are Afraid Of
Fear is always part of the change process - whether we’re aware of it or not! Knowing what it is that you fear, and more importantly dragging it out into the light, is one of the most liberating…
A Few Thoughts About...The End Goal
“I never want to drink again!” Many of us have all said some version of this - and it almost always leads to frustration. In this episode I talk about the end goal and what you can do to make smaller…
A Few Thoughts About...Distraction
It’s so easy to feel like we always have to be DOING something on this road to being AF. Like I have to constantly be feeling my emotions or digging into my beliefs or whatever happens to come up. I…
AFTA Special Episode with Sam Goldfinch!
I’m psyched to bring you a special episode out of the usual weekly cadence! My good friend Sam Goldfinch and I sat down for a wide ranging conversations about all types of stuff: growth, woo-y stuff,…
A Few Thoughts About...Transitions
Transitions! These times in our life when big things shift and change. They can cause so much intensity - they can even be triggers for behaviors we want to change. Frankly, they can be…
A Few Thoughts About...Taking a Breath
It is so easy to forget that we have a built-in way of turning down the temperature and getting closer to peace. The world and our lives can seem crazy - and peace is literally one breath away.…
A Few Thoughts About...Convincing
Thinking that you want to quit sometimes and being ready to quit are two different things. Often we end up trying to convince ourselves to quit, but does that really work? Links:I have two one on one…
A Few Thoughts About...Who You Really Are
Getting in touch with who you really are - beneath all the layers of physical and psychological identity - really changes things. When you see this, everything changes. LinksWant to dip your toe in…
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