This weeks Episode is a bitter sweet one for us here at Empowered Sobriety Podcast. It is Lindsay and Abby's FINAL EPISODE! Thank you all so much for being here with us and following along this beautiful journey. We have created such a beautiful space for people to continue to come and find powerful, informative and playful episodes about sobriety, personal development and everting in between! What a blessed life and an amazing journey. We are grateful to all of you dedicated listeners and people that will hear us even after we are gone. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any qu ..read more

Welcome back, Empowered Sobriety Podcast Community! We have a super potent episode this week packed full of tips and self-reflection questions.  We really dig into the fall season! 00:00 Intro 04:10 Nourishing your mind and body during the fall season 07:45 Tao Te Ching’s take on the fall season and learning to slow down 11:15 Three questions to ask yourself: “What old stale parts of you do you need to let go of in order to be born anew?”  “What old patterns do you need to let go of so your true self can shine through?”  “How can you connect in a deep and real way to the p ..read more

On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay and Abby are talking about Breaking up with your Parents! Lindsay and Abby share their own experiences with this and our own understanding of breaking up with our parents and everything in between! 0:00 Intro 2:24 "We cannot heal in the same place we were wounded" 4:07 "Our parents did the best that they could, even if they didn't do a great job." 7:38 "You have to grieve the loss of your parents twice" Lindsay and Abby talk about co-dependent relationships with your parental figures 12:40 Judgement, anger and resentment towards our parents a ..read more

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Community! Lindsay and Abby have a super special guest on the podcast today. We are joined by Tami, a long time friend of Abby’s and she is a wife and mother of two who grew up in addiction.  She shares her story of how her parents’ addictions affected her and also how she married an addict but helped him to consider sobriety and stay sober!   00:00 Intro 03:05 What is was like growing up in addiction for Tami 19:08 What her husband’s addiction to alcohol was like for her 28:58 What prompted her husband to get sober and how she has supported him  3 ..read more

Welcome to Empowered Sobriety Podcast! On this weeks Episode Lindsay asks Abby to Coach her and support her on air with her Binge and Restrict Eating Habits. This is a very powerful and vulnerable episode that has some amazing insight and TRUTH. 0:00 Intro 5:00 Abby begins the session and asks such deep, powerful, intuitive questions to Lindsay. Abby provides so much space, validation, reflection, compassion and love to Lindsay in this episode! Follow us on IG instagram.com/empoweredsobrietypodcast/ and email us at empoweredsobrietypodcast@gmail.com for comments or questions. We would love i ..read more

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Podcast community! Abby is joined in the studio by Sober Coach Shane Checkan today. Shane’s road to recovery includes leaving rehab early against all advice and blazing his own path. Shane works with clients who are interested in finding alternative ways to quit drinking and start their sober path. 00:00 Intro 02:24 Shane’s life spiraled out of control with his alcohol addiction and how he carved his own path to sobriety 05:45 Shane’s first step to his program is to identify and look at “why we drink?” and how socializing was his own biggest trigger and how it led to ..read more

In this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay poses a little Q&A for Abby and herself! What have you done with the space you have created in your life, working with and working through the trauma and your pain? 0:00 Intro 2:20 Abby drops an honest and powerful answer for us all and then elaborates on recovering from doing! 06:17 Releasing victim-consciousness and a humbled ego. 7:05 How family can help you gauge where you are at in your healing journey and how to prep yourself for family time. 12:07 Insight droppings, wisdom hits, and intuition. 13:24 Lindsay gives her answ ..read more

This week on Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Abby and Lindsay breakdown shadow work and why it's important to our sober journey. They discuss 3 steps to transmuting your shadows into empowerment! 00:00 Intro 02:22 What is Shadow Work and how it relates to addiction 06:17 How awareness and pausing is a lot of the "work": shifting addictions, relationships, etc. 09:58 Cultivating compassion is key to healing addiction and Lindsay breaks down her main compassion practices 14:19 "Parts Work" 25:45 How to Transmute your pain and addiction into empowerment! Resources for Parts Work: https://ifs-instit ..read more

We are bringing you part 2 of Anger and How to Release It! Abby shares vulnerably and powerfully about her own anger and how it was dealt with in her family. She speaks to 0:00 Intro 5:16 Abby talks about not experiencing a lot of anger as a child, how her anger was weaponized when she was experiencing it and the fear of anger. Anger was not welcome! 10:25 Where Abby's anger hangs out in her body based on the repression of it. Short fuse or long fuse? 15:00 Natural responses to repressed anger 16:51 Storing anger in your body 19:20 Greif as the invitation 24:56 Quick to judge! 26:14 Power of t ..read more

We have such a powerful episode this week! Lindsay takes a deep dive into her anger and how it led to addiction to alcohol. Allowing herself to release her anger created so much space in her life and also the capacity to hold big things and big feelings.  All from learning how to safely release her anger and set empowered boundaries!  00:00 Intro 02:34 Lindsay describes how anger felt in her body and how she released frustration and rage as a child 06:29 How she experienced her father and mother’s anger 09:10 How she dealt with her father’s anger and how her own anger transferred on ..read more