1000 Days Sober Podcast

Why Suffering is Optional: A Conversation With Dr. Gail Brenner

Welcome to the latest episode of The 1000 Days Sober Podcast 🎙️

Our guest today is 𝐃𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 a clinical psychologist who joyfully helps people discover that suffering is optional. Through investigating her own experience and working with clients for over twenty-five years, she has discovered how to unravel common problems of everyday life to reveal the deepest acceptance and peace. Author of the award-winning The End of Self-Help and At the Core of Every Heart, she lives in Santa Barbara, CA.

 

In this interview we discuss:

What is spirituality?
Why is suffering optional?
Turning towards direct experiences
Being grounded in aware presence
Welcoming and experiencing feelings to the end
Creating more empowering beliefs
Internal family systems
Self-judgment
Feelings of inadequacy

 

To learn more, please visit https://gailbrenner.com/.

 

If you would like to work with Lee Davy or join the STRIVE community, then email thestrivemethod@gmail.com.

A Chit-chat About All Things Sobriety With Wendy Laban

Hello Strivers!

Welcome to the latest episode of The 1000 Days Sober Podcast.

Today I’m talking to Wendy Laban, who is a full-time mum to her, some would say, ridiculously large family, lives down by the sea in beautiful south Devon, loves long walks with her dog, running, wild swimming, and this self-development adventure she finds herself on since going alcohol-free four years ago.

“How Perfectly Reasonable People Mess Up Their Relationships - And What You Can Do Instead”: A Conversation With Elise Becher

Elise Becher is first and foremost a human who has been both fortunate enough and also sufficiently humbled by her life experience thus far to know that her primary mission is to live in the truest possible expression of herself and in robust gratitude for what is available in every moment, and to help others do the same. 

 

In her professional life, she is now a Master Coach who specializes in personal and relational transformation.  She invites her clients to see her as a loving big sister who will always see the best in you, who fervently wants more for you, and who won’t let you get away with the same old crap.  She sees her transition to helping couples use their relationships with each other as a crucible for personal growth in a way they never realized possible as the gateway to the most rewarding work she’s ever done.  

 

Elise is also a sexuality educator, a democratic parenting advocate and a pediatrician. She holds coaching certifications from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Co-Active Training Institute, the Relationship School (TRS), and the Elementum Coaching Institute, where she was certified as a Master Coach for the first time and is now a faculty member.

You can learn more about Elise’s work at EliseBecher.com.

An Exploration of SELF: A Conversation With Joy Caffrey

An energy medicine practitioner and workshop leader for over 30 years, Joy moves her program participants into their own brilliance with ease, humour, and insight. Her students consistently feel inspired, motivated, and fully empowered to engage in their personal and professional lives with greater ease and self-confidence.

 

Over the years Joy has cultivated her intuitive healing abilities, developing a distinctive energy medicine practice individualized to each client’s needs. You may benefit from chakra balancing, tonal sounding, and yoga techniques, as well as reflective listening, reframing, and other coaching approaches. Her compassionate presence lends a natural grace and flow to her organic healing style.

 

Mother of three adult children, she resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with her husband, Tim.

 

Joy offers virtual and in-person 1-1 coaching, and you should email myjoymatters@gmail.com for further details.

 

Joy has also created a fantastic set of Joyful Healing Clarity cards, a four-deck card collection promoting clarity, fostering communication, diminishing anxiety, and increasing empowerment. 

 

Click here for further details on buying them and watching a tutorial on how to use them.

 

 

 

If you would like to work with Lee Davy or join the STRIVE community, then email thestrivemethod@gmail.com.

Grief in Relationships: A Conversation With Lisa Dinhofer

Grief is a natural human emotion and one we often repress culturally and societally because we don’t know how to talk to each other about it or ask for help. 

 

We all know how to grieve and mourn.

 

It’s within us all.

 

And that’s why this episode is so important.

 

Many of us will turn to alcohol or other unhealthy substances and behaviours to deal with these feelings, and there is another way. 

 

This episode is for you, whether you are currently facing the spectre of loss or have experienced loss through losing loved ones or animals, divorce, or even ending your relationship with alcohol.

 

Lisa Dinhofer, MA, CT, is known as 'The Crisis Tamer', working with subject matter and circumstances most people turn away from. She mentors companies through traumatic and destabilizing events, workplace abuse and crisis communications to regain stability, establish a new normal and build resilience. She draws from those first-hand experiences of trauma in the workplace and lessons learned from other workplace tragedies. Lisa was an employee at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing and was still working in NYC during 9/11.

 

Lisa is a certified Thanatologist with a sub-speciality in trauma, trained counsellor, trained mediator and crisis communication specialist with 18+ years of professional experience training, consulting, coaching, debriefing and public speaking. 

 

She is frequently called upon for debriefing and strategic advisement following emergent workplace events such as employee death. For the last year, Lisa has been a sought after consultant and facilitator in response to COVID-19 and other simultaneous stressors on organizational life.

You can find more about Lisa’s work here.

 

 

You can learn more about Lee’s work here.

 

Relationship Longevity and Rebirth: A Conversation With Kathlyn Hendricks

Kathlyn Hendricks is the Chief Creative Officer, Director of Training at The Hendricks Institute. Kathlyn is an evolutionary catalyst, contextual disruptor and freelance mentor who has been a pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving for fifty years.

 

Katie has authored or co-authored more than 40 books and counts an appearance on Oprah in her back catalogue of interview experiences.

 

I’m no Oprah, but we were born on the same day.

 

I am currently reading Conscious Loving Ever After and enjoying it.

 

Katie and her husband Gay are rolling out ‘The Playground’ a monthly 90-minute zoom event exploring the frontiers of relationships. You can find more information at www.hendricks.com.

 

If you want to learn more about Lee Davy and STRIVE then head to www.1000dayssober.com

A Relationship With Nature: A Conversation With Darren Silver

We celebrate Relationship Month at STRIVE with a look at our often overlooked relationship with nature.

 

Darren Silver, MA, is a rite of passage guide, Nature-Connected Coach, ceremonialist, and innovative educator. He has over a decade of experience working with ritual, wilderness living skills, and guiding transformational experiences residentially and internationally. A gifted storyteller and apprentice to the old myths, Darren weaves the power of the natural world, vision, and community in devotion to the remembrance of regenerative culture. 

 

In this podcast we discuss:

 

- The importance of our relationship with nature

- The difference between vision and dreams

- Father and son relationships

- Ritualisation and Pseudo-Ritualisation

 

And much more.

 

You can learn more about Darren’s work by following him on Instagram (@ds.silver) and on his website.

 

You can learn more about Lee’s work at 1000DaysSober.com.

 

If you want to join STRIVE for Relationships Month, contact Lee at TheStriveMethod@Gmail.com for further details.

 

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Helping Women Access Authenticity, Expression & Freedom: A Conversation With Andrea Tessier

Andrea Tessier is a Personal Freedom Coach and Elementum Certified Master Life Coach committed to supporting women to access more authenticity, self-expression, and freedom in their lives. She left a successful teaching career at 39 to pursue a life she truly felt passionate about. It didn't come easy. It took a journey of looking inwards, self-discovery, and re-remembering and unlearning to allow herself to create the life of her dreams.

 

Andrea now supports women in answering big questions on their journey like, “Who am I?” “What do I really desire?” and “What am I meant to do, and how do I get there in a way that feels true to ME?”

 

She is passionate about helping others move from stuck and stressed to intentional and free with her vast toolbox that encompasses the body, mind, and spirit.

Links

Andrea's Website

Andrea's Instagram

 

Andrea's Facebook

Andrea's Personal Freedom Starter Kit

Get Ready For The STRIVE Method Book!

A podcast episode celebrating and raising awareness of my new book The STRIVE Method: Control Alcohol For 30-Days, So It Doesn't Control You For The Next 30-Years.

 

 

The 5 Personality Patterns: A Conversation With Steven Kessler

Steven Kessler has been studying people his whole life. For over 30 years, he's been a licensed psychotherapist, studying many different healing modalities and maps of personality, including Character Structure, the Enneagram, NLP, energy work, Thought Field Therapy, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques).

 

Steven has spent many years studying the evolution of human consciousness. For over 30 years, he has pursued various spiritual and meditation practices, including 16 years in the Diamond Heart meditation school.

 

Since 1984 Steven has taught hundreds of groups and workshops in the US and internationally, helping men and women heal their wounds and grow into their full adult selves. From 2006 to 2010, Steven left his private practice for 2-3 months a year to work on US military bases both in North America and overseas, helping the soldiers and their families heal the wounds of war.

 

His bestselling book, The 5 Personality Patterns, deepens the insights of character structure and, for the first time, presents its map of the human personality to the general public. Many people claim that reading it has been a life-changing experience, which has enabled them to finally understand both themselves and others.

 

To learn more about Steven’s work.