The Truth About Alcohol (Why Quitting Feels So Hard)

Episode #105: Strive Member James on Refusing to be Beaten

James has been a member of the Strive community since July of this year. When he first arrived, he was like everyone else, lost, confused, but with an urge to quit. James knew that for his life to get back on track, he needed to find his authentic self, and alcohol was obscuring that possibility. At his lowest point, James changed, and although it's very early days in his sobriety, he wants to help other people quit while striving towards his new fitness goals. The progress I have seen with James is remarkable. I hope by listening to him talk about his experience that you will also find the courage to join the Strive Community Forum and quit alcohol as James has. Podcast Takeaways David Goggins The Truth About Alcohol Online Training Course I have created a three-month online training course that helps people quit alcohol. It consists of over 100+ online videos, no longer than ten minutes, and takes place in a group setting with four courses running per year. The course costs £400, but I have found a donor willing to buy 20-courses so that I can give them away for free. The first session begins Oct 1 and runs through to the end of the year. The ten participants are already locked down and are all current Strive members. There are ten places up for grabs for the Jan 2018 course, but you have to join Strive forum so we can get to know each other a little better. I will only be providing slots to people who I believe are going to work their ass off trying to quit alcohol. People owe this to themselves, the group, and the donor. If we can show the donor that people take this course seriously, and the results are positive, then hopefully, we can secure more funding for more free courses. If you don't want to wait until January and want to join the October 1 course, then the fee will be £400. If you want to take the course but don't want to be a Strive member, then the course will cost £400. Email me at needyhelper@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Episode #104: Debra Joy on Managing Change

Debra Joy is a Life Coach and author of The Power of Pleasure. She has been helping people achieve success in their careers, satisfaction in their relationships, and peace in their bodies for over a decade. Debra combines experience from her award-winning career in socially responsible business and Masters in Leadership, with techniques from yoga, tantra, Continuum™ & Somatic Experiencing™, to offer a uniquely effective blend of business brains and body wisdom to her clients. During this podcast, we talk about Debra's move from the stereotypical corporate rat race to a peaceful island life, and the move back again. We talk about her battle with Celiac disease, and we also share our experiences with divorce. If you have any questions for Debra, leave them in the appropriate comments box, depending on where you listen or email me at needyhelper@gmail.com. Podcast Takeaways Debra Joy website - https://debrajoy.me/ Debra Joy Twitter - https://twitter.com/withdebrajoy Debra Joy Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/withdebrajoy/ Debra is also giving Alcohol & Addiction Podcast listeners $5 off her book The Power of Pleasure. To take advantage of this gift then head to her website, order the book, using the coupon code: Strive. The Truth About Alcohol Online Training Course I have created a three-month online training course that helps people quit alcohol. It consists of over 100+ online videos, no longer than ten minutes, and takes place in a group setting with four courses running per year. The course costs £400, but I have found a donor willing to buy 20-courses so that I can give them away for free. The first session begins Oct 1 and runs through to the end of the year. The ten participants are already locked down and are all current Strive members. There are ten places up for grabs for the Jan 2018 course, but you have to join Strive forum so we can get to know each other a little better. I will only be providing slots to people who I believe are going to work their ass off trying to quit alcohol. People owe this to themselves, the group, and the donor. If we can show the donor that people take this course seriously, and the results are positive, then hopefully, we can secure more funding for more free courses. If you don't want to wait until January and want to join the October 1 course, then the fee will be £400. If you want to take the course but don't want to be a Strive member, then the course will cost £400. Email me at needyhelper@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Episode #103: Jolene Parks on Editing Our Drinking, What we Eat and Why?

Jolene Parks Editing Our Drinking, What we Eat and Why? Jolene Park is a functional nutritionist, health coach and trauma informed yoga instructor. She works with business professionals who struggle with anxiety, compassion fatigue and the grey area of drinking. Jolene is the co-host of “Editing Our Drinking & Our Lives” podcast — an honest conversation about breaking the stigma and shame around quitting drinking. Jolene provides an inspirational, empowering way for people to come together and be part of a revolutionary health movement that reclaims their body, mind and spirit. Through her company Healthy Discoveries — a corporate wellness training and consulting company, Jolene also helps purpose driven companies and business professionals break through barriers and create healthier work environments and daily routines. In this episode, we touch upon the brain chemistry of addiction, the alcoholic spectrum, blue zones, the importance of yoga, and a good old fashioned chinwag on the effect that neurotransmitters have on our cravings. If you have any questions for Jolene, leave them in the appropriate comments box, depending on where you listen, or email me at needyhelper@gmail.com. Podcast Takeaways Contact Info: Craving Brain Coaching http://www.healthydiscoveries.com/coaching/ Healthy Discoveries Website http://www.healthydiscoveries.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/healthy_discoveries/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HealthyDiscoveriesWithJolenePark/ Twitter https://twitter.com/JolenePark Editing Our Drinking & Our Lives Podcast. Blue Zone book - http://amzn.to/2gCyo2l Your Money or Your Life - http://amzn.to/2gCnZUk Eric Braverman - http://amzn.to/2xMAogm Alpha Stem Gabor Mate Peter Levine

Ep 102: Karla Maree on Nutrition and Alcohol

In this episode I talk to Karla Maree, a functional diagnostic nutritionist and health coach who specializes in healing the body, restoring happy moods, and guiding clients into continuing sobriety. She is a certified nutritionist and certified neuronutrient therapy specialist. Her fifteen years of practice has a special emphasis on correcting the brain’s neurotransmitter functioning. She is actively involved in both clinical and private client work, as well as teaching holistic brain-chemistry recovery to health professionals worldwide. She champions a formula for rejuvenating health and mood by focusing on key areas such as nutrient deficiencies and dietary imbalances as well as identifying and eliminating the instigators behind cravings, exhaustion, stress, dysbiosis, stress and sex-hormone dysregulation, and insomnia. Using targeted amino acids, she has been enormously successful in eradicating all cravings, which ultimately sabotage so many attempts at sobriety. She is a firm believer in simplifying nutrition and uprooting destructive health myths. Karla uses specialized testing to identify specific causes of exhaustion, insomnia, GI health, and many others, and uses her extensive knowledge of these difficult and often debilitating issues to design custom protocols to help guide clients back to vibrant wellness. In this episode, we talk about brain chemistry, homeostasis, candida, the link between the gut and the brain, sugar, and of course how all of this is linked to alcohol. Podcast Takeaways To work with Karla on a one-to-one basis: karlasnutrition@gmail.com Karla’s website: https://karlamaree.com/ Karla Maree on Allison Micco’s Don’t Freak Out Podcast (3 episodes): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-freak-out-an-anxiety-podcast-with-allison-micco/id1219287629?mt=2 The Alcohol Monologues: https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/8oWYwuJY If you are interested in taking the free Truth About Alcohol three-month course then email me at needyhelper@gmail.com Listen to this episode on: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-alcohol-addiction-podcast/id1101562756?mt=2 Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/needy-helper/the-alcohol-addiction-podcast Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/needy-helper/ep-100-lee-monks-on-alcohol-lies-marketing-propaganda Or just keep your ass right here. It would be sweet if you could find the time to rate and review the podcast. The Truth About Alcohol We Are Not Alcoholics And we Refuse to be Anonymous How We Quit Alcohol We serve and share at The Strive Community Forum - http://strive.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/ We listen to The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast & Alcohol Monologues: https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/pages/podcasts We educate ourselves at The Truth About Alcohol: Helping You Quit & Finding Meaning & Purpose Through The Art of Story :https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/Bio9LBm4 :https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/4z9LWFBH

Ep 101: Lee Davy on Quitting Your Job

In this episode, Lee Davy goes solo, talking about the important role that quitting his job took in his sobriety (This is an audio only podcast episode). Listen to this episode on: iTunes Stitcher Radio Soundcloud Or just keep your ass right here. It would be sweet if you could find the time to rate and review the podcast. The Truth About Alcohol We Are Not Alcoholics And we Refuse to be Anonymous How We Quit Alcohol We serve and share at The Strive Community Forum - http://strive.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/ We listen to The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast & Alcohol Monologues - https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/8oWYwuJY We educate ourselves at The Truth About Alcohol: Helping You Quit & Finding Meaning & Purpose Through The Art of Story - https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/Bio9LBm4 -https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/4z9LWFBH

Ep 100: Lee Monks on Alcohol Lies, Marketing & Propaganda

Lee Monks is a writer from Derbyshire, in the UK, and a member of the Strive Community Forum. Lee comes from an extended family to whom drinking is like breathing. He came on the show to talk about the disturbing way that the normality of consuming a potent poison is marketing, in order to keep people like himself an addict. As Lee continues to lead a sober life, he notices the ease by which millions are marshalled by lies and propaganda that suggest drinking is nothing but fun, is normal, is the English way of life, is what all the cool kids are doing at a non-existent 24/7 party, and that to not drink is in some way a betrayal of an admirable national characteristic. Listen to this episode on: iTunes Stitcher Radio Soundcloud Or just keep your ass right here. The Truth About Alcohol We Are Not Alcoholics And we Refuse to be Anonymous Show Notes The World Transformation Movement - https://www.humancondition.com/ Olivia Laing: The Trip to Echo Spring - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847677959?ie=UTF8 Stephen King: On Writing - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003BVFZ4Q?ie=UTF8 How to Beat Resistance Alcohol Musings-https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/blog The Strive Community Forum-https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/pages/forum The Alcohol Monologues-https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/8oWYwuJY The Truth About Alcohol Course: How to Quit-https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/BWFiFfrg DISCLAIMER: PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY: This is not medical advice, and if you believe you require such advice, please seek immediate help from a medical professional. I am not a doctor or a medical practitioner. If you want to quit drinking and are worried about doing so, then in all cases you should first contact your doctor and seek advice and assistance. These are the tools that worked for me, and I share them with you as a learning tool. If you have sought or seek medical advice and or attention and any of these tools are in conflict with that advice or assistance, please do not use these tools. I take no responsibility for the continued use of these tools in contravention of any medical advice or assistance you have sought.

Ep 99: Jill Levitt on The Five Secrets of Effective Communication

Welcome to Episode 99 of the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast the show designed to expose the truth about alcoholism, raise awareness of the truth, and discover freedom through quitting. This week my guest is Dr Jill Levitt - a licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Director of Training at the Feeling Good Institute in Mountain View, CA. Dr Levitt has almost 20 years of experience conducting Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and has been trained by some of the world's leaders in CBT. She has co-written several scholarly articles in the areas of OCD, PTSD and Panic Disorder. Most recently she has been co-teaching CBT with Dr David Burns at the Stanford University School of Medicine in her role on the Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She also trains other therapists in David Burns' model of CBT called TEAM-CBT Therapy. She is a certified Level 5 Master Therapist and Trainer in TEAM-CBT Therapy. Dr Levitt teaches both in-person and online workshops for Feeling Good Institute on CBT methods, reducing resistance in psychotherapy, and improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy. In this episode, Jill and I talk about the difficulties that arise when one person in a relationship quits alcohol, and the other doesn’t. We cover the Five Secrets of Effective Communication, what ‘winning’ looks like in a conflict situation, and much more. Podcast Takeaways Jill Levitt website http://www.sfbayareatherapy.com/ The Feeling Good Institute http://www.feelinggoodinstitute.com/ The Five Secrets of Effective Communication http://helpingmarriageswork.com/docs/resources/the-five-secrets-of-effective-communication.pdf?sfvrsn=3 The Trifecta Listen to the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/alcohol-addiction-podcast/id1101562756?mt=2 Join The Strive Community Forum -https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/store/YufN6dJa Sign up for the Online Training Course at needyhelper@gmail.com

Ep 98: Laura McKowen sharing her insights after 1,000 days sober

Laura McKowen sharing her insights after 1,000 days sober Welcome to Episode 98 of the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast the show designed to expose the truth about alcoholism, raises awareness of that truth, both internally, and externally, and find freedom through quitting. This week my guest is Laura McKowen. Laura is a writer, yoga teacher, speaker and recovery advocate. She writes an internationally recognised, award-winning blog at LauraMcKowen.com and is the co-host of HOME podcast, a show that takes up the big questions of life through the lens of addiction recovery. Laura lives with her daughter on the North shore of Boston and is currently writing her first book, a memoir. In this episode, Laura and I talk about her first 1,000 days of sobriety diluted into five powerful and poignant talking points: 1. Nothing is Wasted 2. Don’t Make Anyone Your God 3. You Will Change 4. You Don’t Need to Ask Permission 5. We Are Still The Luckiest Podcast Takeaways Laura McKowen website- http://www.lauramckowen.com/ Laura McKowen Twitter- https://twitter.com/lauramckowen Laura McKowen Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/laura_mckowen/ Laura McKowen Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/iflyatnight HOME Podcast- http://www.homepodcast.org/ Laura McKowen Medium- https://medium.com/lauramckowen The Vow (Written)- http://www.needyhelper.com/the-vow/ The Vow (Audio)- https://soundcloud.com/needy-helper/the-alcohol-addiction-podcast-the-vow The Tipping Point- http://www.lauramckowen.com/blog/tipping

Episode #97: The Festival

Welcome to Episode 97 of the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast the show designed to expose the truth about alcoholism, raise awareness of that truth and then help people find freedom through a deeper meaningful connection to life. As I wait for our next raft of guests to kick in, I once again fly solo this time talking about an experience I had at a recent arts festival. Listen to what I have to say, and then email me at needyhelper@gmail.com with your thoughts and feelings on the subject. I am also interested in your views on these solo episodes. Do they provide value? Let me know your thoughts. Here is the link to the Strive Community Forum – https://needyhelper.mykajabi.com/ Here is the link to iTunes so you can leave me a review - http://www.needyhelper.com/how-to-submit-an-itunes-podcast-review/ Remember, we are not alcoholics, and we refuse to be anonymous. Thanks for listening.

Episode #96: The Truth about Alcohol Q & A

Welcome to Episode 96 of the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast the show designed to expose the truth about alcoholism, and raise awareness so people can quit and find freedom. Last week, I spoke about the Truth About Alcohol rebrand, and my new direction based on the philosophy that Alcoholism is an invisible, violent, and dominant belief system. Since that episode aired, I have received a few emails questioning my view, and so I wanted to share those thoughts with you, along with my counter thoughts. I believe this will help you understand my philosophy a lot clearer after this episode. If you have any questions, email me on needyhelper@gmail.com Strive Community Forum - https://needyhelper.mykajabi.com/ How to rate and review the AA Podcast on iTunes http://www.needyhelper.com/how-to-submit-an-itunes-podcast-review/ Remember, we are not alcoholics, and we refuse to be anonymous.