Alcohol Freedom Finders

This week we are joined by a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which is definitely a first for us. Dr. Michelle Lynch is an expert in the field of sustainability, and while her work focuses her attention on experimental research to improve the future for us all, it was when she put her own life under the microscope and applied the same curiosity and experimentation to her relationship with alcohol,  that she improved the fu...

This week we're joined by our friend Courtney, who was an average middle lane drinker, when she began to question whether alcohol was still serving her.? As many of you may be now... She began to realise it didn't fit with her otherwise healthy lifestyle and started to google the usual questions…

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This week we talk to Caroline Sherlock a Nutritional Therapist, a Functional Medicine Practitioner, and a lecturer on genetics and nutrigenomics So Caroline ( as Liam Neeson once said) has very particular set of skills acquired over a long career and it was actually this that made her own drinking feel progressively out of allignment with who she was professionally as well as who she wanted to be as a mother. Her particular set of ...

This week we talk to Cari Wolters from Michigan. Cari now is a seasoned coach helping high achieving women but she takes us back to 2020 when she was deep in the struggle of drinking every night and hangovers anxiety every day. With her relationships strained and self doubt about the kind of mother she was to her young kids, she used curiosity to find her way out - lets jump in and find out how!

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This week we speak to the amazing Tony Will, who joined us in the same week that her TED Talk went live! Tony is a trailblazer and a disruptor who has broken many glass ceilings for herself and for women in general. Speaking of general, she is the general manager and governor, uh, of the Kalamazoo Wings, a men's professional ice hockey team in Michigan. 
A world dominated by men and steeped in drinking culture. So how did ...

In this episode we meet Jeannette Levitt whose drinking became a problem in the aftermath of a painful divorce. On reentering the dating world she thought that drinking alcohol was the only way to appear confident, and sexy but when she found alcohol freedom herself, she realised she’d been wrong and as she puts it - there is actually nothing confident or sexy about being sloppy drunk. She’s now a coach who specializes in helping t...

 In this episode, we meet coach Kate Nichols, a Brit living in Canada,  who before finding freedom from alcohol and becoming a coach herself, saw herself as a happy social drinker.  But that was before a family intervention during COVID lockdown made us see that swigging wine from a, from secretly stashed bottles in the closet wasn't quite as innocent as she'd been trying to make out to herself.

Although the idea...

In this episode, we talk to our friend Michelle, whose entire social life revolved around alcohol, which I think most of us can relate to.  So, when she decided to make a change, she didn't know how to tell her friends, or even her close family.  She was wracked with shame, and petrified of what people might think.
Severe judgment of ourselves and underestimating the kindness and forgiveness and love of those around us see...

 In this episode, we talk to Amanda Foster from Zero Fierce, a digital marketing expert who's also a fellow This Naked Mind alcohol freedom coach, like Justine and myself. 
As you'll hear, Amanda is also an expert in grief and has written a fantastic book called Spirits and Sorrow that brilliantly and autobiographically takes our culture's understandable instinct to numb grief with alcohol and compares it to the ...

 In this episode, we meet Judi who in her youth used weed, cocaine, amphetamines, uppers, downers, you name it. She took them all. But age 23 when the fun stopped, she quit them all without much effort. All that is except alcohol. She describes alcohol as her demon.  Her story will knock your socks off.

And if you're thinking demons require exorcism, priests, and God, you won't be disappointed. This is a story li...

 In this episode, we catch up with Ayshea, an alumni of our first Alcohol Freedom Finders 30 day program.  Aisha is a fantastic advert for our program's potential, because like so many people before she gave it a go She had never even considered a life without alcohol.

Drinking had been part of her life for years and felt central to her friendships and had never been problematic. She just thought a Dry January support...

 In this episode, Margie tells us about the emotional moment she went from feeling alone and too old to change to finding a coach who gave her the belief that she actually could change. She felt firsthand the power of having a coach to guide you who's been in your shoes, faced what you're facing and found their own way to freedom.  She now helps others find their way with our own successful coaching business

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In this episode, you'll meet Martha, whose life as an on call midwife kept her drinking under control. But when she retired, those guardrails evaporated. And when COVID lockdown hit, like so many other people, she found herself drinking more than she'd ever wanted to.  Fed up with the cycle of frustration and shame, her journey to alcohol freedom began with an Instagram post about the science led, compassionate approach o...

In this episode, we meet with Mark Wong, the founder of the Impossibrew Alcohol Free Brewing Company, who you may recognize from his appearance on Dragon's Den. , after hearing he had a liver condition that meant he could no longer drink alcohol, this beer loving Durham University philosophy student was so unimpressed with the lack of buzz he got from the alcohol free beers on the market that he set out to create his own alcoh...

 In this episode, we meet with Jessie from Boston, a trained sommelier and hard liquor aficionado who describes her family as having many generations of alcohol dependence.  We'll hear how she herself has had to come to terms with both ADHD and autism, as well as childhood trauma. 

That trauma was triggered again during the COVID pandemic, where her alcohol use came to a head.  Working 14 hour days in an essential ser...

After a career in advertising for big alcohol, our guest, Adam Murphy, blows the whistle on his former employers, comparing their methods for selling a known cancer causing agent to those of big tobacco. He describes how governments are powerless because they're also invested in the success of our alcohol companies.

They sell a product they know kills consumers and we, the consumers are auto enrolled into a drinking c...

In this episode, we meet with Maria, whose husband's sudden death left her fending for herself and her young children. Like so many others in her situation, she tried to deal with her pain and sorrow by drinking. But she was able to hold things together for the sake of her kids.

Although 15 years later, she's still haunted by one particular heart breaking occasion when her drinking meant that she let one of her d...

In this episode, you'll hear about Stacey's many attempts to find alcohol freedom. Stints in rehab, trips to the ER, months of  AA meetings, and a lonely Mother's Day weekend drinking champagne that left her fighting for her life.  But then how it was a book that finally helped her become an alcohol freedom finder.

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In this episode, you'll hear how Justin and Barry, 2 normal middle of the road drinkers found their freedom from alcohol. They also discuss how the perceived benefits of alcohol are illusions,  how alcohol is the problem and not you. And how life can be a bit like the Truman show!

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