Empowered Sobriety

Empowered Sobriety

Empowered Sobriety is a weekly podcast for all stages of sobriety and open to all addictions. Lindsay Fano and Abby Gerber are trauma informed Life Coaches who are empowering individuals to look deeply into their addictions through the lens of compassion, love and freedom. Empowered Sobriety will also feature special guests and on air coaching for those who need support!

Episodes

October 25, 2023 21 mins

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 a...

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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 b...

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October 11, 2023 46 mins

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 &q...

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Welcome back, Empowered Sobriety Community.  This podcast is part 2 to last week’s episode with our dear friend, Tami.  Last week, she spoke about growing up in addiction and how it felt to be married to an addict.  She eventually helps and supports his sobriety to this day and all of the wonderful gifts that came out of his powerful decision to get sober.  On today’s podcast, she continues to share about what she observes from his...

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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!  

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03:05 What is was like growing up in addiction for ...

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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.


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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 Linds...

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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.

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02:24 Shane’s life spiraled out of control with his alcohol addiction and how he carved his own p...

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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?


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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 g...

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August 30, 2023 35 mins

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 ...

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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. ...

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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 an...

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On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast, Lindsay and Abby welcome fellow Coach Sam Gibbs Morris! Sam shares his journey to becoming 11 years removed from destructive behaviors involving alcohol and cocaine, how psychedelics were a huge contributor to his growth and healing, and what is happening in his life today! Sam is a men's embodiment coach, breath work facilitator and psychedelic facilitator. This episode is p...

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August 2, 2023 31 mins

Abby is a few days post Ayahuasca ceremony and she shares a few key aspects of her download from the powerful Peruvian medicine.


00:00 Intro

04:55 Abby shares how deeply humbled she was by the medicine and how her world-view was challenged by the medicine

09:02 Ayahuasca helped her expand her release judgments and limiting beliefs so she can expand her consciousness in order to see things from all sides

10:50 How strong the pu...

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Welcome Back to Empowered Sobriety! Lindsay and Abby have some insight to share this week with you!


  • On this weeks Episode of Empowered Sobriety Lindsay shares about a sober event she attended with her new sober women’s group. She went to a dance party in San Francisco and her intention for the day was magnetism and living in it. So many amazing reflections in her share!
  • Abby tells us about her up and coming ...
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July 19, 2023 40 mins

Welcome back to Empowered Sobriety Podcast! Lindsay and Abby download their insights around grief and why grief work is so important in sobriety. Stuck grief in our bodies may show up as various ailments and may even by covered up by other feelings. Tune in as they share their own experiences with grief and how grief wants to move.


00:00 Intro

03:02 Grieve work is important to those new in recovery and new to sobriety

04:19 Ab...

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July 12, 2023 42 mins
Hello, Empowered Sobriety Community! We are back with you this week with another powerful episode and this topic crosses many of our lives, whether you are sober or not.  Feeling “stuck” is a topic that we both see in so many personal development and self help areas.  Hopefully this episode sheds some light for you on what exactly feeling “stuck” means and how to move through it. 00:00 Introduction 03:24 How Abby looks at feeling s...
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2:32 Abby opens us up with how she got to her own understanding of a conscious relationship, beginning with the question, "what do you want?" She takes us through her list of non-negotiables.

5:37 Lindsay acknowledges a BIG fear around dating, and shares with us her intention going into the first date.

6:29 Abby continues with her list of non-negotiables

10:38 Lindsay shares her non-negotiables with us and spea...

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00:00 Intro

02:30 How it was challenging and scary for Lindsay to be the sober one in her partnership

06:37 Lindsay takes us through what she noticed was starting to change in her relationship with her partner who was still drinking

11:53 Looking back, would Lindsay have changed anything in how she showed up in her sobriety and in her relationship with her partner?

13:25 What is regret?

14:50  Lindsay breaks down the clarity that s...

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On this weeks episode of Empowered Sobriety Podcast Lindsay and Abby discuss the importance of community in sobriety!

  • Abby and Lindsay begin by sharing their friendships and community they had during active addiction and how it transitioned once they became sober. Abby shares about flying solo in the beginning stages of her sobriety and the challenges that came along with that. What she was turned off by in the sober communi...
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June 14, 2023 33 mins

Hello, Empowered Sobriety Podcast Community! Lindsay and I are super excited to share with you our full experience and takeaways from the very powerful coaching program that we completed last year. Elementum Coaching Institute is where Lindsay and I met and the coaching program is now enrolling for their September cohort!


Elementum Coaching Institute is the premier coaching AND transformational program for personal development...

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