Aging Flipped with Debi Talbert

In this episode of the Exit the Drinking Life podcast, I’m joined by Pam McRae, who shares her EXIT story and her struggles with sobriety during times of high stress. We dive into the topic of staying sober over the holidays and how to deal with grief in relation to your EXIT during this time of year.

While this season is typically accompanied by some challenges for those dealing with substance addiction and grief, there are ways to make it more manageable and even enjoyable. Most of them revolve around a key shift in mindset.

Some topics we cover are:

• Pam’s EXIT Story
• Collecting Data on How Your Sober Life Makes You Feel
• How You Can Stay Sober During the Holidays
• How Grief Relates to Your EXIT and the Holidays

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode, please take a second to hit the follow button so you never miss a future episode, and leave a review to help me reach more listeners just like you looking to break away from the toxic cycles of drinking and discover a healthier approach that leads to a life full of abundance and happiness.

If you want to take what you’ve learned here to the next level, head over to jumpseatcoaching.com for more resources and tools. See you back here in the next episode!

CONNECT WITH DEBI

Official Website: https://www.jumpseatcoaching.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/debitalbert

Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/@debitalbert

CONNECT WITH PAM

Official Website: https://www.forwardfreedom.one

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In this special episode of EXIT the drinking life, I talk with Pam Price, who has found her own EXIT out of the drinking life and has transformed her life into living purposefully as an alcohol coach and yoga instructor. We discuss how your mindset is tricking you into believing it’s impossible to let go of alcohol and what you can do to change that.

Some of the topics we cover are:

• Pam’s journey to transforming her life
• Losing the word “forever” in your vocabulary
• Accepting that failure is a part of the process
• Reframing your mindset to transform your life

Together, we talk about Pam’s key “oxygen mask tactics” she used to help her finally leave the drinking life behind. It truly does feel impossible to get out when you’re stuck in that cycle. But, we’re here to help shed light and hope that it is possible for you to change.

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode, please take a second to hit the follow button so you never miss a future episode, and leave a review to help me reach more listeners just like you looking to break away from the toxic cycles of drinking and discover a healthier approach that leads to a life full of abundance and happiness.

If you want to take what you’ve learned here to the next level, head over to jumpseatcoaching.com for more resources and tools. See you back here in the next episode!

CONNECT WITH DEBI

Official Website: https://www.jumpseatcoaching.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/debitalbert

Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/@debitalbert

Ready to create a better future, transform your relationship with yourself, and EXIT the drinking life with confidence? Join the six-week Alcohol Interruption Workshop today: https://www.jumpseatcoaching.com/freedom

CONNECT WITH PAM

Website: https://www.truebluesoul.com

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WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER:

• The #1 skill I use to get and remain alcohol free for over 4 years.
• How to point your brain in the direction you'd like to go
• The power of unconsciously thought patterns and how to change them.
• Questions you can ask yourself
  

MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:
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EXIT & Beyond Life Coaching Membership

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In this episode, we'll dive deep into the idea of necessary darkness and crossing the river of misery. We're going to be uncomfortable on this journey of life and transforming our relationship with alcohol, no matter what we do.
We get to choose whether we want the discomfort of staying the same, or the discomfort of transformation.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The one skill that we need to exit the drinking life.
• Why drinking less is simple, but not easy.
• How our thinking about the process gets us into trouble when things get difficult.
• What the river of misery is and what's on the other side of it.
• Why we need to choose between the misery of now and the misery of growth.

The poem referenced in the Episode
To love ourselves long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the person we used to be. The person we are too exhausted to be any longer. The person we don’t recognize inside ourselves anymore. The person we grew out of. The person we never ended up growing into. We so badly want ourselves to get our spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when we are lost. But it is not our job to hold ourselves accountable to the person we used to be. It’s our job to travel between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.

To celebrate (the 25th Episode and beyond), I’m giving away a few things I can’t live without to some lucky listeners: $50 Amazon gift cards, and a brand-new pair of AirPods.
Here’s what you want to do right now to sign up for your weekly, bite-sized coaching from Exit The Drinking Life:

Subscribing in Apple Podcasts

Step 1
To subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Click here to visit the Exit The Drinking Life Apple Podcast Webpage - it will open in a new tab so these instructions will be accessible to you on the other tab.
Then click on the “Listen on Apple Podcasts” button. This will launch Apple Podcasts on your computer and bring up the podcast.

Step 2

Click on the “Subscribe” button and you’re all set!

You can also listen to the podcast via Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Step 3 - Review the Podcast is necessary for you to then enter to Win!

I’ll be giving away $50 Amazon gift card and a pair of Apple AirPods to a couple of lucky listeners who review the podcast in Apple Podcasts.

How to Enter: Once you’ve listened to an episode or two, click on the “Ratings and Reviews” link on the Exit The Drinking Life in Apple Podcasts to leave a review.

Any review qualifies you to win: I want you to be honest, tell me what you think, and how I can help you better.

Unfortunately, Apple Podcasts doesn’t release contact information for reviewers so please email me at [email protected] with the title of your review for your official entry.

You can also screen shot your review and email it to me to qualify.

Thanks for listening!

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It takes time and patience to really do this work. The space between awareness you are indeed drinking too much alcohol for your life and figuring out how to make alcohol small and irrelevant in your life requires the skills of delaying gratification, leaning into discomfort, being OK with trying new things, and be ok with going against the grain.
In order to navigate all the way to success, the journey requires resilience.

IN TODAY’S EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

• How to apply EXIT to help make the navigation less messy
• Why more than 1 compelling reason is necessary
• A simple process to create as many compelling reasons as you need.

FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:

The 2021 Annual Gift
Podcast review giveaway

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