Sober Soul Recovery

Lynn shares the role of spirituality and higher beliefs in regaining a sense of self compassion and connection. 

Getting started or getting unstuck, these 5 simple rules will help. There are five simple rules that cover most of what you need to do in recovery. If you are ever in doubt of what to do, or if you are on the right track, ask yourself if you are following these five simple rules.

We know how transformative self-compassion can be, especially when it comes to healing shame. When you are deeply rooted in shame, it is difficult to focus on what to do to get out of it.  Learn a few skills in today's episode including a 5 Step process from nicabm.

Lynn talks about how she is coping with these feelings as Covid continues to alter our lives and uncertainty becomes the norm. 

Lynn shares her thoughts and lessons from 10 Years of Sobriety and 12 years of Recovery. 

Lynn talks about her own feelings as Covid 19 continues and how to find calm in a time of chaos and disconnection. 

One of the biggest obstacles out there on our paths to wholeness is judgmentalism. Why is it an obstacle? When we are unaware of our judgmental tendencies, we become angry, hateful, defensive, anxious, and isolated. As you can imagine, such a trait not only alienates us from others, but also from our very own soulful selves.

Learn strategies for overcoming them! Resentment is closely related to anger. Resentments are negative feelings, basically ill will, toward someone or something that emanates from the past. Resentment is the re-experiencing of past injustices — real or perceived — and the old feelings of anger connected to them. Resentments form when people get angry toward a person, institution, or situation, and steadfastly hold on to that anger.

So many us have learned the hard way with staying at home during the last few months that we are not good at not keeping busy.  In this episode Lynn explores the cause of much of our busyness and how we can get more comfortable with slowing down to live more.

Lynn reads two of Maya Angelou's most famous poems as a means to learn to sit with others pain and feel your own emotions about race and racial unrest. 

A research professor at the University of Houston, Brown has spent much of her career studying shame, guilt, empathy, vulnerability, courage and how they affect the way we show up in our daily lives, and most recently, how they affect leadership. According to Brené Brown, a researcher at the University of Houston, shame is an “intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”  It’s an emotion that affects all of us and profoundly shapes the way we interact in the world. But, depending on how we deal with it, shame can either shut us down or lead us to a new sense of bravery and authenticity.

This is the time for difficult conversations. Most everyone dreads the difficult, challenging conversation. This includes conversations in which we have to deliver unpleasant news, discuss a delicate subject, or talk about something that needs to change or has gone wrong.

So many of us suffer from low stress tolerance, which causes a condition known as “overstress.” This condition is caused by a lifestyle that imposes far too much stress on a person or it can occur when someone has less than normal stress tolerance.

Why do we get triggered?  What happens when we become emotionally triggered?  Why is it important to identify our emotional triggers?  How do they keep us stuck? Listen today to learn all this and more!

I’ve fought too often for relationships to last. For one more time together to get it right. I’ve fought with, I’ve fought for and, mainly, I’ve fought against myself. My intuitive side. Growing distant from my relationship to me. I was continuously robbing myself of my own needs and evolution. Learn how to build, not erode your best self relationship.

People with GAD and Substance Use Disorders are thought to have higher intolerance of uncertainty than those with other anxiety disorders.  They have a belief system in which uncertainty is viewed as stressful, unfair, upsetting, and to be avoided. Learn a great coping skill to deal with this common mental health issue.

When you grow up in a household that has healthy boundaries, you naturally have them yourself as an adult. But unfortunately, many of us don’t start out with that advantage. The hallmark of a healthy boundary is strong but flexible. As adults, one of the best things we can do for ourselves is to understand boundaries and work on building them for ourselves. Learn a super helpful skill for creating healing boundaries.

Not everyone finds expressing their feelings easy or having it come naturally. While the stereotype is that men have the hardest time expressing their emotions, everyone at one time or another in their life may find it difficult to say how they feel. Learning why you have trouble expressing your feelings can go a long way into changing that behavior. Saying how you feel is something you can learn how to do! 

In this episode Lynn takes you through an eye opening introduction to that negative voice that speaks so cruelly to you each and everyday.  

Getting sober and maintaining sobriety or recovery is hard enough, much less during a global or personal crisis!  In this episode, Lynn shares useable tips and skills for reducing substance use, choosing a time of abstinence and how to refocus your recovery during this a difficult and isolating time.