Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Hosted by: Angela Mascenik - Certified Stop Over-drinking Coach

Stop Over-drinking and Start Living podcast is for the high achieving, goal-oriented, rebel woman to learn how to live a vibrant and fulfilling life without requiring alcohol to get through it. If you find yourself...

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Ep 297 Where I Found Unconditional Love

The episode I share the news that a lovely man that I met while I was just beginning my journey to change my relationship with alcohol, has passed away. He owned an organic wine farm in Sicily called Agriturismo...
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Ep 296 Where Do I Even Start?

You want to stop drinking or cut back but you often think: I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START! It feels overwhelming. Your partner still drinks, your friends all drink, your co-workers like to drink when you travel for...
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Ep 295 How to Use Humor to Drink Less

Get ready to laugh! This episode I discuss why humor is often a good strategy to help ease the pressure around changing your relationship with alcohol.  Laughing releases natural feel good endorphins, takes the...
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Ep 294 Pen to Paper: How Journaling Can Help You Stop Over-Drinking

 I am delighted to dedicate a full podcast episode on JOURNALING! I get asked all the time, 'Why do I need to journal?' 'Do I have to journal?' 'I hate journaling' 'I don't know how to journal.' And this episode goes...
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Ep 293 How to Face and Overcome Your Biggest Fears

This podcast episode takes you through a few exercises in naming and overcoming your fears that might be stopping you from reaching your goals. Fear can help us or hold us back. When looking at making personal changes...
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Ep 292 The Beauty in the Process: Why Success is More Than the End Result

This episodes dives into the how to see the payoff and the beauty in the process to your goals instead of focusing on just end goal. I recently led a small group of women on a challenging 8-mile hike during my Seattle...
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Ep 291 Friendships

Join me for a conversation I had with my very good friends, Josh and Dan. We have been friends for 25 years and have navigated as much as any friendship could. We discuss navigating the relationship when someone...
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Ep 290 Why do I Need to Know How my Feelings Feel?

My amazing client asked me this question and I thought it was so great that I did a podcast on it. Your feelings drive your behavior, so if you are wanting to make behavior changes, learning how to feel your feelings...
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Ep 289 Grief, Sunrises and Changing Plans

This podcast episode is an update on the Sober Sunrise Project, grief surrounding the unexpected and sudden loss of my sister in-law, Teresa, and being flexible on changing plans. I share the importance of taking care...
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Ep 288 Podcast Rewind: Up-leveling Your Discomfort + a Good Story

If you've successfully cut back on how much you are drinking, even if it's just one extra day less or instead of 3 drinks you've been having 2 more often, you had to go through some discomfort to do that right? You...
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Ep 287 Drinking Social Pressure and Unsupportive Comments

This episode dives in the problem of people in our lives who might say unsupportive comments about you cutting back or quitting alcohol.  I explain WHY they might do this and how to navigate it if the person who is...
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Ep 286 Maybe It Shouldn't Be Easy

Happy July, I am super excited about my 30-days of sober sunrise project I am doing this month at Carolina Beach, NC. You can read about it here,  https://www.angelamascenik.com/blog I'll be updating it everyday.  I'm...
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