Sober Bliss Gayle Macdonald

The Sober Summit with Maggie Klaassens! Welcome to this fun-filled, exciting, and inspirational podcast episode, where I'm chatting all about the upcoming Sober Summit with the wonderful Maggie Klaassens.
Maggie is a mom of three young kids, a health coach, and former wine enthusiast turned sober drinker.She created The Sober Summit to help other middle-lane drinkers rethink their drinking and see what life could be like without alcohol.Many of the authors, podcasters, and influencers speaking at The Sober Summit are the reason why she is alcohol-free today.Maggie's goal for this event is to bring all of these incredible resources together in one place to help educate and inspire others to live their best life, alcohol-free!

Tune in for all the details on what makes this summit a really great event, no matter where you are on your sober journey, there is something there for you.


For 3 days, April 12-14, this FREE virtual event is bringing you inspiration from 24 of the best authors, podcasters, experts and influencers from the sober community.  These incredible speakers have successfully changed their relationship with alcohol and want to cheer you on to do the same whether you’re on Day 1 or Day 1,000!   

You’ll learn about the science behind alcohol and what it does to your mind, body and spirit, tools to help you through the first few months of sobriety and tips on how to navigate an alcohol-free life. And so much more! I will be there as will Annie Grace, William Porter, and many more really great influencers. Join us!



Links to join the Sober Summit

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Writing Your Recovery with Ann Dowsett Johnston. I am beyond excited to share this podcast interview with the absolutely lovely Ann Dowsett Johnston. If you don’t know, Ann is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of ‘Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol’ which is still as relevant today as when Ann wrote it, ten years ago.

Ann is an amazing woman who has helped to transform lives, through her writing, with her work on removing the stigma surrounding mental illness and addiction and most recently in her role as a psychotherapist.

This is a wonderful conversation and I am incredibly grateful to Ann for sticking with me as she had a terrible cold that day. Ann and I discuss the pinking of the market by the alcohol companies; the normalising of what Ann calls the modern woman’s steroid, and the risky drinking by intelligent, successful women.

We also talked about Ann’s book, Ann's personal story about hr own drinking and how she quit, the healing power of writing in recovery, and how you can be supported by Ann and other women on the same journey as you in Ann’s nourishing and incredibly healing, ‘Writing your Recovery’ course.

Ann shares some of her other tools on how to change your relationship with alcohol both in the early days and long term and we also get an insight into Ann’s new book.

So, grab a cuppa, settle in and enjoy.



Resources for more support

Join Ann's Writing Your Recovery Course (starting April 12th)

The Sober Bliss Website

I quit social media a year ago for both business and personal use. Today I am talking about how my life has changed one year on. The benefits I have experienced and some of other experiences I have encountered along the way. Including how my business has been impacted, my own personal development and growth and my life at home with family and friends.
What have been the biggest benefits?
What has not been so great about quitting social media?
And will I go back?

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

Quitting Social Media and Sobriety - my first social media free week

Why I quit social media podcast

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Positive self-talk in sobriety is a powerful thing because words really can harm or heal. How we treat ourselves and how we talk to ourselves affects how we feel about ourselves. And, if we can change the way we feel about ourselves then there is no stopping us. This podcast is going to help you to change the way you feel about yourself, which will change what you believe can be possible for you. In terms of sobriety, this is the difference between feeling good and being miserable. And this life-changing transformation starts with the practice of positive self-talk, it’s that powerful!

Links for more support

33 day soul soothing, intensive sober coaching
My signature three month transformative coaching program
Single coaching sessions booking

Headspace article about negative self-talk
Evening meditation for early sobriety

Change your thinking, change your drinking is a powerful concept.  This podcast episode is going to help you see how your thoughts have been affecting your behaviour and emotion and perhaps keeping you stuck in the negative thinking loop and therefore stuck in the drinking loop too. By simply changing your thinking though, you can literally change everything, including your drinking.

You will discover
How your thoughts have formed your beliefs
Your thoughts and therefore your beliefs are not necessarily the truth
How to find evidence to support more positive thoughts
How to stop negative thoughts from bringing you down
practical tips to encourage more positive thinking
Simple daily activities to change your mindset for powerful results

This podcast, which you can listen to below, has been inspired by some conversations I’ve been having with my one-to-one clients lately so listen in for a taste of what coaching with me feels like and be prepared to change how you think, and consequently feel, about quitting drinking.



Links for more support

The Sober Bliss Website

Book your single coaching session 

January is a really good month to ease into sobriety.  And not because we have magical powers on January first that allow us to suddenly be able to build new habits, and not because everyone else is doing a dry January but because January is a nice month, I feel, to slow down, take it easy and find your way. January can feel like an awful month to do this, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, it is cold and wet, grey and miserable, you might be recovering from Christmas and feeling a bit sad to be leaving the magic and sparkle of the holidays behind. But it is for the same reason, that January can be a perfect month for your sober journey.

It is about going inwards, building a strong foundation, leaning into discomfort, tuning into to what is working for us as individuals and finding our way. The only way to do that is to take your time, do the work on yourself, dig deep, and yes take it slowly and ease into things.

This is how I embraced my own sober journey and I'm here to help you do the same.

I share my top tips and how taking it slowly can help you to ease into your sobriety and have a joyful January.

Links for More Support

Beat Wine o'clock Guide and visualization meditation
Joyful January workbook
Book your call to talk about 1:1 Coaching

The Sober Bliss Website

Book your single coaching session