Sober Bliss Gayle Macdonald

How Michael Jordan helped me to quit drinking is something I write about in my book and I thought it would be good to share a little snippet of this with you today. Because it literally shifted everything for me and helped me to quit drinking and feel good about it with no worry or fear that I would pick it up again, which is very powerful, I know.

 What I am going to share with you today is also the reason that I am over five years alcohol free, feel 100% secure and confident that I will stay alcohol-free, and have been able to face life and the awful events of the past few months without the thought of alcohol entering my head, even the tiniest little bit. I hope you enjoy this inspiring and hopefully motivating poddcast episode to help you to quit drinking and feel good about it.



Links for more support

Finding your Why Meditation

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Sobriety & Suicide - The Podcast I didn't want to make, yet I feel is necessary. I have not shared anything new with you for two months because I’ve been in a very difficult place, trying to cope with the unimaginable loss of my son. As the title suggests, this is a podcast about loss and love, suicide and sobriety, extremely hard things to talk about, but I feel that it is my duty to talk about them.

This is a very distressing sbject, so please listen with caution and if you feel triggered by the content or it affects you in any way then please get support. I don’t want to burden anyone with this or cause pain. However, I do feel like I am being blocked somehow by this and need to get it out in order to move through and forward.

This won’t be a neat and tidy podcast, with helpful hints for you take away, it’s not that kind of podcast, but I do hope that by sharing my experiences it will help you to see that there is another way, various ways in fact to deal with life, to cope with tragic, heartbreaking events, tend to our emotions and find tiny moments of comfort in what is otherwise and impossible situation.

Alcohol is not the way, not the way at all and I am extremely grateful for my sobriety, without which I would not be here now, there’s no way I would be still upright if I was drinking.



** At the beginning I say two weeks - it should be two months. And, when I say 2003, I mean 2023 (fuzzy brain!)



Resources mentioned in the podcast


Ann Dowsett Johnston
Nicki Gabriel Life Coaching in Nature
Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser
Understanding Suicide by Paula Fontenelle
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
Its Okay That You’re Not Okay by Megan Devine
Sober Bliss Coaching

Do Mummies really need wine? An important conversation with Celeste Yvonne. Like me, you might know Celeste from 'The Ultimate Mom Challenge' and her writing around motherhood, the difficult and challenging aspects of parenting, and the Mummy wine culture which is what we're talking about today. We chat about how Celeste first got into writing, how she gave up drinking secretly and how her first year of sobriety felt lonely and steeped in shame and fear. Now over five years sober, Celeste uses her writing and community involvement to suport other mothers who are struggling with alcohol and we talk about the support available to help other mothers including the Sober Mom Squad of which Celeste is a founding host. Celest also shares her favouite and most effective tools that continue to support her on her sober path and we hear about Celeste's book which is coming out, all about the mental load of motherhood and mommy wine culture and how they interconnect.



Links for more support


Sober Mom Squad

Celeste on Substack

Celeste's book - It's Not About The Wine

Sober Bliss Website

Marvelous Midlife with Laura Shuckburgh is a wonderful, inspiring and uplifting conversation you cannot afford to miss. I chat with my wonderful friend Laura, about all things menopause, what it is, how it can affect you, where to get support and nourishing tools to help you through what Laura describes as often difficult but also natural and beautiful with opportunities if you are open to looking.

Laura discusses her own experiences and how her own menopause story is one of freedom, joy, following your own path and taking a giant leap of faith!

Laura shares the most exciting and important question you need to be asking yourself, and the details of her gorgeous, nourishing retreat which is a life affirming, transformational experience you do not want to miss.



Links for more support

Laura's Website Marvelous Midlife

The Unleashed Menopause Retreat

Sober Bliss Website

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