The Rules We Make to Keep Drinking: Moderation, Fear, and Choosing a Beautiful Life

The Rules We Make to Keep Drinking: Moderation, Fear, and Choosing a Beautiful Life

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life podcast, Sunshine reflects on the complicated stories we tell ourselves when we are trying to control our drinking instead of questioning our relationship with alcohol altogether. After discovering old Facebook memories from a 40-day attempt to give up alcohol for Lent, she recognizes just how much mental energy once went into negotiating rules, exceptions, limits, and loopholes around drinking.

Through personal stories of moderation attempts, blackouts, anxiety, grief, trauma, and eventually recovery, Sunshine explores the tension between what the body, mind, ego, and spirit may be telling us. She examines why the familiar can feel safer than change, even when the familiar is hurting us, and why sobriety can feel frightening when we focus only on everything we might lose.

Ultimately, this episode reframes recovery not as a life of deprivation, but as the choice to create a beautiful life. Sometimes that beautiful life is extraordinary transformation. Sometimes it is simply safety, authenticity, meaningful relationships, peaceful mornings, coffee, birds, and no longer having to negotiate with the thing that is hurting you.

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The High of Love: When Connection Becomes Compulsion

The High of Love: When Connection Becomes Compulsion

Shannon Torrance, host of Magic Israel, shares her nearly 20-year journey in recovery from sex, love, and fantasy addiction. She opens up about how addiction was not simply about sex or relationships,...

8 Syys 52min

All You Have to Do Is Ask: Trinity’s Journey Through Addiction, Spirituality & Recovery

All You Have to Do Is Ask: Trinity’s Journey Through Addiction, Spirituality & Recovery

Trinity shares how her addiction began unexpectedly in her late thirties while she was living in an abusive marriage. Although alcohol and medication became the substances she struggled with, recovery...

3 Syys 56min

The Vision for Witches Recovery: Building a Community That Keeps Us Connected, Grounded, and Sober

The Vision for Witches Recovery: Building a Community That Keeps Us Connected, Grounded, and Sober

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life Podcast, Sunshine Witchski shares an update on the growing Witches Recovery Circles and the larger vision behind the Sober Witch Life movement. What began with ...

18 Elo 24min

The Vision for Witches Recovery: Building a Community That Keeps Us Connected, Grounded, and Sober

The Vision for Witches Recovery: Building a Community That Keeps Us Connected, Grounded, and Sober

In this episode of the Sober Witch Life Podcast, Sunshine Witchski shares an update on the growing Witches Recovery Circles and the larger vision behind the Sober Witch Life movement. What began with ...

18 Elo 24min

Recovery Beyond Sobriety

Recovery Beyond Sobriety

In this episode of The Sober Witch Life, I sit down with Justin for a deep conversation about addiction, recovery, trauma, spirituality, and what it really means to build a life beyond simply putting ...

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Recovery Taught Me What Healthy Love Really Looks Like

Recovery Taught Me What Healthy Love Really Looks Like

In this heartfelt episode of Sober Witch Life, Sunshine Witchski shares how recovery transformed her understanding of love and relationships. She reflects on learning to stop confusing chaos, sacrific...

22 Heinä 36min

Recovery Taught Me What Healthy Love Really Looks Like

Recovery Taught Me What Healthy Love Really Looks Like

In this heartfelt episode of Sober Witch Life, Sunshine Witchski shares how recovery transformed her understanding of love and relationships. She reflects on learning to stop confusing chaos, sacrific...

22 Heinä 36min

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