Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Today's podcast is the final part of the 3-part series where i teach my proven technique to interrupt automatic behavior (drinking, over-eating, reacting, etc) called Stop-Notice-Process aka SNP. I am guiding you through the 3rd step called Process. You'll want to have context to what I am teaching you today, so please listen to part 1 and part 2 if you haven't already. You can find those links here: Part 1 - https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149262336 Part 2 - https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149265376 Also, make sure you are registered for my free class called How To Interrupt Wine O'clock HERE: https://www.angelamascenik.com/wineoclock ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. Check out The Magic House, my Lisbon retreat center HERE: https://www.magichouseretreats.com/

Today's podcast is a continuation of a 3-part podcast series where I teach my proven technique to interrupt automatic behavior (drinking, over-eating, reacting, etc) called Stop-Notice-Process. I am diving into the Noticing. If you haven't listened to the 1st step, Stopping, please do so before listening to this. You can listen to that here: https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149262336 Today is all about noticing what your body and emotions are trying to tell you about what you need. We are all very good about thinking.. now is the time to turn to your body and notice what it's trying to communicate to you. Don't miss this important step in the Stop-Notice-Process technique! Also, sign up for my free class, Interrupting Wine O'Clock here, 3 times to choose from: https://www.angelamascenik.com/wineoclock Ways to work with me: The Magic House, My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle Private coaching One on one, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

Please listen for updates on Alive AF! and Sober October.. and what's coming at the end of October! And I am dissecting the 1st step in my signature way to interrupt our automatic behavior with drinking. It's STOPPING. We think this should be easy and simple and it can be, but you need to be conscious that you are making a decision and then stopping and becoming aware of the decision you are making. This is part one of a three part episode series where I go into detail of the SNP Stop Notice Process tool. Make sure you are on my email list at www.angelamascenik.com ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

With October right around the corner I thought I'd bring this podcast REWIND back in preparation for it. Please enjoy: Yesterday, I hosted a live session—Sober October: How to Take a 30-Day Break and Truly Enjoy It—and over 100 women tuned in, ready to feel better. If you missed it, don’t worry! In the class, I cover : How to take a 30-day break without white-knuckling What to do with cravings [step-by-step] How to handle social plans without feeling awkward or left out My “outcomes first” decision method you can use today—no waiting until October 1 **Alive AF! is not open for enrollment at this time. Ways to work with me: The Magic House, My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle Private coaching One on one, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

This is a fun one! I share what the pink cloud feeling is when you quit drinking and how you can get it. The pink cloud is like 'having your head in the clouds' it feels like elation, joy, gratitude, aliveness and nothing can bring you down during this time. You are so grateful for how you feel, you compare and contrast before with drinking to now with not. It's a common expression in the recovery and alcohol-free lifestyle communities. So, during the episode I share my initial pink cloud experience in my first. year of living alcohol-free. And then, I share my 2nd pink could experience that is HAPPENING NOW!!! I didn't realize it was happening until a day ago. I kept describing how I was feeling to having all this energy.. i just want to climb mountains and do something with all this energy. My productivity is off the charts, I'm in a HUGE creative flow in my business, I'm meeting new people, networking, creating friends, spending quality time with my husband, helping my kids and more. It's wild!!! Tune in, feel inspired, and JOIN ME! Come to a retreat at The Magic House - stay tuned for my 2027 retreats that go beyond Lisbon. This website will be updated very soon... https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle Hire me as your private coach: https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com Consider joinging my next round of the Transformation Program: https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram

400 Episodes of the Stop Over-drinking and Start Living Podcast!! WOW. I started this podcast way back in 2018.. and now here we are 8 years later and 400 episodes. This episode is going to help you understand why just planning isn't the tool that will save you at 5:00 pm on a Tuesday when your brain is whining to you about a glass of wine. Planning is A tool, but not the only one. We need to look at what is happening earlier in the day and how we are responding and tending to ourselves before we think we are going to easily not drink when the urges come. I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for being here and listening every week! The Magic House My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle Private coaching One on One, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm?typeform-source=www.angelamascenik.com Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

This podcast is sweet little reminder that change follows the exact path it does. It's the beginning of a new season for a lot of us.. kids back to school, perhaps cooler weather settling in.. maybe a slight color change to the leaves, if you really slow down and notice. What if you allowed the change you are working on to take the time it takes? What would happen if you stopped comparing yourself to others? What would happen if you tried to ENJOY this process more? Tune it and see where you can allow yourself to notice the changes that have already occurred and appreciate yourself as you enter into this next season. ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. The Magic House My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle Private coaching One on One, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com/ Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram

"I know all the things." I hear this constantly. On calls, in my membership. She's read all the quit-lit. She's listened to hundreds of podcast episodes. She's done therapy, maybe twice. She can name her triggers and explain her own drinking patterns better than most professionals could. And she is still pouring a glass at five o'clock. Here's the thing about that.. at the moment, nobody is reflecting anything back to you. Nobody is helping you see what you can't see by yourself. That's what this episode is about. You have never seen your own face. Not once, not directly. And the same thing is true about your patterns, your language, the story you've told so many times you've stopped hearing it. Which means whatever is keeping you stuck is sitting in the part you can't see. You're a capable woman who has solved enormous problems. If you could see this one, you would have handled it years ago. In this episode I'm talking about why reading more books won't get you there, what a real person can do for you that a book never will, and why "I know all the things" might be the most effective way to keep help out that I've ever come across. This episode is for you if: You've read every book about drinking and you're still drinking You can explain exactly why you drink and it hasn't changed a thing You've tried therapy before and decided it doesn't work for you You're the capable one, the strong one, the one everybody calls You've never said the words out loud to another human being You're exhausted from working on this by yourself Please give it a listen! ABOUT: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. After over-drinking for 20 years while raising three kids and building a career, she found coaching, and it changed everything. Now she helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they're drinking in the first place, without shame and without willpower. She's the host of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living, founder of the Alive AF! membership, and owner of The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. You can work with me privately - https://form.typeform.com in a small group called the Transformation Program- www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram , or at one of my sober retreats at The Magic House, my retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal - www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

If you want to stop over-drinking but you keep abandoning every journal, tracker, urge that hits, and morning routine you start, this episode is for you. Quitting drinking gets a lot easier when the work stops feeling like a punishment. For twenty years, I gave alcohol the good glass, the beautiful thoughts, the longing feelings, the candle, the music, and the best hour of my day. Then I started doing the work to stop over-drinking and I handed that an exhausted self at the end of the day, no patience left and no kind words. And then I wondered why I kept going back to the wine. Obviously, I changed that and learned how to be with myself and accept what was happening inside of me and made that ritual something I wanted to connect with. The problem for most of you is that you've started a practice you don't want to return to. We come back to places that have been tended. That's true of a kitchen, and it's true of the ten minutes you spend with yourself every morning. So in this episode I'm walking you through how to make the work of quitting drinking beautiful enough that you actually want to come back to it tomorrow. Almost none of it costs money. What we cover: Why you keep quitting your own practice The outside stuff — the notebook, the chair, the hour — and why that's only a small part Slowing your breath down before you start, because you cannot arrive somewhere beautiful at a sprint Greeting yourself when you sit down: thanks for connecting with me today Why "thank you" builds something that "good job" never will The tone you take with yourself on the page, and why nobody returns to a place where they get yelled at How you end a session, and why that decides whether you come back What I learned about tending yourself walking 173 miles on the Camino de Santiago What to do when the emotion you're processing is genuinely hard and there's nothing pretty about it This one is for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside, the career, the family, the house, and is quietly exhausted from the cycle of over-drinking and breaking promises to herself. Especially if you're in a season of change: retirement, an empty nest, a career shift, newly single, caring for aging parents. You already know how to make something beautiful enough to return to every single day. You did it with wine for twenty years. We're taking that back and pointing it at you. ABOUT ANGELA: I'm Angela Mascenik, a certified life coach who helps women stop over-drinking and start living. I over-drank for twenty years while raising three kids, building a career, and keeping a good marriage and a nice home — functional on the outside, struggling on the inside. Life coaching changed everything for me, and I've been alcohol-free for eight years. Now I do this work with women all over the world. My approach is compassionate and completely shame-free. We get to the root of why you're drinking in the first place, and we work on boundaries, emotions, mind management, and learning to put yourself at the top of your own priority list. A big part of what I teach is learning to feel and process your emotions instead of reacting to them — getting out of your head and into your body. You can work with me privately - https://form.typeform.com in a small group called the Transformation Program - www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram , or at one of my sober retreats at The Magic House, my retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal - www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle

Who's good at being patient? I know I didn't used to be! I wanted things FAST. I wanted to get results in weight loss as fast as possible, to get over my drinking ASAP, for my husband to change quickly or my co-workers to function faster. Our culture is built on getting things done the fastest and most effecient way possible. So, it's our conditioning and programming that has told us to not have tolerance for discomfort and things taking longer. Good news, it's ok, you are not alone and there is nothing wrong with you. The idea of patience usually is prefaced by a LACK of patience. We mostly recognize when we are NOT patient.. when we are feeling frustrated or irritated or angry. So to be more PATIENT, we actually need to learn how to be with the difficult feelings. When we are faced with an issue that isn't going as we hoped it would be we traditionally thing 'we need to be more patient.' NO - the first step is ALLOWING the feeling that IS present. That is patience, allowing the discomfort in the thing that isn't working out the way you thought it would. Tune into this episode and hear a new way to think about patience and benefits of being patient.. there are many! The Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast is for high-achieving women who are tired of the cycle. Drinking more than you meant to. Waking up at 3am. Promising yourself tomorrow will be different. This isn't about white-knuckling your way through Dry January. We get underneath it. Why you're drinking in the first place, what you're actually feeling at 5pm, and how to build a life you don't need to escape from. Every week I'm talking about boundaries, emotions, mind management, and putting yourself at the top of your own priority list, which is the part most women skip. Ways to work with me: The Magic House, My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle P rivate coaching One on one, for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform Transformation Program, small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram Subscribe wherever you listen, and if this episode helped, a review helps another woman find it.

Scared to stop drinking because you don't know what happens next? We'll cover what actually happens when you stop drinking, what happens to your friendships when you're the one who changes first, and why Dry January was never a preview of anything. If you're afraid to quit drinking because of everyone else, this one's for you. In this episode I'm walking you through why your brain is so bad at determining the future. Why it freezes your entire life in place and only takes away the wine. What really happens to the people around you when you're the one who moves first. And why that Dry January you white-knuckled through was never a preview of anything. In this week's episode I'm covering: Why your worries about the future are accurate and still not useful Focalism, and how your brain edits out every single good part What happens to your relationships when you change from the inside out Why you can't do ten years of white-knuckling, and why that's fine The only thing you actually have to do today About Angela: I'm Angela Mascenik, a certified life coach helping women stop over-drinking without shame, willpower, or a label. I over-drank for 20 years while raising three kids, building a career, and keeping a good marriage and a nice home together. Functional on the outside, falling apart on the inside. Coaching changed all of it, and I've been alcohol free for eight years. The Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast is for high-achieving women who are tired of the cycle. Drinking more than you meant to. Waking up at 3am. Promising yourself tomorrow will be different. This isn't about white-knuckling your way through Dry January. We get underneath it. Why you're drinking in the first place, what you're actually feeling at 5pm, and how to build a life you don't need to escape from. Every week I'm talking about boundaries, emotions, mind management, and putting yourself at the top of your own priority list, which is the part most women skip. Ways to work with me: T he Magic House My retreat center in Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle Private coaching One on One , for women who want to go deep and go fast. https://form.typeform.com Transformation Program , small group, 6 months of weekly meetings and materials, includes a trip to The Magic House at the end! https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram Subscribe wherever you listen, and if this episode helped, a review helps another woman find it.

Quick update episode before I head out to walk the Camino! A few episodes ago, I told you about coming off my medication and sleep aids, the brain zaps, and the nights I barely slept. Here's where things landed: I'm fully off everything, sleeping better than I have in months, and I'm sharing exactly what worked. I'm also telling you about the day I broke my own rule, paid for it until 12:30am, and what I did the next morning — because that part is the whole lesson. If you've ever blown a boundary with alcohol and used it as a reason to give up on the whole thing, this one's for you. In this episode, you'll learn: The full update on coming off sleep aids and medication, including the last little crutch I didn't even realize I was using The two simple changes that made the biggest difference in my sleep What happened the day I broke my own caffeine boundary (and why it felt exactly like drinking) How to get back to a boundary after you break it, without the shame spiral or the "I'll start Monday" trap Why your body knows how to get back to baseline when you stop interfering Quick reminder: this is my personal experience with medication. Always talk to your doctor before starting or stopping anything. Also, I recommend you listen to 'How to Stop Talking Yourself Out of It When It Gets Uncomfortable' before you listen to this one, to get the full context! Listen to that here: https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2149227702 Now accepting applications for the next cohort of the Transformation Program, check that out here: https://www.angelamascenik.com ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

If you've ever thought "I've wasted so many years drinking," this episode is going to change how you see your entire story. It started with Madonna- a line about how the deepest darkness holds the greatest light. And it perfectly captures something psychologists have been studying for decades: post-traumatic growth. The research shows that women who go through hard seasons — including years of over-drinking, and actually process them, come out the other side with deeper relationships, more appreciation for life, and a strength they never had before. The growth comes from processing the pain, and just time alone won't do it. In this episode, I break down the five research-backed ways post-traumatic growth shows up and I share the tips for actually getting there. I promise your drinking years aren't wasted years. They're the material for the best years of your life. Now accepting applications for the next cohort of the Transformation Program, check that out here: https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram I've updated my website, check out my new about me page: www.angelamascenik.com/ ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

Let's discuss intuition. In this episode, I'm telling you the full story of how one small decision to listen to my body last fall led to the biggest, most magical thing in my business and my life. Last year I had a two week trip planned with my friend Sarah. On paper it was a dream. But as it got closer, something in my body kept whispering, this is too much. And instead of pushing through like I would have during my drinking years, I said it out loud. Then Sarah asked me one question that changed everything. In this episode, we're talking about intuition. What it actually feels like in your body, what science says about when you can trust it, and why twenty years of over-drinking teaches you to mute the very signals that are trying to guide you. You'll learn: Why gut feelings are literal (your body sends way more information to your brain than your brain sends back) The one question to ask yourself when you can't tell what you really want Why your intuition about your own needs is the most reliable kind, according to research How wine becomes the tool we use to drown out the "something's off" whisper What honoring your intuition actually gives you (hint: I'm keeping this honest, no fairy tales) www.angelamascenik.com << check out my new and refreshed website! www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle << 1 shared spot left! Grab it before it's gone! ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

You decided this morning you weren't drinking tonight. Then 5pm rolls around, the day was long, and the debate starts: "Maybe just one. I don't want to be left out. I'll start fresh Monday." In this episode, I'm sharing a very personal story about coming off anti-anxiety medication and sleep aids during our move to Lisbon, the brutal side effects nobody warned me about, and the two nights I barely slept at all. What got me through was one skill: allowing the discomfort WHILE my brain also wanted to talk me out of it. In this episode, you'll learn: My experience stopping a low-dose anti-anxiety and what the withdrawal was actually like (brain zaps, body aches, sleepless nights, stomach issues.. all of it) Why I decided to come off everything before walking the Camino, including sleep aids The difference between allowing discomfort and white-knuckling through it Why deciding ahead of time changes everything, and how the 2 am moment becomes just following through Quick note: this is my personal experience with medication. Always talk to your doctor before starting or stopping anything. This is not medical advice. www.angelamascenik.com << check out my new and refreshed website! Magic House Founders Circle www.angelamascenik.com/magichousefounderscircle << 1 shared spot left! Grab it before it's gone! [5:05 AM] ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal.

I'm recording this from my first morning LIVING in Lisbon, Portugal, sitting in The Magic House with a cup of coffee, my family finally here, and this feeling I can only describe as the specific joy of having done the hard thing. Eighteen months ago I had an idea to move my family to a country I had never been to. No plan. Just a decision. And this morning that decision is my reality. In this episode I'm sharing what that journey taught me — and exactly how it applies to changing your relationship with alcohol. Because here's what I know after eight years of doing this work: the women who stay stuck aren't lacking information. They aren't lacking willpower. They're waiting to know how before they decide. And that's backwards. The plan doesn't come before the decision. The plan comes FROM the decision. We cover: Why waiting to feel ready keeps you stuck — and what to do instead The one question that cuts through every excuse: if you knew it would work, would you do it? What real change actually looks like from the inside — and why the mess doesn't mean you're failing The grief nobody talks about when you change your relationship with alcohol And what deciding, actually looks like. THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You've been thinking about changing your drinking for months or years and you still haven't fully committed You keep waiting until you feel ready, until things calm down, until after the next event You know what you want but you don't believe you can actually get there You've tried before and it didn't stick and you're not sure this time would be different You want permission to start before you have it all figured out ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. To learn more or apply for the Transformation Program visit angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram .

Please enjoy this podcast rewind: This episode is a further exploration of Decisions. If you haven't listened to Part 1, please do that first, https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2148935056 This episode dives into AFTER we made a decision, how to evaluate that decision, especially if you didn't experience the outcome of the decision that you really wanted to. I also discuss how to keep making more decisions that have this new insight you received after being in the outcome of the original decision. Also learn how to have your own back around the decisions you made no matter the outcome. Decision making is a huge process when you are trying to change unwanted behavior. It's really important to learn how to make and evaluate decisions that have your goals in mind instead of reacting to your mind's primitive needs and wants! ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. To learn about or apply to for the Transformation Program visit angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram .

Please enjoy this Podcast Rewind: This episode is going to help you become aware of your automatic or unconscious decision making process. Once you see HOW you are making decisions you can decide with more intention on the outcome you want to have versus just your automatic quick or knee jerk decisions. This is a skill that you can use for any decision you are contemplating or to evaluate how you've make past decisions. Changing your relationship with alcohol comes with a lot of decisions to make. Please listen to this informative Part 1 Decision making episode to gain awareness so you can make the best possible decisions for you! ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. To learn about or apply to for the Transformation Program visit angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram .

I've been sitting with a thought this week that I can't stop thinking about: transformation requires transparency. You cannot have one without the other. We all know too well the toxic cycle of sneaking, hiding, avoiding, and disregarding how much our drinking is impacting us, mostly from the inside. If you truly want to transform your relationship with alcohol you need to start getting honest and be transparent. Additionally, I'm sharing what came up on a recent Q+A, the moment when every woman on the call recognized that she was using alcohol to solve an emotional problem. They knew it. They could name it. And yet knowing it and actually being able to sit with the discomfort instead of reaching for a drink, that's a completely different skill. In this episode I talk about the impact of staying hidden and the 3 things that might make transformation possible for you. THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF: You know what to do but you're not doing it and you can't figure out why You've tried cutting back, taking breaks, making rules and nothing has stuck permanently You recognize that you drink to take the edge off or unwind but you haven't been able to stop You feel like you're doing the work but something is still missing You're tired of hiding this from the people you love and from yourself You're ready to stop managing your drinking and actually transform your relationship with it ABOUT ANGELA: Angela Mascenik is a certified stop over-drinking coach for women and the host of the Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living podcast. She helps high-achieving women get to the root of why they drink and change their relationship with alcohol from the inside out — without white-knuckling it or relying on willpower. Angela is the creator of the 6-month Transformation Program, the Alive AF! membership, and The Magic House Retreat Center in Lisbon, Portugal. To learn more or apply for the Transformation Program visit angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram .

You've done Dry January. You've made the Sunday night promise. You've cut back, taken breaks, set rules, and started over more times than you can count. And every time, you mean it. So why does it keep happening? In this episode, I'm talking about the real reason the cycle doesn't break — and it has nothing to do with willpower, discipline, or how badly you want to change. The answer is deeper than the drinking. This episode is for you if: You've tried to cut back or quit more times than you can remember You keep breaking promises to yourself and you're exhausted by it You feel like something is off but you can't quite name it You're ready to stop fighting the symptom and get to the actual root Links: Transformation Program Q+A https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89011714466?pwd=b632nKrrvxdH6j7oAlPb2FrLTu1o10.1 Passcode:170040 Replay for Transformation Q+A: https://www.angelamascenik.com/transformationprogram Topics: gray area drinking, how to stop over-drinking, high-functioning women and alcohol, change your relationship with alcohol, functional drinker, why willpower doesn't work, starting over with sobriety, women and alcohol About Angela: Angela Mascenik is a certified life coach and the founder of Stop Over-Drinking and Start Living. After 20 years of over-drinking while keeping everything together on the outside, she found her way through — and now helps high-achieving women do the same. No shame, no labels, just real work that actually sticks.