Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

With October right around the corner, I thought I’d bring back this podcast rewind for anyone considering doing Sober October.

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