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Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Hosted by: Angela Mascenik - Certified Stop Over-drinking Coach

Stop Over-drinking and Start Living podcast is for the high achieving, goal-oriented, rebel woman to learn how to live a vibrant and fulfilling life without requiring alcohol to get through it. If you find yourself...

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Ep 281 Addiction and Mental Health with Dr. Noell Rowan

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Noell L. Rowan to the podcast. Noell Rowan, Ph.D., LCSW, LCAS, CCS, ACSW is a clinician with more than three decades of experience in the field of social work. She has practiced in...
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Ep 280 Mental Health Awareness Month with Kim Jeffs

This is a special conversation I had with Kim Jeffs, Founder, Executive & Somatic Coach of Soma and Soul and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counseling Supervisor. From Kim: ‘I'm licensed as a mental health...
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Ep 279 Assumptions

My husband and I went to NYC for the weekend and a theme emerged, ASSUMPTIONS. So many assumptions happened for both of us and one involving a complete stranger. Our mind likes to make assumptions to save us energy...
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Ep 278 Mental Health Awareness Month and Alcohol Use

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.  It affects how we think, feel, and act.  It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to...
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Ep 277 My Goal for May: Allowing My Discomfort With Other People's Discomfort

What does this even mean? Have you ever noticed how uncomfortable you get when you perceive other people feeling some sort of discomfort or negative feelings? If you have noticed this and then tried to 'make everyone...
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Ep 276 Do I Have a Problem?

This episode helps you discover if YOU have a problem with alcohol. Most people have an image in their minds about what someone with an alcohol problem looks like. And for most of my clients they don't match that...
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Ep 275 Navigating Skepticism: What to Do When Loved Ones Dismiss Your Desire to Cut Back

This episode dives into what to do when someone you care about shares that they don’t think you need to cut back or wishes you wouldn’t cut back or dismisses your desire to quit or cut back. Mostly, when people...
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Ep 274 Unveiling Self-Serving Acts: When Doing Something Nice Masks Personal Desires

This is a HOT episode friends, you must listen ASAP.  Have you secretly done something for someone else whit it's really what YOU want?  Truth telling time!  You must turn in to hear about this very sneaky behavior...
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Ep 273 How to Prioritize Yourself

I was scrolling through some of my favorite sober Instagram accounts the other day and came across a graphic that said  ‘5 ways to stop drinking.’  The first one was ‘prioritize yourself.’  I thought, yah, I know what...
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Ep 272 Is your Drinkin' Creepin?

This week’s episode talks about the creeping effect of drinking alcohol.  Have you recognized:  1) Your drinking has increased over time in how many days a week you drink or how many drinks you have each time you...
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Ep 271 Do I Say Something if I'm Worried about Someone's Drinking?

This is another question I received and wanted to dive into this specifically.  This can feel like a dilemma. You notice someone you care about over-drinking. Maybe they are stumbling at the end of a night out. Maybe...
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Ep 270 Is Moderation Possible?

I'm answering another listener question today on the podcast. I am diving into this question:  'I think the thing I wonder most is "is it truly possible to go from decades of nightly wine addiction to moderating...
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