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    272. Why Sober Life is the Luckiest Life with Laura McKowen

    272. Why Sober Life is the Luckiest Life with Laura McKowen

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    272. Why Sober Life is the Luckiest Life with Laura McKowen

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    Length:
    63 minutes
    Released:
    Jan 16, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Author Laura McKowen shares her incredible hard-earned wisdom about how to get sober and how to live with dignity, power, and peace. 

    Laura shares:

    Her gut-wrenching rock bottom moment that eventually led her to sobriety. 

    How healing often begins when we are forced to confront our deepest traumas. 

    The "Bigger Yes" – and why it's not about achieving grand aspirations, but discovering the beauty in simply being who you are. 

    Simple acts of self-care and the importance of stillness for self-discovery. 

    The two fundamental questions everyone needs to ask themselves: "How do I feel?" and "What do I want?"

    The special vitriol for mothers who struggle with addiction in a culture that tells mothers to drink in countless ways.

    About Laura: 
    Laura is the author of the bestselling memoir, We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life and Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Life (and Everything Else).

    She has written for The New York Times and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Atlantic, the TODAY show, and more. In 2020, she founded The Luckiest Club, a global sobriety support community.

    Laura lives with her daughter and partner on the North Shore of Boston.

    IG: @laura_mckowen

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    Released:
    Jan 16, 2024
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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.