E141: It’s Not Your Fault, But it is Your Responsibility with Laura McKowen

You can’t shame yourself sober, and you can’t punish yourself into change, but similarly, we need to recognize our patterns and be willing to tell the truth. I am so excited to welcome Laura McKowen, author of the new book Push Off From Here, to the podcast. Laura and I get into this idea of a blame story and what personal responsibility really means. In this episode we discuss the chaos we live in on a daily basis, what personal responsibility means, how to identify your blame story, and how to cope with intense shame in sobriety.

Laura McKowen is the founder of The Luckiest Club, an international sobriety support community and best-selling author of We Are The Luckiest. In her new book, Push Off From Here - The 9 Essential Truths To Get You Through Sobriety she shares how to get through sobriety in a modern exploration of addiction, sharing practical advice for achieving sobriety and living a fulfilling life in recovery. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

• What it means to live with rollerskates on 
• How to let go of self-stigma
• How Laura started taking responsibility for her drinking
• How to identify the blame stories that you’re telling yourself
• Laura’s favorite part of her new book
• Her favorite part of being sober

For the extended episode about Laura’s advice if you are going back and forth because you believe you aren’t “that bad”, please check out my Living a Sober Powered Life community.

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Connect with Laura:

https://www.lauramckowen.com/books

https://www.theluckiestclub.com/

https://www.instagram.com/laura_mckowen/

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• 30 Day Quit Drinking Course with daily audios to help you work on your mindset about letting drinking go https://quitdrinkingcourse.supercast.com/
• Monthly office hours: ask me anything you’d like live. My audio will be recorded for anyone who can’t join live. I will not be recording the meeting participants. https://officehours.supercast.com/
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• You are not alone eBook with data from almost 700 sober people https://www.soberpowered.com/you-are-not-alone-ebook

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