Recommended by Dana Leigh Lyons
Julie offers a no-bullshit approach to sharing her sobriety and recovery story while generously inviting readers into her real-time, in-the-raw process of figuring out how to human with humour, humility, badassery, and care. Hard recommend!
In the months leading up to my decision to quit alcohol as a “gray area drinker” without “a problem,” I binged Jolene’s podcast (EDIT: Editing Our Drinking & Our Lives). Later, I was thrilled to find her on Substack and to see how she weaves together conversations on supportive eating, functional medicine, aging, and spirituality. I consider Jolene a kindred spirit and recommend, recommend, recommend.
Allison is a kindred spirit when it comes to embracing an expansive, un-ended approach to recovery (including as relates to alcohol, social media, and life more widely). She’s a beautiful human who embodies kindness, consciousness, clarity, and courage.
Susie writes about finding serenity in nature and navigating long-term sobriety with tools and lessons learned while growing flowers and food, cooking, and spending time outdoors on her island home in Martha’s Vineyard. Her tapestry of nature, creativity, and sobriety is pure delight!
Doctor of Chinese Medicine and shamanic practitioner Randal Lyons (who happens to be my partner) shares a holistic approach to escaping addictive cycles and finding long-term sobriety. My favourite feature on The Sober Shaman is Medicine wRites, a series that includes audios of Randy drumming while guiding shamanic writing exercises. Randy is coming up on 30 years sober and has been working in the field for more than two decades.
