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Sober Alchemy: A Sacred Path to Healing Our Relationship with Alcohol

Embodiment work offers a profound, loving, and holistic way to transform our relationship with alcohol—by returning us to the deep, innate wisdom of the body.

At its heart, this is a journey of coming home to yourself. Of reclaiming your body as sacred. Of learning to listen deeply to the messages she has always held for you.

Alcohol often becomes a way to cope—to numb pain, soften stress, or soothe unspoken wounds. But through the Ishtara meditative movement method, we’re invited into something different. Instead of avoiding discomfort, we learn to meet it with curiosity, compassion, and gentle presence.

By anchoring into your body, you begin to access a wellspring of intuitive knowing—guidance that reveals the "why" beneath your habits. This is not a path of shame or judgment. It’s a loving return to self—one that honors your story, your body, and your truth.

Through Ishtara’s unique meditative movement method, we create space to reconnect with the sensations, emotions, and energies long held within. These are the very places alcohol may have once masked. And now, with tenderness, they begin to unwind.

This process allows you to release, rewire, and complete old patterns of pain, tension, stress and disconnection. It’s about honoring your body’s rhythm—inviting more flow, freedom, and inner balance, instead of reaching outward for relief.

As you deepen this relationship with your body, something beautiful begins to emerge: a quiet sense of love, grace, and power. The kind of nourishment that dissolves the need for external soothing—because you’ve learned how to hold yourself with sacred care.

This journey isn’t about restriction or rigidity. It’s about liberation.

A gentle return to sovereignty.

A soft awakening to the joy and wholeness that’s been waiting within you all along.

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Recovery From Miscarriage

This blog has been in my heart for years and I’ve been procrastinating it because its painful. However, I know it needs to be shared. I’m writing now because I have a strong feeling there are people, women and men, who need to hear it. My prayer is that it will bring hope to one person.

On our wedding, August 19, 2000, our justice of the peace asked in a whisper if we planned on children, Hal and I both nodded yes and she instantly projected her voice to shared a blessing of procreation.

Two years later, December 7, 2002, we experienced a miscarriage, May 8, 2003 a second miscarriage, April 9, 2004 (Good Friday) our third miscarriage. People said its common. Our general practitioner sent us to a specialist. There must be an explanation, a ‘fix’, a something that they can do.

Test after test and another two miscarriages while in the care of the specialist. The specialist did discover things about me but nothing as to why my body was miscarrying our children. There wasn’t an explanation, a ‘fix’, a something that they could do. He literally threw up his hands and said he was so sorry for us.

Our hearts were broken. We didn’t know how to cope. We didn’t know where to go for help. I drank vodka to drown my sorrow, my feelings of unworthiness, and all of those lost dreams. I felt like a failure. Between the fourth and fifth miscarriage my drinking escalated and become unmanageable. All of this was tearing my husband I apart. I could not go on and my husband would not go on watching me kill myself with alcohol. The ultimatum was set down, he reached an emotional bottom, the five miscarriages brought me to my knees and to my last alcoholic bottom.

I found help. It was November 11, 2007, I quit drinking, got sober and started to heal my sorrow and grief. December 3, 2008 we had our sixth miscarriage, I did not use alcohol to cope, to drown my sorrow. I found a solution. Twelve years later, as I live in long term recovery, I have six small holes within me and I’ve grown strength around each of them. My eyes fill with tears and my throat constricts as I write. Its painful, but where there is sorrow there is joy. I have joy today.

If you are struggling or someone you know is struggling with miscarriage and alcohol, you are not alone. There is help. Please reach out, I would be so happy to share my personal coaching journey from sorrow to joy.

Amy Winehouse

Finally saw the Amy Winehouse movie.  I knew her story would stay with me, it stayed with me when I read the biography and now seeing the documentary, I just knew I had to write and share.

As a person in recovery and a Recovery Addictions Life Coach, it was very obvious to me that Amy never had true support. Support that would do and say the hard things for her. Say those things from their heart that would have impacted her life.