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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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Gifts of Sobriety - Freedom

My very first inklings of a new freedom were upon awakening, knowing it was 6 am and not 6 pm.  Opening my eyes without my head pounding and my mouth parched.   Feelings of happiness and not of shame and guilt of what took place in the previous hours. At days end, lying my head on the pillow with a smile and a full heart with one more day of sobriety.

Today I am free from the obsessive drinking and obsessive thinking of drinking.

Acceptance and surrender signal the beginning of freedom and happiness.  Once I arrived at this place, my healing began.

Thousands of $$$ Spent on Booze....Addiction is Expensive

While walking my sweet dog Ollie today, a memory of an exercise I did during the first weeks of sobriety came flooding in.  It was such a strong memory, I could feel cigarette smoke in my throat.

From November 11 to November 26, 2007 I spent my days at a government day treatment program.  Here I learned about addiction.  They asked our group to write down the amount of liquor drank on a daily basis and calculate the monthly amount of money spent. 

I was so shocked to learn I spend over $1,000.00 a month in secret!

This $1,000 did not include when my husband and I went out for dinners, to friends parties, had people in to our home, Saturday afternoon cocktails at the neighbors and in our local pubs.

Frequently I speak with people who are wishing to make changes in their lives and to create a new lifestyle for themselves and they're families.  Some see the value in getting sober and creating a new lifestyle and some don't.  I was willing to spend whatever it would take to get sober and stay sober!

What value do you put on your transformation from addiction to recovery?

Is today the day you decide you're worth saving?

Procrastination & Recovery

Lately I've been procrastinating. While in a session with my coach I shared with her the 'whys' I haven't been following through, completing tasks, and creating a new weekly habit of writing.

So I've decided to be brave, become vulnerable with words and accept that I can't control how people perceive my words and how they feel when reading my words.

With some research and searching my heart I learned new things and I'm so excited to share with you. Here goes…….