Podcast appearances and mentions of ann dowsett johnston

Ann Dowsett Johnston @anndowsettjohnstonofficial is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post. In Drink, Ann blew the whistle on the pinking of the alcohol industry, revealing the targeting of women. A seasoned award-winning journalist, Ann became a psychotherapist five years ago. As well, she runs a popular online memoir-writing course for women called Writing Your Recovery. Well-known for her advocacy in the worlds of mental health and addiction, Ann has received numerous awards, included an honorary degree from Queen's University. She lives in Toronto, Canada.We chat about how women we targeted by the Big Alcohol Companies in the 90's and us women are now coming to realise that alcohol is not serving us at all anymore. We also chat about shame and how it really holds us back from seeking help. Ann has been hugely influential to me on my journey and I really hope you enjoy it. Today's episode is kindly sponsored by Drink Nolo @idrinknolo. Drink Nolo is an Irish company based in County Cork selling a beautiful range of luxurious and premium non alcohol drink options. Order some gorgeous drinkies here:An exquisite selection of non-alcoholic drinks in Ireland – DrinkNolo.ieFor more information on Alcohol Free Living,Follow Olivia on Instagram @greyareadrinker Visit Olivia's website www.greyareadrinker.ie

Hey fam! We're on a summer break, but will be back soon. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this encore episode!Tawny and Lisa talk to (and fangirl!) Ann Dowsett Johnston, the bestselling author of DRINK: THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN AND ALCOHOL, the book that broke the story on the pinking of the alcohol market and the closing of the risky drinking gender gap. Now a psychotherapist, Ann also runs her popular memoir-writing course called Writing Your Recovery, open to women. They talk about the changes in the recovery community over the last 10 years and the power of writing our truth. To sign up for Ann's October workshop, click here or here.  Music Minute features Van Morrison. This episode is sponsored by Soberlink's commitment to accountability for folks in recovery. Request an exclusive $50 off promo code by visiting: www.soberlink.com/recovery-rocks  Pre-Order Tawny's book, Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze Subscribe to Tawny's sober dating advice column, "Beyond Liquid Courage" Click here to submit a question.  Purchase Lisa's memoir, Girl Walks Out of a Bar

Today's guest is the wonderful Ann Dowsett Johnston who many of you will have heard of – she is a pioneer of the modern recovery movement and published her book "Drink" back in 2013 – which makes it one of the very first QuitLit books In this episode:- Ann's book Drink has been out for more than a decade and is still selling well – her TED talk has had 1.5m views  I did a previous interview with Ann a couple of years ago that you can listen to here.  The prologue to the book describes alcohol's seductive charm…and eventual harm I love this analogy and here at Tribe Sober we suggest that our members write a Goodbye letter to alcohol as it evolves from a handsome stranger to an abusive lover Ann predicted the dramatic rise in risky drinking for women, which has sadly come true over the last decade There is an epidemic of female drinking, especially among younger women, with serious health consequences – we are even seeing young women presenting with liver disease The alcohol industry has been targeting women for the last couple of decades – using the tobacco marketing playbook  and they've been stunningly successful Many of us believed that we couldn't have fun or relax or cope with stress without alcohol – and it certainly takes a few months to deprogram our thinking, to overturn those limiting belief Ann is from Canada so had first hand experience of the public backlash that the low drinking guidelines (two drinks a week) caused! The reduction in drinking guidelines came as new research was published linking alcohol to cancer and many other health conditions Ann and I both love the modern recovery movement and the many different recovery pathways – I often say that if you want to give up drinking you need to find your people – if you think that Tribe Sober might be your community then go to tribesober.com and hit join our tribe Ann mentioned the three levers for change: price, marketing reduction, and availability, but government action is slow and Big Alcohol will continue to use its lobbying power So as individuals we must actively seek out the knowledge – we need to educate ourselves about the harm that alcohol can do to our brains and our bodies Knowledge is power and the more we understand about alcohol the less we'll feel like drinking it Even if we decide to drink it should be an informed decision, we need to understand the risks Ann talked about her "Writing Your Recovery" courses which offers support and tools for memoir writing. Its a powerful 8-week online memoir-writing course. Starts on 24th April and accommodates various timezones – go to her website annsdowsettjohnston.com for more info – I'll put the links in the shownotes Ann will also be facilitating a South African writing retreat during week commencing 15th October – you can get on the waiting list for that by emailing info@bkr.co.za Ann now has 15 years of sobriety and spoke of the many benefits she has experienced She returned to school at 64 to become a psychotherapist, specializing in women's substance issues and trauma She has a wonderful relationship with her grandchild Ann strongly believes that once we walk away from alcohol remarkable things will happen – the universe has a plan for us – she is awakened to wonder as she puts it She's built a rich and an alcohol free life that she loves, a life she definitely doesn't want to escape from! More Info Tribe Sober membership – you can join up HERE. To access our website, click HERE. If you would like a free copy of our “Annual Tracker” or our e-book 66 Days to Sobriety, please email janet@tribesober.com. If you would like to come to our Saturday afternoon Zoom Cafe as a guest and meet our community, just email janet@tribesober.com.   Episode Sponsor This episode is sponsored by the Tribe Sober Membership Program.  If you want to change your relationship with alcohol then sign up today Read more about our program and subscribe HERE Help us to Spread the Word! We made this podcast so that we can reach more people who need our help.  Please subscribe and share. If you enjoyed the podcast, then please leave us a 5-star review on Apple podcasts. Take a screenshot of your review, and DM it to Tribe Sober's Instagram page – see PS below for instructions. We'll send you something special to say thank you! We release a podcast episode every Saturday morning. You can follow Tribe Sober on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can join our private Facebook group HERE.

In this episode, I sit down with author Ann Dowsett Johnston to discuss the complex relationship between women and alcohol. Ann shares her personal journey with addiction and recovery, and how societal expectations have enabled problematic drinking patterns. We explore the manipulation of big alcohol companies and how perfectionism fuels isolation. Episode Highlights: Alcohol functions as a "steroid" enabling women to manage multiple responsibilities Big alcohol targets women through normalisation and health claims not supported by evidence Addiction stems from perfectionism, loneliness and the pressure to meet unrealistic standards Authenticity and self-care are discovered through sobriety rather than drinking to conform Storytelling and connection are powerful ways to break the cycle of shame surrounding alcohol Episode links & Resources: Find out more about Ann at https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/ Buy Ann's book: "Drink - the intimate relationship between women and alcohol" at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/drink-ann-dowsett-johnston?variant=32208103505954 Follow Ann on Insta at https://www.instagram.com/anndowsettjohnstonofficial/ Learn more about Emma Gilmour at: www.hoperisingcoaching.com Follow Emma Gilmour on insta @hoperisingcoaching Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midlife-af-podcast/id1649673705

In this powerful episode, Melissa discusses Ann Dowsett Johnston's best-selling book "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol" on the 10th anniversary of its release. Women are drinking alcohol more than ever and Johnston discusses why this is problematic and why we can no longer afford to ignore the growing crisis of binge drinking in our "alcogenic" culture. Melissa and Ann share their personal stories of their relationship with alcohol and why you don't need to be dependent on it to reassess its role in your life. Find Ann Dowsett Johnston on her website AnnDowsettJohnston.com or on Instagram @AnnDowsettJohnston. Find Melissa Grelo on Instagram @MelissaGrelo and @AgingPowerfullyWithMG, or on her website AgingPowerfullyWithMelissaGrelo.com. Find clips of the show on YouTube @MelissaGrelo. Producer: Melissa Grelo. Technical Producer and Editor: Drew Garner. 

How do you go public with your sobriety? What if everyone warns you it will be the end of your career if you do? Ann and Veronica discuss how they went public with their sobriety and the confusion between anonymity and secrecy. To learn more, visit the show notes.

Ann joins Veronica to explore how trauma can be the root of an alcohol problem and how we need to heal this trauma in order to stay sober. To learn more, visit the show notes.

Mom juice, mom wine, mom water. Veronica is joined by guest co-host Ann Dowsett Johnston to discuss how the alcohol market is deliberately targeting mothers. By emphasizing how hard motherhood is, the loneliness, depression and exhaustion, they are positioning alcohol as the answer. Veronica and Ann have a few things to say about this! To learn more, visit the show notes.

Alcohol: friend or foe? Good question. Alcohol has a common presence in relationships and in breakups. Ann tells her story of finding out that she was truly an alcoholic. She outs herself in her book called "Drink". Many people know the woes of alcohol but not as many know both the woes and wins of sobriety. Listen as Ann shares her lessons, her heartache, and discovers her gains! We have a Patreon membership account! Please check out how to participate behind the scenes and collaborate on growing the podcast! You can visit www.patreon.com/unbreakmyheart.com for more information. Check out Ann's book here: Drink

“A wise companion on the sober journey, Gayle Macdonald offers nurturing support. A gem of a book for all those new to recovery.” —Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of Drink I am beyond excited to share with you the launch of my new book. Sober Bliss: Quit Drinking Feel Good. In this special edition of the podcast, I read the first setion of my book. This is a warm, uplifitng and insirng book that will help you through the first three months of your sober journey feeling nourished and supported. Get the Book

Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol celebrates 10 years today! Tune in as we talk to the author, Ann Dowsett Johnston, award-winning journalist, TEDx Speaker and Founder of the Writing Your Recovery Workshops about women's relationship with alcohol 10 years on. Is alcohol still the modern women's steroid that helps us do the heavy lifting? It was a brave act to speak out in the way Ann did 10 years ago. At the time, Ann became the modern face of alcoholism. “What I wanted to do with my book was to blow the doors wide open and say if I can have an alcohol issue, as Vice Principal of a University, anyone can” says Ann. It's true. Drink gave permission for women to say “this is happening to me and my family as well”. For that, so many of us will forever be grateful to Ann.Drink was and is a revolutionary book ahead of its time, interweaving Ann's personal alcohol story with crucial research and interviews about the startling rise of risky drinking among women. Drink was named one of the 10 best books of 2013 by the Washington Post. Ann is now a psychotherapist helping other women to recover, a speaker and founder of the Writing Your Recovery Workshops, open to women internationally. Tune in to this conversation to hear about what life is like 15 year's sober and Ann's views on women's relationship with alcohol today. Ann's Website: https://www.anndowsettjohnston.comWriting Your Recovery Workshops: https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/workshopsAnn's TEDx Talk on Drinking and How it Changed My Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqtZjpI1oVQ Megan Webb: https://glassfulfilled.com.auInstagram: @glassfulfilledIsabella Ferguson: https://isabellaferguson.com.auInstagram: @alcoholandstresswithisabellaInstagram: @kidsandalcohol

Tawny and Lisa talk to (and fangirl!) Ann Dowsett Johnston, the bestselling author of DRINK: THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN AND ALCOHOL, the book that broke the story on the pinking of the alcohol market and the closing of the risky drinking gender gap. Now a psychotherapist, Ann also runs her popular memoir-writing course called Writing Your Recovery, open to women. They talk about the changes in the recovery community over the last 10 years and the power of writing our truth. To sign up for Ann's October workshop, click here or here.  Music Minute features Van Morrison. This episode is sponsored by Soberlink's commitment to accountability for folks in recovery. Request an exclusive $50 off promo code by visiting: www.soberlink.com/recovery-rocks  Pre-Order Tawny's book, Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze Subscribe to Tawny's sober dating advice column, "Beyond Liquid Courage" Click here to submit a question.  Purchase Lisa's memoir, Girl Walks Out of a Bar

Writing Your Recovery with Ann Dowsett Johnston. I am beyond excited to share this podcast interview with the absolutely lovely Ann Dowsett Johnston. If you don't know, Ann is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of ‘Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol' which is still as relevant today as when Ann wrote it, ten years ago. Ann is an amazing woman who has helped to transform lives, through her writing, with her work on removing the stigma surrounding mental illness and addiction and most recently in her role as a psychotherapist. This is a wonderful conversation and I am incredibly grateful to Ann for sticking with me as she had a terrible cold that day. Ann and I discuss the pinking of the market by the alcohol companies; the normalising of what Ann calls the modern woman's steroid, and the risky drinking by intelligent, successful women. We also talked about Ann's book, Ann's personal story about hr own drinking and how she quit, the healing power of writing in recovery, and how you can be supported by Ann and other women on the same journey as you in Ann's nourishing and incredibly healing, ‘Writing your Recovery' course. Ann shares some of her other tools on how to change your relationship with alcohol both in the early days and long term and we also get an insight into Ann's new book. So, grab a cuppa, settle in and enjoy. Resources for more support Join Ann's Writing Your Recovery Course (starting April 12th) The Sober Bliss Website

In this previously recorded session of our educational series, Mental Health Monday, bestselling author Ann Dowsett Johnston, discusses how writing can be a powerful tool in recovery, and how we can shape our own stories. Ann believes writing is a process of discovery and at the heart of good writing is finding your voice. She guides us to explore how to tell the stories that are deep within us and how to frame our work and even get it published.During this session Ann helps us to understand:Writing as a tool of recoveryHow to excavate stories and give a voice to our secretsHow to develop the narrative arc and see your work get publishedYou will also hear an engaging Q&A between Ann and SHE RECOVERS co-founder, Dr. Dawn Nickel.ABOUT ANN DOWSETT JOHNSTONAnn Dowsett Johnston is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named by the Washington Post as one of the top 10 books of 2013. An award-winning journalist with more than 30 years experience, Ann is now a practicing psychotherapist. Three years ago, she launched her popular Writing Your Recovery series, memoir-writing courses for women in recovery. Ann has won many awards for her work in battling the stigma around mental health and addiction, including an honorary doctorate from Queen's University. She lives in Toronto. Visit Ann's website: https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/EPISODE RESOURCESyOUR story speaker sessionsIntroduction to Recovery Storytelling WorkshopSHE RECOVERS in ChicagoSHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves and help other women to do the same.If you found this conversation helpful please consider making a donation to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSHE RECOVERS® Foundation Headquarters is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tewa people—O'gah'poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place)—now present day Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I am an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, turned psychotherapist. For more than 25 years, I worked at Maclean's magazine, Canada's newsweekly, where I was perhaps best known as the chief architect of the Maclean's university rankings—and for a series of columns on modern life, including “The Boy Can't Sleep,” anthologized in Carol Shields' Dropped Threads II. Drink book by Ann Dowsett Johnston Winner of seven National Magazine Awards, I am also the recipient of a Southam Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. It was for the latter that I prepared a 14-part series on Women and Alcohol in the Toronto Star, looking at the closing gender gap on risky drinking. In 2013, I wrote Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post. Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, the book exposes the “pinking” of the alcohol industry. Says Gabor Mate: “The writing is gripping and vivid, the voice personal, the research exacting, the stories revealing if sometimes heartbreaking, the conclusions essential. A triumphant life, a triumphant book.” ‍ Since the publication of Drink, I have worked hard to destigmatize mental health and addiction, earning an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's University for my efforts. I am also the recipient of a Transforming Lives award from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the American Research Society on Addiction's Media Award, plus the T. A. Sweet Award from the Ontario Psychiatric Association for helping address stigma related to mental health and addiction. ‍ In 2017, I decided to follow my heart, applying to the Master's of Social Work program at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. What this represents is the fulfillment of a decades-old dream: to become a psychotherapist. During my internships, I worked at the Jean Tweed Centre in Toronto, and with psychotherapist Jan Winhall at Focusing on Borden.Writing remains a significant part of my life, and I am hard at work on my second book. In my spare time, I am a white-water reader, a lover of nature, and a traveller. I am the mother of one grown son, Nicholas Johnston, also a psychotherapist, who is married and lives in Los Angeles. https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/workshops https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/about-ann     Viv, aka Sober_iThrive, is a Certified Addictions Recovery Coach My Sober Recovery Story #252  If you have any questions or You would like to book a FREE 30-minute consultation with me, you can visit my website https://www.soberithrive.org I'm Certified in Addiction Recovery Coaching and Life Coaching:    • Life Coaching Essentials, Work/Life Balance  • Co-creating a New Sober Lifestyle  • Addiction(s) Recovery  • Neuroscience of Brain Function & Joyful Recovery  • Roots of Addiction(s)  • Alcohol/Drugs and their Effects  • Right Thinking in Recovery  • Family Issues in Recovery     And so much more…   My communities are:   • Sobertownpodcast.com   • I Am Sober Community (IAS) - @Sober_iThrive  • Sobertown Facebook Group   • “Valiants We Thrive” – Sober Women Telegram Group  • Instagram: @Sober_i_Thrive  www.soberithrive.org (https://www.soberithrive.org/) Certified and Licensed Addiction and Recovery Professional Online Sober Coaching for all of your addiction and recovery needs by a Internationally Certified and Licensed Sober Coach & Life Coach   No Sippy No Slippy. Not Another Drop No matter What.   Remember to Pour The Poison Down The Sink!!      Sobertownpodcast.com  

If you recently saw the revised drinking guidelines in Canada and gasped, you're not alone. Most Canadians are drinking more than two drinks a week, the new low-risk maximum. Ann Dowsett Johnston is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post. Ann is also now a psychotherapist, and Wendy's friend, mentor and writing coach.   Ann joins Wendy for a discussion about the new alcohol consumption guidelines in Canada released by the Centre on Substance Use and Addiction which replace the 2011 Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines. The new guidelines present a continuum of health risks associated with different levels of alcohol consumption, including the risks of breast and colon cancer, heart disease and stroke. Ann and Wendy discuss what now constitutes low-risk, moderate and high-risk drinking, and whether our thinking needs to change in terms of what constitutes “problematic” drinking and the way we approach this issue and support each other as women. They discuss why, almost 10 years later, as Ann so aptly stated in Drink, alcohol is still “the modern woman's steroid”, and how the overwhelm and stress of the pandemic has spiked drinking levels and continued to normalize women's drinking as a necessary tool of working motherhood. They also discuss the role of alcohol marketing (specifically at women), pricing, and availability have contributed to the normalization of drinking at risky levels and why much of this is a feminist issue. They talk about what needs to happen next, including alcohol labelling and warnings on bottles, and why Big Alcohol is so resistant to these steps. Grab a cup of tea and join Wendy and Ann for a engaging, and thought-provoking conversation! Info on Ann's Writing Your Discovery Courses and psychotherapy services: https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/ Ann's Ted Talk: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqtZjpI1oVQ

In this episode I 'soul dive' with the gorgeous Sarah Levine, who is an holistic mindset coach for women in recovery and a writer working on her memoir. We met through the process of doing best selling author of 'Drink', Ann Dowsett Johnston's course ' Writing your Recovery' and share our experiences of how writing in recovery and writing our recovery has been a therapeutic foundational piece of The Journey. We talk writing, Internal Family Systems and why we as women need to reclaim our story telling and connect with each other.  Smart Recovery advocates having a  VACI as part of the sober toolkit - (Vital Absorbing Creative Interest) and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi conducted extensive research into states of Flow and how creativity boosts resilience and helps post-traumatic growth and healing.  So let's grab a cuppa and chat  Kate x  Links and resourses: Ann Dowsett Johnston Course - Writing Your Recovery (starting 18th Jan 2023) https://writingyourrecovery.com/register/ How to find Sarah:  Web: https://sarahlevinecoaching.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/sarahlevinecoaching/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahlevinecoaching  

Lindsay Sutherland Boal is an actress. opera singer, long distance runner, certified life coach and founder of She Walks Canada, and podcast host of The Covid Chronicles Canada. Lindsay tried to get sober six times before she was successful--namely because she didn't know what her recovery options were. She shares what finally saved her was confiding in a group of women on the same path as her, as well as simply walking! We discuss the lies that she believed about herself in active addiction, and how trauma makes us believe these things that are not true about ourselves. We also talk about relationships and the part we play in marital or partnership issues. Lindsay shares how she has changed the ways she shows up in the world since becoming sober. Lindsay and I talk about the openness and empathy of the next generation and all of the positive changes that we hope continue to come in the future world because of it. We also discuss self-awareness, recognizing when someone is not benefitting us and being selective with the people we allow into our lives. Lindsay also shares more about She Walks Canada--the movement to empower women to live the lives that they are meant to live. You can find her on her website shewalkscanada.com.Find a copy of Ann Dowsett Johnston's book mentioned in this episode here.Are you a member of the Confident Sober Women Facebook group? It's a free and private space for sober women who want to build confidence, improve their relationships, and love their lives beyond recovery. Join now! You can join the Sober Freedom Inner Circle any time for a group coaching experience that will move your life from good to AMAZING! Grab a copy of my memoir, Recovering in Recovery: The Life-Changing Joy of Sobriety, wherever you buy your books! 

An award-winning journalist and best-selling author who went back to college in her 60s to become a psychotherapist, Ann Dowsett Johnston is writing her next chapter with authenticity and raw honesty. But that's only a piece of her story. She also outed herself to the world as a recovering alcoholic after years of feeling like a failure despite outward success. “…It wasn't until I wrote my book, ‘Drink'where I felt like the most ‘Ann' I've ever felt…the truth of the matter is, I wanted my book to be a secret friend to anyone, any woman, who wasn't willing to say she had a drinking problem…” #liveyourbestlifepodcast #liveyourbestlifewithlizbrunner https://lizbrunner.com/live-your-best-life/ If you have a guest idea, or want to learn more about Brunner Communications, contact Liz at info@LizBrunner.com

An award-winning journalist and best-selling author who went back to college in her 60s to become a psychotherapist, Ann Dowsett Johnston is writing her next chapter with authenticity and raw honesty. But that's only a piece of her story. She also outed herself to the world as a recovering alcoholic after years of feeling like a failure despite outward success. “...It wasn't until I wrote my book, ‘Drink'where I felt like the most ‘Ann' I've ever felt…the truth of the matter is, I wanted my book to be a secret friend to anyone, any woman, who wasn't willing to say she had a drinking problem…” You can get to know Ann, her book, “Drink” and more at anndowsettjohnston.com #liveyourbestlifepodcast #liveyourbestlifewithlizbrunner https://lizbrunner.com/live-your-best-life/ If you have a guest idea, or want to learn more about Brunner Communications, contact Liz at info@LizBrunner.com

Ann is the best-selling author of the book Drink, that anonymously interviewed alcoholic women and told their stories.  Some AA members were unhappy with her writing it.  Ann discusses all the different paths, programs, etc. to recovery as well as the stigma and shame with alcoholic women. Ann and I discuss her thoughts on burnout in women and how it can lead to alcoholism, as well as other contributing factors to the rising number of women who are alcoholics.  She describes how society asks the question “What happened to that woman?” instead of “What's wrong with that woman?” (looking at the trauma behind the addiction). Our discussions leads to all the propaganda and sensationalizing of alcohol/alcoholism with our youth. Normalizing overwhelm and talking about different ways to cope with it. Ann shared how writing is her therapy and keeping gratitude journals–being grateful for all the good and the bad. You can find Ann on her website https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com and her book Drink wherever you buy your books!Other resources mentioned: One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

In this episode I have the wonderful opportunity to talk once again with Ann Dowsett Johnston. Ann is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post. An award-winning journalist for many years, Ann is now a psychotherapist and the founder and leader of Writing Your Recovery, a popular online memoir-writing course for women. https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/workshops Winner of seven National Magazine Awards, she is also the recipient of a Southam Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. It was for the latter that she prepared a 14-part series on Women and Alcohol in the Toronto Star, looking at the closing gender gap on risky drinking. In 2013, she wrote Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post. We talk about why writing is such an important tool for women in recovery, how to look after yourself emotionally in the process and rules of self-disclosure. Ann also gives us her expert tips on how to get started as a writer. Ann has advised many authors including Holly Whittaker when she wrote 'Quit Like a Woman' and so I'm honoured to have her sharing her experience and passion on the podcast.  What a treat! Grab a cuppa and let's chat Love Kate x     

A Canadian, an American and a Brit walk into a bar… for a light-hearted discussion about alcohol. Our experiences of it and our social obsession with it. Are you into it, or over it? Host Linda McLachlan and friends, Vijay Chavda and Ryan Geismar chat about how alcohol has played a role in their lives - from childhood to parenthood. How have things around us changed, how have we changed? Is sobriety (or some level of abstinence) easier or harder now? And what are the options? So… are you into it, or over it? Linda openly acknowledges the generous and life changing writing and work of https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com (Ann Dowsett Johnston) writer of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol and https://thisnakedmind.com/annie-grace/ (Annie Grace) writer of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life. Both Ann and Annie's work helped her choose to live sober since April 27, 2019. Originally recorded on Fireside Chat with an interactive audience. This is an edit version of that conversation. To see the 'live' version of this or other episodes Linda has done on Fireside, check them out here: https://www.firesidechat.com/lindamclachlan (www.firesidechat.com/lindamclachlan) The host of THE ARENA - Living a Courageous Life is Linda McLachlan. All episodes are available via: https://the-arena-podcast.captivate.fm (THE ARENA - Living a Courageous Life website). Follow Linda on: https://the-arena-podcast.captivate.fm/fb (Facebook) https://the-arena-podcast.captivate.fm/li (LinkedIn ) And the legal bits, please note: Explicit 2020-2022 THE ARENA This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Ann Dowsett Johnston is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post. Ann is also now a psychotherapist, and Wendy's mentor and writing coach.  Ann joins Wendy for a discussion about the new face of women's recovery, and the powerful role that writing can play for women recovering from addictions and over-drinking, eating disorders, illness, and trauma. They also discuss the new ending Ann has planned for the 10th-anniversary edition of Drink and what Ann is exploring in her second book, which she's hard at work on now. They discuss why, almost 10 years later, as Ann so aptly stated in Drink, alcohol is still “the modern woman's steroid”, and how the overwhelm and stress of the pandemic has spiked drinking levels and continued to normalize women's drinking as a necessary tool of working motherhood. Grab a cup of tea and join Wendy and Ann for a down-to-earth, engaging, and thought-provoking conversation! Info on Ann's Writing Your Discovery Courses and psychotherapy services: https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/ Ann's Ted Talk: ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqtZjpI1oVQ

Tribe Sober - inspiring an alcohol-free life! When I was contemplating sobriety I read a couple of books that really resonated with me – one was Caroline Knapp: Drinking a Love Story and the other one was Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol  That book was published back in 2013 and it was a book that predicted the huge rise in risky drinking for women – a prediction that sadly has come true. In her book Ann skilfully combines in-depth research with her own moving story of alcohol abuse. She highlights the positive fact that women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational lives BUT they have also achieved equality with men by drinking at unhealthy levels. Unfortunately our bodies are not equal to a man's body when it comes to metabolising alcohol – we get dependent quicker and it damages our health to a higher degree. Ann explains how the alcohol industry had been ruthlessly targeting women for the last two decades – and how successful they have been In this episode Anns drinking became problematic as she hit menopause – her son was going off to college and she had empty nest syndrome. She became depressed but didn't want anti depressants (as her mom had fallen prey to the combination of cocktails and Valium) so she started to rely on wine to “take the edge off” In her 50's Ann became so worried about her drinking that she took herself off to rehab. However it didn't work.  Leaving rehab she had no idea how to navigate normal life and we agreed that this is a “missing piece” in some rehabs. She found herself sneaking drinks for 3 months and then began to feel suicidal – her ex husband suggested a meeting which was the beginning of her recovery For Ann her recovery meant she had to unpick her life and rebuild it so that it didn't involve alcohol – this took years and year one was particularly hard. This got me reflecting on our Tribe Sober community. We sometimes get people saying "I haven't had a drink for 2 weeks – why do I still feel rubbish?!" When we embark on this life changing journey I think we have to be patient and play the long game –  listen to Tribe Sober podcast number 61 and you will hear Dr Dawn explain that for every year that we drank we should allow a month of recovery. What I've observed after helping hundreds of people to get sober is that it takes a year for sobriety to stick – 6 months of focusing on changing your behaviour so that you no longer drink, followed by 6 months of reconfiguring your life so that you can create a life you don't want to escape from. As we always say you have to “throw the book at it” and give it your all – you heard Ann say that this journey is not for the faint hearted but the rewards are huge and the rest of your life will be healthier and happier – you know you're worth it (as the hair colour ad used to say!) We talked about my decade of moderation and Anne reminded me that in Caroline Knapps book she says that the average period of “negotiation” we do is about 12 years. There has been a more recent study by the Tempest that says that it usually takes someone about 11 years between recognising that they have a problem with alcohol and reaching out for help This is where the power of community comes in – if I had been in a sober community when I was trying (and failing) to moderate my drinking, they would have told me to stop wasting my time trying to control and addictive substance.  Of course now I know that once we have crossed a line with our drinking there is no going back – we just have to ditch the stuff and learn how to thrive in our alcohol free lives. So if you are in that period of “negotiation”, setting rules, trying to moderate don't waste 11 years of your life – go to tribesober.com and join our community today. We agreed that the liquor industry has hijacked the feminist movement convincing us we need mommyjuice to parent and wine for self care. Anne highlighted these facts in her book 8 years ago and she feels that things have got even worse since then. Women have to get smart and as Ann put it “democratically we are equal but metabolically and hormonally we are not equal to men” Ann is part of the Hola Sober team with the wonderful Susan Christina (you can listen to Susan Christina on Tribe Sober podcast episode 67). Ann is excited about the way the modern recovery movement is evolving and how there are so many different ways to get sober these days. We talked about the fact that sobriety will give us so much more than it takes away – if you are having a wobble in your sobriety then do the exercise that Ann's son made her do – a list of gains and losses. She talks movingly about this on her fabulous TED talk – I'll put the link in the show notes. Ann loves writing and runs an 8 week online recovery writing course which will help you to write your memoir and then get published – check it out on her website which is https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/ I'll put the link in the shownotes I loved her story about carrying Caroline Knapps Drinking a Love Story book in her brief case when she was contemplating getting sober – that's what inspired her to write Drink so make sure you get a copy of that on Amazon and carry it in your bag – whether to inpire you or to keep you on track! It's still January as we record this so if you are ready to dip your toe in the waters of sobriety and test your dependence then please check out our January Challenge on tribesober.com – for a small donation to a good cause you will get online and community support for an alcohol free month And if its not January then just go to tribesober.com and hit “join our tribe” – as a new member we'll chat to you about your needs and design you a tailor made sobriety journey that will change your life!  SIGN UP FOR THE JANUARY CHALLENGE HERE If you are listening to this and it's not January don't worry - we've got you covered - all you need to do is to go to our tribesober.com and hit Join Our Tribe and we'll put you on our 30 day starter challenge for new members. 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When Ann Dowsett Johnston attended her son's graduation from Smith College she felt a “deep pang” that she says sounded like, “I will die and never have done this.” With her son's encouragement, Johnston applied to Smith and moved into the student dorm with 25-year olds the next year. “I had broken my ankle and was in a wheelchair,” she says. “I was as old as many parents or grandparents. It was a phenomenal experience.”  After graduating Johnston, a Canadian, who had been a journalist, then vice-principal of McGill University, launched her career as a psychotherapist at age 67 dealing with women in transition--”to post-retirement, wrestling with substance abuse or career disappointment”.  When she found she missed writing, she dug into a topic she knew well: alcohol addiction (she is now 13 years sober). In 2013, she wrote the best-selling book, “Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol.”  Today she runs memoir-writing workshops (“Writing Your Recovery”) in which she encourages women to tell their own stories of triumph over grief, substance, or burnout. “We have book proposals in the alumni group before international agents now,...articles in major magazines... pieces submitted to contests,” she says. “My approach to life is that we live in chapters. When friends are retiring, mine is fresh and inspirational. It's very new. I plan to work until I'm eighty to pay off my student debt!” FREE GIFT! Don't start your reinvention without downloading CoveyClub's starter guide called “31 Badass Tips for Launching Your Reinvention Without Fear!”

Ann Dowsett Johnston is the guest speaker for the inaugural recovery breakfast hosted by Sophia Recovery Centre next Monday.

Alcohol: friend or foe? Good question. Alcohol has a common presence in relationships and in breakups. Ann tells her story of finding out that she was truly an alcoholic. She outs herself in her book called "Drink". Many people know the woes of alcohol but not as many know both the woes and wins of sobriety. Listen as Ann shares her lessons, her heartache, and discovers her gains! We have a Patreon membership account! Please check out how to participate behind the scenes and collaborate on growing the podcast! You can visit www.patreon.com/unbreakmyheart.com for more information. Check out Ann's book here: Drink

Ann Dowsett Johnston joins us today to discuss a Tricky Situation - Alcohol and Women. Why is this a female-specific issue? It turns out that women drink because of stress much more than men do, and now alcoholic beverages have become marketed specifically to women. There is no real health link between alcohol and our hearts, and in fact there is a link between alcohol and cancer. So, why are we drinking so much? It's OKAY to look at this question of WHY. Instead of “I deserve this,” ask the question “what is it costing me?” Ann will explain these concepts and so much more in this podcast.   Ann Dowsett Johnston is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post. An award-winning journalist and graduate of Smith College, Ann is now a practicing psychotherapist and the founder of Writing Your Recovery, a popular memoir-writing course. Ann has earned many awards for her work in destigmatizing addiction. She can be found on Facebook and Instagram @anndowsettjohnston and on her website at anndowsettjohnston.com. Anyone can sign up for her new writing course—you just need the ability to journal. Visit her website for more information.   Dr. Hammerstedt and her lifestyle coaching team can be found at www.wholisthealth.com and @wholisthealth on Facebook and Instagram as well as the public Facebook group Curate Your Health. Wholist helps high performing women and men lose weight for the last time, with an innovative food and mindset coaching program to blueprint YOUR optimal body and mind, with real food, real work, real results… and no products or BS. Come curate YOUR sustainable health future, and personal and professional dynasty.   And remember, Who you choose to be Matters. You are valuable, You are worth this, You are your WholeYou.

Today's Unashamed Alcoholic guest is Ann Dowsett Johnston. Ann is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post. An award-winning journalist with more than 40 years of experience, she has also been a vice-principal of McGill University. Ann is a practicing psychotherapist, a Focusing-oriented trainer and the founder of Writing Your Recovery, a memoir-writing course.I read Drink when I was trying to get sober and I was fascinated by the connections outlined between women and alcohol.I hope you enjoy my conversation with Ann.Support the show

My first guest brings hope in the form of a new test to detect early Ovarian and Uterine cancers. Dr. Lucy Gilbert is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at McGill University. She and her team have recently developed an innovative genomic uterine pap-test and joins me to share the exciting details ahead of World Ovarian Cancer Day on May 8th. Tanya Hayles brings hope to her online global village of over 20,000 women, called Black Moms Connection. Tanya’s non-profit provides culturally relevant programs and resources to educate and empower the Black mother and her family. Anne Brodie has an exclusive interview today with Ottawa native, Kari Skloglund, who also happens to be the executive producer and director of Disney+ smash hit, The Falcon and the Winter solider. We definitely want to hear what she said about directing this wonderfully ambitious series with a woman’s touch. Meridian Credit Union is taking things back to basics for us this year and building out a masterclass series called “Take Control Woman!” exclusively with What She Said. VP of Wealth, Dilys D’Cruz joins me to share how we’re going to help women manage their finances through life’s various stages, from the basics, to money conversations, to building our wealth. I am so excited to be kicking this off today. Dr. Saadia Sediqzadah is a psychiatrist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and specializes in the care of patients with severe and persistent mental illness and provides care for people who are precariously housed. We talk about the pressure our current mental health crisis is having on mental health professionals, and how the pandemic is impacting those with mental illness. Finally, my Dry January turned into Dry February, March and April, and I noticed a lot of women are either dropping alcohol all together or severely limiting it’s use. Ann Dowsett Johnston the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol joins me to discuss the reasons why women are giving up drinking and embracing alcohol free lives. Dr. Gilbert Website: https://drgilbert.ca/ & https://doveegene.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/leprojetdovee Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leprojetdovee Other: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-gilbert-10332746/ Tanya Hayles Website: tanyahayles.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/tanyahayles Instagram: instagram.com/thetanyahayles Other: colorinwhitespaces.com, blackmomsconnection.com Meridian Credit Union Website: https://www.meridiancu.ca/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeridianCU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeridianCreditUnion/ Instagram: @meridiancreditunion Saadia Sediqzadah Twitter: @saadia_sediq Ann Dowsett Johnston Website: Anndowsettjohnston.com Twitter: @anndowsettj Instagram: anndowsettjohnston Facebook: Ann Dowsett Johnston

Our Chief Growth Officer Jodi Millen is taking over the interview role. Our guest is a psychotherapist and best-selling author Ann Dowsett Johnston. They are talking about the negotiation revolution and the crucial conversations that professional couples need to have. This was recorded live as part of our International Women’s Day series called Rising to the Challenge: Taking on the social norms and stereotypes that impede careers and business. After listening to this conversation, you will be armed with the skills to have better conversations with your partners tonight. Because here’s the truth - women can’t take this on alone. You can connect with Ann Dowsett-Johnston here https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/ The Ambition Theory Community is our brand new monthly membership program that supports leaders worldwide to advance their leadership capacity. To join the community, go to https://ambitiontheory.ca

Episode 122 This week we had the great honor of talking to one of the early pioneers in the conversation about women and alcohol. Ann Dowsett Johnston she is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, turned psychotherapist. Winner of seven National Magazine Awards, she is also the recipient of a Southam Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. It was for the latter that she prepared a 14-part series on Women and Alcohol in the Toronto Star, looking at the closing gender gap on risky drinking. In 2013, she wrote Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, a book named one of the top 10 of the year by the Washington Post. Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, the book exposes the “pinking” of the alcohol industry. Says Gabor Mate: “The writing is gripping and vivid, the voice personal, the research exacting, the stories revealing if sometimes heartbreaking, the conclusions essential. A triumphant life, a triumphant book.” Since the publication of Drink, she has worked hard to destigmatize mental health and addiction, earning an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen’s University for her efforts. She is also the recipient of a Transforming Lives award from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the American Research Society on Addiction’s Media Award, plus the T. A. Sweet Award from the Ontario Psychiatric Association for helping address stigma related to mental health and addiction. In 2017, she decided to follow her heart, applying to the Master’s of Social Work program at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. What this represents is the fulfillment of a decades-old dream: to become a psychotherapist. Writing remains a significant part of her life, and she is  hard at work on her second book. She also has recently started a writing group and workshops https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/workshops . In this interview Ann talks openly about her mental health and drinking. Her recovery and finding purpose in her writing to change the conversation around alcohol in society and especially how it is marketed to women. Such a great conversation, we might have been a little over excited! Grab a cuppa and let's chat. Love K & M xxx

Visit DRINKNOPE.com and enter code FAILINGAWESOMELY for 15% off your first order of NOPE beverages now through March 8th 2021. Thank you so much for joining us for another episode about the "Mommy Wine"/Alcohol Culture we live in. Mini and I have had many conversations in recent months about how we are targeted as women not only by wine and spirits companies, but by a society that believes alcohol to be an acceptable, regular part of our daily lives, not just in moderation, but in excess. For some of us, not all, but some of us, that can easily lead to addiction. Our goal is to educate people and change the narrative so that sobriety is no longer seen as a social death sentence and also so that it's not viewed as just a group of alcoholics. Sobriety is simply a healthy lifestyle, sans alcohol. We discuss our research connecting women and alcohol through our favorite quotes from the books, "Quit Like A Woman" by Holly Whitaker and "Drink" by Ann Dowsett Johnston. We also share our FAVORITE new alternative cocktail (mocktail) companies: - NOPE beverages: www.drinknope.com use code FAILINGAWESOMELY for 15% off your order now through March 8th 2021 - Spirity Cocktails: https://www.amazon.com/stores/SPIRITY+COCKTAILS/page/5FAF95CD-A2B2-4DC8-BC61-55F22D9D43A3?ref_=ast_bln - Mingle Mocktails: Visit your local grocery store or Whole Foods and grab a bottle for about $9.00 or have it shipped from amazon for about $12.00/bottle - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mingle+Sparkling+Mocktails/page/D6E45E0F-7728-4F89-9E44-7CCDC5AFCD5A?ref_=ast_bln Read DRINK: https://www.amazon.com/Drink-Intimate-Relationship-Between-Alcohol/dp/006224180X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=520V0UYUFFXA&dchild=1&keywords=drink+by+ann+dowsett+johnston&qid=1614724009&sprefix=drink+by+ann%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1 Read QUIT LIKE A WOMAN: https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Like-Woman-Radical-Obsessed/dp/1984825070/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FOHR5L8O5EF0&dchild=1&keywords=quit+like+a+woman&qid=1614724059&sprefix=quit+like%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1 We'd love to connect and hear from you! Email: failingawesomelypodcast@gmail.com Lindsey's Instagram(s): @lindseyhgarcia // @failingawesomely // @janesdaughters Mini's Instagram: @itsamandacanter NOPE Beverages Instagram: @drinknope

How did women and alcohol become an feminist tradegy? What does it mean to be sober curious? On this week's episode of Energetically You, Megan Swan touches on a controversial topic- mommy wine culture. Many women have fallen hook-line-and-sinker for the powerful ad campaigns that have taught us that real, powerful, fun, women and essentially mothers drink.  Drinking is a power move.  Drinking is self-care.  Wine is essential to humour and motherhood. “For most women [sobriety] is life changing in terms of their overall physical health, mental wellness and their ability to cope.” The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:   Is alcohol holding you back even though you don't have a ‘drinking problem'? Why is wine not self-care? How does alcohol affect our sleep? How does alcohol affect our energy?   Resources we mentioned: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol,  Ann Dowsett Johnston, Harper Wave, 2013.   “For women, heavy drinking has been normalized. That's dangerous.” by Kimberly Kindy & Dan Keating, December 23, 2016, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-women-heavy-drinking-has-been-normalized-thats-dangerous/2016/12/23/   Thank you for listening! Are you curious to learn more about living alcohol free?    Connect with Megan Swan Social: Instagram Facebook Pinterest   Work with Megan Swan www.meganswanwellness.com

***CORRECTION: It is recommended that women have less than 10 drinks per week, not 15.***Ann Dowsett Johnston is the bestselling author of DRINK: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post. Her TED X talk on Women and Alcohol has more than 1.2 million views. An award-winning journalist with seven National Magazine Awards to her name, Ann spent the lion's share of her career at Maclean's magazine, where she is best known as the chief architect of the Maclean's University Ranking project. Now a psychotherapist specializing in women and transition, she splits her time between Toronto and California. We have an honest conversation about women, moms, and alcohol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqtZjpI1oVQ&feature=emb_logo

Ann Dowsett Johnston, the best-selling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, has described the positioning of wine in popular culture as “The modern woman's steroid, enabling her to do everything she needs to do or tries to do”.     And there's one problem with that description of alcohol. It's not true and it doesn't work.   Instead of helping the modern woman do everything she needs to do - wine is a mal-adpative, and highly addictive coping mechanism that's exacerbating stress, anxiety and depression for the modern woman.    On the podcast today Ann and I unpack the complicated and intimate relationship between women and alcohol.    We talk about:  How drinking after a long day of work has become a universal practice. It's being repeated in house after house as women are standing at their kitchen counters in the evening and pouring themselves a glass (or a bottle) of wine.  How successful, professional women are increasingly struggling with drinking even as they rise high on the corporate ladder. How women are using alcohol to self-medicate anxiety, depression, loss and loneliness - including suffering through events like empty-nest syndrome and depression in menopause.  How the messaging that “Mom needs to drink to get through her day, life, kids and work” is being pushed on us - in surround sound - in popular culture and by our alcogenic society.  Why are you able to move forward in a healthy way only once you get out of the drinking cycle. You're finally able to work through underlying issues of anxiety, codependency, trauma, depression, and other factors that are driving you to drink.  How writing your recovery and telling your story can help you unpack your relationship with alcohol and the stories you've told yourself and get to the actual truth of your drinking history with a new understanding and self-compassion. Why the growing movement of women telling their stories of drinking and quitting drinking, with pride and not shame, is helping other women recover in a way that the culture of anonymity in AA does not.  Why it's so important for women who want to stop drinking to develop many layers of support to heal - which can include connecting with women on the alcohol-free path, reading books and memoirs of women who have stopped drinking, learning about the science of alcohol and what it does to your body and mind, joining support programs and creating new coping mechanisms through psychotherapy, counseling or with a sober or addiction coach.  How you can build layers of support to help you change your relationship with drinking - through psychotherapy, coaching, other women in private free Facebook groups online or in person, books, exercise, nutrition and more.    About Ann Dowsett Johnston Anne Dowsett Johnston is the best-selling author of the book Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol. It was named by the Washington Post as one of the top 10 books of 2013. Ann is a psychotherapist who provides trauma informed relational care to clients with a focus on women in recovery, and works from a holistic perspective using the principles of focusing oriented psychotherapy, to bring awareness and compassion to the mind-body connection. Ann also offers an online eight week course on Writing Your Recovery based on her decades of experience as a journalist and a best selling author on memoir and writing your recovery.   Shownotes: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/24 Grab your  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking Find my favorite Free Private Facebook Groups to Support Women Quitting Drinking Listen to the Podcast Episode on The Best Quit Lit Books For Women Quitting Drinking Download The Guide to The Best Quit Lit For Women Quitting Drinking   Links and Resources mentioned in this episode   Stephanie Wilder-Taylor article on A Heroine of Cocktail Moms Sobers Up   Connect with Ann Dowsett Johnston Website: http://www.anndowsettjohnston.com Book: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol TEDx talk on drinking and how it changed Ann's life: http://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/media/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anndowsettjohnstob/   Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson Website: www.hellosomedaycoaching.com Instagram: Casey @ Hello Someday Coaching (@caseymdavidson) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HelloSomeday  Listen to more podcast episodes to drink less + live more.   Connect with She Recovers https://sherecovers.co/together-online/  https://sherecovers.co/our-retreats/  SHE RECOVERS on Facebook: facebook.com/sherecovers The SHE RECOVERS Intentions & Guiding Principles

Mark speaks with Ann Dowsett Johnston, journalist of Maclean's fame and best-selling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol. They discuss Ann's own story of recovery from alcoholism, the closing gender gap on risky drinking, and how her passion for this issue caused her to switch careers from journalism to social work.  

Carol and Jessica talk about dealing with grief and early sobriety together. Carol talks about choosing one-on-one therapy as her main source of healing from addiction, and working on childhood trauma as a recovering adult. She shares the real-life tools that helped her get through her first year sober, and lists off tons of resources for our listeners, including movies, books, podcasts, and blogs. She also gives newly sober people a reason to redecorate (hint: it's all about creating new spaces, literally and figuratively).  See below show notes for all of the great resources Carol mentions. Show Notes: Books: Drink by Ann Dowsett Johnston Websites: Tell Better Stories by Erin Shaw Street Unpickled Laura McKowen's I Fly at Night Podcasts: The Bubble Hour podcast Since Right Now podcast Home podcast Rich Roll podcast Movies The Anonymous People (movie) My Name was Bette (movie)

Join Jessica as she introduces the podcast and describes the end of her drinking and the hellish anxiety that went with it. Find out what tools she uses to keep her sober self in check and to make sure life flows along smoothly without alcohol. Show Notes: This Naked Mind by Annie Grace (I called it "A Naked Mind" in the epsiode, my apologies!)Drink by Ann Dowsett Johnston   Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert

Julie and Michelle enjoy a glass of wine as they reflect on last week’s episode featuring Ann Dowsett Johnston, a recovering alcoholic who raises some alarming concerns about rising rates of women developing alcohol addictions. They chat about drinking culture, self-medicating with alcohol, their own drinking habits, gender differences related to alcohol use, the ways marketers promote drinking to women and why we should be talking about this issue more. They also discuss recent mental health headlines including Demi Lovato and Janet Jackson opening up about their mental health struggles and World Health Organization (WHO) changes related to video game addictions and transgender people. Resources mentioned:   Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Ann Dowsett Johnston Demi Lovato Reveals She Relapsed After Six Years in New Song 'Sober': 'I'm Only Human' – People magazine Janet Jackson reveals the secret to her happiness – Essence magazine Heather Locklear reportedly hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation – Los Angeles Times WHO declares compulsive video gaming as addictive behaviour disorder – CBC Transgender people no longer considered mentally ill by World Health Organization – Huffington Post Canada Thanks for tuning in to Mind of Her Own – the podcast that gets inside a woman’s head! If you enjoyed this week’s episode, head over to Apple Podcasts and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to share your favourite episodes on social media and subscribe to the show so that you never miss an episode! For more information about the show, visit mindofherownpodcast.com. You can also join the Facebook Group at facebook.com/groups/mindofherownpodcast, follow the show on Instagram and connect with Julie on Twitter at @julietrites.  

On this week’s episode Julie talks to Ann Dowsett Johnston, bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol. Ann is a journalist who spent most of her career at Maclean’s magazine before taking on the role vice-principal of McGill University in 2006. From the outside looking in, Ann appeared to have it all together. But behind closed doors she was battling an addiction to alcohol that would ultimately unravel everything and land her in rehab. Now 10 years sober, she’s raising some alarming concerns about increased rates of binge drinking and alcohol abuse among women – particularly educated and professional working mothers who are under a lot of stress. Connect with Ann Dowsett Johnston: Anndowsettjohnston.com Resources mentioned: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol Addictions Treatment Helplines in Canada The Jean Tweed Centre for Women & Their Families Alcoholics Anonymous - A.A. Near You Thanks for tuning in to Mind of Her Own – the podcast that gets inside a woman’s head! If you enjoyed this week’s episode, head over to Apple Podcasts and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to share your favourite episodes on social media and subscribe to the show so that you never miss an episode! For more information about the show, visit mindofherownpodcast.com. You can also join the Facebook Group at facebook.com/groups/mindofherownpodcast, follow the show on Instagram and connect with Julie on Twitter at @julietrites.  

Today, Tammi and Sondra are honored to have on the show, Ann Dowsett Johnston. If you don't know, Ann is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol and became the poster girl for the modern day alcoholic. The ladies talk about the alcohol industry, and specifically as it's targeted to women, they talk about how quitting drinking makes sense as a #midlifesolution, the effects drinking had on her as a writer, and how Ann's gratitude practice has been an essential part of her recovery. As a public speaker on these topics (if this is your first introduction to Ann, watch her TEDx Talk), Ann is generous, smart and well-versed on the real effects alcohol has on women, individually and as a culture. This is such an important interview, you may want to grab a pen and notebook! This week Ann shares three items from her Unruffled Toolbox: (1) Daily gratitude list practice; (2) Writing in her journal; and (3) Her female sober tribe.

I am so excited to share my conversation with Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol. You can learn more about Ann here: Ann’s Website And you can buy her fabulous book here: Happy Listening.

On the heels of the She Recovers conference in NYC, where 500 women in recovery gathered to commune and listen to speakers Glennon Doyle Melton, Gabby Bernstein, Elizabeth Vargas, Marianne Williamson, Nikki Myers, Elena Brower, Ann Dowsett Johnston, and many bloggers, Tammi and Sondra recap the event (Tammi attended, Sondra watched via livestream). Details of the event become a perfect segue to talking about the significance of writing, journaling or blogging in recovery. The ladies mention several blogs that helped them in early recovery (Aidan Donnelly Rowley's, Laura McKowen's, Jean McCarthy's Unpickled and Ellie's One Crafty Mother) but emphasize using your writing as a way to process, make connections and experience the power of Me Too. The ladies share their top three tools in their recovery-slash-creativity toolboxes for the week: Sondra's 3 fave things: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles by Marianne Williamson, added hula hooping to her movement toolbox and Jolene Park's Healthy Discoveries website. Tammi's 3 fave things: Bach's Rescue Remedy products, essential oils for anxiety relief and her Ray of Light Interview Series featuring women recovering out loud, as well as her 24-month long Sobriety Milestone Series - both of which can be found on her blog at www.tammisalas.com.

Today, Tammi and Sondra talk about creating a community built around recovery and creativity. They talk about online groups and how that has helped them find other sober creatives, which led them to project ideas like the #artexchange. They also offer some ideas to building a face-to-face sober creative community as well. The ladies share their top three tools in their recovery-slash-creativity toolbox for the week. Sondra's 3 fave things: Melissa Febos's new book Abandon Me, a day listening to records, and Louis C.K. on Saturday Night Live. Tammi's 3 fave things: Ann Dowsett Johnston's interview on episode #85 of the HOME podcast, Self-Care Fridays, and Artist Tina Berning's idea for ‘not so good/not so bad' boxes for archiving works-in-progress.

Ann Dowsett Johnston, bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Woman and Alcohol returns to HOME to catch up with the girls about writing her second book, dating and not dating in relationships, the second half of life, depression, and writing her second book. "Drink" was named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post and is one both Holly and Laura's go-to picks for understanding women and addiction. Ann is an award-winning journalist and former Vice-Principal of McGill University. She's in her ninth year of recovery and one of the foremost and outspoken advocates in this space.

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Kathryn interviews award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of “DRINK: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol”. Named one of Washington Post's best books of 2013, DRINK takes aim at an alarming epidemic: the worrisome rise in binge drinking and alcohol abuse among girls and women. Dowsett Johnston reveals how dangerous levels of female drinking are on the upswing, precipitated in part by an unmitigated push by the alcohol industry to woo women drinkers from an early age. Kathryn also interviews Jonathan Fast MSW, PhD and author of “Beyond Bullying: Breaking the Cycle of Shame, Bullying, and Violence”. Why are some kids magnets for bullying? Dr. Fast weaves together research from the fields of psychology, sociology, economics and history to create a single overarching theory centered on the root theme of bullying behaviors: shame. This book provides concrete suggestions for dealing with shame, including techniques for diffusing potentially harmful situations.

Kathryn interviews award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of “DRINK: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol”. Named one of Washington Post's best books of 2013, DRINK takes aim at an alarming epidemic: the worrisome rise in binge drinking and alcohol abuse among girls and women. Dowsett Johnston reveals how dangerous levels of female drinking are on the upswing, precipitated in part by an unmitigated push by the alcohol industry to woo women drinkers from an early age. Kathryn also interviews Jonathan Fast MSW, PhD and author of “Beyond Bullying: Breaking the Cycle of Shame, Bullying, and Violence”. Why are some kids magnets for bullying? Dr. Fast weaves together research from the fields of psychology, sociology, economics and history to create a single overarching theory centered on the root theme of bullying behaviors: shame. This book provides concrete suggestions for dealing with shame, including techniques for diffusing potentially harmful situations.

"The world opens when you begin to tell your own story and others come forward." -Ann Dowsett Johnston. Ann is an award-winning writer, journalist, public policy advocate, and the author of the stunning book "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol." She's also one of the most gracious women Holly and Laura have ever met. In this interview they talk about Ann's personal and professional path, including her gains and losses in sobriety, her relationship with her son, heartbreak, depression, dating and her incredible work on alcohol policy. Music by Radiation City.

Ann Dowsett Johnston joins Sister Jenna on the America Meditating Radio Show! Ann Dowsett Johnston is an award-winning writer and editor, respected for her expertise in journalism, higher education, alcohol addiction and public policy issues. A recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and a Southam Fellowship in Journalism, she spent most of her professional career at Maclean's magazine, where she was best known as the chief architect of the university-rankings issue. Ann later spent a year researching the issue of Women and Alcohol as part of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. Beyond her focus on education and addiction, Ann has written on a wide variety of subjects, from the arts to mental health.  In 2013, she released a book entitled, "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol." In 2014 she was named the CEO of the Pine River Foundation, an organization that champions and supports Pine River Institute (PRI), a residential treatment program for youth 13-19 struggling with addictive behaviors and often co-occurring mental health issues. Visit www.anndowsettjohnston.com. Watch Ann's TEDx Talk on Drinking and How it Changed My Life.  Get the OFF TO WORK CD & Off the Grid Into the Heart CD by Sister Jenna.  Like America Meditating on FB & follow us on Twitter.

Sister Jenna welcomes Ann Dowsett Johnston to the America Meditating Radio Show! Ann Dowsett Johnston is an award-winning writer and editor, respected for her expertise in journalism, higher education, alcohol addiction and public policy issues. A recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and a Southam Fellowship in Journalism, she spent most of her professional career at Maclean's magazine, where she was best known as the chief architect of the university-rankings issue. Ann later spent a year researching the issue of Women and Alcohol as part of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. Beyond her focus on education and addiction, Ann has written on a wide variety of subjects, from the arts to mental health. In 2013, she released a book entitled, "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol." In 2014 she was named the CEO of the Pine River Foundation, an organization that champions and supports Pine River Institute (PRI), a residential treatment program for youth 13-19 struggling with addictive behaviors and often co-occurring mental health issues. Visit www.anndowsettjohnston.com. Watch Ann's TEDx Talk on Drinking and How it Changed My Life.  Get the OFF TO WORK CD & Off the Grid Into the Heart CD by Sister Jenna.  Like America Meditating on FB & follow us on Twitter.

Tune in as Sister Jenna welcomes Ann Dowsett Johnston to the America Meditaitng Radio Show! Ann Dowsett Johnston is an award-winning writer and editor, respected for her expertise in journalism, higher education, alcohol addiction and public policy issues. A recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and a Southam Fellowship in Journalism, she spent most of her professional career at Maclean's magazine, where she was best known as the chief architect of the university-rankings issue. Ann later spent a year researching the issue of Women and Alcohol as part of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. Beyond her focus on education and addiction, Ann has written on a wide variety of subjects, from the arts to mental health.  In 2013, she released a book entitled, "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol." In 2014 she was named the CEO of the Pine River Foundation, an organization that champions and supports Pine River Institute (PRI), a residential treatment program for youth 13-19 struggling with addictive behaviors and often co-occurring mental health issues. Visit www.anndowsettjohnston.com. Watch Ann's TEDx Talk on Drinking and How it Changed My Life.  Get the OFF TO WORK CD & Off the Grid Into the Heart CD by Sister Jenna.  Like America Meditating on FB & follow us on Twitter.  

Kathryn interviews award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of “DRINK: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol”. Named one of Washington Post's best books of 2013, DRINK takes aim at an alarming epidemic: the worrisome rise in binge drinking and alcohol abuse among girls and women. Dowsett Johnston reveals how dangerous levels of female drinking are on the upswing, precipitated in part by an unmitigated push by the alcohol industry to woo women drinkers from an early age. Kathryn also interviews freelance writer Lisa A. Mazzeo LCSW, author of “Who Can Catch the Moon? Heartfelt, Humorous and Compelling Stories of Resiliency in Society's Most Vulnerable Children”. Mazzeo takes readers on a journey inside the system showing us the outcomes of youth that leave foster care without a family. Mazzeo has held numerous leadership positions in state and non-profit agencies serving vulnerable populations.

Kathryn interviews award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of “DRINK: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol”. Named one of Washington Post's best books of 2013, DRINK takes aim at an alarming epidemic: the worrisome rise in binge drinking and alcohol abuse among girls and women. Dowsett Johnston reveals how dangerous levels of female drinking are on the upswing, precipitated in part by an unmitigated push by the alcohol industry to woo women drinkers from an early age. Kathryn also interviews freelance writer Lisa A. Mazzeo LCSW, author of “Who Can Catch the Moon? Heartfelt, Humorous and Compelling Stories of Resiliency in Society's Most Vulnerable Children”. Mazzeo takes readers on a journey inside the system showing us the outcomes of youth that leave foster care without a family. Mazzeo has held numerous leadership positions in state and non-profit agencies serving vulnerable populations.

Our exclusive interview with Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol". From her book: "Over the past few decades, the feminist revolution has had enormous ramifications. Women outnumber their male counterparts in postsecondary education in most of the developed world, and they are about to match that accomplishment in the workplace. But what has not been fully documented or explored is that while women gained equality in many arenas, they also began to close the gender gap in terms of alcohol abuse. In the U.S. alone, more than 23,000 girls and women die from heavy drinking each year. Binge drinking and so-called "drunkorexia" are on the rise, contributing exponentially to a wide variety of health conditions and cancers. Combining in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, Ann Dowsett Johnston delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today, what pre-eminent researcher Sharon Wilsnack believes is a "global epidemic" in women's drinking."

We are thrilled to have a Special Guest, Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of "Drink, The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol" on our show! While women over the past few decades have been closing the gender gap in their professional and educational lives, they are achieving parity with men in rates of alcoholism with alarming momentum--in the U.S., rates of alcoholism among women have risen more than 50 percent in the past decade. Johnston illuminates this startling epidemic, dissecting the psychological, social, and industry factors that have contributed to its rise, and exploring its long-lasting impact on our society and individual lives. Drink is groundbreaking and EVERY woman - whether she struggles with alcohol or not - should read this book.