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Welcome! Neff Inspiration is the new name for Steps To Sobriety. I am an Anaesthetist, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Show Host and an Alcoholic in recovery. I interview guests that have gone through hell and kept going. I talk to people who have had extraordinary experiences and learn from their lessons. I talk to ordinary people whose perseverance made them superheroes. This show demystifies mental health problems with the help of transparency, authenticity, humility and self-love. My guests and I explore ways how to deal with the daily challenges that life throws at us. Let’s find answers on how to live a life that is so beautiful that yesterday becomes jealous of today!
Episodes
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
In this episode Jo Huey, the adult child of an alcoholic and healing specialist shares how daughters and sons of alcoholics are impacted by a parent's drinking. Covering the impact it has on them as children and then how they experience adult life.
Some of the most common challenges faced are Complex PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Codependency and People Pleasing. This list is not exhaustive and Jo explains why this happens and anyone can begin to heal.
Jo Huey is a healing specialist, speaker and adult child of an alcoholic. As an expert living with a parent's alcohol misuse, Jo's been interviewed on Sky, BBC, ITV and appears in numerous magazine articles.
Her mission is to change perceptions about alcohol misuse and how it impacts the drinker, family and society as a whole. Jo does this through her talks and workshops to professionals and working one to one with clients.
Many family members suffer in silence, facing many challenges, mainly mental ill-health. Jo is there for support and comfort to heal them in their recovery.
Jo's 3 top tips for adult children of alcoholics :
1. They aren’t alone
2. There is hope and change is within reach
3. What their parents/caregivers and other peers told them aren’t always fact
Jo offers a Repair and Reconnect Six Week Course - This 6-week course focuses on breaking down your challenges so you think more clearly, feel more positive and empowered and act more authentically. You'll feel the support you need and get the healing you deserve.
https://bit.ly/RR6WC
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Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Amber Miller’s mother and grandmother were both alcoholics. Even after orchestrating her mother’s funeral at the age of 22, Amber struggled for years with her own drinking issues. It wasn’t until she saw someone else at rock bottom that she realized she was continuing to pass down the generational trauma that she had endured to her own children. It was at that moment Amber decided to turn her pain into purpose and show her children and the world that there can be an end to the madness and life begins on the other side of fear.
After being broke and struggling with alcohol addiction, self proclaimed former train-wreck Amber Miller is showing people that if she can get her shit together, then anyone can! Through self development with a little swearing, she is stepping into her calling as a high level transformational coach and founded A Life Not Wasted, a judgement free group that empowers women to find their worth and make fearless change to conquer their dreams. Amber wants to raise the vibration of the world by using her light and laughter to show people that they are capable of more than they ever imagined.
Amber's 3 top tips
- It’s irrelevant who you’ve been your entire life up until this point. Who do you want to be going forward?
- Your adversities give you your superpowers, use those powers for good.
- It’s ok to be scared or nervous, but it’s not ok to let fear keep you in the same shitty place.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/217125266224956
If you’re a woman that’s being held back by shame, guilt, or not feeling worthy of a better life, Amber has been there. It’s from these life experiences that she developed the 12 week program Fearless Change. Fearless Change is a fail proof plan to take the fear out of the unknown so women can rediscover who they are at their core and start using the power they were born with to make their wildest dreams become reality. To see the possibilities that life has to offer you, message Amber at https://www.facebook.com/amber.miller.3532/
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, Facebook and Linkedin!
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-neff-author/
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Sue Curr literally spent her whole life traveling life’s loneliest of roads; that of mental ill health as a result of what she deems to be an at times ‘traumatic’ childhood. It was to become a journey which by late September 2012 had descended into near fatal, full blown alcoholism. And saw her admitted to hospital as an emergency, where her family were told to prepare for the worst – she was dying!
Much to everyone’s astonishment including her own Sue survived and in doing so took her first tentative steps toward sobriety and becoming finally free of her demons.
In her words:
The stories we tell ourselves are powerful beyond belief & if we’re not incredibly careful they get us into trouble a lot. On September 26th, 2012, the story I’d been telling myself for my whole life caused me to be admitted to hospital as an emergency with end-stage liver failure. Of course, the five bottles of wine per day I’d been drinking for far too many years up to that point had a great deal to do with that, but it took a six week battle to stay alive before I realised what an idiot I’d been.
Sue's 3 top tips
- - When we reframe our story, we can reboot our mindset & reclaim the life that is ours alone to live
- - We and we alone have the power to take a chance to choose to change at any given point in time
- - The need to have a WHY that is bigger than all our shoulds & musts put together
Get in touch with Sue:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingbegins/
https://www.facebook.com/suecurr.2
https://www.instagram.com/fearlesslivemore/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suecurrempowerment/
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, Facebook and Linkedin!
https://www.instagram.com/adifferentlifestory
https://stephanneff.podbean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/adifferentlifestory
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-neff-author/
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
“Tim Davis, author of TRIPOLAR: The Story of a Bipolar Triathlete, which chronicles his journey from childhood traumas into multiple addictions for over 20 years. In recovery, he discovered his passion for triathlons & ultrarunning - important tools for his sobriety and sanity. He’s a teacher, coach, and speaker in Los Angeles, CA. He has completed 12 Ironman triathlons, seven 100-mile endurance runs, 1 double-ironman triathlon, over 50 ultramarathons, and 100s of other races. He is a huge advocate for mental health awareness, recovery, & fitness - and the connections between the mind, body, and spirit.”
Tim Davis will be sharing his experience, strength, and hope he has gained from over 20 years active in 12 step programs, physical training and endurance racing, learning to listen to and trust the medical experts, therapy, and meditation. How to recover from childhood traumas and abuse and empower yourself with tools to live your best life in the here and now.
Tim's 3 top tips:
- Don’t beat yourself up (Easy does it)
- Set realistic goals - take small steps to achieve big steps/goals
- Write it down- keep a journal or written record of you daily achievements towards your goal(s)
Instagram: tripolar_tim
Facebook: ultratimdavis
Twitter: ultratimdavis1
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, Facebook and Linkedin!
https://www.instagram.com/adifferentlifestory
https://stephanneff.podbean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/adifferentlifestory
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-neff-author/
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Beate Chelette is the Growth Architect and founder of The Women’s Code. A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly-successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal.
As strategic advisor to organizations from start-ups to Fortune 100 global brands, Beate helps organizations to grow through her 5-Star Success Blueprint methodology. Clients call Beate for Leadership and Professional Development, Team Building, Executive Coaching, and Workplace Unification.
Recent clients include Chevron, Merck, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of California Cal State University Dominguez Hills, the Association of Corporate Growth, Advertising Agency TracyLocke and thousands of small businesses.
Beate is the author of the #1 International Award Winning Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome”–a book that corporate trainer and best-selling author Brian Tracy calls “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.”
In Beate's words:
Most of us strive for perfection and even if we can’t achieve our own vision of our ideal self we have a plethora of tools available to make it look like we are. We photoshop, filter, and post selectively and we withhold the raw parts of our lives to keep up appearances. In this interview Beate Chelette, the Growth Architect shares her story of imperfection, adversity and failures openly and candidly. The listener will walk away motivated and inspired to use Beate’s concept of “Failing Faster” to build up resilience through adversity in their own lives.
Beate's 3 top tips
1. There is a light switch in every room
2. Think big it is the same amount of effort
3. There are a million ways to be successful and you only need to find one - yours.
HappyWomanHappyWorld.com
https://www.amazon.com/Womens-Code-presents-Happy-Woman/dp/0988986868
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, Facebook and Linkedin!
https://www.instagram.com/adifferentlifestory
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https://www.facebook.com/adifferentlifestory
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-neff-author/
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
This week’s episode is a clash with a “Baldy Brother”; Mental Health & Addiction Specialist, Brian Wall! He shares his story of addiction, recovery and passionate advocacy for other wounded souls to prevent the hurting from spreading hurt to others. He offers a glimpse into his concept of “Flow”, how his recovery ignited healing in his wife and the mindset of an overcomer! He will certainly be joining us again in future episodes!
Brian is a self-motivated professional with a stellar record of success in mental health program management demonstrating over 20 years of outstanding performance in the healthcare arena with a proven ability to deliver results that span four countries. However, his advanced clinical knowledge was gained amidst MUCH personal turmoil and a story that includes intimate loss and near death experiences. His personal and professional success since is defined by his natural leadership capability, gift for recognizing growth opportunity, strong communication skills, ability to implement effective solutions, and capacity to motivate others beyond their potential.
Brian's 3 top tips:
1. Be Resilient
2. Be Flexible
3. Be a Finisher
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-k-wall/
#BeRealwithBrian
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Once upon a time, not long before her 18th birthday, Amy Oestreicher was a young woman full of hope and promise, with plans for college and dreams of Broadway. One week before her senior prom, a blood clot changed everything. In agonizing pain, she was rushed to the hospital—where her stomach exploded, literally. Both of her lungs collapsed. After months in a coma, Amy woke up to learn she might never eat or drink again. Eventually, she had 27 surgeries to salvage and replace her digestive system.
Today, nearly 15 years later, Amy Oestreicher is grateful for that “explosion”—her first of six difficult but wonderful life-changing “detours.” In her debut book, MY BEAUTIFUL DETOUR: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful (Singing Tree Publishing; November 19, 2019; ISBN-13: 978-17333138819) author Amy Oestreicher shares her incredible story of trauma and transformation. She also shares the beliefs and practices that took her from barely surviving to thriving—and blazing her own trails as a “Detourist.”
“A Detourist looks for the upside of obstacles,” Amy explains. “A Detourist follows that twisted path because they’re curious to see where it could lead. In addition, a Detourist embraces those unexpected routes as opportunities for growth, change, and self-fulfillment.”
Part memoir and part self-help guide, MY BEAUTIFUL DETOUR recounts Amy’s major detours—from her medical trauma to having her identity shattered to the return of memories of another trauma she thought she had buried: being sexually molested by a trusted mentor. As she acknowledges, she was hurt, betrayed, and broken—physically and emotionally. But her passion and determination stayed strong.
A gifted storyteller, Amy writes with honesty, heart, and humor (yes, her book, which she describes as a “fun read” is filled with amusing adventures—like the time she “escaped” from the hospital for a shopping spree). She is also an amazing teacher. With MY BEAUTIFUL DETOUR to light the way, readers will learn how to:
- Turn creativity into a force for healing, with insight into the power of artistic expression—whether in the form of sketching, painting, singing, dancing, acting, or writing—in alleviating pain and recovering from trauma.
- To tap into the courage to find your own uniqueness and dare to reject the path you always thought you wanted and redefine the person you always thought you were.
- Be grateful for what you take for granted (after years of being nourished by feeding tubes, Amy savored her first sips of water) and for the hardships and setbacks that give you the opportunity to rethink, rebound, and reinvent yourself.
- Connect to, inspire, and lead others through storytelling. By sharing your stories, you touch hearts, open minds, enrich your community, honor the ideas you believe in, and pass on the lessons you have learned.
Amy Oestreicher is living proof that even the most unwelcome and painful detour can lead to unexpected blessings. MY BEAUTIFUL DETOUR is a testament to her spirit and resilience—and her gift to those struggling to survive and find their way.
An estimated 70 percent of adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives and up to 20 percent of these people go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. An estimated 5 percent of Americans—more than 13 million people—have PTSD at any given time.
Amy Oestreicher was one of them. So, what happens when an ordinary teenager has to turn into a warrior just to survive? And can the journey through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder really become an “adventure?”
Amy had ambitious plans for college and a Broadway career, until her stomach exploded the week before her senior prom. Months later, she awoke from a coma to learn that she might never be able to eat or drink again. After years on IV nutrition, her first bite of food awakened her senses to life's ordinary miracles but also brought back memories of being sexually abused by a trusted mentor for months, just before the unexpected rush to the emergency room that fateful Passover night. With determination, imagination, relentless resilience, and an inner “hunger” for life, Amy created a roadmap where none existed. Her journey through life's unthinkable detours is nothing short of miraculous, but the creative path to healing she forged is accessible to anyone. As a survivor—and “thriver”—of abuse and extensive medical trauma, Amy discovered sources of resilience she didn’t know she had but it turns out we all possess. In this book, she creates a tapestry made from each of each thread of her journey, empowering others to find gratitude in every setback and discover their own infinite inner strength. Amy’s search for “home” proves to be the greatest test of cultivating resilience after near-death, and reclaiming identity after both sexual assault and medical trauma. Amy’s journey is ultimately a celebration of ordinary and extraordinary challenges and miracles.
In this coming of age story, Amy shares her struggles and discoveries living with both visible and invisible illness, the tremendous gifts to be reaped from trauma, its lessons which have illuminated her path, and how these gifts can be discovered as a unique, yet universal way to navigate any kind of uncertainty.
Interwoven through her remarkable story are insights on navigating any kind of uncertainty, including:
- What is a “detourist”– and why is it important to take those detours?
- The importance of detours for college students
- How to transition from being a “survivor” to a “thriver”
- Amy's" Four Hardcore Skills" to resilience
- Finding your own uniqueness not through what’s happened to you, but what you choose to do with it
- The power of art to heal: five ways to incorporate art in your healing process
- Our innate ability to be artists, and why creativity is an essential mindset
- Why sharing your story is imperative to healing, and how to creativity to reframe your narrative
- How humor is a way through
- Turn messes, mistakes and setbacks into creative detours
My Beautiful Detour offers practical strategies for individuals and unexpected tools for the families of trauma survivors, helping communities build new, limitless futures. The book includes numerous “trauma insights,” and is enriched with humor, art, poetry, and useful takeaways for readers. Reading one woman’s heroic adventure through trauma, recovery, and discovery of new directions in healing the body and the mind is an empowering tale of not just getting through, but thriving.
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
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Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
In Annette's words:
I am an Army Retired Veteran, Mother and Military Spouse who lives with PTSD, Depression and Anxiety. I spent decades suppressing childhood trauma as well as Military Trauma and a Car Accident. I have recently decided to use my voice to share my story on how I am living with it and through it instead of suffering from it.
Army Retired Veteran, Mother and Military Spouse of over 22 years. Founder of A Wild Ride Called Life ®, LLC and Host of the Truths We Hide Podcast. Mental Health Speaker, Writer, Blogger, Podcaster and Mentor. I work hard and tirelessly in ending the stigma on mental health and suicide prevention.
Annette's 3 top tips
- How to live with your mental illness instead of suffer from it
- How to use your mess as your message
- How to give yourself grace and live by the words of “it is ok to not be ok”
Annette is offering a 30 min coaching call to anyone who feels ready to start a change in their life www.awildridecalledlife.com/coach
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
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to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
My guest today is Amanda Elise Love . Amanda is a registered holistic nutritionist who works with those with fibromyalgia . She wants you to know the meaning of the word holistic with talking about nutrition and supplements. To think of the word holistic is to realize that it means the integration of the mind ,body and spirit when addressing health issues. She has a long history of illness which culminated with the diagnosis of fibromyalgia at the age of 20 over 10 years ago. She knows this syndrome because she has been there. She no longer suffers from the pain , fatigue and headaches of this syndrome. Now she helps those with fibromyalgia do the same.
Amanda's 3 top tips
1. Food should be your number one focus to improve your health.
2. Not one thing is going to fix your fibromyalgia.
3. Number One focus with Fibromyalgia is getting that deep restorative sleep
Get in touch with Amanda:
Website -http://amandaeliselove.com/
Free Sleep Guide -http://amandaeliselove.com/free-ebook/
Podcast Fibromyalgia real solutions with amanda Love)
(https://apple.co/2TgYURy
Facebook personal -https://bit.ly/2Wlwc4a
Facebook business page https://www.facebook.com/amandaeliselove
Instagram - https://bit.ly/3fhjmfJ
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
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Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
In DeeJay's words:
I am a disability navigator providing a livestream to provide individuals with a platform to share their powerful story to destigmatize and normalize mental health and disability. A place to share your mayhem, be a voice to break stereotypes and stigmas as well as connect and create opportunities.
These conversations have the ability to change lives and even save them. It's important to share our stories of mayhem,that we experience, deserve to be known to promote mental health and destigmatize disability and life traumas. Through compassion and connections we can encourage open conversations to promote awareness and more opportunity.
DeeJay's 3 top tips:
- Find a network of supports. Your not alone.
- Start slow but stay accountable to your truth and goals.
- Remember will get easier with time, practice and comfort.
DeeJay's social media
https://www.linkedin.com/in/silverfoxtalks/
https://www.twitch.tv/silverfoxtalks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCozZmKgIEsPGJgjTOSGdzVw?view_as=subscriber
https://www.facebook.com/SilverFoxTalks
https://twitter.com/SilverFoxTalks1
https://www.instagram.com/silverfoxtalks/
If you want learn more about living a fantastic life after alcohol, check out my book!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Steps-Sobri...
Wait, there is more!!! Have a look at
www.mystepstosobriety.com
to see which other books and projects I am involved in!
And follow me on Instagram, Podcast, Facebook and Linkedin!
https://www.instagram.com/adifferentlifestory
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https://www.facebook.com/adifferentlifestory
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-neff-author/