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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!
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Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Elena Joy was the consummate Mormon housewife complete with four children, minivan, and a white picket fence. Then she discovered a secret about herself that threatened to take the whole thing down. She enrolled in a controversial therapy in an effort to keep her marriage and her place in heaven. The ramifications of the therapy almost ended her life. This is the story of how she reclaimed her life. Life 2.0.
Elena Joy Thurston is an inspirational speaker and founder of the Pride and Joy Foundation. She grew up in a turbulent home, joined a conservative church as a teenager, put herself through college, married and birthed 4 beautiful children, and then....
Life 2.0 brought a divorce, leaving/getting kicked out of her church, a beautiful love story, and a successful new career! Her viral TEDx talk has paved the way for speaking engagements around the United States.
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Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
This episode will cover Kawan’s journey through a stroke, three brain surgeries, mental health battles and much more. You will get a first hand account about how perseverance, gratitude, and perspective allowed Kawan to make his journey count; towards something bigger than himself.
Kawan Glover is a Survivor because he has lived through a stroke and three brain surgeries. He also dealt with suicidal ideations, one attempt, opioid addiction, depression, and been $1.2 million in medical debt. Despite these hardships, he has started his own company called Overcome Adversity, which leverages his ordeal to help others, as the name says, Overcome their Adversity no matter the shape or form. He is also a writer, public speaker, and a self-published author of a memoir entitled “Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose” .
Kawan's 3 top tips:
1. Gratitude is the basis for everything
2. Having perspective is a form of self empathy
3. Purpose = passion + perseverence + patience
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Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
In Miranda's words:
I counsel, mentor, and sponsor women who are dealing with the effects of alcoholism and addiction in a loved one. As an adult child of alcoholics who was agnostic, I had to make a decision in my marriage to seek recovery myself when my husband fell victim to the disease. I have been in Alanon for 14 years and now and have also been trained as a biblical counselor and a Christian 12 step study program to counsel and mentor others.
The pain and despair from living with an alcoholic or addict is too much for most of us. Without spiritual help, we can become mentally, physically, and emotionally unwell. The good news is there are solutions rooted in recovery that can help us regain hope and peace. We can have contentment and happiness whether the addict chooses to get help, but we must be willing to believe that support is beyond human. It comes from the divine, God. Are you willing to believe a power greater than yourself can restore you to a harmonious life? Let’s talk more because together, we can make it!
Miranda Jo Davis is an expert in the yoga world with over twenty years’ experience. She owns a Christian yoga and Pilates studio and infuses her teaching with Scripture. As a biblical counselor, Miranda uses God’s Word to encourage heart change. She is a published Christian writer, and her teaching on mind and body wellness has been featured on TV, on the radio, and in print.
Miranda's top 3 tips:
1. Addicts are addicted to alcohol or drugs and their loved ones become addicted to them (the alcoholic).
2. God is the hope for the family disease of alcoholism and he can restore the chaos, uncertainty, and despair of our lives to one of peace, calm, and hope!
3. There are specific steps we need to take to separate us from our loved ones and the disease. Prayer, meditation, counsel, and changing our thinking are the key elements to breaking free from the grips of the disease.
I teach Christian yoga, pilates, and meditation (an active way to practice step 11 (“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God”) by teaching virtual classes. I also do one on one coaching sessions for loved one of addicts/alcoholics and we work the 12 steps of a Gospel Centered Recovery).
www.mirandajodavis.com for one on one coaching
https://www.youtube.com/feed/my_videos for free Christian Meditation
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Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
You want to be happy and successful but something is holding you back? You're easily worried, anxious and nervous and want it to stop? You've experienced something difficult and are struggling to get over it? Then this podcast is for you.
Elé is the author and founder of the Self-Healing Spiral™. As a Self-Love Coach and Healer, she helps women fall deeply in love with themselves so that they can become magnets for success. She also certifies coaches and feminine leaders with the SHS to help them heal themselves and serve their clients and families more powerful so that they change the world, one person at a time, starting with themselves.
If you want to learn more about Elé:
The Self-Healing Spiral Practitioner Training
www.eleonoredeposson.com/become-a-pracitioner
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
At 34 years old, Michelle suddenly found herself widowed after her husband died by suicide, leaving her to raise her two young sons alone. The family, having hidden his mental illness, chose to say he died in accident to avoid dealing with the stigma and shame. Carrying this secret for over 10 years impacted Michelle’s own mental and physical health until she could no longer take the pain. Michelle speaks about her journey through healing the trauma and realizing her life purpose. She now shares her inspiring story and supports others who are living with similar experiences to find their personal freedom.
Michelle Anhang, BA, PCC, CPCC, is a Certified Life Coach who specializes in supporting individuals and families living with mental health challenges as well as those moving forward after loss. Her customized practice draws from an academic background in psychology, as well as training in mindfulness & meditation, leadership skills, and co-active coaching techniques.
In addition to coaching, Michelle is a motivational speaker who shares her story of becoming widowed at the age of 34 when her husband died by suicide, and how she navigated her way through stigma, shame, and her own mental health challenges to rebuild her life intentionally.
Michelle's top 3 tips:
1. We’re only as sick as our secrets (Our inner critics/gremlins are liars)
2. It’s never too late to begin again
3. Freedom and joy live on the other side of secrets and shame, and we owe it to ourselves to get there
If you want to learn more about Michelle, check out the following links!
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/michelleanhangcoaching/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelleanhangcoaching/
YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCyEyNVr2CU9E40o41tERKbA
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
In Amy's words:
This is a story of why I coped the way I did until now. How choosing to heal my trauma led me to a institutions, suicide and then a choice to live like I have never lived before. How choosing to find my birth mom and heal years of ancestral abuse led me to deepening my practices and choosing to support sober people to heal from the root cause to thrive in recovery.
Today, I support sober people to heal their past traumas to cultivate more self-love and have healthy relationships with everything in their lives.
I was confident no single approach to healing and living a conscious sober life would work for me so why would it work for anyone else? I got busy educating myself, training and working with people in somatic experiencing, attachment theory and other trauma-informed modalities and relating it to living a conscious sober lifestyle.
What I discover is missing for my clients, who include all adults ready to create healthier relationships is when we unravel the root causes of the addictive escape such as grief, trauma and attachment adaptations it is possible to connect with more safety and reveal their true potential purpose and thrive in all sober relationships.
Outside of running my coaching business, Thrive in Recovery, you can find me practicing what I teach; cooking healthy, delicious food, practicing yoga, playing outdoors and strengthening my connection to myself to serve others.
Amy's top 3 tips:
1. A willingness to stay curious will take you to great places.
2. Learning what safety feels like in your body is freedom.
3. A commitment to always be learning will bring you amazing pleasure.
Amy is starting her Sober Relationship School. Check it out!
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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Have you ever held yourself back from love?
Do you self-sabotage?
Are you sick of those negative beliefs that squash your self-esteem and confidence?
There are gremlins in your head and they’re running/ruining your life. They play havoc with your plans to call in great love and they block your success. It’s time to understand why they are there and learn how to tame them so you can live your life out loud without apology.
This episode will uncover the #1 reason you hold yourself back and how to squash your gremlins now.
Junie Moon, Inner critic Tamer and Love Coach helps people create a life that is passionate, authentic, and fulfilling by teaching them how to turn down the volume on their inner critic – which allows them the freedom to do whatever they dream possible. Junie’s an award-winning international speaker, Best-selling author of Loving the Whole Package: Shed the Shame and Live Life Out Loud, director/producer of the film Shed the Shame, host of the podcast Midlife Love Out Loud and a Certified Shadow Work® Facilitator.
Junie's 3 top tips:
1. Understand why you self sabotage
2. Learn what the shadow is and how it holds you back from being fully alive
3. Experience your inner critic and get it to work for you
Junie's offer:
Grab the FREE How To Tame Your Inner Critic guidebook to learn:
What the critical voice REALLY is and why it's there
The secret reason WHY it keeps you from moving forward (The reason may surprise you!)
How to lower the volume on your Inner Critic so you can feel more inspired, focused & excited about your life
How to make it your ALLY!!!
Link: http://coachjuniemoon.com/innercriticgift
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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Dr Alice Kerby is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Health Consultant, Holistic Health Practitioner, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in training. She uses her decades of experience and training to focus on the stress response from an autonomic nervous system and physiological perspective.
She helps her clients to identify areas where they feel stuck, and provides a well regulated and supportive environment for them to begin gently touching past trauma or overwhelm, and heal these states through presence and awareness of the body in the present moment.She specializes in working with sober and sober curious women who are seeking additional tools to manage stress, increase a sense of calm, and move forward in creating their lives.
Alice's top 3 tips:
1. There are alternatives to living in fear, trauma, anxiety and addiction
2. You are never too old to make big changes in your life
3. Profound change happens in small moments
Alice's offers:
"I currently have a 30 day program happening starting July 13th called Sober & Calm. http://www.kerbymethodconsulting.com/sober--calm.html#/I also offer 1:1 consulting work with women, and am happy to hop on a 15 minute call with anyone interested in seeing if working with me is a good fit for them."
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Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Marcia Gliksman is a Habit Change Expert and Health Strategist and the creator of the Iceberg Method. She helps time starved high achievers reach new heights in life through habit changes that enable optimal health, renewed energy and better-than-ever mindset for inevitable success. She specializes in gut-brain healing and eliminating stress and anxiety in 90 days or less.
In Noa's words:
Your body is designed to thrive but life, habits, social conditioning, stress, anxiety and even a pandemic, can easily get on the way and disrupt healthy thinking and living. No matter how far off your mental and physical health are from ideal, your brain and gut can always heal and transition back from survival to thrive mode with ease and pleasure.
Noa's top 3 tips:
1. You can ALWAYS turn your life around and transition from merely surviving to thriving
2. Your gut and your brain are inseparable and unshakable mental and physical health are achievable no matter how far off the track you may feel you are in the present
3. The 3 pillars of success are: a system, support and accountability
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Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
In Alba's words:
I am a positive and resilient trauma survivor dedicated to helping single mothers who have suffered from sexual trauma.
I share tools that brought me from accepting people who took advantage of me to now only accepting healthy and reciprocal relationships. These tools facilitate active healing and help women find their voice and reclaim their power.
As a certified trauma life coach, I help single mothers get unstuck by applying my unique principles of active healing. My vision is to create a community of resilient women through my sisters circle community, " Better TogetHER," a sacred space to connect with other like spirited resilient women who are ready to move towards a life that is free of shame, guilt and anger.
Alba's 3 top tips:
- Find your voice by speaking up or through literary expression (Blog, Journaling or Writing a Book)
- Active Healing ( Mind, Body, Spirit and Energy)
- Surrender to begin living a life free of guilt, shame and anger.
Alba: I am offering a free book club for women to heal based on the book Sacred Woman. For my birthday on August 9th I will be starting a free book club that will focus on Mind, Body and Spirit Healing of the Woman Body. This is a virtual sacred space to heal and blossom together. Anyone who’s interested can subscribe to my website at AlbaSotoTLC.Com and be on the lookout for the email.
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