Emotional Sobriety with Laura McKowen

About this episode

Ailey Jolie and Laura McKowen discuss emotional sobriety and the deeper issues surrounding alcohol use.

Alcohol can look like the problem, until you notice what it was solving. In this episode, Ailey is joined by writer and speaker Laura McKowen, founder of The Luckiest Club and author of We Are The Luckiest, for a conversation that begins with sobriety and opens into something deeper. Embodiment, shame, appetite, and the hidden intelligence behind the ways we cope. We explore how alcohol can both numb and, at times, create access to sensation when the body feels out of reach. From there,...

People in this episode

Host: Ailey Jolie

Guest: Laura McKowen

Topics covered

• emotional sobriety
• coping mechanisms
• embodiment
• shame
• appetite
• alcohol

Keywords

• emotional sobriety
• alcohol
• coping
• shame
• embodiment
• appetite
• sensation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Luckiest Club

Books & works: We Are The Luckiest

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