Today we are thrilled to welcome our sober sister Sarah Rusbatch to Rise to chat about her amazing book Beyond Booze: How to Create a Life You Love, Alcohol Free. Sarah is an accredited grey area drinking coach, motivational speaker and now bestselling author who has supported thousands of women worldwide to quit drinking and rediscover themselves …

Today on Rise, by popular request, we are taking a bit of a retrospective look back at previous episodes and, in particular, our good intentions with the Rise and Shine actions to see if we actually took our own advice and, if not, why not! Resources mentioned: Liz's summer challenge: https://lizfolan.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/sunrisesobri…

Today on Rise we are chatting with Alex Clapp, one of the co-founders of Claritee, a new sober events company which is currently hosting monthly sober club nights in North West England as well as corporate sober events and more. Alex shares his personal story with us with so much authenticity, talking about how a physical health problem combined wi…

This week on Rise we are exploring a new format we are planning to introduce with our guests - a reflective exercise based around the letters R, I, S and E: R - What does the word Rise bring up for you? I - What inspires you? S - What is your superpower? E - What excites and energises you? We loved hearing each other's answers to these questions an…

This week on Rise we are delighted to welcome Rose Long to the pod - Rose is wonderful coach with a raft of qualifications in life coaching including health, recovery, self-expression and life changes and she is also a qualified yoga teacher. She is joining us today for a chat about how yoga has helped all three of our recovery journeys and how yog…

We're back! Thanks to all our listeners for bearing with us while we took our own advice and dialled things back for a self-care break last month. We're now recharged and raring to go and this week is a good one. We're exploring the differences in how we perceive the world depending on where we are on the introversion/extraversion spectrum and how …

Welcome back to Rise and happy Valentine's Day! To celebrate we are chatting today about self-love - how we support and nurture ourselves through the good times and the tougher ones. Resources mentioned: Liverpool Live Radio: https://www.liverpoolliveradio.com/ Liz's website: https://lizfolan.com/ VIA character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.o…

This week Liz and Julia are chatting about all things January and, in particular, the ways we beat the January blues through self-care (which as we know is so much more than bubble baths), permission to rest, tuning in to our daily needs and gentle intention setting. Resources mentioned: Liz's website featuring her brilliant January challenge: http…

Welcome back to our first episode of 2024! Today we are chatting with our first transatlantic guest, Texas-based creative author and body positivity advocate Jesica Medellin. Jesica is the author of the beautiful anthology First Moon Manual: Letters to Our Daughters which is aimed at young women starting their menstrual cycles and those who love an…

Merry Christmas to all our lovely listeners. Today on Rise we have a treat for your tastebuds as well as your ears, as we are chatting with Emma Newman, alcohol free drinks expert and mocktail maker extraordinaire. Many of you will know Emma from her @emma_sobersonic Instagram account where she showcases the latest and best in alcohol free drinks a…

This week on Rise we are delighted to chat with Steve from Recovery Runners, a new weekly running group in Liverpool where all are welcome, whatever you are recovering from. He shares so openly with us about his own addiction and mental health journey and how running has been such a big part of his recovery, helping him get to a place of true heali…

Today on Rise we are welcoming Jane Kilpatrick to chat with us. Jane is a mindset coach, parenting expert and the founder of Mind Sculpt - a coaching service for teenagers and parents. We are chatting with her today about all things parenting - both how we can best support our kids with all the challenges they face in the modern world and also how …

Today on Rise, Liz and Julia are chatting about work and, more specifically, the endless puzzle of work life balance. How do we keep good boundaries around work while also pursuing our professional dreams? How do we make the most of our down time to make sure it is truly nourishing? How do we spin all the plates of work, family and self-care while …

Welcome back to Season 2 of Rise! Today Liz and Julia are chatting about The Artist's Way. Among her many other talents and ventures, Liz is an Artist's Way facilitator, running regular online courses taking a group through Julia Cameron's brilliant and transformative creative programme and today she is telling us more about the many benefits to be…

For the last episode of Season 1, we are chatting today about friendship and how this has been both the greatest gift and the biggest support to our sobriety for both of us, Thank you so much to all our lovely listeners for being with us over the past 40 weeks, we've loved every minute and we're so much looking forward to coming back for Season 2 (…

This week on Rise we are talking hormonal health and holistic healing with the lovely Emily Fazah. Julia first discovered Emily's work through her Instagram account Moody Girl, which focused on support and awareness raising around premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a severe form of PMS which both Julia and Emily have experienced. Moody Girl has now g…

Today on Rise we're talking running with Running Girl (Liz's Soberista name). Movement has been huge for both of us since quitting drinking and in this week's episode we are digging into all ways it has helped us with sobriety, mental health and general wellbeing as well as some of the science behind why it is so helpful to us both physically and m…

This week we're delighted to welcome Liz's friend Claire to the podcast to talk about her journey from sugar binges to now being over two months sugar free. We were amazed at how many parallels there were between her experience and our own stories of quitting alcohol and we also came away with lots to think about in terms of our own relationship wi…

Welcome back to Rise! Today Liz and Julia are chatting about summer, both the benefits the sunshine and longer days can bring and also the challenges you can face in the warmer months if you're newly sober, struggling with your mental health or even just naturally on the introverted side of things. Resources mentioned: Peak end theory (Daniel Kahne…

This week on Rise we are chatting with another lovely guest - our Soberista friend and all round alcohol free legend Nana Treen. As well as being a hugely supportive and wise presence in the Soberistas community, Treen is also the steward of the AF Loud and Proud facebook page and the host of weekly mindfulness sessions for members of the Soberista…

Welcome back to Rise! This week Liz and Julia are doing a deep dive into the topic of character strengths and personal values, chatting about how these guiding principles support our own lives and inform our work with the people we support. Resources mentioned: Rek 41 - new alcohol free social club in Birkenhead: https://www.facebook.com/rek41birke…

This week on Rise we're thrilled to have another guest with us, our lovely Soberista friend, Christina Hallett. Christina is a 67 year old UK artist now living in Spain, who feels her art has transformed since she chose to live sober in 2019, becoming freer, happier and more full of movement and emotion. Her paintings, landscape and figurative piec…

Welcome back to Rise! This week we are chatting about positive psychology, something which we both incorporate into our professional lives in a big way and which has informed and supported our growth as humans since ditching the booze. Resources: What is positive psychology?: https://positivepsychology.com/what-is-positive-psychology-definition/ Ma…

This week we are very happy to welcome the lovely Kate Baily to chat to us about living in tune with the cycles of the seasons and our lives. Kate is a writer, speaker and community and podcast host who many of our listeners will know as the co-founder of Love Sober, a sobriety podcast, community and coaching platform which has helped many thousand…

This week on Rise we are chatting to Chrissy Kinsella about the many benefits music has for our mental and physical health and general wellbeing and we are in very knowledgeable hands about this fascinating subject. Chrissy is the Chief Executive of the London Music Fund, a London based charity which supports young people to access musical educatio…

This week on Rise we are celebrating our 'soberversaries' - the anniversaries of when we quit drinking (6 years ago for Julia, 5 for Liz). We are digging deep into all things sobriety - the challenges and the gifts, the high points and the hurdles. TL:DR - we love being sober and wouldn't change it for the world - tune in to hear more about why... …

This week on Rise we are delighted to be interviewing our first ever guests. Jazmine and Mandy are the founders of the Happy Chilly Dippers, an open water swimming group in Merseyside which now has over 5000 members, including Liz! We are chatting with them about all things cold water swimming and the many benefits this brilliant activity can have …

This week on Rise we're doing our very best to beat the blue Mondays at what is apparently the Most Miserable Time of the Year. We're looking at our own practice of intention setting for the coming year and why this feels much more supportive than the more traditional practice of setting resolutions. We also use the word gentle a lot, which also do…

Hello lovely listeners and welcome to 2023! Today we are talking about the Danish and much social-mediaed concept of Hygge - the way we can embrace warmth, comfort and connection in order to support ourselves through the dark times ahead. Resources mentioned: Meik Wiking’s books including The Little Book of Hygge: https://www.meikwiking.com/books F…

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all. In today's episode we're unpacking all the reasons why the festive season can have a negative impact on our wellbeing and looking at some of the big and small ways we can take care of ourselves at this most challenging time of the year. Warning if listening with small kids - we discuss the dreaded Dece…

Today on Rise we're talking about morning routines and how ours have evolved from the hungover blur they used to so often be into supportive practices which set us up for the day and give us a chance to pause and be a human being rather than a human doing even if it's just for ten minutes. Anyone who knows Liz knows she is a big fan of morning page…

Today on Rise Liz and Julia are talking about the endless puzzle that self care is to us. Following on from the last episode's chat about habits, we talk about how we build the scaffolds of our own self care and dig into the various aspects of taking care of ourselves like actual adults (which we find particularly challenging). Resources mentioned:…

In episode 2 Liz and Julia talk about habits - why we make them, how we keep them and why are they so damn hard to sustain? Resources mentioned: The One You Feed Podcast: https://www.oneyoufeed.net/ Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Feel Better Live More Podcast: https://drchatterjee.com/blog/category/podcast/ Tiny …

Welcome to the Rise Podcast, where we talk about the big things and the little things which help us to rise above life’s challenges and ultimately thrive. We are Julia Carson and Liz Vaughan, a psychotherapist and a positive psychologist who walked out of a bar and became good mates in sobriety. On Rise we will be drawing from our professional live…