Today's episode of Rise was recorded in early August 2024, in the midst of the far right riots in the UK so we are chatting about how we self-support when the world feels overwhelming - is it possible to thrive at all in the modern world and, if so, how do we strike the balance between self-protection and keeping our hearts open and compassionate towards the suffering of others?

Resources mentioned:

Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/

Collective effervescence:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9473704/

Dr Rangan Chatterjee: https://drchatterjee.com/

Happy Place: https://www.happyplaceofficial.co.uk/

Soberistas sobriety support community: https://soberistas.com/

Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner: https://www.dacherkeltner.com/

DBT Opposite to Emotion Action skill: https://dbt.tools/emotional_regulation/opposite-action.php

Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

Sober Positive by Julia Carson: https://soberpositive.com/order-the-book/

Gabby Bernstein: https://gabbybernstein.com/

Self-Compassion - Kristin Neff: https://self-compassion.org/

Elizabeth Gilbert: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/

Gratitude journaling: https://positivepsychology.com/gratitude-journal/

Mel Robbins: https://www.melrobbins.com/

Tara Swart: https://www.taraswart.com/

The Sober Revolution by Lucy Rocca and Sarah Turner: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/lucy-rocca/the-sober-revolution/9781783752089/

Blackout by Sarah Hepola: https://sarahhepola.com/

This Naked Mind by Annie Grace: https://thisnakedmind.com/annie-grace/

Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Pelman: https://franticworld.com/free-meditations-from-mindfulness/

Calm app: https://www.calm.com/

The Sober Butterfly Collective: https://soberbutterflycollective.com/

Love Sober: https://www.lovesober.com/

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Following on from last episode's chat with Sarah we are delighted to welcome Elaine Bonfrer to Rise, to talk with us in more detail about the power of breathwork. Elaine is a therapeutic coach and Owaken Breathwork practitioner, whose passion is empowering the people she works with to heal and let go of whatever is holding them back, to help them connect to their heart wisdom and intuition and so to create ripples of love and impact in the world. As well as sharing her personal story with us, this episode is full of so much practical wisdom and Elaine even generously guides us through a simple yet beautifully powerful breathing exercise.

Elaine's website: https://elainebonfrer.com/

Elaine's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elainebonfrer_arise/

Resources mentioned:

Aubrey Marcus: https://www.aubreymarcus.com/

Owaken breathwork: https://www.owaken.com/

Box breathing: https://www.verywellhealth.com/box-breathing-8423967

3-4-5 breath: https://drchatterjee.com/the-3-4-5-breath/

Soberistas sobriety support community: https://soberistas.com/

Elizabeth Gilbert: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/bio/

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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 as a result. Her brilliant book is an amalgamation of her years of coaching experience and lessons learned on her own sober journey, offering a comprehensive toolkit for anyone looking for ways to self support in healthy and truly nourishing ways. Needless to say this is all right up our street and we absolutely loved catching up with her.

Buy Beyond Booze here: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/sarah-rusbatch/beyond-booze/

Sarah's website: https://sarahrusbatch.com/

Sarah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahrusbatch/

Sarah's free Facebook group The Women's Wellbeing Collective: https://www.facebook.com/groups/342319476897067/?_rdc=1&_rdr

Resources mentioned:

Love Sober: https://www.lovesober.com/

Hello Sunday Morning: https://hellosundaymorning.org/

Soberistas: https://soberistas.com/

Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman: https://franticworld.com/

Conscious connected breathwork: https://ibfbreathwork.org/conscious-connected-breathwork/

Breath of fire: https://kundalini.yoga/breaths/breath-of-fire

HOME podcast (Holly Whitaker and Laura McKowen): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/home-podcast/id1021126077

Barbara Fredrickson's Broaden and Build Theory: https://positivepsychology.com/broaden-build-theory/

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (Emotional Regulation Skills): https://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/

David Goggins: https://davidgoggins.com/

VIA Character Strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/

Liz's website for the Badass Bookclub: https://lizfolan.com/f/badass-book-club-summer-reads

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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/sunrisesobriety/

The Artist's Way: https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/

Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/books

Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg: https://tinyhabits.com/

The mammalian diving reflex: https://manhattancbt.com/archives/1452/dbt-tipp-skills/

Indistractible by Nir Eyal: https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/

Ultraprocessed People by Dr Chris Van Tulleken: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451300/ultra-processed-people-by-tulleken-chris-van/9781529900057

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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 with a reluctance to talk about his emotions led to addiction but ultimately to recovery and a new life focused on living with purpose and giving back to others.

Resources mentioned:

Claritee: https://www.clariteegroup.co.uk/our-events

Club Claritee: https://www.clubclaritee.uk/

Claritee on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clariteegroup/

Soberistas sobriety support community: https://soberistas.com/

Sober Dave: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/

One Year No Beer: https://www.oneyearnobeer.com/

Morninggloryville sober raves: https://morninggloryville.com/

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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 and we can't wait to explore them with future guests.

Resources mentioned:

Building Bliss podcast: https://www.buildingbliss.co.uk/

Soberistas sobriety support community: https://soberistas.com/

Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/

The Blindboy Podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy

Elizabeth Gilbert: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/bio/

Brené Brown: https://brenebrown.com/about/

Lucy Rocca: https://www.lucyroccalifecoaching.com/

Holly Whitaker: https://www.hollywhitaker.com/

Laura McKowen: https://www.lauramckowen.com/about

Gabby Bernstein: https://gabbybernstein.com/

Glennon Doyle: https://momastery.com/

This Naked Mind by Annie Grace: https://thisnakedmind.com/annie-grace/

Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg: https://tinyhabits.com/

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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 yogic practices can support us to reach our potential and thrive in life.

Rose's website (including access to her online and in person courses and classes): https://www.roselong-lifechanges.com/about

HOME podcast with Holly Whitaker and Laura McKowen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/home-podcast/id1021126077

High on Yoga (online kundalini yoga classes): https://highonyoga.co.uk/

The Dry: https://www.itv.com/watch/the-dry/10a1875

HeartMath Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/

My Happy Mind (mental wellbeing tools for kids): https://myhappymind.org/

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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 this fits in with how we look after ourselves and thrive in our lives.

Resources mentioned:

Claritee sober corporate events: https://www.clariteegroup.co.uk/

Sober Dave: https://www.soberdave.co.uk/

Millie Gooch: https://sobergirlsociety.com/

Proud and Sober: https://www.instagram.com/proudandsober/

Susan Cain (author of Quiet and Bittersweet): https://susancain.net/

The Artist's Way: https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/

This Naked Mind by Annie Grace: https://thisnakedmind.com/

Big Five personality traits: https://www.simplypsychology.org/big-five-personality.html

Myers-Briggs personality test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

VIA Character Strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/

Lumie lightboxes: https://www.lumie.com/

Liz's Badass Bookclub: https://lizfolan.com/

The Outrun by Amy Liptrot: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/amy-liptrot/outrun/9781786894229

Kate Baily (Love Your Sober Year): https://www.katebaily.com/

Sober Butterfly Collective: https://soberbutterflycollective.com/

Wild swimming in Wales: https://www.visitwales.com/accommodation/glamping/faraway-follies-2168209

Collective Effervescence: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_experiencing_joy_and_pain_in_a_group_is_so_powerful

Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

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