How do you feel about yourself when you wake up and realize you did it again?

If you get hangxiety and shameovers after drinking, it’s not your relationship with alcohol that needs to change. It’s your relationship with yourself.

The performance-based, perfectionistic mindset that fuels your success in other areas of your life also drives you into a cycle of self-sabotage.

Because when you beat yourself up for making a mistake, you shut off access to the part of the brain that learns from mistakes.

The solution to alcohol use disorder is a feeling…a feeling of confidence in your ability to learn. On today’s episode, you’ll learn:

• The exact mechanism that causes you to overdrink

• A step-by-step process to break the cycle of shame next time you wake up hungover

• Why the road to recovery must be paved with love, self-compassion and curiosity

What daily updates from me? Find me on TikTok @hangoverwhisperer and IG @thehangoverwhisperer

If you’re ready to fully commit to your personal growth and do the work to get emotionally sober (side effects include an 80 percent reduction in drinking), click here to BOOK A DISCOVERY CALL WITH COLLEEN. You'll walk away from our call with a clear understanding of how to get the skills you need to transform your life.

Have you considered that the inability to self-correct your drinking habits could be a sign of trauma?

Most high achieving professional women associate the word "trauma" with violence, sexual assault or emotional abuse and neglect, and assume they don’t qualify because nothing “that bad” has ever happened to them.

Instead, they attribute their bad habits to a lack of discipline or motivation and try to shame themselves into “snapping out of it.”

But you can’t snap out of trauma–and shaming yourself causes more trauma. You must work with your nervous system to restore a sense of safety in your body– going slow and being patient with yourself. Because the root cause of alcohol use disorder is shame. Which means the solution is learning how to feel confident in your resilience.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What trauma is (and what it isn’t)

• How to recognize the symptoms of trauma in your own life

• The difference between a stress response and trauma response

• A simple technique to stimulate your vagus nerve and reset your nervous system to a parasympathetic state so that you can re-engage with your life feeling powerful and in control.

Come find me on TikTok @hangoverwhisperer and IG @thehangoverwhisperer

If you’re ready to get emotionally sober (side effects include an 80 percent reduction in drinking, click here to BOOK A DISCOVERY CALL WITH COLLEEN. You'll walk away from our call with a clear understanding of how to get the skills you need to transform your life.

Are you stuck in a job that doesn’t fulfill you–but the thought of making a big career change feels impossible?

When your career isn’t meeting your needs, it’s easier to blame dissatisfaction and burnout on your own mental health issues. Because you’ve invested so much time and energy to get where you are. Why can’t you just be happy with what you have?

But feeling trapped and uninspired blocks the energy you need to make a meaningful career shift without losing everything you’ve worked for.

I’m talking to Brooke Schnittman, host of SuccessFULL with ADHD podcast about our parallel decisions to exchange traditional teaching jobs for the scary and unknown world of coaching. We talk about how we broke free from the golden handcuffs, leveraged our unique strengths and built careers that truly light us up.

You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of how to respond to your own ever-evolving needs with an open-mind so that you have the courage (and cojones) to invest in your own dreams.

Come find me on TikTok @hangoverwhisperer and IG @thehangoverwhisperer

If you’re ready to get emotionally sober (side effects include an 80 percent reduction in drinking, click here to BOOK A DISCOVERY CALL WITH COLLEEN. You'll walk away from our call with a clear understanding of how to get the skills you need to transform your life.

Find Brooke on social media @coachingwithBrooke and her 3C Activation for Coaches at https://www.coachingwithbrooke.com/3c-for-coaches

Brooke Schnittman, MA, PCC, BCC, is a dedicated ADHD and executive coach for neurodivergent individuals of all ages. Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and part of an ADHD family of 5, Brooke deeply understands the struggles of frustration and overwhelm. After a 15-year career in special education in the #1 school district in the US, she founded Coaching With Brooke (CWB) in 2018, helping over a million people daily through her 3C Activation™ program. An award-winning coach and best-selling author, Brooke hosts the SuccessFULL With ADHD podcast, which won the #1 2023 Listener’s Choice Award. She has spoken alongside top health and wellness experts and has been featured in major publications like Forbes and Entrepreneur to help ADHDers "Activate Their ADHD Potential."