SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT - Sober Living, Sobriety, Addiction Recovery, Emotional Sobriety, Alcohol Free

Are you stuck in the rut of addiction looking for some hope for change? Or are you already in recovery but struggling with your emotional sobriety & feeling anxious about whether or not you’re doing this life thing right? Are you a self-proclaimed perfectionist constantly worried about what others think of you? Do you feel childhood and family patterns repeating themselves in your marriage or relationships? Did the pink cloud fade a long time ago only to be replaced with the restlessness, irritability, and discontent of those familiar drunken days? Maybe you’re a high achiever and on the outside, you have everything you need and even some of the things you want - but you’re still feeling dissatisfied. People see success when they look at you but all you see when you look in the mirror is a person you don’t even recognize - just like those 3am accidental glimpses in the mirror when you were crying in the bathroom. Desperate for a solution & crying out to a God you weren’t sure you even believed in. OH desperation - what a gift that was! In this podcast you’re gonna hear stories of hope for sober living. Stories with solutions to emotional health, relationships, and that critical inner voice as well as transparent and authentic conversations about navigating mental health, faith, and relationships in recovery. My name’s Felicia and I’m a 12-stepper turned therapist. I’m married and I have two littles under 5. I grew up in church but I didn’t find Jesus or understand grace until I found the rooms of AA in 2011. I love Jesus but have had my fair share of struggling with church culture and religion. I know what it’s like to be stuck in a restless, irritable, and discontent rut (drunk & sober). This next season I’m going to be shifting the podcast focus to stories of hope for sober living. This change comes after a year of podcasting and recognizing more than ever the power of storytelling and my hope to reach a larger audience of listeners seeking a solution to their addiction in addition to solutions for living sober. There will still at times be a focus on reaching parents in recovery since this is such a huge part of my recovery, but not all my guests who will be sharing their experience, strength, and hope, will be parents. I’m so glad you’re here! Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive… there’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint. Connect --＞ hello@sobrietycheckpoint.co Facebook --＞ facebook.com/felicia.hermle Instagram --＞ @sobrietycheckpoint.co Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. ****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****

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Thursday Aug 10, 2023

19 | Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation: Redoubling Our Efforts

Thursday Aug 10, 2023

It’s Thursday! Which means it’s time for Sobriety Checkpoint’s Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation. On Thursday mornings you can expect a thoughtful morning meditation based on a variety of daily readers and written wisdom that I will share my own thoughts or commentary on. You can also expect to hear thoughts and commentary from others that will be guests on my show. Today’s reading is from Daily Reflections by Alcoholics Anonymous.
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Credit for today’s reading: Alcoholics Anonymous. (2014). Daily reflections: A Book of Reflections. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Tuesday Aug 08, 2023

18 | Is alcohol your best friend when you’re feeling lonely? Learn about authenticity & transparency as a means to break free from lonliness

Tuesday Aug 08, 2023

Today, I share more about my story - what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now. I was so lonely. I was depressed, anxious, suicidal. In recovery, I started to learn what grace was. I saw other people being authentic, being real, being raw. Because of someone else's authenticity inviting me into a relationship and connection with them. I learned how to be authentic. Those relationships, that authenticity, that transparency from so many people who came before me has helped me to learn the importance of authenticity, the importance of transparency. The importance of being real and being okay with the fact that I'm not perfect, that I am powerless. Desperation and admitting my powerlessness has been the most beautiful gift I've ever received in my life. -I’m not a representative of any particular 12 step program -Authenticity invites connection -Authenticity & Transparency aren’t the same as airing out all your dirty laundry
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Thursday Aug 03, 2023

17 | Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation: Lament - A passionate expression of grief or sorrow

Thursday Aug 03, 2023

It’s Thursday! Which means it’s time for Sobriety Checkpoint’s Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation. On Thursday mornings you can expect a thoughtful morning meditation based on a variety of daily readers and written wisdom that I will share my own thoughts or commentary on. You can also expect to hear thoughts and commentary from others that will be guests on my show. Today’s reading is called, “Lamentations: The Volatile Voice of Grief - A Voice We Need To Hear,” an article written by Whitney Woollard from bibleproject.com
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Credit for today’s reading: Woollard, Whitney. “Lamentations: The Volatile Voice of Grief.” BibleProject, 2018, bibleproject.com/articles/lamentations-voice-of-grief/. Accessed 2 Aug. 2023
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Tuesday Aug 01, 2023

16 | Are you looking for a safe, comfortable, happy life? Where does your joy come from?

Tuesday Aug 01, 2023

Safe. Comfortable. Happy. It doesn’t really exist and it’s a very Western idea. It's a very American Christian desire to just be safe, comfortable, happy. There's parts of me that have this desire to step into the messiness of life because I think that the messiness is where I find God. Being able to be with just the rawness of reality and the authenticity of people who are truly vulnerable. I think when I'm in a place where I can be vulnerable and raw, that's where God shows up for me.
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Support the show! - buymeacoffee.com/sobrietycheckpoint
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Thursday Jul 27, 2023

15 | Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation: Codependence

Thursday Jul 27, 2023

It’s Thursday! Which means it’s time for Sobriety Checkpoint’s Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation. On Thursday mornings you can expect a thoughtful morning meditation based on a variety of daily readers and written wisdom that I will share my own thoughts or commentary on. You can also expect to hear thoughts and commentary from others that will be guests on my show. Today’s reading is from Strengthening my recovery: Meditations for adult children of alcoholics/dysfunctional families by Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization, Inc.
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Credit for today’s reading: Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization, Inc. (2013). July 27: Codependence. In Strengthening my recovery: Meditations for adult children of alcoholics/dysfunctional families (pp. 216)
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Tuesday Jul 25, 2023

14 | Are you a dad in recovery that learned you have to sweep your feelings under the rug? Find freedom from this mindset - mental health, sobriety, and fatherhood with J.P. Cifelli

Tuesday Jul 25, 2023

I’m excited to have J.P. Cifelli join me on today’s episode to share a little bit about himself and his story as a dad in recovery. He has been in recovery for 15 years and he’s passionate about men’s mental health. He says, “Without my mental health. I am very unpleasant and the world is unpleasant. It's like a domino effect, I'd say. I focused on sobriety and then the mental health came, then focused on that. Sobriety comes naturally when my mental health is in order, and then I became a dad. The key thing about being a dad, for me, is I have to make sure that my sobriety and my mental health are kind of number one. And I know that sounds weird putting that as number one, when I'm talking about being a parent, but I can't be the most productive, present parent if those things are not dialed in.”   
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Thursday Jul 20, 2023

13 | Thoughtful Thursday Morning Addiction Recovery Meditation: Shortcomings Removed

Thursday Jul 20, 2023

It’s Thursday! Which means it’s time for Sobriety Checkpoint’s Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation. On Thursday mornings you can expect a thoughtful morning meditation based on a variety of daily readers and written wisdom that I will share my own thoughts or commentary on. You can also expect to hear thoughts and commentary from others that will be guests on my show. Today’s reading is from Daily Reflections: A Book of Reflections by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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Credit for today’s reading: “July 20: SHORTCOMINGS REMOVED.” Daily Reflections: A Book of Reflections, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., New York, 1990.
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****   
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, STEP 7

Tuesday Jul 18, 2023

12 | Do you expect to be abandoned or rejected? You’re not alone in this, and there is an explanation (attachment theory) and a solution

Tuesday Jul 18, 2023

Whether you like it or not, you're constantly, unconsciously expecting your romantic partner or even other people in your life, to act like your parents did, and because of those expectations a dynamic is created where we learn to expect certain behaviors from other people. As we’re growing up we learn to expect certain things from our parents based on past experience, and because of that, we take those expectations into our relationships in adulthood.  
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Thursday Jul 13, 2023

11 | Thoughtful Thursday Morning Sobriety Meditation: Be expectant

Thursday Jul 13, 2023

#ThoughtfulThursday Welcome to the first Thoughtful Thursday Morning Meditation. On Thursday mornings you can expect a thoughtful morning meditation based on a variety of daily readers and written wisdom that I will share my own thoughts or commentary on. You can also expect to hear thoughts and commentary from others that will be guests on my show. Credit will be given to all excerpts read on this podcast which can also be found in the show notes. Since I am talking about what you can expect on Thursday mornings, I was pleased to find that today’s reading is from Twenty-four hours a day by Hazelden Foundation and it’s about being expectant.
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Credit for today’s reading: Hazelden Foundation. (1975). “Thursday Jul 13”. In Twenty-four hours a day.
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION

Tuesday Jul 11, 2023

10 | Are you trying to find your worth in achievement or perfectionism? It’s time to flip the paradigm

Tuesday Jul 11, 2023

I don’t know about you - but I have had my fair share of analysis paralysis, a common symptom of perfectionism. It’s been a constant struggle, trying to make sure that everything is perfect before starting, or not starting at all because of thinking it’s not enough. Growing up, I had perfectionist stress - alcohol really helped bring relief. It helped me to stop caring about the things I was stressed out about. I went to the other extreme, from caring too much to not caring at all. Now here I am, 12 years sober trying to find the healthy middle because alcohol isn’t an option anymore but perfectionism kind of is. I don’t know about you - but I don’t want to fill this God-sized hole in my heart with perfectionism anymore, the same way I decided to stop filling that God-sized hole with alcohol. Are you constantly trying to find your worth in achievement or perfectionism? It’s time to learn how to flip that paradigm!  
**It’s time for that desperately sought after solo Target run.. Grab your keys and let’s go for a drive... There’s no judgment (or breathalyzer) at this Sobriety Checkpoint.**
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Email - hello@sobrietycheckpoint.co
Become an insider - insider.sobrietycheckpoint.co
Instagram - @sobrietycheckpoint.co
Support the show! - buymeacoffee.com/sobrietycheckpoint
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Music for Sobriety Checkpoint created by my cousin: Jake Meyer - Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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****The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Felicia Hermle and her guests and do not reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent or are a part of.****
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****The information contained in this podcast is general information for educational purposes only, it is not, nor is it intended to be, therapy or psychological advice. Please consult your physician or mental health provider regarding advice or support for your health and wellbeing. If you are in crisis, please call your local 24-hour hotline or 911.****
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ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLE, ADDICTION RECOVERY, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY, SOBER LIFE, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION