This week, Rebecca Campbell, best-selling author of Light is The New Black and Rise Sister Rise joins HOME. Rebecca is a spiritual teacher, mentor, and soulful guide who has led thousands of women to listen to the callings of their soul and create a life that is completely aligned to them. She talks to the girls about her the path that led her to quit her job as an award-winning creative director to follow her call to spiritual service, how she relates to the divine feminine, and what she thinks...
May 03, 2017•1 hr 39 min
Holly and Laura talk about the weird, glorious, difficult, out-of-body, out-of-mind time that was the first 100 days of sobriety. They recap what life was like the week before and the week after their final quit dates, what it was like learning to walk on new legs in a new world, and a few memories that most stand out from that time.
Apr 27, 2017•1 hr 45 min
This week, Elena Brower returns to HOME to catch up with the girls on work, some of her upcoming projects, the importance of simplification, her teachers, and what her life looks like at over two years sober. She also spontaneously shares her latest spoken word piece, which she'll be giving at the She Recovers conference in NYC in May. Elena is an internationally recognized author, speaker and yoga teacher. She is the author of Art of Attention, and the creator of Teach.yoga, a virtual home for ...
Apr 19, 2017•1 hr 29 min
This week marks Holly's 4-year sober anniversary and one year since Laura quit her fancy corporate job. In this episode, they reflect on those milestones and do the traditional catch-up convo on love, work, sobriety and home life.
Apr 12, 2017•1 hr 37 min
Ann Dowsett Johnston, bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Woman and Alcohol returns to HOME to catch up with the girls about writing her second book, dating and not dating in relationships, the second half of life, depression, and writing her second book. "Drink" was named one of the top 10 books of 2013 by the Washington Post and is one both Holly and Laura's go-to picks for understanding women and addiction. Ann is an award-winning journalist and former Vice-Principa...
Apr 05, 2017•1 hr 38 min
Karla Mosley is an LA-based actress and producer who currently plays Maya Avant on "The Bold and The Beautiful." Karla met Holly at a silent meditation retreat in 2016 and (once they could talk) they immediately bonded as women in recovery, among other things. In this episode, Karla talks to the girls about her eating disorder history, her ongoing recovery, and what it's like to go through these things as someone in the public eye. http://karlamosley.com
Mar 29, 2017•1 hr 49 min
This week's talk is an introduction to an episode that turned into an entire episode about men, dating, the suckstorm of repeating the same patterns, and the mission to grow and heal.
Mar 22, 2017•58 min
This week, the girls play the old school drinking game "Never Would I Ever", listing some of the big things they never thought they'd do, and then did, while or because of drinking. With La Croix in place of booze, obviously. Grab your favorite NA beverage(s), take a deep breath, and join in.
Mar 15, 2017•1 hr 33 min
Stephanie Snyder is a mama, a master yoga teacher, the founder of Love Story Yoga studio in San Francisco, and a fellow recovery warrior. She’s also one of Holly’s primary teachers from Episode 63: Teachers. She talks to the girls about her addiction and recovery story, yoga as a foundation in her recovery, and finding her dharma as a teacher. Love Story Yoga: www.lovestoryyoga.com Stephanie's Website: www.stephaniesnyder.com
Mar 08, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Holly and Laura riff on random subjects including feeling un/worthy, obsessing about men (aka "Laura's Second Sobriety"), and the evolution of introversion. Holly also tricks Laura into talking about their relationship dreams.
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 31 min
This week, the girls talk to their friend and novelist, Aidan Donnelley Rowley. Aidan is an NYC-based mama of three, who quit her job as a lawyer in her 20's and decided to pursue writing. In 2011, Aidan started bravely questioning her relationship with alcohol on her blog, Ivy League Insecurities, where she documented "A Year Without Wine." She talks to the girls about this, and the winding path that ultimately led her to choose sobriety last year, as well as family, grief, writing, anxiety and...
Feb 22, 2017•1 hr 42 min
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart, about her life as a professional dominatrix, and the essay collection, Abandon Me, coming out February 28th. In this episode, she talks to the girls about the subjects she so eloquently covers (read: both Holly and Laura's minds were both totally blown on this book) in Abandon Me: obsessive love, addiction, mental illness and recovery from all of it. Melissa's award-winning work has been published in the New York Times, Salon, The Kenyon Rev...
Feb 15, 2017•1 hr 52 min
The hero's journey was introduced by Joseph Campbell, and is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed. In this week's episode, the girls talk about a few of the key moments they knew they were on a hero's journey.
Feb 08, 2017•1 hr 45 min
Since there's not much else going on in the world, the girls do a check-in this week on the big four: work, love, home and sobriety. Vagina is only mentioned once. Men may be mentioned a couple times. God bless us all.
Feb 01, 2017•1 hr 10 min
This week, the girls talk to Dr. Azita Nahai, a Kundalini Yogi, scholar, speaker and therapist. She is the founder of Trauma to Dharma™ ~ an experiential methodology that integrates a mind, body, spirit approach to healing trauma and transforming one’s pain into purpose. Azita walks the girls through the abusive relationship in her 20's that led her to seek recovery, and ultimately find her life's work. www.azitanahai.com
Jan 25, 2017•1 hr 54 min
We're talking about food again! This week, the girls talk to Isabel Foxen Duke, a fixture, and leader in the body-positive movement and creator of Stop Fighting Food, a training program for women who want to "stop feeling crazy around food." After years of trying to overcome emotional eating, binge eating and chronic weight-cycling, Isabel discovered some radical new ways to overcome "food issues" once and for all. She shares her story and talks about how she now leads women to shift their minds...
Jan 18, 2017•1 hr 52 min
"Hell is other people" -Jean-Paul Sartre. In this episode, Laura and Holly talk straight about one of the hardest parts about getting sober: other people. They walk through the most challenging, frustrating and downright confusing reactions, interactions, and conversations they had as they were trying to get sober and stay that way.
Jan 11, 2017•2 hr 6 min
This week, the girls talk to Sarah Roberts, author of The 28 Day Kick The Sugar Challenge and author of the popular blog, SarahTalksFood.com. Laura, Holly and their right-hand woman on HOME, Megan, all did the Challenge and they talk to Sarah about their different experiences. Sarah shares her story of addiction and recovery and how she was led to her current work, which is to help people see the powerful connection between what they eat and how they feel.
Jan 05, 2017•2 hr
In the last episode of 2016, Holly and Laura talk about New Year's Eve past and present--what they used to look like, and what they look like nowadays. They talk about the idea of setting resolutions, and why they don't do it, but instead share the core themes they're focusing on in 2017. We're talkin' 'bout a revolution... Happy New Year, everyone! Thank you for making this a big, exciting year. Onward!
Dec 28, 2016•1 hr 8 min
In this episode, Holly and Laura revisit sex (and love) addiction with their dear friend, Lara Frazier. While Lara was in treatment for chemical addiction, she was labeled a "love addict" and a "sex addict" and told she needed to seek treatment for both. She shares her story leading up to and through recovery.
Dec 21, 2016•1 hr 22 min
Megg Watterson returns to HOME for one of the most riveting conversations to date (at least, in our opinion). Holly explains her own resistance to Megg's work and having her on the show initially, and her evolution with that, which was integral to some of her most profound breakthroughs. Megg talks about this resistance in a broader perspective in our society, and what the rise of the divine feminine really means at this point in time.
Dec 07, 2016•56 min
It's Dawn! In this week's episode, the girls talk to the true mama bear of the recovery world and half of She Recovers, one of the largest women's online recovery communities in existence today. Dawn is in long-terms substance recovery (from all of 'em, as she says) but she also faced another bottom with workaholism that brought her to an equally dark, if not darker place. She talks to the girls about what that looked like, battling cancer, and her view on recovery decades in.
Nov 30, 2016•1 hr 4 min
It's been a hell of a couple weeks, huh? The girls talk about their experience of the election, the days since, and what they're doing to keep sane and move forward. They also talk a little about Thanksgiving (Happy Thanksgiving!) and how to survive it sober.
Nov 23, 2016•1 hr 21 min
In this episode, the girls talk to Kelly Brogan, M.D. Kelly is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the NY Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is on the forefront of an alternative-care movement to inform patients that the medical industry, government, food companies, and the pharmaceutical industry do not have our best health interests at heart. As she says, "I’m here to tell y...
Nov 16, 2016•45 min
It's time for a catch-up! Holly and Laura (HoLo) do a check-in about the usual four: work, love, home and sobriety. Topics include nesting, Holly's work revelation, book deadlines, animal totems, and 'Snooch!'
Nov 09, 2016•1 hr 24 min
The girls talk to Kristi Coulter, the force behind the mega-viral Medium article published earlier this year titled "Enjoli." Kristi talks about drinking, sobriety, writing, not writing, feminism, and what happens when you're suddenly in the public eye and TIME is writing response pieces to your work. Kristi's essay collection, Want Not, will be published in early 2018 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. More about her at www.kristicoulter.com.
Nov 03, 2016•1 hr 33 min
The girls share who their biggest teachers have been, what they learned from them, and what "the way in" is to each one. Meaning, if you're new to the teacher's teachings, the "way in" is the "start here." Each of them share eight of their favorite teachers and then rattle off a bunch more. NOTE: The episode image is from one of Liz Gilbert's facebook posts. Her hand, full disclosure.
Oct 26, 2016•1 hr 28 min
In this episode, the girls talk to Jolene Park, a functional nutritionist, and an expert in the craving brain. They talk about the intricate connections between anxiety, depression, trauma, nutrition, addiction, relationships and more. Jolene is a goldmine of experience and resources, and she's got a compelling personal story to back it up. What's more, Jolene's personal story is common, but not often heard: successful woman approaching middle-age comes to terms with closing the window on her id...
Oct 19, 2016•1 hr 52 min
A common belief our society has about sobriety is that it's boring, sad, and ultimately...uncool. The girls address this from their own perspectives, including what their beliefs about sobriety were before they stopped drinking, how and when that perception shifted, and how they feel about it now. Although the episode is titled "uncool" it's about so much more. It's about how to navigate doing something that society doesn't largely support, how to deal with breaking tribal expectations and norms...
Oct 12, 2016•1 hr 28 min
It's Mark Manson! The guy who singlehandedly simplified 90% of relationships with The Law of Fuck Yes or No, and author of just-released NYT bestseller "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck" joins HOME. He talks to the girls about the years of travel, searching, and relationships that informed some of his most popular writing, growing up (sort of), and the reasons he wrote his new book. More about Mark and all his articles + books here: www.markmanson.com.
Oct 05, 2016•1 hr 3 min
