Today on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra welcome their friend, Anna Bielby. The girls met Anna in August at the She Recovers conference in Los Angeles, and they’re here to tell you, Anna radiates light. It wasn’t always Anna’s story though, and she takes you through some dark places but that ultimately saved her because they led her to recovery. Now Anna “lives big”, which includes exploring nature whenever she can, being a thriving member of her community and being the best Mom and wife she can b...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 40 min
This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra catch up about a topic that isn’t often explored until after it’s happened: Relapse, specifically life’s events that can lead to a possible relapse. They talk about the meaning of the word and how it can be broadened to encompass emotional relapse and lack of spiritual maintenance, and how those factors can be just the things that could lead a person to a lapse in alcohol abstinence. They both include very personal accounts and real-time solutions that ...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 32 min
This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra welcome Adriana Marchione. Adriana Marchione MA, REAT, RSMT, Director has been involved in the arts for over 25 years, from filmmaker to Argentine tango dancer to expressive arts therapist. She’s also been in recovery for as long. If there is a recurring theme in this conversation, it is how art can save us, and Adriana generously shares many times how she has recovered through her art. Her latest project, a documentary film (currently in post-productio...
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 37 min
In today’s episode, Tammi and Sondra are happy to share a conversation with their friend J. Davis Harte. Davis has an interesting career as a design ecologist, specifically an environmental designer, researcher and educator. She is also in her 42nd year living with Type 1 diabetes and along with her journey to sobriety, Davis shares her thoughts around addiction and those living with a chronic, invisible illness. When she has spare time, she has many creative pursuits that fill it, including wri...
Nov 26, 2018•1 hr 42 min
Today on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra welcome Rynda Laurel. Rynda has a most impressive resume, with years of work in the music industry and the innovative digital marketing space, but her most noteworthy accomplishment is her 26 years of sobriety. Currently, you can find Rynda in the supplement industry as she’s creating easy to use and effective supplements, VRYeveryday. They talk about the hole in the conversation as it relates to the biochemical needs of those in recovery and Rynda covers s...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 29 min
This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with Shari Hampton. You may know Shari from the Instagram and podcast world as Served Up Sober. If you do, then you already know how wise, insightful and funny Shari is and if you don’t, go follow her now. She has a fascinating story of how she came to sobriety and is a true testament to try, fail, try again. Shari is starting Sober AF meetups (in hopes to soon be a non-profit) in the San Diego area, so if you are any...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr 34 min
In this episode, Tammi and Sondra talk to Brooke Morton with Sober Outside. Brooke has spent over a decade as a travel writer and adventurer and after she got into recovery, she combined her passions to create an adventure travel company for the sober community in March 2018, thus Sober Outside. If you are a lover of travel (or if you just want to hear a beautiful account of recovery), you will find so much inspiration in Brooke’s story. To learn more about Brooke and her current travel offering...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 36 min
In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra check-in on four subjects: sobriety, health, family and creativity. They talk about monotony and exhaustion, exercise and seasonal blues, life in and out of their control, and creative ideas, big and small. They hope you join them for the last check-in of 2018. This week Sondra and Tammi share three items from their Unruffled Toolboxes: Sondra: (1) Hand stitching; (2) All the books; and (3) Glorious sleep. Tammi: (1) Teas; (2) Ep. 7 of the Never Not Grate...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 23 min
On this week’s podcast, Tammi and Sondra are so excited to bring you a conversation with Holly Whitaker. If you don’t already know Holly, she in the founder and CEO of Tempest, Inc. (formerly Hip Sobriety, Inc.) and the newly launched media site, The Temper, and is currently one of the smartest voices in modern recovery. They talk about how she took her sobriety school from just a handful of students to the progressive company it is now, they talk about the decline of the beloved Home Podcast an...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 46 min
This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra are happy to bring you a conversation with Patty Muenks. Patty has a beautiful and fulfilling life as a ceramics artist and shared business owner with her beloved husband, but this wasn’t always Patty’s life. She takes us through her drinking story, painting a true picture of what it was like in hopes that you may find some connection in her experience. Her story has a beautiful ending or rather, a beginning. You can learn more about Patty and see her a...
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 42 min
This week on the podcast, Tammi and Sondra are excited to bring you a conversation with Dana Bowman. Dana is an author, teacher and speaker who sends Moms everywhere who struggle with alcohol a message of strength and hope through her books, speaking engagements and television appearances. They also talk about perfectionism, marriage, relapse and writing...it’s a very juicy episode. You can learn more about Dana on her blog, https://momsieblog.com/ , see her Today Show appearance and buy her boo...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 37 min
Today, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with artist, author and teacher, Sabrina Ward Harrison. Although Sabrina has had a prolific creative career, she came to a point in her life where she felt alcohol was holding her back and today, she shares her sobriety story publicly for the first time. Tammi and Sondra are honored to hold this space for her and they hope that her message and her art inspire you beyond this interview. You can learn more about Sabrina at https://www.sab...
Oct 01, 2018•1 hr 41 min
In this episode, Tammi and Sondra revisit their time at the She Recovers event in LA. They talk about their favorite parts (the silent disco, duh), which events had the most impact and what left them inspired to take action. Though they both had different take-aways, they both agreed that the best overall part was meeting The Unruffled Podcast listeners. They hope this episode sends good energy out to not just those that were in attendance but especially to those that weren’t. This week Sondra a...
Sep 24, 2018•1 hr 28 min
Today, Tammi and Sondra bring you a conversation with Niki Hale. Niki is a multi-passionate Californian and when she’s not providing trauma-informed massage therapy, she’s making, sewing, cooking, gardening, connecting and creating a rich and meaningful life. With alcohol no longer holding her back, Niki is a force to be reckoned. If you’d like to learn more about Niki and her offerings, visit her beautiful website https://starsalignbodywork.com/. This week Niki shares items from her Unruffled T...
Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 38 min
Tammi and Sondra catch up on two of four subjects today, as filtered through the lens of Summer: family and sobriety (check last week’s episode for health and creativity). They talk about teenagers, aging parents, sobriety milestones and service. The summer of slowing down, self-indulgence and the Sober Sister Summer Series was a success! This week Sondra and Tammi share three items from their Unruffled Toolboxes: Sondra: (1) Library card; (2) Writing my face off; and (3) Prayer and meditation. ...
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Tammi and Sondra catch up on two of four subjects today, as filtered through the lens of Summer: health and creativity (come back next week for family and sobriety). They talk about hormones and anxiety, painting, making, writing and even job hunting. They also reflect on the success of the Sober Sister Summer Series and their respective themes of slowing down and self-indulgence. No Unruffled Toolbox items for this week, as they are saving them for the end of Part 2.
Sep 03, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Rounding out the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are happy to bring you a conversation with their friend, Susan Sainsbury. Susan is a creative, sober sister from another Mother, tucked into the Catskills with her family and animals, she has the kind of creative prowess that inspires envy. From her quaint farmhouse, studio and garden, her found object art to her community work, Susan has crafted a beautiful life in recovery. She lives with so much intention now and to see more of wha...
Aug 27, 2018•1 hr 27 min
With a few more episodes to go in their Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a conversation with their friend, Lara Frazier. Lara is a writer, speaker and recovery advocate with a strong voice in the recovery community. She has a very powerful story that’s she’s told on a couple of favorite podcasts, so if you want to hear Lara’s complete journey to sobriety, you can catch that on the Home podcast, Ep. 70. In this episode, the ladies wanted to focus on all of the imp...
Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 24 min
In this week’s episode and as part of the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra talk to their friend, Sarelle McCoard. Sarelle is a sober Mama living in Ohio and is someone who really works hard on her recovery, and it shows. Always a student, she began a new career as a chemical dependency counselor at 48 and there is hardly a creative challenge that she isn’t willing to take on. Sarelle’s life explodes in full color now, and she makes sobriety look so good. You can see more of Sarelle’s...
Aug 13, 2018•1 hr 30 min
Adding to the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are excited to have their friend Diana Unlu on the show. Diana is a sober Mama, passionate and thriving in Austin, where she is busy creating a life from which she no longer wants to escape. Through her beautiful travels, home and family, her life is Instagram-worthy, but it is the changes that she’s made on the inside through recovery that she’s most proud. And it’s the hard work she’s put in to make these changes, through yoga teacher ...
Aug 06, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Continuing with the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are happy to bring you an interview with their friend, Gloria Blecha. Gloria is a sober Mama, Californian lover of woo and light who almost stumbled into sobriety by way of first attempting to address her issues with money, shopping and spending. This is this first time they’ve had someone on the podcast that was willing to be so transparent about overspending, a problem that can often co-occur with over-drinking and that can pack ...
Jul 30, 2018•1 hr 33 min
Tammi and Sondra are honored to bring you another interview in the Sober Sister Summer Series this week with Nicole Baker. Though they often use this platform to talk about what life is like now in recovery, sometimes it is necessary to travel deep into what it was like and what happened to us that got us to where we are today, and Nicole takes us on that journey. Nicole’s story is powerful, sometimes painful, but so resonate and they are grateful for this space in which her beautiful soul could...
Jul 23, 2018•1 hr 55 min
Continuing with the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are excited to welcome Miki Romo. Miki is a sober Mama, occupational therapist and aspiring yoga teacher who has a story not often told in the recovery space. So many in recovery often have co-occurring issues and those around food often ride along with alcohol and other addictions. Miki is someone who didn’t start down a path of recovery until she had gastric bypass surgery. Miki is so generous with her story, and her tender compa...
Jul 16, 2018•1 hr 20 min
Coming off the heels of the Austin and Santa Rosa Women’s Circle events, Tammi and Sondra thought it would be a good time to revisit community. (If you want to listen to first time they talk about community, go back to Episode 5 https://soundcloud.com/stevehecht-561628099/episode-5-creating-community.) Specifically, they talk about ideas on how to build one, how they evolve and most importantly, how they often take time. Recovery can sometimes feel very lonely, so they hope that this episode wil...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 34 min
Staying with the Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra welcome back Erin Shaw Street to talk about sober travel. (You may remember Erin from Episode 18 https://soundcloud.com/stevehecht-561628099/episode-18-erin-shaw-street, so go back and listen to that one if you want to hear her entire story.) As a travel writer, Erin has so many great tips on sober travel, including not just how to prepare and what to keep in your toolbox, but being clear on your intentions before you even board the p...
Jul 01, 2018•1 hr 26 min
Continuing with their Sober Sister Summer Series, Tammi and Sondra are happy to have their friend, Jenn James, on the pod. Jenn is a sober Mama, artist and recovery coach-in-training who has built a colorful life in sobriety that includes all things crystals, plants, books and nature. Jenn is a beautiful example of someone living her best, most exciting life in recovery. You can learn more about Jenn at www.jennjamescoaching.com or follow her on Instagram @jennjamesatx or @soberaf_racing. This w...
Jun 25, 2018•1 hr 31 min
In this episode, Tammi and Sondra are excited to have Natalie Fairbrook on the podcast, helping them kick off a slightly new Summer format called the Sober Sister Summer Series. Natalie is a friend (often referred to on the pod, *that* Natalie), sober Mama, yoga teacher and recovery coach in training and from party-girl to passionate teetotaler, her story is sure to resonate. This series is all about the beautiful life anyone can create in recovery, and Natalie is a radiant example of that. You ...
Jun 18, 2018•1 hr 29 min
In this week’s episode, Tammi and Sondra were happy to talk to the radiant Amy Newman. Amy is a health and wellness advocate, where she makes her love of plants as medicine accessible to all over on her platform, Whole Life With Amy. She has also adopted the alcohol-free lifestyle, and the ladies talk about how she came to that decision as a powerful choice that went hand-in-hand with the taking back of her health. There is so much to Amy’s fascinating story, from Mormonism to embroidery and cup...
Jun 11, 2018•1 hr 57 min
Tammi and Sondra have been wanting to talk to women in recovery who hold full-time jobs but also make time for creativity, so that is what this episode is about. Beverly is a sober Mom, full-time scientist and passionate crafter who makes time to do something creative every day. Beverly shares many helpful tips on how she makes this happen and the ladies know you will be inspired by her drive and passion. You can catch a glimpse of Beverly’s creative practice on Instagram @weedstowildflowers and...
Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 43 min
Tammi and Sondra are excited to share a chat with Natha Perkins Campanella. Natha is a sober Mama, life coach and astrologer, whom the ladies discovered after she reached out with an offering of a natal chart reading, in which she was open to discussing certain astrological chart markers that make some more susceptible to using drugs and alcohol. It took a whole three minutes for the ladies to say, “Hell yes, sign us up!” The podcast starts with Natha’s very relatable story of how she came to gi...
May 28, 2018•1 hr 42 min
