My guest this week is a very special member of our Tribe Sober Team
I first met Lynette LeRoux when she came to one of our workshops more than 8 years ago
She was in a dark place back then but the workshop was the catalyst she needed to change everything
Lynette has been transforming and enriching her life for the last 8 years – she’s found her passion and qualified as a Coach and for the last 3 years she has been working for Tribe Sober as a Coach
In this episode
- Lynette first tasted alcohol at the tender age of 9 – she’d got hold of some tiny bottles of whisky and brandy which she kept near her bed. She would take a sip when she went to bed as it comforted her
- Going off to boarding school at the age of 5 left her with lingering feelings of isolation – a feeling that those little sips chased away.
- As she reflects back she realises it was a way to feel nurtured and held
- She didn’t drink much in her teens but in her 20’s she met a guy who loved his whisky and she began to drink regularly
- Lynette had never really felt comfortable in her own skin so alcohol helped her to socialise
- Her relationship deteriorated due to her partners drunken rages and he left her when she was pregnant
- She coped well over the next few years and began to develop her career
- The usual after work drinks culture prevailed and Lynette fell back into her old patterns
- She would drink excessively at the weekends as well as after work sometimes
- Like many of us she would resolve to stop or cut down but nothing really changed
- Then she met her current husband who hardly drinks at all
- He thought she drank too much so she tried hard to make a change
- She managed some sober stretches but as she got into her 40’s the alcohol came back into her life
- Even though she was drinking Lynette tried a lot self development programs during this period
- Looking back she realises that she never tried to integrate her learnings into her daily life
- If we don’t apply the learnings then the courses are really a waste of time and nothing will change
- As she moved into her 50’s Lynette became more dependent on alcohol
- She felt she was losing connection with her husband and her friends
- Always looking for the quick fix she decided to study plant medicine
- As part of Lynette’s ongoing odyssey for a quick cure for her problems she came across our one day workshop
- She attended the workshop but true to form she never really engaged
- After the workshop she didn’t apply the tools or connect via the chatgroups
- So nothing really changed and three months after the workshop she hit her rock bottom
- Driving to work and struggling with an awful hangover she had a “not this” moment
- Followed by a “if not this then what?” moment
- Out of desperation she looked at her Tribe Sober workshop notes and decided to reconnect
- Lynette went to the coffee meetup and engaged on the WhatsApp group
- After reading other peoples messages for a while she decided to reach out
- She posted a message that she felt really low
- Another member explained that she felt that way because her brain was recalibrating and healing
- This really resonated with Lynette and became her mantra
- She began to study coaching and started to see that a different way of life was possible
- As Lynette has been coached herself and has coached many people I asked her to explain why coaching is so valuable
- She explained that coaching helps us to get perspective on our life and our mind
- Coaching enables a growth mindset as we move towards our future self
- We talked about the benefits she has gained from 5 years of sobriety
- The biggest benefit for Lynette was reconnecting with herself and then developing her passion for coaching
- She’s learned so much about her beautiful brain and she’s learned how to feel
- She’s learned that emotional pain is a sign of growth and she must learn to get comfortable with being uncomfortable
- That's a lesson she’s taught us all here at Tribe Sober
- We agreed that there is so much more to recovery than “not drinking”
- As Lynette said tha's just 10% of the work – and we will never thrive in sobriety if we don’t tackle the other 90%
- We talked about anhedonia which is the low mood that sometimes hits us in early sobriety
- For more on dealing anhedonia check out Lynette’s video on our you tube channel and the Tribe Sober podcast interview with Dr Loretta Breuning, episode 55 on Apple Podcasts
- We talked about the Path to Purpose which is Lynette's membership program
- We discussed the synergy between Tribe Sober and Path to Purpose memberships and our plans to bring them closer
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