When thinking about making a change always ask yourself - What's my Why?

Perhaps it's for health, for energy, for family or to live by your own values, but the answer reveals a powerful motivation for behavioural change.

In this episode we are joined by Pádraig Walsh, behavioural psychologist and founder of ChangeAble Behaviour Solutions, with over 15 years of experience applying behavioural science to real-world challenges. He is a noted media contributor, lecturer at Irish universities, and focuses on human-centered design, motivation, and behavioural insights.

We talk about our psychology and motivations around change, the rise in at home drinking post pandemic and the modelling impact our behaviours and drinking can have on our children living with us.

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Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change!

Joined by meditation, yoga and life design coach Sinéad Mooney owner of Moons Yoga Loft we talk about the connection to self and how when that feels uncomfortable we can choose disconnection and numb out - and alcohol is one of those numbing tools.

Getting comfortable with ourselves is not always easy.

It takes work and time and mapping out what you care about.

But as Sinead explains - when we are still, we can listen to our intuition, hear what our body and mind is trying to tell us and hold space for the emotions we have pushed down. 

It’s here we find the power to make good decisions for ourselves.

To live with intention.

To make a positive change. 

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Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change!

In this episode we are joined by Michael O’Malley, business founder, podcast producer, operations manager and groom - as he shares his Shredding for the Wedding weight loss goals - proving that real change really can happen. 

In this conversation, we talk about a huge positive life change Michael made as this week he celebrates 3 years sober.

He has achieved more, experienced more and enjoyed more in the last 3 years than the decades before it.

Getting honest about the life he wanted to live and seeing how alcohol was sabotaging it has freed Michael to chase after greater health, energy, self compassion and joy. 

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Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change!

Clare McKenna is an Irish broadcaster, health coach, and author who has worked in TV and radio for over 25 years. She is currently best known as the presenter of Alive and Kicking, a weekly health and wellness show on Newstalk

Here we talk about alcohol in the context of wellbeing, Clare’s own relationship with drinking and the first moment she learned that alcohol can lead to losing control. 

If a glass of wine to wind down is what you turn to, too often, this conversation will inspire you to bring new rituals into your life.

Our wellbeing touches every corner of our lives, and this episode is an invitation for you to reconsider what makes you feel good.

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Are you a Grey Area Drinker?

Find out with our guest Olivia Farrelly, creator of Grey Area Drinker

Olivia is an alcohol free coach and mentor and holds an MsC in Health Psychology and diploma in alcohol studies.

She is the host of No More booze podcast.

Olivia is a wealth of support and knowledge and here shares her own personal journey from needing alcohol for social connection and relieving anxiety - to now helping others who are ready to make a change.

Here she shares the first steps, the barriers people can struggle with and the real impact it’s had on her health, career and relationships.

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Influencer SamKelly98 joins us for our first episode of the new season to talk about the moment he knew it was time to make a change. 

3 years ago he decided to choose a new way of living. He decided a sober life. 

Like many, he enjoyed socialising and alcohol during college, but when the nights rolled into one he had to cut alcohol from his life.

And as he shares on our podcast, Here's To Change, it was the catalyst to the successful life he is thriving in now. 

With advice and support for anyone who felt the way he did, this conversation could inspire you to make a change.

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Sometimes change is unavoidable - especially if you are a woman in midlife. 

And these changes can bring huge personal liberation and crushing hangovers that never used to be there. How a woman’s body processes alcohol changes in perimenopause and menopause and it is one more thing to figure out. 

To help, we’ve brought Doctor and women’s health specialist Dr. Maire Finn and Midlife coach Alana Kirk here today to explain what’s going on, why we need to protect our sleep, energy and wellbeing and why in this chapter of life, it could also be time to make a change to how much or how often you drink alcohol.

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Change really is possible - we just have to learn how to make it happen.

Joining us in this episode is Dr. Brian Pennie 

Dr. Brian is a writer, corporate speaker, mental health advocate and lecturer in Trinity College and University College Dublin.

He is the author of the best selling book Bonus Time and most recently brought us the heralded documentary series 'Hooked' on the science of addiction from drugs to gambling and smartphones.

Something he knows a lot about from personal experience - as Brian turned his life around after a 15 year heroin addiction. 

Here he explains why we are creatures of habit, why we chase pleasure and push away pain and how real change happens when we learn to live not by our habits but show up protecting our values and what matters to us most. 

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We all need ways to destress, switch off, destress and reconnect.

And we all know how easy it is to allow alcohol to be at the centre of it.

But protecting your energy, mental health, physical resources and relationships are more important. In this episode we talk to Justin Caffrey, high-performance coach, entrepreneur, and thought leader, helping people deal with their anxiety and nervous system regulation.

Justin has been through a lot - a very stressful career, heavy travel load and the loss of a young child, and throughout it all he powered on pretending and using alcohol among other things to mask his mental health, until a panic attack in a boardroom forced him to make a change. 

This episode is compelling, nonjudgemental and as Justin shares more common than we may realise amongst men.

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Mothers are some of the most overwhelmed people in the world - and instead of functional support there is a trend to encourage “Wine O’Clock” as the solution to her very real physical, emotional, hormonal and mental challenges. 

Maybe instead of wine, she just needs some help? 

Joining me to share their own relationship with alcohol in motherhood is child and adolescent psychotherapist and play therapist Debbie Cullinane, Host of Stretch Marks podcast Sinead O’Moore and Sustainability Advocate Pat Kane.

Each of them has felt the need to reach for that glass and individually have found ways to make a change.

If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange

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Joining us on Here’s to Change is music artist and host of the "Light Work for Dark Days" podcast, Nealo. 

Nealo made the decision to stop drinking alcohol and here shares the benefits, the challenges and the change it’s made to his relationships with his son, his friends and with himself. 

We talk about the impact alcohol was having on his mental health and how since no longer drinking, Nealo has had to meet parts of himself that alcohol numbed away. This hasn’t always been easy but over time he has found greater contentment, energy and a new way to live life.

If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange

Produced by The Brand Story for Drinkaware.

Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios

To contact the show please email sinead@thebrandstory.ie

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.