Ep 133: What Six Years Living Alcohol Free has Taught Me
Move With Heart
Melissa Wood-Tepperberg
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It’s been six years since Melissa last had a sip of alcohol. In this episode, she shares what called her to stop, how choosing discomfort led to real transformation, and the clarity that came from stepping into a life that feels aligned. She explores the question, “Are you believing everything you think?” and opens up about why she doesn’t identify as “sober” and what that means for her journey. Melissa also touches on a key lesson from next week’s episode with Dr. Amen: how every choice either strengthens or harms the brain. This is a year of stripping back, telling the truth, and living with radical transparency. Melissa invites you to reflect: Are you okay with where your life is right now, or are you craving more? A powerful conversation for anyone reevaluating their relationship with alcohol, identity, or the life they want to create.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Move with Heart podcast. I am your host, Melissa Wood-Teperberg, and I am so |
| 0:09.7 | honored to have you here to have these enlightening conversations to help you see the power |
| 0:18.7 | within yourself, this magnificence that we all hold. |
| 0:24.3 | We just have to stay devoted with our practice and doing the work and open our hearts and |
| 0:29.8 | our minds to the infinite power of possibilities. |
| 0:37.1 | There is a first time for everything. |
| 0:40.0 | I definitely think this is the first time I'm ever recording a podcast. |
| 0:44.2 | In my closet, welcome. |
| 0:46.3 | It just felt really grounding. |
| 0:48.2 | I meditate in here, and it's just this safe space where I have called so many things in my life. |
| 0:57.5 | And interestingly enough, without even connecting the dots, but just having this crazy memory of when I was meditating literally right here is when I felt this deep, clear call to get clarity in my life, |
| 1:25.0 | to get super grounded and who I am and what I want and my desires. |
| 1:33.0 | It was the thing that woke me up to just trying, like giving life a try without alcohol. |
| 1:41.7 | It came through after a meditation as a lot of things do in my life. And it doesn't |
| 1:47.3 | mean, you know, once you meditate, it's like you get these pings immediately. No, but the pings |
| 1:55.2 | start pinging more frequently when you remain dropped into yourself and dropped into the practices that |
| 2:04.6 | help open this clarity channel within you. And it has been six years. Six years. Holy God. Since I had alcohol and it started from an experiment with myself of getting curious with what life would look like and feel like if I resorted to a different tool when I wanted to |
| 2:38.3 | take the edge off or feel comfortable in a social setting. And when I look at that time in my life, |
| 2:47.2 | it was right before I launched the app. It was one month before my birthday on November 4th, |
| 2:55.1 | 2019, when I got this call. And it hits like a ton of bricks when you're ready. And I had been |
| 3:06.1 | doing so much work for so long, but there are things in our life |
| 3:11.2 | that are standing directly in front of us. And we are so blinded to our stuff because we're |
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