Nicole Cameron

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Nicole has overcome great losses and built a life full of joy, but it was not an easy path to arrive where she is today. Grief was all too present in her life, even as a child. Nicole was just 11 when her mother died unexpectedly. Then, as newlyweds, Nicole and her husband suffered multiple pregnancy losses. Though she didn't necessarily see alcohol use as a coping strategy, her dysfunctional drinking patterns escalated throughout her teen years and into adulthood as life became more and more complicated. Nicole is now 13 years sober and her passion is to help others develop the skills to change the direction of their lives. She says, "My mission is simple. I help successful people create change. Change in their stories, change in narrative, and change in their relationship with themselves, others and substance, by providing solutions in healing their worth, practicing self compassion, living into core values, identifying character strengths and creating healthy and positive thought life." Learn more at http://www.coachwithnicole.ca Join Nicole's Mindful Recovery Community on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindfulrecoverycommunity For more books and resources discussed in this episode, extended shownotes are here : https://jeanmccarthy.ca/2021/04/26/the-bubble-hour-s9e16-nicole-cameron/

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0:00.0	I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power. Weakness had on me. Free, free, free, free, free.
0:32.2	Praise of addiction and recovery. I'm Gene McCarthy, recovery, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host. I've been
0:41.6	chronicling my adventures in life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety a decade ago. In my
0:48.0	blog unpickled and in the books that I write, you can find them on my website. I tell my stories there,
0:54.1	and I hold space for your
0:56.1	stories here. And today I'm holding space for Nicole Cameron, a coach and a woman in successful
1:02.7	long-term recovery who is here today to share her story and share her heart. Hi, Nicole, it's nice to hear
1:10.1	your voice. Hi, Jean, thank you for having me.
1:18.2	I'm so excited at times and I've so enjoyed your company, but I never got to talk to you one
1:24.6	on one like we're going to talk today, so I'm really looking forward to it. I know that you have put a lot of thought into the time that we're going to spend together
1:34.1	today. So I'm going to turn the mic over to you, Nicole. Tell us about yourself and tell us your
1:39.3	story. Great. Thank you, Jean. Hello, everyone. My name is Nicole Cameron. I am in long-term recovery from alcoholism. My first day of sobriety was November 11, 2007, and I was a 40-year-old woman. Today, I'm 54 years old, and I was a 40 year old woman. Today I'm 54 years old and I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2:06.5	I'm so grateful to be here today and just to share my story and hopefully it will serve even just
2:12.9	one person. I love to spend time with my handsome husband Hal. We love to walk and hike. We have a beautiful
2:19.7	soft-coded wheat and terrier. His name is Ollie and he's almost seven now and he is our fur child.
2:26.1	We spoil him rotten. We take him everywhere with us. I love to read nonfiction. I love gardening
2:32.7	and my heart is really for mentoring other women and
2:37.5	serving in my community in lots of different forms. I also love my work. Like Jean said,
2:44.5	I'm a life coach and I started my business 11 years ago. It literally fell in my lap when I came across a coach who scholarship me some
2:54.9	coaching time. I worked with her for 90 days and have continued to work with her since then.
3:01.0	So it's over 10 years I've been working with her. And I just love it. I fell in love with
3:06.2	coaching. My focus is on helping successful
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