Sober-Minded Living :: Jenn Kautsch [Ep 345]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jenn Kautsch is an empty nester mom and a retired "grey area" drinker. She takes us into her story of feeling tired, stuck on auto-pilot, and ready for a change when it comes to her relationship with alcohol.
Through her own journey of seeking God about her casual drinking habit that was becoming a toxic mental battle, Jenn stopped asking if her drinking was “bad” for her and reframed it.
“So I turned it around and I started asking myself the question, Jenn, is it good enough? Is your drinking good enough for you? Is your relationship with drinking, helping you become the best version of yourself? Is it taking you where you really want to go? Is it matching up to your outsides being like your insights or are you walking around with duplicity in a divided mind and a mental tug of war?”
After choosing to embrace a sober lifestyle, Jenn started SoberSis, a like-minded community of women who are renegotiating their relationship with alcohol without labels, shame, judgment or rules.
We talk about how God brought her freedom from what felt like a divided life -- constantly feeling in conflict and stuck in an internal tug-of-war so she could live a more wholehearted life. And how she’s now been able to connect with close to 20,000 women from all over the world through her SoberSis community of women.
Connect with Jenn:- Website: sobersis.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/sobermindedsister
- Instagram: @sobersis
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- Free Video Series - https://www.sobersis.com/new-videos
- If you had a parent who was an alcoholic check out this episode: Forgiving my Alcoholic Mother :: Sarah Mae [Ep 257]
- If you need help setting boundaries this holiday season: Setting Healthy Boundaries :: Dr. John Townsend [250]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I am your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside |
| 0:16.0 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:21.7 | And in this episode, number 345, I get the chance to introduce you to Jen Kouch. |
| 0:29.8 | So I stopped asking the question, is it bad enough because every time I asked that question |
| 0:34.5 | I always found someone who had it worse. |
| 0:37.6 | I always could justify through comparison that my drinking wasn't bad enough to change |
| 0:43.9 | hello. |
| 0:44.9 | I looked like everybody else on the outside. |
| 0:47.6 | So I turned it around and I started asking myself the question, Jen, is it good enough? |
| 0:54.3 | Is your drinking good enough for you? |
| 0:57.4 | Is your relationship with drinking helping you become the best version of yourself? |
| 1:02.7 | Is it taking you where you really want to go? |
| 1:05.4 | Is it matching up to your outside being like you're inside? |
| 1:09.8 | Or are you walking around with duplicity in a divided mind, in a mental tug of war? |
| 1:14.9 | And what kind of opportunity or energy is that robbing you of? |
| 1:20.6 | Because you're divided that if you were wholehearted and aligned in your mind, body, and |
| 1:25.2 | spirit, what could you do? |
| 1:27.2 | Not what shouldn't you do. |
| 1:29.3 | What could you do if you weren't managing this habit, this rock that I had in my backpack |
| 1:38.7 | that I was carrying around trying to run this amazing race, this elite race that God calls |
| 1:44.5 | us to run. |
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