Noel Arevalo returns to the show to talk about three things she's been sitting with: how your breakthrough gives the people closest to you permission to do the same, how deep alcohol gets woven into your identity without you ever noticing, and how the people, places, and patterns that were dragging you down start to fall away naturally once you surrender the thing that was holding it all together. For 15 years Noel Arevalo cycled through bender weekends while running a fitness coaching business and telling herself she had it under control. Two and a half years ago she finally let it go. Since then, her brother and older sister have both gotten sober. She talks about what she does today to stay grounded without a 12-step program, and what it actually feels like to say "I am so proud of myself" and have it mean something for the first time, and what do you do when someone you love looks too far gone to everyone around them?

Breaking A Generational Addiction Curse w/ Noel Arevalo | The Hopeaholics Podcast #355

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Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:04:19 - The 3 things she came here to share
0:05:59 - The bender cycle that started at 13
0:07:01 - Addiction on both sides of her family
0:11:57 - People, places, and patterns that sabotage you start to fall away
0:13:52 - Chad: meth was his drug of choice; the one promise of NA is freedom
0:20:39 - The person who went sober with her for 10 months — and what happened after
0:23:38 - What she does today: cold plunge, church, gym — no 12 steps
0:37:09 - There's someone very close to her currently struggling
0:38:31 - "Nobody is too far gone"
0:44:51 - Chad's his mom was scared to come to his house — she thought they'd find him dead
0:51:19 - "I'm in this chair because people have prayed for me my entire life"
0:57:27 - What we tell ourselves we'd never say out loud to another person
1:04:42 - "Your mind quits before your body does"
1:06:01 - Closing