I submitted my second book proposal to my agent yesterday, and I am on cloud nine.

This book has been living in my head for years. But the truth is, I didn't make real traction on it until this summer, which also happened to be the hardest summer I've had in a long time.

Huxley passed at the end of May. The ocean swells in Southern California were so dangerous I couldn't even get in the water, which is my favorite thing in the world. My house felt empty in a way it never had before. And so, I found myself in cafes facing the ocean, writing for days on end.

Writing this book became the salvation I didn't know I needed.

Why is it that so many of us who step away from alcohol feel pulled toward writing? 82% of Americans want to write a book. If you're one of them, this episode is for you.

I'm also inviting you to a three-part workshop, The Story Only You Can Tell, happening September 16, 17, and 18, where I'm going to help you take your idea and lay the foundation for a bestseller. I'll be sharing all my know-how of becoming a published author.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The moment I hit send on my book proposal and what came up that I completely didn't expect
• Why the worst thing that happened to me this summer became the reason this book finally got written
• The strange chain of events that kept me out of the ocean and put me exactly where I needed to be
• What most people get completely wrong about writing a book before they even start
• The one deadline I missed on purpose, and what I chose instead
• The real reason 82% of people want to write a book, and why it has nothing to do with being an author
• What a book can open for your career that years of content never will
• The package that arrived at my door this week that got me teary-eyed
• What a book proposal actually is versus a book and why you need one
• What Emboldened is actually about, and why I couldn't have written it even three years ago

Join me at THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL so you can uncover your bestselling story and take the path from "one day I'll write a book" to published author.

I'm celebrating my client's published book! Pick up a copy of Life Beyond The Binge: A Commercial Fisherwoman's Journey Home by Colleen Clifford

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I just got back from five weeks in Europe with my parents, and I want to take you behind the scenes.

My parents are in their 80s. My dad has been through two bouts of stage four cancer and is in remission. My mom, knock on wood, is healthy. How long will that last? How much longer can I see the world with them?

This trip happened in the shadow of losing Huxley, my soul dog, which meant I went into it already cracked open, already thinking about mortality and time and what we do with the moments we have. And it turned out to be one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.

We started in Warsaw, flew to Madrid, drove through Costa Brava and the French Riviera and the Italian Riviera in an SUV packed with carry-on luggage only, watched Spain win the World Cup in a medieval town on the Catalan coast, swam in alpine lakes in Slovenia, and ended back in Warsaw where my dad told me stories I'd never heard and my mom said it was all a fairy tale.

This episode is more than just a travel diary. It's about ancestry, about what we inherit from the people who came before us, about why now is the time to go do the things you've always wanted to do, and about what grief and presence and awe have been teaching me this year.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• How losing Huxley made me show up completely different this summer
• The hidden gem coastlines of Costa Brava and the Italian Riviera that barely any Americans know about
• What it was like to watch Spain's World Cup Victory from the streets of a medieval Catalan town
• The celebrity sighting we had in a sleepy Spanish fishing village while leaving our phones behind for an evening swim
• What my parents said at the end of the trip that made every exhausting, hot, logistically complicated moment completely worth it
• Living in the same Warsaw apartment building where my great-grandparents lived until 1970
• The stories my parents told me about their lives and upbringings
• Why being in Warsaw every year makes me feel the thin veil between the life I have and the parallel one I could have had
• How this trip fed directly into the second book I'm writing, Emboldened

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Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.

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Peter McLaughlin was given a twin diagnosis 23 years ago: Lyme disease and leukemia on the same day. The doctors told him if he was lucky, he had 10 years. They didn't know what caused it and they didn't know how to cure it.

So he went looking himself.

What he found in the depths of his own psyche became the foundation of an entire life's work in hypnotherapy, past life regression, Havening, and subconscious reprogramming. He's been healthy for 23 years. And in this conversation, he shares what he learned along the way, including one of the most fascinating explanations I've ever heard for why we drink.

We get into what hypnosis actually is and why the entertainment version of it has given most people completely the wrong idea. We talk about how trauma gets encoded in the nervous system as safe or not safe, and why that single distinction explains almost every self-sabotaging pattern people can't seem to break. We go into past life regression, what happens emotionally when someone encounters a lifetime they consciously have no memory of.

And we talk about alcohol. Specifically, why it's called spirits. What it actually does energetically when you drink. And how Peter uses future progression in hypnosis to help people feel, in their body, the 10-year contrast between two versions of their life, one that keeps drinking and one that doesn't.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The twin diagnosis that sent Peter into the depths of his own subconscious, and what he found there
• What hypnosis actually is, why the entertainment version gets it completely wrong, and the everyday experience almost everyone has had that is genuinely hypnotic
• Why alcohol is called spirits, and what Peter believes is actually happening energetically when you drink
• How root cause healing differs from symptom management, and why going back to the origin of a pattern is the only thing that actually resolves it
• Past life regression: what it feels like from the inside, what happens emotionally, and why the most mundane past lives are often the most moving
• Havening: what it is, how it works, and why the magic isn't in the tapping
• The future progression technique Peter uses with clients, and why the 10-year contrast is so powerful
• Why other people don't give you love, they just trigger the feelings you're already capable of generating yourself
• The one book Peter recommends above all others, and why he reread it after his father died

Find Peter at blueskyhypnosis.com and on YouTube at Blue Sky Hypnosis, where his past life regression track has nearly a million views.

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Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more.

If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, be sure to get on the waitlist for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.

Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel.

Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.

Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.

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