Jeanne Foot is a mental health advocate and certified addiction counsellor and recovery specialist, with over a decade serving individuals and families in the Toronto area, across the globe, and online. Her own struggles with the nature of addiction and years spent navigating the mental health care system as an advocate for her child has enabled her to become a change agent and a mentor in … [Read more...]
SHAIR 139: Social Anxiety, Self-Image, and Addiction with Sasha Tozzi
Sasha Tozzi is a recovery lifestyle coach, a Y12SR (Yoga for 12 Step Recovery) instructor, a Reiki practitioner, and a writer. She helps individuals with physical and emotional sobriety, self-sabotage, and codependent relationships. As a teenager, Sasha suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety. When she found alcohol, she thought it was the answer to all her problems. Later, she … [Read more...]
SHAIR 137: Yoga for Internal Healing from Addiction with Kyczy Hawk
Kyczy Hawk was raised by an alcoholic mother who was incapable of taking care of the family. She graduated early so she could dive head-first into the counter-culture, drug-filled world of 1960s San Fransisco. She became an alcoholic and an IV drug user, and let herself be abused by men to the point where she had but one thread of dignity left. That last thread brought her to Alcoholics Anonymous … [Read more...]
SHAIR 118: “You Are Not Alone” with Cindee Rifkin, healing alcoholism and sex addition with yoga.
Cindee is a yoga and meditation teacher who brings her skills and daily medicine practices to those who want to find relief from addictions and to bring meaning into their lives. She believes that by quieting our mind, strengthening our body and using ceremonies and spiritual remedies, we can heal our emotional and physical pain, gain the power to create a better life and be our wisest self. She … [Read more...]
SHAIR 47: Dope Sick with Cole Chance – What would you do with a Second Chance? From Heroin Addiction to Hope and Recovery!
Listen to Cole’s story now! SHOW NOTES: Cole Chance, now 2 years clean takes us through 16 years of the most gut wrenching Heroin/Cocaine Drug abuse imaginable for any human being and finally shares with us her inspirational journey into Recovery! Today Cole is a Yoga Instructor, a Y12SR Yoga instructor, performs Thai Massage and a world traveler who takes her message of hope and recovery … [Read more...]
032: “Yoga for Recovery” Gloria Uridel, now 27 years clean and a Y12SR yoga instructor takes us through her shocking battle against crystal meth and bulimia.
SHOW NOTES: On Todays Episode of The SHAIR Podcast Gloria Uridel, now 27 years clean and a Y12SR yoga instructor takes us through her shocking battle against drug addiction, alcoholism and bulimia. She started her using carrier early with alcohol and was a black out drinker from the start. To increase her tolerance to alcohol she was introduced to the same speed that truckers take in order to … [Read more...]
024: Nikki Myers “Y12SR” The Yoga of 12 Step Recovery shares 40 years of drug abuse, alcoholism, relapse and recovery!
On today’s Episode of The SHAIR Podcast we have a very special Guest, Nikki Myers the founder of Y12SR the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery. Today Nikki celebrates 15 years clean and shares with us her amazing battle with addiction and inspirational journey into recovery. In this Episode we do a deep dive into relapse prevention that combines 12 step recovery with the practice of yoga, Nikki drops some … [Read more...]
