Destination Lavender: Recent Episodes
Guianna
“Destination Lavender” is a podcast about healing and self-discovery after getting sober. Listeners can look forward to gaining insight from Guianna, the host, as she shares her personal adventures, tips, triumphs, and lessons that have helped her to navigate and thrive in sobriety.Join her journey at destinationlavender.com
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Are you familiar with your inner voice? How often do you listen to it if so?
This episode I’m diving into following your inner voice—that deep inner knowing that a shift is needed in your life. That type of shift that only you can know needs to happen. Let’s get into it!
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It’s my 4 year sober anniversary!
I’m sharing some insights from this past year plus some celebration plans in classic DL fashion! Enjoy!
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Rejection is a natural part of life. I think it can be a helpful thing to be turned away from certain ways of doing things or from certain plans or opportunities we have or even those we want to have.
This week I’m diving into some personal examples of rejection and answering the question—is rejection really protection?
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Have you ever had one of your dreams come true only to realize you’re not as prepared as you wanted to be?
Well, cheers. This week I’m diving into my own tips and ideas for rising to the occasion in a shortened time frame for both you(and myself!)
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What are your dreams like after getting sober? I’m sharing a bit of the science behind it, the types of dreams I’ve had, and how I interpret them.
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This episode is all about my hopes for what being spiritual will actually do for me—and what I hope your spirituality or higher self will do for you too.
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Are you a reader? Or do books give you the ick?
I wasn’t always a reader, but finding the right books have led me down the path of no-return!
I’m sharing some factual plus personal benefits of reading more, and also how to save a bit more money(if you’re subscribed to streaming services).
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This week I’m diving into my findings on two books:
“Chocolat” by Joanne Harris and “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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Do you care about what people think? Is it good to care what people think? If so, when? Is it harmful to care what people think? If so, when?
I’m diving into my thoughts on the matter, the catalysts for this topic, and my own experiences with caring what people think of me, how it helps, how it harms, and my personal guiding light in times of trouble.
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The last DL episode of 2023!
This week I’m catching y’all up on my yoga certification, some of what I’ve learned, and some parallels I’ve noticed between yoga principles and certification, and getting and staying sober.
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What is a brand? What happens when your brand is in direct conflict with your humanity? How do you move forward without sacrificing either of them?
This week I’m sharing my take on how to marry your brand to your humanity, the understandable struggles and fears that happen along the way, and how I’m learning to use my platform in service of both.
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Ep. 54 • (episodes are now *monthly)
This month I’m getting into what I classify as when it comes to be and introvert or ambivert, and how to navigate being in a public lens when you have these personality types.
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This week I’m chatting with fellow sober yogi Heather Todd about how yoga has affected her sobriety and what her yoga practice was like before getting sober.
Note: Destination Lavender episodes are now *monthly.
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This week I’m sharing my thoughts on one of the sober world’s commonly discussed topics. My boyfriend Peter is on board today, sharing some of his experiences dating a sober person(me), and we share how we navigate doing life together as a non-drinking/drinking couple, and more!
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Come along with me as I reflect on some things I’ve learnt and some ways I celebrate after reaching another year of sobriety.
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How do you thrive during seasons of busyness or being under the weather? How do you protect your sobriety during these times?
This week I’m sharing some ways I stay afloat while being busy, sick, or both, and what methods protect my sobriety in the process.
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How do you feel about being alone? Do you enjoy it? Does the idea of solitude make you feel anxious?
This week I’m sharing some of the most impactful parts of Sara Maitland’s enlightening book, “How to Be Alone”.
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What is your experience with criticism?
Do you think all criticism is the same? Do you know the difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism?
This week I’m diving into how to take criticism well, my struggles and experiences, even some outside advice!
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Have you been heard of inner child practices? If so, what kinds of inner child practices have you tried?
This week I’m exploring some ways we can connect with and show up for our inner children. Enjoy!
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Is this your first sober Pride? Do you want to be social for Pride but are unsure how to do it sober? Are you wondering how to spice up your alone time while still enjoying Pride sober?
This week, I’m diving into some ways I’m celebrating Pride while honoring my sobriety. Enjoy!
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Do you struggle with complacency in your sober journey?
How does it show up for you? What kinds of things do you do to get yourself back to neutrality? How do you infuse gratitude?
This week I’m sharing some ways I’m learning to combat complacency in my own life, in sobriety, in work, and in life in general.
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How do you feel about comparison? Do you find that it helps you or hinders you? Do you find comparison and inspiration to have a similar effect? How do you respond to being inspired?
This week, I’m sharing some of the key differences I’ve noticed between comparison and inspiration, and how I’m learning to lean into one over the other.
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Recovery is personal. There are so many ways to do sobriety and to do it justice in your own life.
This week I’m sharing a bunch of sober paths that have worked for me, and a few that didn’t, and a few that I had to tweak in order to make them work in my favor.
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What is your center? What grounds you? What is your home base when you’ve lost your way or when everything is falling apart? What gives you balance? What is something that has to come before other things in order for your life to be on track? What gives your life pure meaning?
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What seeds are you wanting to grow in your life? Are there any seeds that you feel you need to return to and nurture again?
This week, I’m diving into watering seeds whether they are literal seeds or metaphorical seeds, and I’m sharing my own experiences about the seeds I’m returning to after a long hiatus.
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Do you people-please? If you have noticed you do it, what’s the earliest age you can recall doing it? What affects has people-pleasing had on your life and your relationships?
This week I’m diving into people-pleasing, what it means, where it comes from, and sharing some of my personal experiences with it.
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What is the next level of growth in your life? What steps would you take in order to get there?
This week I’m sharing some steps I have found to be integral in my own process of getting to the next level of my life, how it’s helping me, what’s no longer working, and how it can help you too.
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Do you feel comfortable trusting people? Do you trust yourself? Who do you confide in when you’re struggling? Do you grieve with people or in private?
This week I’m diving into some benefits I have found that can come from letting people in when I’ve most wanted to keep them out.
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Do you believe there is a difference between fantasy and hope? Where is the line? When does fantasy help, and when does it harm? Is there a point beyond which it’s useful to be hopeful?
I’m diving into these two definitions this week, and both their subtle and stark differences and similarities, plus my own experience with both!
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Grief happens in cycles. I’m what ways are you currently grieving?
This week, I’m talking about The 5 stages of grief as created by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and some of my own experiences with navigating the grief I’m currently facing.
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This week I’m diving into two recent reads that rocked my world and helped me to reflect on myself and the world!
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What ideas are you sitting on? What’s keeping you from releasing them into the world?
This week I go into some history of mine with developing dream seeds into plants! This podcast itself is a dream seed in full bloom.
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Forgiveness has the power to set us free!
This week I’m sharing some personal experiences I have with forgiving people, forgiving myself, and some sage wisdom I’ve found in both classic and modern writers and public figures about how to reframe my views on forgiveness, and more.
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In our life situations, there is sometimes disappointment, but always lessons to be learned, and beauty to be found.
This week I’m sharing a few of my personal experiences that have been a source of disappointment for me, and ultimately situations I was able to learn from, and find the beauty in.
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Ahhh expectations. How often do you have expectations of specific outcomes? Do you find that it helps or hinders you or the situation?
This week I’m talking about the pros and cons of expecting things to go our way, and how it can affect us and those around us in a number of ways.
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How do you feel about changing your mind? Does it feel liberating? Does it feel anxiety-inducing? Or how about a little bit of both?
This week I’m diving into what it can look like to change your mind, how to fight the outer stigma and inner fears of doing it, and what some of my personal experiences have been like.
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Having big feelings is a part of life. We all have them, yet we express them in both similar and dissimilar ways. There are the big feelings that come with new sobriety, and then there are the big feelings that just come. Based on our past experiences, traumas, and beliefs, big feelings shape how we move through the world.
This week I’m diving into feeling BIG feelings, the spectrum of ways we can feel them, then spectrum of places they come from, and some of my own experiences as well.
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Ah, patience. What is your relationship with patience? Do you find that you thrive or struggle when opportunities to wait present themselves?
This week I’m diving into some benefits of patience as well as the trouble that can arise when we’re impulsive or we decide to rush through things. Patience doesn’t have to elude us, it can be ours for the continual taking.
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Traveling can be so much fun and so rewarding. When you’re newly sober though, it can become something that sparks anxiety in the face of uncertainty.
This week, I’m getting into some ways I’ve been able to stay sober while traveling abroad, things that helped me in a pinch, and things I planned ahead to anticipate.
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How do you overcome fear? Do you have any go-tos that help you get through moments of crippling anxiety? This week I’m sharing some tried and true ways I’ve approached my fears—and am still using to this day to get through scary times.
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I’m two years sober! This week I’m talking about Soberversaries and some ways I’ve celebrated, some ways to celebrate in general, ways to avoid, and some ways I hope to celebrate coming up.
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How does one thrive in both singleness and sobriety? This week I’m sharing with y’all some of the things I’ve tried, am currently doing, and have been reminded to try again in order to live a more purposeful, healed, and fulfilling life as a sober and and newly single woman.
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How do you feel about judgment? Do you think it’s justifiable to judge others? How do you feel about others judging you?
This week, I’m diving into judging past behavior, the harm it can cause, the types of directions judgment can flow in, and the difference between unhealthy judgment and healthy boundaries.
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What does addiction look like to you? What about to the people close to you?
Today I’m getting into the spectrum of what active addiction can look like, the myths about the solitary appearances of addiction, and some ways I’ve identified past harmful drug and alcohol use in my own life.
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What have you heard about being a “Jack of All Trades?” Do you strive to do just the opposite? Do you find it more productive to specialize in one area or to be versed in several?
This week, I’m jumping into this long-misunderstood phrase, and what it truly means to be a Jack of All Trades.
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What does community mean to you? What are some benefits you feel you get from your various communities? What do you look for in community?
I’m back! This week I’ll be discussing some aspects of community that make it such a vital part of our growth as people. I’ll be touching on some old experiences as well as recent ones.
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Relapsing is a hard thing to navigate. Whatever the struggle, we all deserve some concrete and encouraging ways to help us bounce back after moments of devastating self-induced loss.
This week, I’m diving into relapsing, some ways I’ve recovered, some ways I’m still working on, and more.
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How do you feel about self-expression? Do you feel free to decorate yourself however you want? Do you think there’s any ideas about ways of dressing, or hairstyles that have hindered or encouraged your exploration?
This week, I’m diving into self-decoration, my experiences, hidden programming, and life shifts that have awakened me—all from taking control of how I dress, wear my hair, and beyond!
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Have you ever had a sports injury or muscle strain or sprain? How did you best approach healing it? What challenges did you run into?
This week, I get into physical injuries and other forms of injury: how to treat them according to experts, and which methods of treatment have and continue to work for me.
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What have you heard about self love? There are so many ways to love ourselves well. Self love can look like #treatingourselves, as much as it can look like hard work and challenging ourselves as well.
This week, I’m going over some forms of self love that have really worked for me and continue to add healing and growth to my regular practice of self loving.
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How do you view fun? How often do you allow yourself to have it? Do you think you have to earn the right to have fun, or do you think it’s something that you deserve to experience regardless of whether or not you work for it?
This week I’m diving into fun and some practices we can put into place to add it to our lives as often as possible.
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The rituals we engage in can really enrich the day in many ways. This week, I go in depth and share some of my go-to spiritual practices and rituals. What are some of your favorite ways to start the day?
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Do you have a dream or passion you’d like to make reality? This week I’m chatting it up with my friend and super talented Photographer, Cat Groeber. We’re covering our collective experiences from dream seed to dream harvest, the joys, struggles, and healing that following our dreams has brought us.
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What makes a good listener in your opinion? Do you think you listen well in conversations? This week I’m diving into the do’s and don’ts of listening in conversations with others, my own personal experiences plus some of the psychology behind it.
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How do you feel about keeping promises to yourself? Is this something you struggle with? Or do you look forward to it? This week I’m sharing a principle that has kept me sober thus far, and how it can apply to things inside the sober world, and outside of it.
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How often do you look back in order to move forward? Do you find that it helps you or hinders you? Today we’re gonna discuss rear view mentality, the science, the pros, the cons, and a few of my personal experiences.
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Are you your own biggest cheerleader? This week I get into the perks of believing in oneself, along with some of the things I keep in mind when I struggle to believe in myself. Let’s go!
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Struggling to remember little things? Important things? Or things you thought you had on lock? This episode is for you. This week, I’m sharing some facts and experiences that will help you to improve your memory.
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Need a boost? This week I’m getting into some ways you can laugh at life during hard times, and the health benefits of doing so! Let’s lean into the levity!
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That is the question. This week, I share some facts about CBD and it’s effectiveness, along with my personal experiences with using it, trials, errors, and ultimately, triumph.
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How easy is it to cultivate an attitude of gratitude, and how do we get started? This week, I’ll be sharing some personal journeys of gratitude practices that have worked for me, let you know how being grateful can improve your health, and more!
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Starting something new can be deeply thrilling, and also deeply daunting. This week, I’m sharing some tips on how to thrive as a beginner, and not hinder your progress.
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Good sleep is so important to thriving during our day, week, and life in general. This week, I’m sharing some tips on things I’ve tried that have helped me sleep better.
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“New year, new you?” In this week’s episode, I share some of my experiences with the rewards of embracing change, and the consequences of dragging my feet. Maybe you can relate?
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Welcome! I'm kicking off this episode with some backstory on how I came up with the name of the podcast, and what kinds of adventures await you, the listener, on this journey with me!
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