Enthusiastic Sobriety and Transcendent Joy with Joy Manning
- Author
- Kyley Caldwell and Eva Liao
- Published
- Wed 29 Apr 2020
- Episode Link
- https://hello-universe.simplecast.com/episodes/joy-manning-_FRH9KTD
Joy Manning is a podcaster and writer focused on food and health. She is a self-described enthusiastic sober person and closet mystic. She shared her journey with us in this episode, including:
- The spiritual practices that help Joy, including a daily practice of reading, writing, prayer (speaking to the divine), meditation (listening), and exercise (energy medicine)
- Joy's journey from a spiritual child, to feeling a disconnection to the universe, to a profound spiritual breakthrough
- The deep relationship between Joy's sobriety and spiritual journey
- Kyley, and Eva also share their relationship to alcohol and how that is evolved over the years.
- The feeling of relief at not drinking & the social pressure to drink
- The authentically joyful experiences that have been available without alcohol, and how those moments feel deeply spiritual
- Joy's experience with Kundalini Yoga, and the personal power of that meditation practice
"I was done drinking, and it was a huge relief. Since then I have felt far more in tune with a sense of my spirit, other peoples spirit, god, the universe. It's just been an avalanche of insights and internal changes in myself." - Joy Manning
"It's so obvious to me now how alcohol can be a wet blanket on any kind of spirituality that you might wish to have. And I actually think alcohol can even blunt the awareness that you would wish for something like that." - Joy Manning
"Alcohol and wine is [sold] as self care. And in my experience, it was numbing and was worsening my anxiety, so it was the opposite of self care for me." -Kyley Caldwell
"The thing I try to tell people is that I thought nothing would be fun without alcohol. What I didn't understand is that everything would be fun without alcohol and it would be more fun and it would be real fun." - Joy Manning
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