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Melissa Gissy Witherspoon: How I Made it to the Other Side of Relapse

December 03, 2022 Sober Podcast | Melissa Gissy Witherspoon Season 1 Episode 68
Melissa Gissy Witherspoon: How I Made it to the Other Side of Relapse
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Melissa Gissy Witherspoon: How I Made it to the Other Side of Relapse
Dec 03, 2022 Season 1 Episode 68
Sober Podcast | Melissa Gissy Witherspoon

Melissa Gissy Witherspoon is our guest Soberlebrity on the show today. She’s the author of, “I’m Sober, So Now What? A Journey of Hope and Healing” Her book includes a chapter entitled ‘Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight’ which is based on her personal accounts with relapse. Melissa just celebrated 9 years of sobriety on November 21, 2022. If she can achieve long-term sobriety after multiple relapses, so can you! 

 Melissa shares with our host, Jamie Brickhouse how she learned how to identify triggers and the 3 stages of relapse – emotional, mental, physical. Listen to what she still practices to this day to avoid relapse at all costs by practicing relapse prevention. Through motivational self-talk she continues to persevere no matter what. 

 If you’d like to reach out to Melissa personally or buy her book, please find her on the following platforms: 

 Instagram: @Sober.So.Now.What
Facebook: @Sober-Now
Website: www.Sober-Now.com 

To get in touch with our host, Jamie Brickhouse please find him and his critically acclaimed book, ‘Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother on the following outlets:

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jamie_brickhouse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamiebrickhousestoryteller
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiebrickhouse/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamiebrickhouse
Website: https://www.jamiebrickhouse.com/
Support our host, buy his book: https://linktr.ee/Jamiebrickhouse 

Keep tuning into the Sober Podcast: Defining Recovery One Story at a Time. 

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Show Notes

Melissa Gissy Witherspoon is our guest Soberlebrity on the show today. She’s the author of, “I’m Sober, So Now What? A Journey of Hope and Healing” Her book includes a chapter entitled ‘Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight’ which is based on her personal accounts with relapse. Melissa just celebrated 9 years of sobriety on November 21, 2022. If she can achieve long-term sobriety after multiple relapses, so can you! 

 Melissa shares with our host, Jamie Brickhouse how she learned how to identify triggers and the 3 stages of relapse – emotional, mental, physical. Listen to what she still practices to this day to avoid relapse at all costs by practicing relapse prevention. Through motivational self-talk she continues to persevere no matter what. 

 If you’d like to reach out to Melissa personally or buy her book, please find her on the following platforms: 

 Instagram: @Sober.So.Now.What
Facebook: @Sober-Now
Website: www.Sober-Now.com 

To get in touch with our host, Jamie Brickhouse please find him and his critically acclaimed book, ‘Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother on the following outlets:

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jamie_brickhouse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamiebrickhousestoryteller
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiebrickhouse/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamiebrickhouse
Website: https://www.jamiebrickhouse.com/
Support our host, buy his book: https://linktr.ee/Jamiebrickhouse 

Keep tuning into the Sober Podcast: Defining Recovery One Story at a Time. 

Support the Show.

Contact Sober Podcast:

Thanks for your support! Catch a new Soberlebrity guest every Saturday.