Four Years Alcohol-Free, Hard Seasons & the Grace to Keep Going

Sometimes the most honest thing you can do is just show up and tell the truth — and that’s exactly what this episode is.

Megan sits down solo from the sun porch on a rainy Minnesota morning, surrounded by four animals (including a foster pup with a healing broken leg), and shares what the past month has really looked like. From supporting her daughter through a residential treatment program for depression, to grieving the unexpected loss of a beloved coworker in his 40s, to quietly hitting her four-year alcohol-free anniversary — this episode is raw, real, and a reminder that even the people who teach transformation are human, too.

She opens up about wanting to drink for the first time in a long time, the vaping slip she’s owning honestly, the five days she skipped breathwork, and how she found her way back to gratitude anyway. Because that’s what The GLIMPSE Method is — not perfection, but returning.

In this episode:

•What the past month has looked like for the Betty family

•Supporting a loved one through residential treatment for depression

•Grieving a coworker who was truly one of a kind

•Hitting four years alcohol-free — and the week she almost didn’t

•Why she’s been vaping and what she’s doing about it

•The power of letting yourself visualize the “what if” when cravings hit

•How she’s leaning into God, gratitude, and quiet mornings to get through

•A personal invitation to try one of Megan’s FREE breathwork sessions

Free Breathwork Sessions — 5 options:

Choose from Clarity, Serenity, Romanticize Your Life, Grounding, or Releasing Fear. Visit glimpselove.com or send a message through the site to request yours.

If you’re in a hard season — you are not alone. Joy is still your birthright, even when life feels heavy.

TAGS

alcohol free, sober anniversary, sobriety, dry life, breathwork, breathwork for stress, breathwork for anxiety, personal transformation, spiritual awakening, raise your vibration, GLIMPSE Method, grief and loss, depression support, mental health, sobriety support, faith and wellness, God and healing, gratitude practice, hard seasons, melancholy, emotional wellness, women’s wellness, high vibe, soul care, mindfulness, healing journey

Transcript

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Hi you. How are you today? It's just Megan today. And I am just sitting on our sun porch with four animals. Two cats, two dogs. We have a little foster with a broken leg. It's healing really well. And let's see, I've been alone in the house for about a week now. Just kind of reflecting on life. We've had a lot going on these past this past month, really. Our daughter is in Arizona getting some treatment for depression. Her girlfriend that lives with us is getting some treatment here in town for an eating disorder. Our daughter's been gone, I guess it's been three weeks now. Maybe almost four. I was with her the first week. And then Nate flew down there last week to be with her for a couple weeks. And we've been taking leave, kind of switching off back and forth to help support her. And her girlfriend's been gone for over a month. And the house is just quiet. Um I just celebrated. I didn't really celebrate, but I just had on June 23rd, I had my four-year, four years without alcohol. And the week leading up to it, I actually really wanted to get drunk. I don't and I shared it with Nate. Um it's just been really stressful um supporting our daughter. She's doing amazing now, but um she was in a residential facility for two weeks, which was you know good in ways, but it was challenging in other ways, and she was feeling very homesick, and there was nobody really her age, and so we were just taking in all that stress and feeling that pain and that empathy for her. Um, and then I had I might start crying, but I had a coworker that passed away very young in his 40s. Um he got sick, and we just all thought he was gonna get better, and um he didn't, and it was it's just heart-wrenching. Um even while he was sick and in the hospital, he was texting me to check on my daughter and my our family, and you know, I've known him for two years, and I didn't work with him a ton, but he made quite an impact on me. He was very one of a kind person, very kind and caring, and just somebody that you can you just can't ignore. Just an original, and um so on top of the stress of everything our family's been going through, and then his death, and then it just felt daunting going to work. Um, and so I told Nate, like, I just want to get drunk, and he was leaving town, and he's like, Call me before you do anything. I didn't do anything, um, because whenever I'm feeling that way, which does not happen often, I just let myself visualize, okay, what would happen if I did, and I go through the steps, and then I get to the next morning where I feel like shit. And so um, I s I didn't drink, um, but I do want to admit something that I have taken up in the past month, and I have been freaking vaping, which is ridiculous. But um I guess our our daughter's girlfriend had been vaping, we had no idea, and so she had some vapes left over, and I just like tried one. So I've been doing that, which once they're gone, I will not be doing that anymore. But um, yeah, you know, these vices that we have are so available, and um I do admit I haven't done my breath work for a probably five days. So my plan today is to do some breath work, kind of uh remember what uh what my soul wants. And um, I hope I don't sound too sad today. It is a little lonely, and I've just been bringing it back to gratitude. Like, I'm so thankful to have such a loving and supportive partner in Nate. And you know, it's a lot to take care of five pets and a house, and Nate does all the laundry usually, and so I've had to do the laundry, which is in the basement, and I just don't like the sub basement for some reason. But I'm doing it, you know, and cleaning up after the dogs, and um but this morning I woke up to thunder and lightning, and it just is so nice. We're all just on the porch, just enjoying the rain, and I've just been reflecting on you know what's been happening, and you know, things are really positive. Um, our daughter's been doing well in her program. She went all five days last week, which is really something she hasn't done in years. So, yay for that. She's with her grandparents who love her, and her dad who loves her, and um they are in very hot weather in Arizona, but it is beautiful out there, and it's just a different feeling. I think she needed to just get out and um get out of her kind of safe space here in the house and and get a new environment, and it really has been doing great. Um we're just I've been a little stressed because I'm trying to coordinate care for our pets and um a flight, so I need to fly out there because Nate's gonna need to come home and go back to work, and um, we'd like to get her girlfriend out there for a weekend, so I'm like looking at one-way tickets and two-way tickets and trying to find somebody to care for our dog and our three cats. I got the foster dog taken care of, and so it's just been a lot, and um I'm just happy that I am kind of pushing through it, and I'm trying to use this time to like really give myself some grace and some peace, and um trying to remember. I mean, I'm so grateful for so many things, and yet I'm just a little bit melancholy, and I think that's okay. Um, I've been working on my Glimpse business, which is based in breathwork, but it's so much more than that. Um, I wanted to take this opportunity to invite anybody who wants to uh try breathwork to give me a shout. You can go to my website Glimpse Love. That's G-L-I-M-P-S-E-L-O-V-E.com and sign up for my email list, and I will send you a free session that I did. Um well, I've got a few that I can pick from. So if you email me and you tell me if you want which breathwork session you want to do, and I can send it to you. I've got one on clarity, I've got one on fear, releasing fear, I have one on serenity, and I have one on grounding, and I have one on romanticizing your life. So if you just tell me which one you want, send me an email. I will send you in video format, but really you wouldn't necessarily watch the video. You get really comfy, you can sit down or lay down and close your eyes, make sure you have a blanket, make sure you drink water, and um, you just kind of go through the experience. I teach you different active breaths, we have music, we have cues, and it's just really a chance to be with yourself and get out of your head and into your body. And I would love it if um you would try it. So again, that's glimpselove.com and just sign up or send me a message. I think right on the website it says, like, do you have a question or something? And just tell me which breathwork session you'd like. Clarity, serenity, romanticize your life, grounding, or release the fear. I would love to send that to you. But um, yeah, mainly I just wanted to come on here and just reflect and sort of let you know because we haven't really been posting regularly. And I know at first when we started the podcast, we had a bunch that we uh recorded before, so we had like a pool of things that we could post, and I don't love that because I really I feel like the topics that we do, I have a uh um, I have a podcast too called the Glimpse Method. So you can go to that. There's about 20 episodes now, but I really like doing the episodes in almost like real time because I like to talk about kind of what's going on in our life, and um I don't want too many uh ahead of time, and then it just kind of doesn't feel um as good. Like I like to catch up with you and and um have things sort of in real time. So that's kind of the format that we're going for, and like I said, we've been back and forth Minnesota to Arizona, and you know, we've been trying to visit um our dot our girlfriend's daughter as well and support her here, and you know, we have jobs, and um yeah, so bear with us, but uh eventually we'll get back on a schedule. And I think maybe when we start doing some interviews, which we're looking into having guests on the podcast, those ones we can maybe have in a pool, and then we can post those when we when life gets a little bit crazy. But I just wanted you to know that if you're feeling melancholy, you're not alone, and it's really important to give yourself time to listen and um have time away from your devices, your phones, TVs, laptops, iPads, and just try to get out at nature, try to even just looking at nature, um you know, sit with yourself and listen and um ask the universe, ask God. I've been really trying to bring uh God into my life throughout the day and um just really feeling and wanting a deeper connection and wanting to listen to what he has to say. Um so send me a message if you want to chat. Ooh, a branch just fell on our on our roof here. It's okay, spiky. Yeah. So this is all I have for today. But for all of you guys that are celebrating a sober anniversary or alcohol-free or starting or thinking about it, just know that it's possible and it's so great to be not reliant on that to numb you out, and um, although I do understand deeply and intimately the desire to numb and you know give yourself grace because being human as a soul is not easy, but it certainly is an adventure, and I think we owe it to ourselves to have the best experience we can and love ourselves and love as many people as possible throughout this journey. I hope you're having a fantastic Sunday and um take care.