Lindsay Hennekey
80 episodes listed below
Sober coaching for high-achieving women.
Feel Good Alcohol-Free with Lindsay Hennekey frames sobriety as an identity shift, not a punishment or willpower contest. Episodes mix lived-experience coaching, practical tools, midlife health conversations, and steady encouragement for women who want alcohol to become irrelevant.
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Feel Good Alcohol-Free with Lindsay Hennekey is a sobriety and sober-curious show centered on capable women who are done negotiating with alcohol. Its core question is blunt: if a woman can lead a team, manage a household, and make high-stakes decisions, why does drinking still get to break promises she makes to herself? That tension gives the show its shape. Lindsay Heneke speaks from lived experience as a former high-functioning drinker and from her work as an accredited sober coach. The episodes are coaching-forward, personal, and practical. They do not linger in abstract wellness language. Instead, they name specific moments: the drink after work, the campfire where everyone else is drinking, the family visit, the holiday season, the post-Dry January confidence wobble, the old thought that moderation might be different this time. The show keeps returning to identity. Alcohol-free life is presented less as a streak to protect and more as a way to become someone who trusts her own decisions. Short solo episodes often work like guided recalibration sessions, moving from self-questioning into a concrete plan. Longer conversations widen the frame. Dr. Jen Zelovitzky connects alcohol with perimenopause concerns such as sleep disruption, hot flashes, mood changes, irritability, and weight redistribution. Rebecca Weller brings the perspective of an author and speaker whose work helped shape Lindsay Heneke's own sober-curious journey. Across its episodes, the show is especially interested in women who seem fine externally while privately feeling stuck in a drinking loop. It challenges the idea that more rules or more willpower are the answer. Support, tools, repetition, and honest self-observation matter more. The pacing is intimate and insistent. It has the feel of a coach speaking to someone who has already tried the obvious fixes and needs a more durable way forward. For PlayNext listeners, it sits at the intersection of sobriety, women's health, leadership, and midlife self-trust.
Made for: The show is for women who are sober, sober curious, or repeatedly trying to cut back while maintaining demanding careers, homes, and relationships. It especially suits listeners who want alcohol-free tools without shame-based rules or polished perfection.
What sets it apart: The show connects sobriety to leadership, identity, and self-trust rather than treating drinking as a simple habit to control. Its episodes pair lived-experience coaching with concrete real-life scenarios and occasional women's health conversations.
Hi, I'm Lindsay Hennekey, Sober Coach and Founder of Feel Good AF. This is a podcast for women who are sober or sober curious, looking for support in navigating a life without alcohol. I'm so glad you are here. You may be thinking: What does an alcohol-free life look like for me? How do I live a life without drinking that doesn’t feel like I am missing something? How do I move beyond alcohol and into the elevated version of myself that I know is inside of me. You are a hardworking, high-achieving, successful woman in so many areas of y...
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A clear menopause-and-alcohol conversation that stays close to sleep, mood, hot flashes, and daily life.
The episode treats menopause through the lens of how alcohol can intensify it, with Dr. Jennifer Zelowitzky laying out the symptoms people most often recognize: temperature dysregulation, sleep disruption, irritability or mood changes, and weight redistribution or weight gain.
A direct, coach-led look at alcohol-free living as a shift in identity rather than a test of will.
Lindsay Heneke presents alcohol-free living as an identity shift, not a daily test of restraint. She describes moving from constant attention on not drinking to a steadier focus on who she wanted to become and how she wanted to live.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
["Jennifer Zelovitzky says alcohol can amplify hot flashes, sleep disruption, irritability, and weight gain in perimenopause.", "Lindsay Hennekey interviews the Toronto-based certified menopause provider and clinical director of women's health at Vitality at MedCan, where she uses lifestyle counseling, hormone therapy, and non-hormonal options.", "Zelovitzky explains that perimenopause can start up to 10 years before the final period, often shows up first as sleep or temperature changes, and cannot be confirmed with a blood test.", "She also covers hysterectomy, endometriosis, bone density, and why many women need to bring up cholesterol, ferritin, vitamin D, thyroid, and blood pressure themselves."]
["Feel Good Alcohol-Free with Lindsay Heneke Episode 54 asks what happens to a woman's life when alcohol becomes irrelevant, and Lindsay Heneke frames that shift as an identity change rather than a willpower test.", "She says high-achieving women often tie alcohol to relaxation, celebration, connection, and numbing, then describes a year-or-two transition where curiosity replaces fear and self-trust grows.", "The episode uses concrete examples from her own life and clients, including alcohol-free camping with her husband, flower-arranging classes, and a four-month sober listener who said \"everything I thought wasn't true.\"", "Lindsay also links the drinking loop to sleep disruption, next-day working-memory problems, shame spirals, and work rumination, then says the payoff is more clarity, peace, and capacity."]
Lindsay Heneke, host of Feel Good Alcohol-Free with Lindsay Hennekey, explains how she quit drinking without AA after attending one meeting and deciding its steps and labels did not fit her.
Lindsay Heneke, an accredited sober coach and former high-functioning drinker, examines why women who lead teams and manage households may still break promises not to drink.
Lindsay Heneke interviews Oakland-based holistic nutritionist Lila Volkis about alcohol-free living, food, blood sugar, digestion, and workplace wellness.
A sober coach discusses the pattern of women succeeding in Dry January but then facing thoughts that lead back to drinking, offering tools to break the cycle.
This episode explores the personal and emotional journey of stopping negotiations with alcohol, particularly during the holiday season, as shared by a sober coach on her birthday.
Host Lindsay Heneke interviews author Rebecca Weller about her influence on the sober curious movement and creating an alcohol-free life.