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The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast
Arlina Allen talks with Michaela Horvathova about choosing sobriety without rock bottom, building a wellness-centred sober life, and making recovery feel easy and fun. The conversation highlights identity work, community, and spiritual practices as foundations for getting sober in a personal and flexible way.
45:41•1 Oct 2026
Let This Be Easy and Fun: Creating Sobriety Your Own Way
Episode Overview
- Sobriety can begin with honest questions like "Who do I want to be, and how do I want to feel?" rather than a dramatic rock bottom.
- Replacing alcohol with wellness, spiritual practices, and nourishing routines helps fill the space that drinking once occupied.
- A personal mantra such as "Let this be easy and fun" can shift identity work and lifestyle change away from fear and drama.
- Community is crucial, even outside AA, and connecting with like-minded women provides support, inspiration, and accountability.
- Inner work such as reparenting, forgiveness, and learning about internal family systems and attachment styles can make long-term sobriety feel lighter and more sustainable.
“My mantra, and you guys can take this, is let this be easy and fun.”
Curious about how others shape their sobriety journey? This conversation between host Arlina Allen and guest Michaela Horvathova shows how getting sober can be "easy and fun" without a dramatic rock bottom or strict rules. Michaela, a certified yoga teacher, health coach, and co-host of the 2 Sober Girls Podcast, talks about choosing sobriety after 15 years of being sober curious.
She explains that her turning point came from two simple questions: "Who do I want to be, and how do I want to feel?" Even though she could moderate her drinking, she realised those monthly drinks were stealing days of energy, clarity, and spiritual connection. Rather than joining a 12-step programme, Michaela built her own path around wellness, spirituality, and community.
She swapped late nights and party-girl identity for yoga, breathwork, nutrition, reading spiritual books, and daily practices like her beloved *Jesus Calling* readings. Her mantra, "Let this be easy and fun," shapes everything from sobriety to parenting and relationships. You’ll hear how she reframed what fun means, how her social circle shifted toward wellness-focused women, and why she created a women’s sober community with her co-host Erin, where they talk about beauty, self-care, spirituality and identity in sobriety.
Michaela also shares the tougher parts of her journey: childhood memories resurfacing in her second year, doing reparenting work, healing mother and father wounds, and learning about internal family systems and attachment styles. This episode is ideal if you’re curious about getting sober your own way, you’re not drawn to AA, or you’re a high-achieving woman who wants to feel good, look good, and build a life that actually matches her values.
It might get you asking yourself: if sobriety could be easier and more fun than you think, what would you change first?
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