BEYOND SOBER - with Kodhi RayneBEYOND SOBER - with Kodhi Rayne
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Master Sobriety Coach Kodhi/Cody Rayne shares his journey from life-threatening alcoholism and liver failure to building the Beyond Sober community. He talks about rejecting lifelong “alcoholic” labels, centring happiness and self-worth, and using practical tools like the Single Shot Method to change drinking habits.
1:21:05•7 Sept 2021
Beyond Sober: How Cody Rayne Turns Happiness Into a Superpower in Recovery
Episode Overview
- Cody describes how heavy drinking turned into stage 4 cirrhosis, near-death bleeding, and cardiac arrest, highlighting how quickly alcohol can destroy a life.
- He explains that he now sees himself as an ex-alcoholic and challenges the idea that people must call themselves alcoholics forever to stay sober.
- The Beyond Sober programme focuses on building happiness, self-worth and healthy habits first, with sobriety seen as a natural result of that work.
- Through the Single Shot Method, people are encouraged to practise drinking less step by step, rather than being forced into an all-or-nothing mindset.
- Simple daily practices like drinking water, questioning "What am I practising?" and joining a non-judgmental community are presented as powerful tools in recovery.
“Sobriety is the repercussion of happiness. You don’t find happiness through sobriety – your sobriety happens as you create happiness.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This conversation with Master Sobriety Coach Kodhi/Cody Rayne shows just how far life can swing from 30 shots a day to building a thriving sober community online.
The hosts, Angie Manson and Dallas Terrell, sit back as Cody tells a gripping story that starts with his first beer at eight years old and spirals into stage 4 cirrhosis, throwing up blood, cardiac arrest in ICU and being told he had less than a week to live.
His line, “My very first thought after I threw up four stomachfuls of blood was, ‘I feel better now, I’ll go have a drink,’” says everything about how powerful addiction had become. You’ll hear how he rebuilt his life from a wheelchair and 19 pills a day into someone who now calls himself an ex‑alcoholic, not “forever broken”.
He explains why he rejects labels like “once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic”, and instead talks about being “beyond sober” – where sobriety is a side-effect of building genuine happiness, self-worth and healthy habits.
Cody shares how his Beyond Sober digital programme and community work: real-time support, judgment‑free spaces, and simple, repeatable practices like asking “What am I practising?” and, of course, “Drink water.” He also breaks down his Single Shot Method for people who aren’t ready to quit but want to practise drinking less, step by step.
This one’s ideal if you’re sober-curious, stuck on traditional models that don’t quite fit, or supporting someone who drinks too much and you’re desperate for another option. Ready to imagine recovery as becoming a “superhuman” rather than a “broken alcoholic” – and ask what happiness could look like for you?
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