The Soul Fix: Audrey Hope’s Radical Tools for Addiction + Trauma

The Soul Fix: Audrey Hope’s Radical Tools for Addiction + Trauma

Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This conversation between host Jeannine Coulter Lindgren and spiritual counsellor Audrey Hope offers a very different take on addiction, pain and healing. Audrey, known as a “soul healer” and Doctor of Divinity at Seasons in Malibu, talks about working with celebrities, CEOs and everyday people using what she calls soul healing. Her core belief is simple: addiction and trauma are invitations to something bigger.

As she puts it, “Where you stumble, there lies your treasure,” and she often sees alcohol and drug addiction as “a gateway into a great life.” Across the chat, you’ll hear Audrey break down ideas like the “soul wound” – that early moment in childhood when someone abandons their true self to survive a painful family dynamic.

She explains how that first break from self can echo through adulthood and addiction, and how going back to that younger self in guided exercises can start to repair the split. This episode also shares practical, at-home tools. Audrey walks through simple visualisations like bringing sunlight through the body “like orange juice” to release shame, cutting energetic cords with toxic people, and using nature – trees, ocean, even animals – to clear emotional build-up.

She stresses that healing doesn’t have to mean re-living every detail of trauma; “the simpler it is, the more kindergarten it is, the more powerful it is.” Jeannine and Audrey also touch on women’s self-esteem, fear of their own power, and how old conditioning and critical inner voices can keep people stuck in shame cycles long after substances are gone.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your darkest moments might actually be pointing you towards your truest self, this conversation might give you a new way to look at your past – and a few concrete tools to start shifting it. What if your addiction story is the doorway, not the ending?