Recovery and The Rest...

R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way.

R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery.

To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

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Episodes

Thursday Oct 02, 2025

Episode 12
This is the last episode for season one - we talk about why we started this podcast, what it means to have friends in and outside of recovery and how to navigate these relationships to be healthily interdependent. 
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

Thursday Sep 25, 2025

Episode 11
This week we talk about triggers and strategies we use to take care of our sobriety.
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now
 

Thursday Sep 18, 2025

Episode 10
This week on the podcast, we talk about recovery being expansive and what that means for us.
Resources mentioned:
https://susanjeffers.com/books/ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=p3JLaF_4Tz8 
https://www.sobrietysisterhood.com/post/living-your-whole-life-in-sobriety-expanding-your-grid-of-fulfillment 
https://open.substack.com/pub/milliegooch/p/i-think-ive-made-my-world-too-small?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

Thursday Sep 11, 2025

Episode 9
This week on the podcast, we talk about our changing relationship with movement and exercise. Moving away from our old goals based off the toxic messages we had received about our body, to holistic mindful movement.Mandy's fundraiser https://give.sherecovers.org/team/576131 
Resources mentioned:
https://join.whoop.com/26052B83
 
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

Thursday Sep 04, 2025

Episode 8
This week on the podcast, we talk about our relationship with others.
Resources mentioned:
The Drama Triangle - Chris WestAttached - Dr Amir Levine and Rachel SF Heller MAThe Book of Boundaries - Melissa Urban(The one Mandy couldn’t find on her shelf - Set Boundaries, Find Peace - Nedra Glover Tawwab)
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

Thursday Aug 28, 2025

Episode 7
This week on the podcast, we talk about our relationship with ourselves.
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now
 

Thursday Aug 21, 2025

Episode 6
This week on the podcast, we talk about how we talk to our children about drugs and alcohol. 
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

Thursday Aug 14, 2025

This week on the podcast, we talk about recovery hindsight - what we know now, which we didn't know then - dopamine seeking, and cross-addiction. 
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R&R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now

Thursday Aug 07, 2025

Episode Four
This week we dive into REST…
R&R with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R and R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now
*Spoiler Alert* 
We decided to change the name of this podcast from… The Rambling Podcast (Recovery & The Rest…) to Recovery & The Rest… after Episode 4 because a) As you will hear Mandy can’t seem to remember the name of the podcast, consistently calling it the wandering podcast fml b) There are actually a lot of The Rambling Podcast’s who knew? c) Recovery & The Rest… is very much on topic for what we will talk about. So apologies for that! 

Thursday Jul 31, 2025

Episode Three
This week we dive into Mandy’s story thus far…How her relationship with sobriety has changed in nearly eight years to broadening into recovery from a multiple of things and her steps to take care of herself.
R and R discusses recovery and the rest. The real story of what it’s like to be in long term sobriety, how we have and continue to discover what it means to be well, take care of ourselves and grow through life challenges. For both of us being sober is the cornerstone of our lives. This podcast is the anything and everything that comes up along the way. 
R and R is intended to be conversational rather than instructional, we encourage each person to design, discover and be proud of their own sobriety tools. We celebrate all roads to recovery and criticise none. This podcast is our own personal stake in the sand, to our own continued commitment to nurturing our recovery. 
 
To connect with Ellen www.sobrietysisterhood.com
To connect with Mandy www.mandymanners.com
If you feel in crisis please contact your GP, or use the resources listed here 
https://alcoholchange.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help-now
 
*Spoiler Alert* 
We decided to change the name of this podcast from… The Rambling Podcast (Recovery & The Rest…)  with Ellen Woods and Mandy Manners to Recovery & The Rest… after Episode 4 because a) As you will hear Mandy can’t seem to remember the name of the podcast, consistently calling it the wandering podcast fml b) There are actually a lot of The Rambling Podcast’s who knew? c) Recovery & The Rest… is very much on topic for what we will talk about. So apologies for that! 

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