Podcast Episode 23- Creating Sobriety with Joe Kiney-Whitmore

Thanks for listening to the Creating Resilience podcast. For episode 25 I’m joined by Artist, illustrator and creative writer  Joe Kiney-Whitmore, who is originally from Wigan, England but has lived and worked in Poland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and now lives in Montreal, Canada. He has experience teaching creative workshops for children, young adults and adults with mental health challenges and learning differences. He talks about his journey since getting sober over 2 years ago, and forging his own path as a self-employed artist and blogger. We also discuss his goal to build an online learning hub and community for young creative men who have lost their way with alcohol or have a negative relationship with substances and don't feel creatively fulfilled or who are struggling with reality and finding meaning in their lives. We chat about how creativity helped Joe to find structure in his life and support his journey to sobriety and  maintain his daily life staying sober and he shares some great tips to get creative every day.  To find out more about Joe’s work and story he is on Instragram: @joekineywhitmore and FaceBook here  His Creating Sobriety group can be found here: @creating_sobriety And on Facebook here. Music on the intro and outro of this podcast is by John D Revelator from his song, ‘Hope’, you can hear the full track here. You can support me to bring more stories of creating resilience to the world! If you value this content and the time and energy invested in researching and producing episodes I would be really grateful if you could sponsor it for less than a fiver a month- that’s £2.50 an episode- less than a takeaway coffee. Please go here to become a supporter, thankyou! Here is how I can help you create more resilience in your life: Download a guide to taming your stress triggers here Move from ‘alarm’ to ‘calm’ with a 'Power Hour' 1:1 coaching package. Learn more  here, Remove your blocks to success with 1:1 transformative EFT tapping coaching here. Read my  blog posts on the website here For all the links to my creative work go here. Access  ‘Beat Burnout’ online training here To read more about my own mental health journey- see this article here. And finally- if you would like to be a guest and share your story of using creativity to become more resilient, please get in touch here and we'll get back to you. Until next time, stay safe and well- and keep creating! :)