Ep 138: Pain Pushes Until Vision Pulls | Rethinking Alcohol |

What if the life you’re chasing, and the drinking that comes with it, are both keeping you from the life you really want?

In this honest conversation, Anna Donaghey welcomes recovery and transition coach Alina Roselli, who shares her journey from living “outside-in” - seeking validation, people-pleasing and pushing through burnout, to soul-led sobriety and deep self-acceptance.

Together, they explore why we can lose ourselves trying to meet other people’s expectations, how burnout and exhaustion can force us to question the life we’re living, and why transformation isn’t simply about giving up alcohol, it's about discovering who you are without it.

They also explore self-worth, radical honesty, the trap of external validation and practical ways to start living more “inside-out”.

For anyone questioning their relationship with alcohol, their sense of purpose, or whether there could be more to life, this episode offers an invitation to stop chasing approval and start coming home to yourself.

Highlights:

00:00 Welcome & introduction to Alina Roselli

00:40 Alina’s unraveling, burnout, alcohol and not knowing herself

02:46 The culture of drinking and starting at 15

05:55 Seeking belonging and landing in “image-driven” circles

10:07 What is “outside-in” living and how it shaped Alina’s self worth

12:28 When alcohol shifts from fun to medicine