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Claire Robbie
Meditation teacher and founder of The School of Modern Meditation, New Zealand s first multidisciplinary meditation centre. Runs The Reset Program, a 90-day paid programme for changing your relationship with alcohol, and hosts this conversation.
Meditation and awareness practice • habit change • alcohol reduction coaching • lived experience of addiction and recovery
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Focus: Argues that the hard part of stopping drinking is not the substance but the belief system underneath it, and that meditation works because it brings subconscious drivers into awareness. Frames alcohol as the opposite of meditation: one fragments awareness, the other builds it.
Claire Robbie is a meditation and yoga teacher and the founder of The School of Modern Meditation, New Zealand s first multidisciplinary meditation centre. She came to the practice while struggling with depression and self-medicating, and has been sober for ten years. She runs The Reset Program, a paid 90-day programme for resetting your relationship with alcohol, and founded the alcohol-free events series No Beer Who Cares. She is not a clinician and does not present herself as one; her contribution here is lived experience and habit-change practice rather than medicine. She sells a 90-day alcohol programme and this episode recommends a three-month alcohol holiday. This does not invalidate her account of what stopping actually felt like, and the two are worth judging separately. It is still worth knowing that the recommended length and the length of the product are the same number.