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The Sober Bliss Podcast, bringing you hints, tips, advice and inspiration as you walk your path to living a rich and full alcohol-free life.
Demystifying Day One of Sobriety Ah, day one of sobriety. The thought of day one can be both terrifying and exciting. You want to get there, get through it, move past it but yet you still find yourself on the sidelines, wishing hoping, wanting. Day one seems scary to you and brings up many thoughts […]
First step to sobriety When you think of sobriety, quitting drinking or taking a break from alcohol, so many thoughts and feelings pop up and, let’s be honest, not all of them feel good. Even though living alcohol-free is the most loving and empowering thing you can do for yourself, actually taking the step feels […]
Alcohol Free Summer Ah, the summer! While glorious, carefree, and fun, with fewer commitments and an easy, lazy vibe, can be triggering for us sober folk for the exact same reasons. All the normal rules don’t seem to apply and we all want to kick back, relax, enjoy ourselves and have fun. But there is […]
What to do when drinking is taking up too much space in your head Are you in that place where you want to stop drinking but feel absolutely terrified by the prospect? Is drinking, the thought of drinking, reducing your drinking, worrying about drinking and quitting drinking taking up too much space in your head […]
How to Celebrate when you’re Sober Celebrating without alcohol. It is sooo difficult at first when you’re newly sober to know what to do or how to celebrate when you’re sober. After all in our society and culture celebrations and commiserations tend to revolve around booze, everything is a reason to drink and the thought […]
Quitting Drinking – Why Can’t I Just Moderate? Before I happily stopped drinking alcohol for good I used to get so frustrated and upset with myself. Why couldn’t I just be ‘normal’ like everyone else? Why can’t I just have a couple of beers at the weekend and be happy about it? Why can’t […]
When you’ve stopped drinking but your partner hasn’t The topic in today’s podcast, ‘you’ve stopped drinking but your partner hasn’t’ is a very common one, so first of all if you are experiencing this, then you are not alone. I was very lucky that my husband and I stopped drinking together so I’ve always had […]
How to break the stop / start cycle of drinking There is nothing more upsetting a frustrating than returning to drinking after a spell of sobriety. Women write to me and say things like, ‘I just can’t seem to make it stick”. Or, “I love my periods of being alcohol free, so why do I […]
“People quit as soon as things aren’t easy anymore, as soon as it gets painful ….. They quit as soon as they see something in their minds that scares or hurts them. So they miss the good part, the wild part, the transformative part – the part when you push past the difficulty and enter […]
Having a vision for your sobriety is a topic I am very excited about and I teach it a lot. It is also a very inspiring and uplifting way to embrace this journey instead of coming at it from a place of shame, regret and guilt which is so often the case. Yes, these feelings […]