sobriety coaching
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 […]
Have you ever said this to yourself? “I’ll stop drinking when…..” When the weather warms up, when it cools down, when lockdown ends, when I come back from holiday, when life is less stressful, when I’ve started my new job, when the kids go back to school, when the kids break up from school. I’ll […]
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 […]
What to do when you hit the wall in sobriety – One of our gorgeous members recently wrote, “I did 65 days last year and then sort of ‘hit a wall” and it was easier to drink again than to push through, I’ve always wondered what would have happened had I carried on. I’d be […]
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 […]
I am so very happy to be sharing this guest post with you today. Deep breathing exercises for sobriety is such a fabulous tool that you can use to help you out in so many different situations. To help you with stress, to help you relax, calm down and so much more. Let’s dive into […]
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 […]
When you think of sobriety you will most likely feel afraid. After all, if drinking has been such a huge part of your life, the thought of never drinking again, ever, can be terrifying and that’s okay. The key to getting past your fear of sobriety is to reframe the way you think and feel […]
“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 […]
Usually when people come to me for help to quit drinking, it is because they are in an internal struggle. The push and pull of wanting a drink, yet at the same time, not wanting a drink. It is difficult to resist that pull of that first drink or the whisper of the wine witch. […]