For years, Sara Kaufman Bradstreet thought the problem wasn’t necessarily that she was drinking — it was that she needed to get better at drinking. She needed to figure out the right number of drinks. Get better at recovering from hangovers. Learn how to have one or...

How Do You Know If Your Relationship With Alcohol Needs to Change? “Maybe you should reevaluate your relationship with alcohol”.   That’s what my mother said to me when I was 23 after I told her I had spent a very long night on my bathroom floor throwing up...

Highly Sensitive People, Empaths & Alcohol: How to Cope Without Drinking Do you ever know someone is upset before they’ve even said a word? Do you ever feel like you absorb everything? Someone else’s bad mood. A critical comment. Tension in the room. A...

And immediately start wondering: Is it me? Did I do something wrong? How can I make this better? I do. I’m realizing how much of my life I’ve spent trying to keep the peace, absorbing other people’s moods, avoiding conflict and swallowing what I actually feel. And...

If you’re in your 50s, 60s, or 70s and wondering whether it’s really worth changing your relationship with alcohol now, I want you to hear Susan’s story. Maybe your kids are grown. Maybe you’re an empty nester. Maybe you’ve been drinking for 30 or 40 years and wine is...

If you’re a good mom, a capable woman, and the person everyone counts on — but wine has become the only part of the day that feels like it belongs to you—this episode is for you. Maybe you don’t have a dramatic rock-bottom story. You’re still getting everything done....

I Spent 7 Years Trying to Make Moderation Work: Sarena’s Alcohol-Free Story Sarena tried it all: 30-, 60-, 90-day breaks. Weekends-only. Special-occasions-only. Wine to vodka to hard seltzers. A hard stop after a certain hour. "Just one or two." And every single time,...

What If Being “Fine” Is Actually Keeping You Stuck? If you’re the woman who holds everything together—the good mom, reliable friend, capable employee, partner who manages the schedules, emotions, details, and needs of everyone around you—this conversation might hit...

What Are The Risk Factors For Alcohol Use Disorder? If you’ve ever wondered why you seem to struggle with alcohol more than your friends—or why cutting back feels so much harder for you—the answer isn’t simply that you need more willpower. There isn’t one single...

Thinking About Drinking Again After Going Alcohol-Free? Once you’ve gotten a period of time alcohol-free, how do you protect the progress you’ve made and avoid sliding back into the drinking cycle? Maybe you’ve made it 30 days, 100 days, six months—or longer. You’re...

Did you know that identifying your personal core values can help you reinforce WHY you want to live an alcohol-free life and find more meaning and fulfillment in your choice? It's true. Values are your compass to a big, brave, beautiful life.  Core values are...

📌 If You’re New Here About me: I’m Casey McGuire Davidson, a sobriety and life coach for busy sober-curious women and host of The Hello Someday Podcast. Around here we talk stress, careers, kids, marriages—and how to build a life you don’t need to escape from. If...

20 NEW Questions To Ask Yourself To Change Your Drinking If you've been going back and forth for a while now about whether you want to stop drinking I'm betting you've been asking yourself all the wrong questions. You might spend a lot of time debating whether your...

The Wake-Up Call I Didn't See Coming Have you ever looked like you had everything under control while quietly falling apart inside? Have you ever thought, "I'm fine. I just need to get through this." Or maybe... "I don't want to be difficult." "I don't want to...

What If You Didn't Need Rock Bottom? Have you ever looked around at your life and thought: "Everything looks fine on paper… so why do I feel so miserable?" "If my drinking isn't that bad, why can't I stop thinking about it?" If you're the woman who gets everything...

Why Hanging Out With Women Who Quit Drinking Is The Best "What if I stop drinking and lose all my friends?" "What if life without alcohol is boring?" If you've ever worried that drinking is the thing that makes you fun, social, connected, or interesting, you're not...

Kindness, Anger and the Negativity Remedy If you’re the good mom who drinks at night because you’re exhausted, angry, overstimulated and secretly wondering why you feel so unhappy when your life looks “fine” from the outside—this episode is for you. Why am I so angry...

Mommy Wine Culture, Sober Parenting, and Raising Kids in a Drinking World Motherhood Is Hard. Alcohol Doesn't Make It Easier. "Why does everyone else seem to handle motherhood better than I do?" "Why does wine feel like the only thing helping me cope?" If you've ever...

Stop Romanticizing Your Drinking: It's Keeping You Stuck Do you wonder if you’ll ever have fun without alcohol? Despite all the reasons you want to stop drinking, a lot of us find ourselves looking back at vacations, girls' weekends, summer nights, and celebrations...

Life Without Alcohol Feels Better Than I Ever Expected: Trisha's Story What happens when alcohol becomes part of everything? Not because you're drinking all day. Not because you've hit a dramatic rock bottom. But because it's woven into your evenings, your marriage,...

Life Without Alcohol Feels Better Than I Ever Expected Have you ever looked around at your life and thought: "Everything looks good on paper. So why do I feel so exhausted?" "Why does wine feel like the only thing I truly look forward to?" If you're the woman who has...

When Drinking Feels Connected to Love, Belonging, and Being Chosen If you've ever worried that stopping drinking will make you less fun, less attractive, or less likely to find your person, this conversation is for you. In this SSK Member Story episode, I'm talking...

I Was Drinking a Bottle of Wine Every Night and Trying to Hold It All Together If you’re the woman who looks like she has it all together…but secretly counts down to that first glass of wine every night… This episode is for you. “I’m functioning. So how bad can it...

Secret Drinking And The Emotional Exhaustion of Trying to Moderate You can look like you have it all together… and still be struggling every single day with alcohol. You can be the good mom, the business owner, the woman volunteering at school and showing up for...