I Didn’t Know It Would Be My Last Day One: A Personal Reflection on Sobriety and Support

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SPEAKERS: Casey McGuire Davidson 

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Welcome to the Hello Someday Podcast, the podcast for busy women who are ready to drink less and live more. I’m Casey McGuire Davidson, ex-red wine girl turned life coach helping women create lives they love without alcohol. But it wasn’t that long ago that I was anxious, overwhelmed, and drinking a bottle of wine and night to unwind. I thought that wine was the glue, holding my life together, helping me cope with my kids, my stressful job and my busy life. I didn’t realize that my love affair with drinking was making me more anxious and less able to manage my responsibilities.

In this podcast, my goal is to teach you the tried and true secrets of creating and living a life you don’t want to escape from.

Each week, I’ll bring you tools, lessons and conversations to help you drink less and live more. I’ll teach you how to navigate our drinking obsessed culture without a bus, how to sit with your emotions, when you’re lonely or angry, frustrated or overwhelmed, how to self soothe without a drink, and how to turn the decision to stop drinking from your worst case scenario to the best decision of your life.

I am so glad you’re here. Now let’s get started.

This episode is going to be a little different it’s more of a personal reflection and observations that I am processing and I wanted to share.

I just got back from dropping a good friend of mine who is the community manager in our sobriety starter kit member community at the airport, and she flew in from Georgia. Because we just spent four days with 22 women in the SSK member community.

 

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The community’s been around for 2 years, but this is the first time that we have gathered intentionally in person and we had women flying in from all over the country, from Pennsylvania and Florida, from Canada, from California and Colorado. And North Carolina and New England.

I was honestly really nervous about it. I had been on different retreats, which were incredible and fantastic. I’ve gone on sober yoga retreats in Canada and Mexico and gathered with friends and traveled with sober friends. But it’s different when it is your community and when you haven’t done it before.

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You really hope that women who are brave enough to leave their families to come across the country, to meet people that they’ve only known online, that it is worth it to them, that they are comfortable and they have fun and that they feel connected and that they make friends. And I wasn’t even organizing this weekend.

I had a number of women asking me to have a gathering, to have a retreat for our community, and I try to be really honest about what I think my strengths are and what I enjoy and what is not in my wheelhouse. And I know coaches and podcast hosts who organize retreats and do it really well, and I didn’t feel like it was something I could take on when they asked me, but I encouraged the women in my community to gather with people, to connect, to get together with other women in the group and do it in an organic way.

 

And much to my surprise, women within the community took the initiative to reach out to everyone to see who wanted to get together, to figure out a time and a place.

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And they messaged me and said, what if we do it in the Seattle area? And I was like, of course. That is fantastic. That would be amazing. They were like, will you come? It’s like, oh my God. Of course I will come. And so, it happened. And I am so grateful that they arranged it. So, on Thursday I had Marriott, who is my community manager, and 4 of my 6 SSK community ambassadors, who are women who are helping me support the other women in the community ,who have worked through the entire sobriety starter kit curriculum, who have longer term sobriety. 4 of the 6 flew in and came to dinner at my house in Seattle and my husband and son cooked dinner for us. We just talked and laughed and ate on the deck and sat in the sunshine.

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I had met Marriot a few months ago. After Private coaching with her 5 and a half years ago, and we were so close, despite never meeting and when these other women came, it was the very first time that all of us had met each other despite knowing more about each other than almost anyone else in my life.

The next day, I had a quiet morning coffee and breakfast with Marriott, and then the ambassadors came back and we recorded an incredible podcast episode that I’m going to put out next week, and it was all about the underlying problems that come to the surface once you stop drinking. And how the reasons you drank might be different and might be deeper than the ones you believe they are when you stop drinking, so you drink to handle stress or to connect or celebrate or to deal with the monotony of adulting or to go on vacation or a date night or whatever it is.

 

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Those are the reasons we think we drink, but once you get further along, a. In sobriety away from alcohol, you might realize that there are some other reasons that drinking worked for you in the first place. That there is some deeper work to be done and you get to do that work once you are clear and empowered and not muddled up drinking or recovering from drinking.

So we had six of us sitting around my kitchen table. It was really. Magical. We laughed, we cried and talked about our journey and the work we’ve done and what sobriety is like,

and how different our lives and our perspectives are now at two years. Alcohol free at five years, alcohol free at 10 years alcohol free. Then what we believed were the issues in our lives and the opportunities when we were drinking. So, that happened.

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And then, that Friday night, we drove up to one of our members’ house.

She had a fantastic picnic in her backyard where we met. Where we gathered with 22 women from the SSK community and we hugged and talked and laughed and got to know each other, and every day kept getting better.

The next day, we got up and we went on an incredible Pike Place market food tour where we learned so much about the history of Seattle and ate incredible food, and got to know each other even more. We went on a harbor cruise around Seattle in the sunshine, and then we went to a picnic on the beach and in between everyone was just talking and laughing and getting support from each other and learning about each other’s lives.

And then, on Sunday we went over to an island on a ferry.

We went on a gorgeous hike. We went to lunch in the cutest town and got ice cream and jumped in the shops and. Promise to see each other and connect and be together again.

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So, my husband just left on an 8 day fly fishing trip to Canada this morning. And I’m really grateful to have some time alone.

This week my kids are here, but at 11 and 17, they actually give me more quiet time than when my husband is around and I love him and I’ll miss him. But after our SSK Girls weekend, I am feeling the need to turn inward in the best possible way. I knew this would happen. But spending time with just a small group of women who are on the alcohol-free path has made me feel even more connected and even more grateful for all the women who are doing this work all weekend. The women were so sweet and they were telling me how much I have helped them and how much my work has meant to them, but I don’t think they realized how much they give back to myself and to marry it and to all the ambassadors in the group.

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This weekend, I felt like I made 20 new friends who are going to be in my life for years to come.

They lit me up and made me laugh and allowed me to share my story, which is helpful to me every time I do it with people who get it.

And in my community, if you’re listening to this, I am so grateful that there are another 290 women who can be and are and will be those friends as well. And I always say on this podcast that’s sober women are the best and the coolest and the most fun to hang out with. And I want to tell you why. They not only are super fun and have the best stories because let’s face it, we have adventures, but they also have done some really important personal development work.

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Women who are on the alcohol-free path are honest and grounded and mature and vulnerable and real, and they don’t really tolerate surface conversations anymore. When we gather together, we go deep right away.

 

And not only that, we laugh together more than you could ever imagine. We have an immediate understanding and connection that most people in our lives, including our partners and our mothers, and our best friends, they just will never get the women I met in this group and over this weekend are amazing because they are smart and they are resilient, and they are brave.

The women on this path, the women listening to this podcast, the women this weekend, they are amazing because they are smart and resilient and brave.

If you are listening to this podcast, you are doing something regardless of whether you are on day zero or day one for the hundredth time or three years alcohol-free.

 

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You are doing something that most people in this world will never attempt. And what that means is you are living your life with intention. You are looking closely at what is working in your life and what is not. You are challenging the identity and the habits that you have held for years or for decades because you want something more and something better for yourself and for the people you love.

You are evolving and growing and transforming the trajectory of your life, and if you think that’s being dramatic, it isn’t. That’s the incredible thing about examining your relationship with alcohol and figuring out whether it is working for you and doing the work to move away from it and figure out the reasons why you drink and what you need to build a life you really love without numbing out.

 

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So, if you are listening to this, please know. That if you are here and you haven’t gotten a day one to stick yet, keep showing up, get more support, and it will happen. I know this not only because I’ve coached 150 women privately and I’ve worked with thousands of women in my The Sobriety Starter Kit® Program .

I know this because I did that. I worried about my drinking and tried to moderate my drinking for at least 5 years before I had my first real stretch of time. Alcohol-free.

Yeah, I got 4 months alcohol-free. I dove into the sober community and the podcasts and all the things, and then I got pregnant with Lila, and when I was pregnant, I did that slow shuffle back from the alcohol free community and alcohol free resources.

 

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I felt so much better. And didn’t attribute that to the fact that I wasn’t drinking. I thought that my relationship with my husband and my ability to handle work and my mental health and my nervous system and everything was better. And therefore, I could drink again. I didn’t realize that everything was better because I wasn’t drinking and hungover every day and beating myself up for drinking too much and waking up at 3:00 AM. So, after my daughter was born, I did that.

I reintroduced alcohol back into my life and it started with, oh, I think I want to have a glass of wine or two with my husband on a date night, which then turned into me asking my husband if he could bring a bottle of wine home on a Friday night, which then turned into, oh, I’m at the store. I should just buy some bottles of wine for the home.

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Which then turned into drinking every day and then went back to drinking a bottle of wine sometimes more. Every day, which then turned into trying to moderate again and trying to drink less and trying to take a break and getting to day three or four and then breaking and drinking and doing it all over again.

And mind you, I had a newborn during this time. I had a one month old and a two month old and a six month old. And I also had my 8-year-old son. And then I went back to work and I had a full-time job and two little kids and a husband and friends and stress and life, and I was drinking. It took me two years to get a new day, one that stuck.

And during those 2 years, because I had had a period of time alcohol-free, I was no longer under the illusion that the issue was my boss or my job, or my schedule or my stress or my husband. I knew the problem was alcohol. I knew the problem was my drinking.

 

I knew I would eventually have to stop drinking. I sort of just thought that I could probably play this out for a couple more years before I quote unquote, “had to stop”. I knew that I was hurting myself with every hangover and every 3:00 AM wake up and every night. I didn’t fully remember.

And I did what a lot of us did. I wrote myself notes, and I talked shit to myself. I woke up in the morning and said, get your shit together. What the fuck is wrong with you, Casey? I hated looking in my eyes when I was putting on my eyeliner in the morning. I didn’t want people to look too closely at me. I pretended I was fine.

I made jokes when I was hungover or when I didn’t remember a ton.

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I looked forward to happy hours and business trips and girls nights while at the same time worrying about my drinking and trying to keep myself under control.

I listened to podcasts and was members of sober groups and lurked and read. And tried to drink less or take breaks or not drink at all, and it was hard. It sucked. I rationalized my drinking. I promised I would take a break. I craved alcohol, I overthought everything. I gave up and drank again, and I lived in that drinking cycle for months and eventually 2 years.

And then at one point, after a week of wake up calls, which I will tell you about, I finally said to myself, I cannot do this to myself anymore. And I got more support and more accountability, and I made a commitment to someone other than myself. And I got tools that were not just me trying harder and trying again.

 

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People always ask how you knew you needed to stop drinking? Or what was the thing that made it stick this time? And I have an answer for what was the thing that made it stick this time, and it was getting more support and getting structure and joining a program and getting a coach and having accountability and having a goal to not drink for 100 days with defined milestones along the way.

That is what? Helped me finally get a day one that stuck, but what made me finally realize that I needed to stop, for two years, I knew that alcohol was the primary problem in my life. I knew the way I was drinking was unsustainable after a really bad night of drinking too much at 3:00 AM or with a brutal hangover.

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The next day I thought to myself that I am going to fuck up my marriage and my kids and my job, and my health and my life, and it was going to be my own fault. And this was at a time when none of my friends or my coworkers or anyone told me that I should stop drinking. Told me they were worried about me, but I knew.

I knew I was worried about me.

I was no longer living in denial that my drinking was no big deal, but there wasn’t anything dramatic that happened that last week. And also, there were many things that happened that made me finally say, I can’t do this to myself anymore. So, I’ll tell you what those were, just in case it’s helpful to you.

So, during my last week, I was flying to Scottsdale, Arizona for a work conference.

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I was in Digital Marketing and Advertising, and it was a 3 or 4 day gathering of people from different companies and people we were working with to market our products, and it was at a very fancy resort with all day meetings and then social events at night.

I, at the time, had a 2-year-old and an 8-year-old and was exhausted, and the idea of being without my kids at a super fancy resort in Arizona in February sounded like heaven. So, I got there and I went out to the restaurant and I had a couple glasses of wine while getting some food after check-in.

And then, that night, there was a mixer, so it was in this gorgeous courtyard and there were a couple standup bars and we were just meeting people and mingling, and I didn’t know anyone there. And so, I had my wine and I was chatting everyone up and I was smiling and getting to know people, and of course I don’t remember the end of that evening.

I just know I got home. I remember talking to people and meeting a couple women and thinking, oh my gosh, they are so pretty and so put together. So sophisticated and I wish I looked like them. And anyone who has a 2-year-old at home knows what that feels like. And if you’re drinking, you might know what that feels like, too.

Where I was like 40 pounds overweight and none of my good clothes fit. And I just was like, why am I not as sophisticated and as pulled together as these other women at this event?

So, I woke up in my hotel room the next day, brutally hungover, like really, really, really hungover. Which was ridiculous because I had been so excited to have a fantastic night’s sleep where my 2-year-old wouldn’t wake me up. And I went to the morning conference and we had one of those speakers that was supposed to be inspirational and bring us together and you know, get us geared up for the weekend.

If you’re listening to this episode and have been trying to take a break from drinking, but keep starting and stopping and starting again, I want to invite you to take a look at my on demand coaching course, The Sobriety Starter Kit®. The Sobriety Starter Kit® is an online self study, sober coaching course that will help you quit drinking and build a life you love without alcohol without white knuckling it or hating the process. The course includes the exact step-by-step coaching framework I work through with my private coaching clients, but at a much more affordable price than one-on-one coaching. And The Sobriety Starter Kit® is ready, waiting and available to support you anytime you need it, when it fits into your schedule.  You don’t need to work your life around group meetings or classes at a specific day or time. This course is not a 30 day challenge, or a one day at a time approach. Instead, it’s a step-by-step formula for changing your relationship with alcohol. The course will help you turn the decision to stop drinking from your worst case scenario to the best decision of your life. You will sleep better and have more energy, you’ll look better and feel better, you’ll have more patience and less anxiety. And with my approach you won’t feel deprived or isolated in the process. So if you’re interested in learning more about all the details, please go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com. You can start at any time and I would love to see you in the course.

 

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And the first exercise was to find a partner you didn’t know and to stare into their eyes silently for 5 minutes. Five. You have no idea how long that is when you are supposed to stare into a stranger’s eyes and not look away for a fully timed 5 minutes. When you are hungover, when your eyes are bloodshot and you feel shaky and your eyes are watery and you don’t want anyone to look at you too closely, it felt like the seconds were going by so slowly and it was just this huge wakeup call that I don’t like myself. I don’t like how I look. I don’t like how I feel physically. I don’t like how I feel emotionally. I don’t like how I feel mentally. I am not proud of myself.

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My nervous system is shot and I don’t want anyone to look at me closely, and this person is staring into my eyes and I think that’s why I was always so busy.

I was like moving so quickly so no one could pin me down. Because I was afraid that if they looked at me that closely, they would know that I drink too much. They would know all that anxiety and shame that was just under the surface of I am a busy, successful mom. Anyway, that sucked. And then, I had to go and have 15 meetings at different tables with vendors all day long.

And then, of course, at the end of the day, they had drinks at various bar tables to celebrate the end of the afternoon and evening. So of course, when you are brutally hungover and tired, you pick up a glass, you pick up a drink to make yourself feel better. So, I did that.

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And then, that night there was another dinner and it was sort of like cowboy western themed, which was not a great look on any adult. Certainly not people at a business conference, but that’s what it was. And we were sitting around tables outside and I’m somehow was sitting with that woman who I thought was completely pulled together and beautiful the night before ’cause we were friendly and we recognized each other.

And at the table were also a lot of men. And maybe I’m judging them, but they were 40-year-old men away from their families. Maybe they were single, but they seemed really predatory towards this woman who was very, very, very drunk. So, she was falling asleep at the table. She kept repeating herself, she was slurring, and some of these guys seemed very, very interested in taking care of her.

And I looked at her and she was a few years older than me, and her kids were older than mine and she was married and she lived in Florida and was flying home the next day.

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And I was like, oh my God, this could be me in a few years. This is me. This probably has been me, meaning being that drunk, being at a business function, being in an unsafe situation, and just being very, very lucky that.

I got home safely and I got on my flight the next day and I woke up on time and that everything was okay. And so, I convinced her that I should take her back to her room because. She needed to be sure she could get up for a morning flight, and we found a golf cart and I got her back to her room and I watched her drop her keys three times when she was trying to open the door and I made sure she set alarms on her phone and I had been that woman.

I am not judging her. I am saying it was a wakeup call for me. So what did I do? I went back to my room and I opened one of those half bottles of wine because of course that is what you do when you are having way too much awareness about your drinking.

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So, the next day I left, my husband had flown down with my kids and we went to a really fancy resort for our mid-winter break and spend time together.

And it was pretty good for a good bit of the time. I mean, I drank too much. I was hung over the next day. I went on walks. I sat around the pool with the kids. I hated the way my body looked, you know, the usual and on our last night, we went out to dinner at the resort and it was not a great night.

It was a fancy dinner, which we probably should not have gone to with our little kids. For some reason, my son, who was 8, stood up and was like, I feel sick, and threw up on the outdoor patio in between all the diners. I mean, it was like awful and embarrassing and humiliating, and the poor kid was sick.

So, my husband rushed him to the bathroom and I apologized profusely to the waiter. And while we were waiting for them to come back, thank God we didn’t have our food yet.

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My daughter, who was 2, somehow picked up the porcelain plate in front of her and threw it on the ground and it shattered. At which point, I was like, holy fuck, this is awful.

Grabbed her and was like, we’re leaving. I am sorry. I left the biggest tip of the money I had in my wallet, which was not enough, and we just ran out there.

So, we got back to our hotel room and there was a knock at the door and the resort people. Somehow delivered a bottle of red wine, like they’re bringing us wine ’cause they were like, oh my God, you’ve had a hard night, et cetera. So, of course, I drank the majority of that wine and I had had one before the food came or whatever it was. Needless to say, how that evening ended was I woke up and I went into the bathroom and we had one of those hotel rooms with two beds and a pack and play for my daughter. And I was on my knees sweating, throwing up red wine while my husband and my kids were in the room next door and I was like running the shower so that hopefully they would not wake up to me throwing up. But like, let’s be honest, those walls are thin. And I was 40 years old.

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I was like, this is not cute anymore. It just isn’t I, I mean, it was, it was embarrassing. I wasn’t sure what to say to my husband the next day, much less my kids. So we flew home and even that wasn’t enough for me to stop. So I had wine in the house and the night we got home, I drank wine and watched the TV shows that we had recorded, like my favorite TV shows probably by myself. And then, the next night, Monday night, I came home and after getting the kids to bed and the bath and the dinner and all the things did the, did my usual routine, which was pour my third glass of wine and sit in front of the tv and I pulled up the show Scandal.

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My husband walked into the room and was like, you watched this last night? And I was like, Nope, I didn’t. And he was like, no, no, you did. You watched this episode last night. And I really thought he was screwing with me because I had zero recollection of what was on the screen. Like nothing. I thought he was wrong. I was like, what do you know? You know, you don’t even watch this show.

So, it got to the end of the episode and one part of it was suddenly familiar and I was like, holy shit. I did watch this show last night.

I just could not believe that I had fully erased an entire hour of something that I had watched that I truly believed I hadn’t seen it. So, I went up to bed and did what we do, which was wake up at 3 in the morning. With crushing anxiety, thinking, what the fuck is wrong with you, Casey? Get your shit together.

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And that night, like so many others, I was scrolling through posts in a sober Facebook group and was reading a post of a woman who was far, far braver than me because I hadn’t posted there for 2 years because I was drinking even though I was going there often and reading. And she said, I’m on another day one.

And all these fantastic women jumped in with advice and cheering and help, and one of them suggested a sober coach that I had known, and I had gotten her emails and I had been following her and by the way, it was Belle from Tired Of Thinking About Drinking and I went into work that day at 10:00 AM in my fancy office, and I signed up for her 100 day sober challenge and I signed up to be basically a sober coaching client to be a pen pal with her. And that was my last day one. And I had no idea it was going to be my last day one, and this was almost 10 years ago. I hadn’t been able to make it through day 4 in a very, very long time.

 

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I can’t remember what the time previously that I had made it more than four days, and I wanted to drink the night.

I signed up and on day two and on day 3, I emailed her every single day. I listened to her lessons every single day, and I participated in sober groups every single day. I jumped on and was like, all right, I could not be more embarrassed. I was very active here three years ago. I got to a year, and for the past two years I’ve been drinking.

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And I’m on day two or day five or day seven, and slowly I used new tools and new supports, and I made it past day four. And then I made it past the first week and the second week, and I made it to 30 days, and then 60 and 90 and 100. And when I reached a hundred days, I committed to 6 months because I felt so much better.

But did I know that was going to be my last day One? No. And was there a huge bottom? Like some people would say, yes. And by the way, it could have been that morning at the conference looking into the stranger’s eyes. It could have been seeing that woman. Who was super, super drunk and was in an unsafe situation.

It could have been me throwing up in the bathroom with my family next door.

It could have been blacking out that show.

It could have been waking up at 3:00 AM.

But honestly, all of those things had happened before, and maybe it was all of them happening in one week or maybe it was just me saying, I can’t do this to myself anymore, but I really think it was taking the step to add accountability and support and structure. So, I didn’t know that that time would be my last day one.

 

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I just started again the hundredth time. I started again and I added support. And I committed and I put one foot in front of the other, and here I am almost 10 years later.

So, if you are listening to this, please don’t give up. Jump in, get more support. I don’t care if it’s me or someone else or something else, or a different program or a therapist, anything. Get more support because what you’re doing, if you want to stop drinking and you have not been able to stop yet, all that means is you don’t have the right level of support yet.

 

So, jump back in and once you do that, connect with other people.

In my group, I tell women to get to know the other women there. Take their support and their encouragement and their advice. Be honest. Cheer people on, dive into my program or another program, like actually do the lessons.

 

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Actually, follow the advice.

Actually commit.

Give it a try.

Use tools to get through cravings.

Use women in your community to get through cravings, build on one day alcohol free to another, and I promise you that you will be glad you did. I promise you that you will feel better. I promise you that it will be worth it. I promise you that you will be grateful that you did this work.

I know you might not believe me, but I’m asking you to trust me and don’t think about forever. Don’t say never again, but do commit to a longer period of time. Alcohol-free. Give yourself the opportunity to see not what withdrawal and craving is like because that’s what you do your first week, two weeks, not what Holding your breath and just not drinking is like, because that’s 30 days alcohol-free go for 100 days.

Where you actually learn how to live alcohol-free, you actually replace habits of drinking on stressful nights and celebrations and weekends, and you actually get to discover what you enjoy and what you might do with your time and your energy and your resources if you weren’t so absorbed in drinking and recovering and not drinking, and white knuckling it.

 

Now, coming back to the weekend I just had with the women in my community, they surprised me with a box of letters that each one of them wrote to me to tell me how I’ve helped them and what I mean to their lives. And this is something I have never received in my life before. I can’t tell you how meaningful it is to me.

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I have it on my bedside table and I’ve decided to read one each morning, so I’ve only read two so far, but I want to quietly absorb what each of them wrote and think about it and be grateful for this path and for the woman who is brave enough to reach out to me and to do this thing.

So, if you’ve listened this far in the podcast, I know it’s not my normal one, where I’m interviewing a guest or talking about a specific topic or tools.

If you’ve listened this far, I just want to thank you and let you know that I am sending you love and I am proud of you for being here. Whether you’ve stopped drinking or not, whether you’re early in the sober curious process or not, whether you are 2 or 5 or 10 years alcohol-free, I am proud of you for being on this path.

 

I am proud of you for looking at your relationship with alcohol and questioning whether or not it is working for you and whether or not life alcohol-free might be better.

 

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I am cheering you on.

And as I wrap this up, I am thinking specifically about some of the conversations I had this weekend. We were hiking around this gorgeous bluff in the Pacific Northwest, right next to the coast, and I was talking with a woman who was just past 300 days, and she was telling us the story of the last weekend that she drank at a big party and how she thought the night would go one way and how it went a different way, and she woke up just embarrassed and hung over and feeling like shit, and had been listening to my podcast and was like, oh, fuck it.

Fine. I’ll join The Sobriety Starter Kit®. I’ll try it out. I’ll see what happens.

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And other women who were celebrating a year and 9 months, or 100 days or 50 days over the weekend who it didn’t have to be a death of a thousand cuts. Or a week like mine was. It didn’t have to be after a big party that didn’t go as planned.

It could be just that they had been listening and they were like, I’m sick of my own shit, or I want to feel better, or I’m curious enough to see if I enjoy life alcohol-free, better than what I’m doing right now.

 

And you know what? A month from now I want to feel better. I want to feel good. I am curious what 2 months without hangovers might look like. What new hobbies might I enjoy? Might I be more peaceful? Might I be more present? Might I just enjoy not waking up on a Monday morning with anxiety, or might I fight with my partner less?

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If you’re listening to this podcast, you can take it as a sign to jump in and I want to invite you.

To join us in The Sobriety Starter Kit®. Now, I, I encourage you to get any support that might help you. I really do. I don’t care what it is, but I want to personally invite you to join us. Go to thesobrietystarterkit.com. Check out the program, see if it resonates with you. I have a seven day no questions asked.

Money back guarantee. You can join the program, you can join the community, you can check it out. And within the week, if you’re like, you know what? I don’t think this is what I’m looking for. I don’t think this is the level of support I need, whatever, just email us and I will fully refund your money. But.

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Take a step because if you’re curious about alcohol-free life, that is enough to give yourself some tools, some support, some resources to be successful, to get out of the craving and drinking and recovering cycle to move over to the good part, and I would love to support you. I would love to get to know you.

I cannot tell you how cool and amazing and awesome the women in my SSK member group are. There are 300 of us in there. It’s not too tiny. It’s not the thousands of people. It is a safe place with badass women and I can’t wait to have you join us.