Are you wondering why you should rethink your drinking, even if you're not "that bad"? Maybe you're sober curious or concerned about your relationship with alcohol, even if you don't consider yourself to have a "serious problem." Perhaps you find yourself in the "gray...

Daily Meditations For Women Helps In The Practice Of Recovery If you are very lucky, you’ll connect with someone further along in sobriety who takes the time to show you the way. For me that person was Dawn Nickel, the founder of She Recovers, long before it had grown...

Are you craving sugar in early sobriety? If you are, you’re not alone. When I first stopped drinking I kept Peanut M&Ms in my bag so I could grab them if I really wanted to drink.  And after years of saying that I didn’t have a sweet tooth (“no dessert for me…I...

Why I Stopped Drinking I’m on the other side of the microphone this week, sharing my story of why I stopped drinking and how I did it. So if you’re sober curious, worried about your drinking or want to take a break from alcohol, I'm hoping that something in my story...

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...

Do You Want To Know How To Quit Alcohol? The steps seem simple, but when you're ready to stop drinking, it's important to learn not only how to quit alcohol, but also how to sustain your new alcohol-free lifestyle over the long term.  Because many of us drink to...

6 Healthy Sober Habits You Need In Recovery  When you stop drinking, recovering from drinking, and thinking about drinking you might find yourself with an unsettling amount of spare time in your (usually) busy schedule. This is the perfect time to create new healthy...

How To Use Positive Discipline To Ease The Stress Of Parenting.  Parenting young children can be wonderful, fulfilling, frustrating and exhausting.  People will tell you “the days are long but the years are short”, but when you’ve got a toddler melting down at the end...

Does Alcohol Help You Sleep? I asked an expert to weigh in on the relationship between alcohol and sleep.  The myth that alcohol helps you sleep is an old wives' tale. It's time to get real about alcohol and sleep, insomnia and early sobriety and how to get the sleep...

The first sobriety podcast I listened to was The Bubble Hour hosted by Jean McCarthy 10 years ago, when I was first questioning my relationship with alcohol and trying to stop drinking, I discovered The Bubble Hour Sobriety Podcast. On The Bubble Hour I heard real...

5 Types Of Perfectionism And How To Make Them Work For You Why do so many self-described perfectionists - bright, ambitious and hardworking women - feel like something is wrong with them? Why are perfectionists so hard on themselves? Why are ambitious women with high...

Let’s dive into a hotly debated topic: Is moderate drinking good for your health? If you google this question you’ll likely find articles with titles like “surprising ways alcohol is good for you” with outdated information (often a decade old) based on flawed studies...

What You Don't Know About Ambien + Alcohol Addiction If you've ever struggled with sleep and talked with a doctor, you've likely been given a script for a sleep aid like Ambien, one of the most popular medicines prescribed for insomnia. When I was in my 30s,...

How to get through sobriety with 9 essential truths from Laura McKowen Getting through sobriety can be one of the most difficult and rewarding experiences of your life. Laura McKowen, founder of The Luckiest Club, an international sobriety support community and best...

Are you Ready To Have An Amazing Sober Vacation? Here are the 10 tips you need to do to plan your next alcohol-free trip and enjoy a sober vacation (even if you’ve never done it before).  I know it’s possible that every trip you’ve taken since college has featured...

Working moms are drinking to cope with the combined demands of work and motherhood. It's not a new idea. Popular culture has long pushed the idea that working moms should drink to cope with the stress of modern life. Picture this scene: A mom walks in the door after...

How To Examine Your Relationship With Alcohol “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 bile. She might have said it...

How To Be A Sober Mom In A Wine Mom World How do you navigate life as a sober mom when the alcohol industry has spent millions of marketing dollars to embed the “mommy needs wine” message firmly in our culture?  How do you talk to other moms about your decision to...

How To Take Sobriety To Recovery 2.0 With Tommy Rosen Have you heard of Tommy Rosen and The Recovery 2.0 approach to holistic healing from addiction to alcohol and drugs?  If not, you’re in for a treat. Tommy Rosen is the founder of Recovery 2.0 and works to help...

You Are Not Stuck with Becky Vollmer Do you feel stuck? Not just in the drinking cycle, but stuck in your job, your commitments, your role in relationships or habits or patterns that are no longer serving you and yet seem impossible to break.  Becky Vollmer, yoga...

How To Quit Like A Woman with author Holly Whitaker Holly Whitaker, author of The New York Times best selling book Quit Like A Woman, The Radical Choice To Not Drink In A Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, was an integral part of my decision to stop drinking and support...

How Do You Choose Your Path To Sobriety? If you’ve reevaluating your relationship with alcohol and looking for support as you stop drinking there are many paths to sobriety and sources of support for an alcohol-free life. The most important thing you can do as you...

How To Make Sobriety Stick How many times have you told yourself that you were going to stop drinking?   I did it hundreds of times. Sometimes I’d rationalize drinking again that very night, but often I’d go 4 days, a week or even 2 weeks alcohol-free before I’d...

How Do You Find Your New Identity In Sobriety? Do you wonder who you'll be if you stop drinking? I know I did. Finding your identity in sobriety can be scary and exciting. For years I described myself as a “red wine girl” and drinking was essentially my favorite...