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...

Highly Sensitive People and Alcohol Highly Sensitive People can be easily overwhelmed by chaotic environments, negative emotions and upsetting situations. It's common for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) to turn to alcohol as a tool to numb overwhelming situations or as...

How Can Couples Recover From Infidelity And Betrayal? How can couples heal and recover from infidelity once trust in an intimate relationship has been shattered by a physical, emotional or online sexual affair? The first step, after the sexual acting out has stopped,...

How To Overcome Alcohol Cravings In early sobriety it’s important to have tools and practices to help you overcome alcohol cravings. It’s normal to have cravings to drink in your first few weeks without alcohol, and they’ll get less strong and frequent the further you...

Looking Back At Day 1 From Two Years Alcohol-Free When you first start on your sober journey it’s hard to imagine life after drinking, much less how you’ll feel at 2 years alcohol-free.  So I asked a sober coaching client of mine, Sue Winters, to join me on the...

How To Love Your Sober Year Your first sober year can be awkward, challenging, empowering, tender, transformative and unsettling. Over the course of moving from your first 30 Days not drinking to completing 12 months alcohol-free you will learn to navigate events,...

How To Enjoy Your First Sober Holiday Season If you’re in early sobriety or are trying to stop drinking, navigating your first sober holiday season can be a challenge.  Why is it hard to get through your first sober holiday season? Well, the holidays are not only a...

Your Addictive Voice and The One You Feed When you’re struggling with drinking it can feel like a battle within you, between your addictive voice that tells you that you deserve to have a drink and the other voice (the one that shows up in the morning) that tells you...

Risk Factors For Alcohol Use Disorder What are the risk factors for alcohol use disorder? Are they genetic, social, environmental or psychological? Yes, yes, yes and yes.  Alcohol is the most widely misused substance in America and, according to the National Center...

Using Science + Kindness To Change Your Relationship with Alcohol Redefining your relationship with alcohol is a learning process that requires compassion and grace for yourself.  Alcohol is the most prescribed drug in the world by friends, family and society. Many...

Navigating A Toxic Relationship With A Narcissist Navigating a toxic relationship with a narcissist is incredibly difficult and it’s easy to start drinking as a coping mechanism to escape.   The narcissist in your life could be your partner, a parent, sibling or you...

Therapy for Women Therapy for women often focuses on a unique set of challenges experienced by women in their lives and in society. Some mental health issues are much more common in women than in men, some only appear in women, or some mental health issues may affect...

How To Change An Unhealthy Drinking Culture At Work What does an unhealthy drinking culture at work look like?  Is drinking a company-organized activity? Are company events centered around alcohol?  Are new employees taken out for drinks, team bonding gatherings...