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...

How To Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay In the book, Big Feelings: How To Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay, Liz Fosslien and her co-author, Mollie West Duffy, examine the seven emotions that are especially hard to overcome: self-doubt, comparison, and anger, as well...

Why High-Achieving Women Struggle To Set Boundaries High-achieving women can struggle to set boundaries.  If you’re managing an endless to-do list and many responsibilities you likely have a tendency to over-deliver, over-give, people please and ignore your own needs...

How Family and Friends Can Support Your Sobriety Once you’ve decided to stop drinking it is incredibly helpful to get your family and friends on board to support your sobriety.  Your loved ones have the ability to make a number of easy changes and small adjustments to...

The Best TV Shows and Movies about Addiction and Recovery If you’re searching for the best TV shows and movies about addiction and recovery, which realistically depict the nuances, emotions, strengths and struggles of walking away from an addictive substance, they can...

Why Is Moderating Alcohol So Hard? Moderating alcohol and how much you drink is probably your goal if you’re worried about your relationship with alcohol.  Most likely you don’t want to stop drinking completely, but rather you want to cut back, drink less, drink less...

The Advertising of Alcohol To Women Alcohol advertising spending is set to hit 6 billion dollars in 2023 with the advertising of alcohol to women as a key industry focus for the last 60 years.   On the podcast today we’re talking about the advertising of alcohol to...

My Diary of Early Sobriety From Day 60 to Day 100 Alcohol-Free Hitting 100 days of sobriety is a huge milestone to be celebrated.   In your first 30 days sober you might struggle with poor sleep and cravings to drink. It’s common to feel incredibly tired and irritated...