How To Be A Mindful Drinker What does it mean to be a “mindful drinker”?  Mindful drinking is about becoming more aware of how your body and mind are affected by alcohol, and how you use alcohol to relate to the people around you.  Mindful drinkers notice, learn and...

The Problem With Using Alcohol To Joke About Parenting It’s time to stop using alcohol to joke about parenting.  If you look up for a minute you’ll see the wine mom humor all around you. On birthday cards at grocery stores, on cute hand towels and wood signs in home...

Perimenopause, Burnout & Alcohol If you’re a woman in your 40s you’re likely both moving into perimenopause hormonally and also navigating one of the busiest times of your life.  If you’re also using alcohol to ease the symptoms of burnout and perimenopause the...

Love, Sex, Intimacy, Attachment Styles & Relationships In Recovery  What’s your approach to sex, love and relationships? Do you feel anxiety when you’re in a relationship or avoid intimacy? Do you trust easily or cling to your partner? Do you struggle to...

Alcohol, Insomnia and Sleep In Sobriety What questions do you have about alcohol, insomnia and sleep in sobriety?  You might be wondering… Does alcohol help you get to sleep? What contributes to good sleep? Why am I so tired in early sobriety? What can I do if I can't...

20 NEW Questions To Ask Yourself About 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...

Create A Better Life Without Alcohol When you’re stopping drinking it’s pretty normal to focus on what you're giving up because alcohol is involved in most of your social activities, hobbies and relationships.   When I was a ‘red wine girl’ alcohol was a part of...

Recovery Rocks Recovery rocks, so let’s smash the stigma of addiction and normalize sobriety.  Lisa Smith and Tawny Lara are doing just that through their podcast, Recovery Rocks, and their writing and advocacy work in the sobriety space.  Tawny is a New York City...

How To Prepare To Be Alcohol-Free How do you prepare to be alcohol-free before you stop drinking completely? If you have realized that alcohol is not working in your life and are tapping into resources like this podcast, you’ve already moved from precontemplation to...

My Diary Of Early Sobriety From Day 30 to Day 60 Alcohol-Free What should you expect after 30 days of sobriety? I recorded my diary of my first 30-Days alcohol-free (you can listen to it here), but what happens after that first month? You probably have a lot of...

Sober Awkward Is the fear of feeling awkward in social situations keeping you from trying sober life? I get it. When I was stopped drinking I felt awkward in every part of my life - going to a bar and ordering a non-alcoholic drink, turning down a glass of wine at a...

Living With A Partner Who Drinks When You’re Sober Today we're talking about living with a partner who drinks when you're sober.  Maybe your partner is your drinking buddy and going to a bar or sharing drinks at the end of the day is the way you connect and...

Growing Pains: Releasing Your Past Identity As A Drinker What we drink and how we drink is often deeply intertwined with the image and personality we present to the world, and can also be a part of our own internal identity.  As Kristi Coulter wrote in her essay...

Navigating Midlife with the Work of Brené Brown Many women look up in midlife to realize that while their lives look really good on the outside they don't feel that good on the inside. They’re smart, capable, and productive and work hard everyday to accomplish a lot....

How to Take a Break from Drinking Taking a break from drinking can be as simple as unlearning a conditioned and ingrained behavior and approached and addressed without shame, blame or labels.  In fact, the social learning model suggests that drug and alcohol use are...

Dialing Back Pandemic Drinking During the coronavirus pandemic, adults started reaching for the bottle more than ever. An increasing number of Americans responded to the stress, anxiety, isolation, loss and boredom of the pandemic by turning to alcohol. According to a...

Anger Management In Sobriety Anger (and the suppression of anger) can be a big trigger for women to drink in sobriety, so anger management is an important skill to learn when you're quitting drinking.  There’s a reason that people tell you to remember “HALT” when...

ADHD, Women & Alcohol Women with ADHD are creative, spontaneous, problem solvers, energetic and have the ability to focus intensely on a project or task. Women with ADHD are also more likely to drink heavily, become reliant on alcohol and are more sensitive to the...

Control Alcohol and Find Freedom with Annie Grace Annie Grace, the author of The Alcohol Experiment and This Naked Mind, has joined me on my 100th episode to shift your perspective on drinking so that you can gain control of alcohol and find freedom.  Her work has...

Sober Celebrities and Stars who are Alcohol-Free Wondering which celebrities are sober and whether any of your favorite actors, musicians and models live alcohol-free?  You might be surprised by how many famous people have decided to quit drinking.  Sober celebrities...

How do you parent teens and tweens without the drama?  Parenting teens and tweens can be a messy time that can bring joy, satisfaction, frustration, worry and a desire to drink to tune it all out.  It’s a time when kids are moving out of childhood and into adulthood,...

Alcohol-Free Life: How To Live Happy, Healthy And Sober There are so many benefits to choosing an alcohol-free life, but how do you make it a positive choice that you can maintain once the novelty has worn off? Janey Lee Grace, host of the Alcohol Free Life podcast,...

There is a learning curve to making marriage work after quitting drinking. Most marriages have some common patterns and habits that can make or break the relationship. And when you stop drinking new ways of communicating and interacting with your partner can...

Sobriety, Growth & Personal Development When we change how we experience the world, we can stop trying to escape our feelings with alcohol. - Veronica Valli, Soberful What if drinking isn’t the problem, but rather a symptom of the problem? Is alcohol masking...