Mummy Wine Time
In this blog Lucy explores Mummy Wine Culture and shares the contrast of her experience of motherhood while drinking versus being alcohol-free. I’m standing outside on a planter box peering through the living room window so that I can keep an eye on my 8-month old baby girl as she sits in front of the […]
Defeating Drinking FOMO
When you’re considering going alcohol-free, the Fear Of Missing Out on all the drinking fun is real. But what if you know that alcohol isn’t serving you anymore? In this blog we help you to feel the FOMO and change your relationship with alcohol anyway. 1. Ask yourself honestly: How much fun is drinking these […]
Five fears about going alcohol-free & how to overcome them
In this blog Jen shares five of the most common fears that arise before going alcohol-free, as well as ideas for how to boldly move past them. There is no need to sugar-coat it. Imagining your life without alcohol in it is TERRIFYING in the beginning. If you’re anything like I was, by the time […]
Why Quitting Before the Silly Season is a Game Changer
In this blog Lucy shares her experience helping Tracey through going alcohol-free before the festive season, and Tracey tells us why stopping at this time of year is absolutely incredible! I know what you are thinking: “I really want to stop drinking. It’s holding me back from reaching my full potential. It’s making me feel […]
Why can’t I stop drinking?
When I was struggling with alcohol, I asked myself this question often: Why can’t I stop drinking? Although it felt like I couldn’t stop, the reality was, I was really good at stopping. The not starting again was the real issue. In this post I unpack common problems that hold us back from achieving sustained […]
Why abstinence is easier than moderation.
In this blog Jen explains why trying to moderate when she was problem-drinking was so much harder than just not drinking at all. When I was worried that I was drinking too much, the obvious thing to do was to cut down. How hard could it be? I would give myself some realistic limits and […]
To change your drinking, you need to know WHY you drink.
If you want to change your relationship with alcohol, it’s critical to understand the reasons why you drink in the first place. What is alcohol actually doing for you? How is it helping you? What are the root causes that drive you to drink? What are you using alcohol to escape from? What parts of […]
Making a Rock-Solid Decision to Quit, Even if quitting is not forever (yet)
This blog describes how to make a firm and solid commitment to your decision to go alcohol-free, so that you can experience the freedom that comes with taking the option of drinking completely off the table. When we start thinking about quitting alcohol there can be a period of time where we go back and […]
10 Ways to Get High off your Own Supply!
Alcohol is a psychoactive drug meaning that it changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition and behaviour. For regular alcohol users and abusers, alcohol consumption and intoxication provides us with a way to escape our reality, to feel ‘out of mind’ or artificially high. The paradox here is that alcohol […]
Mums: Wine is NOT Helping You
My drinking career began in my teens, binge drinking most weekends, hopping from house party to house party. My twenties was littered with wild, booze-fuelled parties, blackouts on more occasions than I care to admit, and plenty of mornings-after where I found myself waking up on top of the covers, clothes and makeup still on […]