Sep 4, 2024 | Coaching
I used to get the worst FOMO. I went to EVERYTHING. If there was nothing going on, I’d create something. It was exhausting! But I never really liked parties, and that’s why I drank so much at them. If you need to drink to enjoy something, do you really enjoy that...
Aug 28, 2024 | Coaching
When you’re not drinking… but then you drink. What do you do next? You have a choice. Is this a lapse, a chance to reflect on what’s working for you and what’s not? Or are you diving in, full relapse, you’ve drank once so might as well give up on this whole sober...
Aug 21, 2024 | Coaching
I knew I wanted to take a month off drinking. But not this month. There was that birthday, hen night, wedding, party… There was always SOMETHING. Something that I couldn’t possibly go to without drinking. I wasn’t dependent though. I didn’t drink every day, or at...
Aug 14, 2024 | Coaching
When you tell people you’ve stopped drinking, they sometimes seem surprised. They didn’t know you had a problem. They start asking questions about how much you drank, trying to gauge what this means for their own drinking and whether they have a problem too. But...
Aug 7, 2024 | Coaching
One of my clients was working on improving his health. He’d stopped exercising, his diet was unhealthy, and he was drinking beer in front of the TV every night. He was tired and grumpy at work and not achieving what he wanted to in life. He set himself a goal to only...
Jul 31, 2024 | Coaching
If you’re anything like I was, most of your friends are drinkers and most of your socialising involves alcohol. Even when you’re doing something healthy like a run or a spa day, alcohol usually shows up in the end. Trying to stop drinking and still be around all that...
