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I recently realized I've now coached more than 300 women through changing their relationship with alcohol.
That number stopped me in my tracks. Three hundred kitchen-table conversations. Late-night text messages. First sober weddings and first sober funerals. Hard days, quiet victories, and more courage than most people will ever see.
I've sat with women who had...
When you put down the drink, there's a gap. A real one. The pour at 5pm, the exhale, the way the edges of the day got softer—that ritual is gone, and your nervous system goes looking for whatever fills the same shape. For a lot of people lately, that thing is THC. A gummy. A vape. "I'm not drinking; I just take an edible now."
I wa...
The complimentary call is the part of coaching nobody talks about honestly. (click the image above for the full video interview.)
It's the twenty-minute conversation a coach offers prospective clients for free—a chance for them to share what they're working on, ask a few questions, and decide if they want to hire. From the coach's side, it's something else: it's a sale...
Early sobriety is wild.
Social media will have you believing that everyone quits drinking and immediately starts waking up at 5 a.m., running marathons, meal prepping, journaling, and launching a side hustle.
Meanwhile, you're in bed at 5:47 p.m. wondering if it's too early to put on your pajamas.
It is not.
If you're exhausted in the first weeks a...
When I first ditched the drink, I thought the hardest part would be saying no to a glass of wine. It wasn't. The hardest part was the quiet that came after—the realization that so much of my social life had been built around a substance and that I didn't actually know how to connect with people without it.