Happy July, I am super excited about my 30-days of sober sunrise project I am doing this month at Carolina Beach, NC. You can read about it here,  https://www.angelamascenik.com/blog I'll be updating it everyday. 

I'm celebrating 6 years of alcohol free lifestyle this summer and I wanted to do something big.
This episode explains the project and the work involved in setting myself up to do it.   

It's not 'easy.' Just like stopping over-drinking isn't easy or changing any behavior we have been doing for years.   

And, I'd argue it shouldn't be easy. It should take effort, because that is what makes life interesting. The work you put into it is difficult, there are failures and obstacles along the way, but when you do the thing you have been wanting to, it makes all that work worth it.   

And maybe it shouldn't be easy for our kids either.   

We all want better lives for our kids and we want to infuse our wisdom of life experiences into them, so they don't make mistakes or struggle.   

But when we push too hard and get so upset when they don't do what we think they should, it causes us unnecessary discomfort and suffering, which is no fun.   

Life if full of challenges, and mistakes, and obstacles and that is how we learn.   

Listen to my previous podcast episodes on this topic here:

Stop Over-drinking and Start Living, Episode 63, REBEL against Easy
https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2147641514  
Stop Over-drinking and Start Living, Episode 244, Easier not Better
https://www.angelamascenik.com/podcasts/stop-over-drinking-and-start-living/episodes/2148136574 

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