Sober Fit Life

EP 53: My Binge Drinking Diaries


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In this episode of Sober Fit Life, I'm doing something I've been wanting to do for a long time — I'm reading you my actual journal entries from the month leading up to my last drink on September 14th, 2021.

The shame. The bargaining. The waking up at 2am asking what is wrong with me? The promises I made to myself that I broke over and over again. I wrote all of it down, and I want you to hear it — because if you've ever kept that inner struggle completely to yourself, I want you to know you are not alone and there is nothing wrong with you.

These aren't someone else's words. They're mine. And I'm sharing them because when clients work with me now, I never want them to think I don't remember what this felt like. I do. Every bit of it.

In this episode, I share: 

  • Real journal entries from the month before I ditched booze for good, the shame, the rationalizing, the hiding
  • What finally happened on September 14th, 2021, my last day drinking, and what shifted the morning after
  • Why trying to moderate keeps so many of us stuck, and what true moderators actually look like
  • The one big domino and why alcohol is the first thing that has to change before everything else can fall into place
  • How I navigated my first alcohol-free wedding just 11 days in and what I wrote in my journal the next morning
  • Why this is less about willpower and everything about brain chemistry and neural pathways
  • What it looks like to build confidence win by win, situation by situation
  • A peek inside my recent six-week group, including a 78-year-old client who went 12 days alcohol-free for the first time in her adult life
  • I also want to invite you to take my free quiz — Am I Drinking Too Much? — at www.soberfitchick.com/amiquiz. No labels, no shame, just honest questions and real answers. You'll also get my guide to gray area drinking and three science-backed strategies for stopping cravings in the moment.

    And if this episode speaks to you, I'm already taking names for my next six-week Alcohol Reset, kicking off at the end of September. I would love to have you.

    Ready to take the next step? Email me at [email protected] or visit my website to learn more about working together. No obligation, just science-backed techniques that actually work.

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