The Hello Someday Podcast For Sober Curious Women

There is a quiet time in early sobriety, after you get through the really hard first weeks, and before alcohol-free life is your new normal. The days and evenings may feel long and you might not know quite what to do with your time. 

Over time drinking can become an activity, entertainment and a hobby. 

My guest today is Jess Steitzer @decidelydry and she’s here to talk about why rediscovering creativity in sobriety can increase your happiness and strengthen your recovery.

To access show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/120

Ready to drink less + live more?

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If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Is recovery the new black? Is sober becoming the new cool? 

With the rise in the sober-curious movement, Dry January and Sober October, sober influencers and the growth in the non-alcoholic drinks movement it seems like sobriety is all the rage.

Articles in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and stories on The Today Show and in wellness and fashion magazines are increasingly referencing “the sober curious movement” - the rise of people experimenting with sobriety for mental and physical health reasons and do not consider themselves addicted to a substance.

Michelle Smith of Recovery Is The New Black has joined me to talk about the growth in the “sober curious is cool'' movement.

To access full show notes and resources mentioned in this episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/119

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

What does it mean to be a “mindful drinker”? 

Mindful drinking is about becoming more aware of how your body and mind are affected by alcohol, and how you use alcohol to relate to the people around you. 

Mindful drinkers notice, learn and ultimately take control of their drinking.

​​Today I'm welcoming Laura Willoughby, the co-founder of Club Soda, the mindful drinking movement. 

Club Soda’s mission is to make mindful drinking widely accepted so that everyone feels confident to change their drinking habits if they want to and to make sure that people who aren’t drinking alcohol are just as comfortable as drinkers who are, especially in social spaces where alcohol is served.

To access show notes and resources mentioned in this episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/118

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

It’s time to stop using alcohol to joke about parenting. 

If you look up for a minute you’ll see the wine mom humor all around you. On birthday cards at grocery stores, on cute hand towels and wood signs in home decor shops and everywhere on Etsy. “They Whine. I Wine”, “Mom’s Reasons To Drink: My 3 Kids”, “Mommy’s Sippy Cup”, “Mom Juice”, “It takes a village and a vineyard”, “This mom runs on coffee, wine and Amazon Prime”...

Funny, right? Or not so much.

My guest today is Blair Sharp. Blair wrote An Open Letter to Molly Sims: Please Stop Using Alcohol To Joke About Parenting. She’s here to talk about why the wine mom culture and #iwinesohard “drinking while parenting is funny” shtick normalizes binge drinking and relying on alcohol as a coping tool for motherhood to dangerous results.

To access show notes and resources mentioned in this episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/117

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

If you’re a woman in your 40s you’re likely both moving into perimenopause hormonally and also navigating one of the busiest times of your life. 

If you’re also using alcohol to ease the symptoms of burnout and perimenopause the combination can lead to a vicious cycle of heightened anxiety and physical and emotional exhaustion.

You might notice that the symptoms of perimenopause are similar to those of alcohol withdrawal and burnout. 

In fact, alcohol can intensify the more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression experienced in perimenopause. Drinking alcohol also disturbs sleep and women who drink daily are much more likely to experience hot flashes and night sweats. 

The good news is that if you’re experiencing perimenopause symptoms you’re not alone and you can tap into better ways to cope than drinking through it. 

My guest today is Wendy McCallum, LLB. Wendy is a Burnout and Alcohol Coach & Wellness Expert and the host of the Bite-Sized Balance Podcast. She’s here to share the many different paths to recovery from burnout, recovery from alcohol and for moving through perimenopause with more ease and less stress.

For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/116

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

What’s your approach to sex, love and relationships? Do you feel anxiety when you’re in a relationship or avoid intimacy?

Do you trust easily or cling to your partner? Do you struggle to communicate your needs and fear rejection or push yourself to be overly self-reliant?

Many women drink to smooth the edges of our emotions around relationships, love, sex and intimacy.

In today's episode we’re digging into love, sex, intimacy, attachment styles and relationships in recovery.

My guest is Dufflyn Lammers, the go-to relationship expert for women in recovery. 

We’re going to talk about the 4 primary attachment styles and strategies as well as how “earned secure attachment” can be developed in recovery. 

Your attachment style, developed in childhood, tends to be the primary factor impacting your approach to relationships, love, sex, intimacy, your bodies and yourself. 

For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/115

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

What questions do you have about alcohol, insomnia and sleep in sobriety? 

You might be wondering…

So here’s the big question: does alcohol help you sleep? 

Nope. Alcohol is a sedative that makes you feel sleepy, but it actually significantly decreases your sleep quality (and leads directly to those awful 3am hangxiety wake ups). 

In fact, a Sleep Foundation study found that for women less than one drink decreases your sleep quality by 9.3%, one drink decreases your sleep quantity by 24% and more than one drink decreases your sleep quality by 39.2%. 

For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/114

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

A lot of women who are worried about their drinking start asking themselves one question: “Am I an Alcoholic?”. 

The questions that you typically find on an online “Am I An Alcoholic” Quiz are often the wrong questions. Ones that can keep you trapped in the drinking cycle for a long time.

The truth is that you don’t need to ask yourself if you’re an “alcoholic” or if you “really have a problem” or if your drinking is “bad enough” that you have to stop to change your relationship with alcohol. 

My guest today is Deb Masner, founder of the Alcohol Tipping Point and host of The Alcohol Tipping Point Podcast. 

Deb is going to take us through the 20 questions you should be asking yourself to change your drinking. 

For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/113

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

When you’re stopping drinking it’s pretty normal to focus on what you're giving because alcohol is involved in most of your social activities, hobbies and relationships.  

When I was a ‘red wine girl’ alcohol was a part of cooking dinner, evenings on the couch, date nights, girls nights, work happy hours, Sunday brunches, afternoons at the ballpark, vacations and everything in between. 

In order to create a better life without alcohol it’s important to add new things to your life that bring you peace, happiness and pleasure when you are removing alcohol.

Lori Massicot, midlife sobriety coach and host of the To 50 And Beyond Podcast, has joined me to talk about how to create a better life without alcohol, how to use your time away from alcohol as a period of discovery, why setting boundaries will help you find time to explore new hobbies, and so much more!

For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/112

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Recovery rocks, so let’s smash the stigma of addiction and normalize sobriety. 

Lisa Smith and Tawny Lara are doing just that through their podcast, Recovery Rocks, and their writing and advocacy work in the sobriety space. 

Tawny is a New York City based millennial who writes about the intersection of sex and sobriety. 

Lisa is the author of Girl Walks Out of a Bar, a memoir of her descent into and recovery from high functioning addiction in the world of New York City corporate law.

Ready to drink less + live more?

Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From Drinking

Sign up here to save your seat: https://hellosomedaycoaching.com/class 

If you’re ready to change your relationship with alcohol join The Sobriety Starter Kit. 

It's my signature sober coaching course for busy women to help you drink less + live more. 

To enroll go to www.sobrietystarterkit.com.

Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Connect with Casey McGuire Davidson

Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com