This Morning Call is for the woman who met herself at 4 a.m. — when the room was dark and the truth arrived softly, like a butterfly… and then stung like hell. That moment wasn’t punishment. It was the beginning. Today we go back to that truth, the one that stripped away the bullshit and said, “I can’t live like this anymore.” You don’t need perfection. You don’t need a glow-up. You just need to remember that sting — your compass, your north star — and honour it. Not today, lady. Not today.

Today’s Morning Call is a straight-talk reminder that the hardest thing you’ll ever face in sobriety isn’t wine, stress, other people, or the neighbour with the 5 p.m. G&T. It’s you. Inspired by The Mountain Is You, this episode strips sobriety back to its raw truth: recovery isn’t about conquering something outside yourself — it’s about meeting yourself honestly and climbing anyway. The fear. The excuses. The old stories. The moments when your ass is on fire, and you still don’t drink.

This is not a summit photo sobriety. It’s the climb. The sweat, the swearing, the staying put when everything in you wants to run. Because every time you don’t drink, you take another step upward. And slowly, quietly, you realise: you were never broken — you were becoming. Press play. Take a breath. Not today, lady. Not today. p.s.Today's episode was Inspired by Brianna Wiest

In sobriety, we don’t choose easy. And thank God for that.

This Morning Call is a reminder you didn’t stumble into this life by accident. You chose it — knowing full well it would ask more of you than the old one ever did.

We live in a world obsessed with shortcuts, numbing, and the illusion of ease. But sobriety isn’t built on quick fixes or surface comfort. It’s built on courage. On choosing presence over escape. Truth over avoidance. Growth over the familiar poison of “just getting through.”

In this episode, we talk about the real question sobriety asks of us every single day:
Not will it be hard? — but which hard will you choose?

Because drinking was hard. Lying to yourself was hard. Waking up ashamed, anxious, and disconnected was hard. Sobriety simply asks for a different kind of hard — one that builds strength instead of stealing it.

This is about choosing the long road.
The brick-by-brick work.
The daily decisions that quietly build freedom.

If you’re navigating discomfort, craving, loneliness, or doubt — this one’s for you. The teacher has arrived. And she’s here to make you stronger.

Take a breath.
Stand your ground.
And remember who you are.

As always — in sobriety, in power, and in community.
Not today, lady. Not today.

We live in a world that worships busyness. We wear it like a badge of honour. Ask someone how they are, and they’ll say, “Busy,” as if exhaustion equals importance. But here’s the truth — most genuinely happy people are doing less, not more. Fewer goals. Fewer appointments. Less proving. More presence.

This Morning Call is about choosing alignment over achievement, depth over performance, and enough over more. Inspired by a quote from Scott D. Clary, I reflect on how slowing down didn’t shrink my life — it expanded it. Since my diagnosis in 2024, I’ve learned this the hard way: pulling in your world can bring you more peace than chasing a bigger one ever will.

We discuss sober living without exaggeration. About gardens, conversations, stillness, and the radical courage it takes to subtract instead of add. About why peace is richer than performance — and why a slower life is often the fullest one of all. So today, practise subtraction. Cancel what drains you. Put the phone down. Say no without explaining yourself. That’s not laziness. That’s wisdom. Take a breath. Look skyward. And say it with me: Not today, lady. Not today.

We didn’t get sober to play small. We got sober to live — loudly, fully, and unapologetically.

In this Morning Call, Sue cuts straight through the nonsense: sobriety is not a finish line, it’s a launch pad. If you’re sober today, you’re already a woman who has walked through fire and come out standing. You don’t need permission. You don’t need approval. And you sure as hell don’t need to shrink yourself to make others comfortable.

This is your reminder to stop toning it down, stop apologising for your joy, and stop handing your power to people who wouldn’t last five minutes in your sober shoes. You didn’t get sober for a half-life. You got sober to rise.

So rise, Queen — today, tomorrow, and every day you’re gifted.
And when doubt taps you on the shoulder, look skyward and say: Not today, lady. Not today.

Sobriety is not a spectator sport. In today’s Morning Call, Sue cuts through the myth of passive belonging and delivers a grounded truth: recovery doesn’t happen by watching, scrolling, or hovering on the edges of your life. It happens through participation. Through showing up. Through telling the truth before you’ve rehearsed it.

This episode explores why belonging is an action, not a feeling — and how sobriety becomes a soft return to everything warm, human, and real when we stop hiding and step fully into the room. Take a breath. Not today, lady. Not today.

You don’t need to understand everything tostay sober. You never did. In this Morning Call, Sue dismantles the myth that insight comes before action — and replaces it with something far more powerful: bodily wisdom. Sobriety isn’t an academic exercise. It’s not a PhD in Why Am I Like This? It’s learning to listen to the body’s signals — and respecting them without negotiation. This episode is about: You don’t need to fully understand it to respect it. You just need to listen — and stop. Take a breath. Say it with her.
Not today, lady. Not today.

Today’s Morning Call is a reminder that none of us planned this life — but thank God we found it.

From a misheard invitation in Cyprus to the fig trees that have followed me across continents, this episode explores how weend up somewhere we never intended… and discover it’s exactly where we were meant to be. Sobriety isn’t the path we dreamed of — it’s the one that saved us.
Root down, reach for your light, and remember: You didn’t set out to get here. But you did. And that is your miracle.

Today’s Morning Call is for every woman who has ever tried to “wing it” through life — only to discover, usually in herfifties, that the toaster dial is minutes and the fuel tank has an arrow.

Sobriety is the one place I finally followed the instructions… and it saved my life.
No hacks. No hidden features. Just the simplest manual on earth:

Don’t drink.
Stay connected.
Take support.
Give support.
Repeat.

It’s not about perfection — it’s about finallyreading the bloody instructions.

Sobriety isn’t a vibe, a trend, or something you commit to once and coast through. It’s high-stakes, daily management — the kind that saves your life. After a hospital day full of tests, scans, and plain truths, Susan reflects on what it really means to stay within a treatment plan… and how sobriety demands the very same precision.

In this episode, she gives you a clear, uncompromising protocol for staying sober: medicate with truth, rest like recovery depends on it, nourish connection, guard your inputs, and run your emotional scans before crisis hits.

A fierce reminder that the cost of not managing your sobriety is everything — so manage it like your life depends on it. Because it does.