What questions do you have about alcohol, insomnia and sleep in sobriety? You might be wondering… Does alcohol help you get to sleep?  What contributes to good sleep?  Why am I so tired in early sobriety? What can I do if I can’t sleep early sobriety? When will I start sleeping well after I stop drinking?  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 DrinkingSign 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 DavidsonFind 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 DrinkingSign 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 DrinkingSign 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 DrinkingSign 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 DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com 

How do you prepare to be alcohol-free before you stop drinking completely? If you have realized that alcohol is not working in your life and are tapping into resources like this podcast, you’ve already moved from precontemplation to contemplation and into action.But it’s likely you’re not sure exactly how to put down the wine glass, build up sober momentum and set yourself up for long-term success.We’re here to help. My guest today is Jean McCarthy, author of the book UnPickled - Prepare To Be Alcohol-Free.  Ready to drink less + live more? Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From DrinkingSign 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. Join The Grab the Free 30-Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free Connect with Casey McGuire DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com 

What should you expect after 30 days of sobriety? I recorded my diary of my first 30-Days alcohol-free (you can listen to it here), but what happens after that first month?You probably have a lot of questions about what happens in your second month without alcohol. I know I did. So I’ve recorded my diary of exactly how I felt, what I did, what was hard and what helped me keep going in my second month of sobriety. I hope it helps you. Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From DrinkingSign 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-FreeConnect with Casey McGuire DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com 

Is the fear of feeling awkward in social situations keeping you from trying sober life? I get it. When I was stopped drinking I felt awkward in every part of my life - going to a bar and ordering a non-alcoholic drink, turning down a glass of wine at a friend house, making small talk at a work event without my social lubricant, telling people I wasn’t drinking and let’s not even talk about sober sex!   When you stop drinking it can be surprising to realize just how much you’ve relied on alcohol to navigate uncomfortable moments, conversations and social interactions (even with people you love and have known for years)!  But you can navigate sober life without feeling awkward - it just takes a bit of practice. Today I'm talking with Victoria Vanstone, co-host of Australia's most popular sobriety podcast, Sober Awkward.  Vic is an alcohol free living advocate and passionate about helping others stuck in a pattern of normalized social binge drinking.  For full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/108 Ready to drink less + live more? Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From DrinkingSign 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 DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Today we're talking about living with a partner who drinks when you're sober.  Maybe your husband or partner is your drinking buddy and going to a bar or sharing drinks at the end of the day is the way you connect and celebrate.   Maybe your partner loves drinking too and is resistant to getting the alcohol out of the house.  Or perhaps your partner tells you that you “don’t really have a problem”, “are being too hard on yourself” or “should just cut back a bit”.  Maybe you don’t want your partner to know how worried you are about your drinking so you want to do this on your own and under the radar.  Or perhaps you’ve told your partner that you’re going to take a break from drinking before and then thrown in the towel on Day 5 or Week 2. You might be afraid to tell them you’re trying again because you’re worried you’re just going to fail.  Whatever your relationship with your partner is like, if you both drink it’s often deeply intertwined with alcohol.  For show notes and to access resources mentioned in the episode, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/107 Ready to drink less + live more? Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From DrinkingSign 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 DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

What we drink and how we drink is often deeply intertwined with the image and personality we present to the world, and can also be a part of our own internal identity.  As Kristi Coulter wrote in her essay Enjoli, what we drink can be a shorthand for who we are…“A woman with a single-malt scotch is bold and discerning and might fire you from her life if you fuck with her. A woman with a PBR is a Cool Girl who will not be shamed for belching. A woman drinking MommyJuice wine is saying she’s more than the unpaid labor she gave birth to.” Drinking influences our relationships and interactions. It colors what we do, who we spend time with, what we tolerate and the types of boundaries we set (and often the ones we don’t set).  And, when you’re ready to stop drinking, there are growing pains related to releasing your past identity as a drinker, as well as relationships and behaviors that may no longer be serving you. My guest today is Hailey Magee. She’s a Codependency Recovery Coach who helps individuals of all ages break the people-pleasing pattern, set empowered boundaries, and master the art of speaking their truth. For full show notes and to access resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/106 Ready to drink less + live more?Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From DrinkingSign 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 DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Many women look up in midlife to realize that while their lives look really good on the outside they don’t feel that good on the inside. They’re smart, capable, and productive and work hard everyday to accomplish a lot.They take care of people, managing work deadlines and finances, business trips and family vacations, school conferences and day care pickups.  But they’re not as happy as they thought they would be. They’re tired, pulled in a million directions, anxious, overwhelmed, accomplished but unfulfilled. And often women in midlife are drinking too much to reward themselves for getting through it all at the end of the day. The midlife unraveling can also be a time for transformation and evolution.I asked Libby Nelson, a Professional Certified Coach who has trained in the work of Dr. Brené Brown and is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, to join me to dive into how to let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you really are through the work of Brené Brown. For full show notes and to access resources mentioned in the episode, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/105 Ready to drink less + live more?Take my FREE MASTERCLASS on Five Secrets To Taking a Break From DrinkingSign 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 DavidsonFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com