The Hello Someday Podcast For Sober Curious Women

What happens in your first year alcohol-free? How will you feel in your first 30 days sober? And what changes might you see in your body and your life after 100 days of not drinking? How do you navigate your first holiday, party, friendships, relationships, Halloween, Oktoberfest and football season without alcohol?My guest is one of my private coaching clients, Christy, who called me on Day 1 and started working with me on Day 4 of not drinking. She just hit one year alcohol-free and is sharing what worked for her, why she stopped drinking, what tools she relied upon to get through wine o’clock and how she feels now. Today we’re going to talk about all of that and more.For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/79Here are 4 ways I can support you in taking a break from alcohol Reach out to learn about private coaching and schedule a Free 30-Minute discovery call.  Take my FREE CLASS on 5 Secrets To Successfully Take a Break From Drinking Join The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand sober coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle. Grab the Free 30 Day Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free Connect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

Have you ever wondered why you crave alcohol?  Why do you feel happier when you know you’re going to drink? And why do you feel irritable, restless and discontented when you don’t drink or you’re trying to take a break? Why do you promise yourself in the morning that you’re going to take a break from alcohol and by 6pm you’re opening another bottle of wine? My guest today is Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Dr. Lembke explains the interconnection of pleasure and pain in the brain and the link between dopamine, overconsumption, instant gratification and addiction. For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/78 Take my FREE CLASS on 5 Secrets To Successfully Take a Break From DrinkingJoin The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand sober coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days Connect with Casey Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

Have you been going back and forth about whether you should take a break from drinking but don’t check all the boxes for a person who had a “real problem” with alcohol? That’s the case for a lot of high-achieving women.  We think that having a problem with alcohol is black or white. Either you fall into the category of someone who is an alcoholic or has a drinking problem, or you don’t. And heavy drinking is so normalized that it’s easy to dismiss any worries you have about your alcohol consumption by looking at friends and family members who drink like you do. You don’t have to have a drinking problem to have a problematic relationship with alcohol. A lot of women fall into the category of “gray area drinking”, between the extremes of having negative consequences from alcohol consumption and being able to take it or leave it on occasion. And there are a number of early, subtle signs that signal you should take a break from alcohol. My guest today is Janet Gourand, the founder of Tribe Sober. Janet and I are going to dig into 30 early signs you can pick up on, things you might think, feel or do, that signal it’s time to reevaluate your relationship with drinking. For full show notes, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/77 Here's how I can support you in taking a break from alcoholTake my FREE CLASS on 5 Secrets To Successfully Take a Break From DrinkingJoin The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand sober coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days  Connect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

Do you drink a lot and also feel physically and emotionally burned out?  Maybe your life feels unmanageable, work stress is constant, you’re sleeping terribly, tired, empty, unmotivated, overwhelmed or mentally exhausted. The physical and emotional symptoms of burnout often go hand in hand with alcohol use and abuse, and the signs and symptoms of burnout can mimic those of hangovers and alcohol withdrawal.  Physical symptoms of burnout can include headaches, neck tension, digestive upset and sleep issues and people experiencing burnout may also feel physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism and detachment, and a feeling of purposelessness. Drinking alcohol can not only exacerbate burnout but also make it difficult to recognize, treat and heal burnout.  My guest today is Cait Donovan and we’re talking about “Burnout 101”. She’s going to help us identify burnout and understand how to separate it from the effects of drinking and alcohol withdrawal and identify ways to heal and recover. For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/76 Take my FREE TRAINING on 5 Secrets To Successfully Take a Break From Drinking Join The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days Connect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

“For women, moving away from behaviors that don’t work for us anymore, letting go of core beliefs that convince us we’re broken and not enough, laying a stake in the ground around our desires, is an act of making noise”. - Andrea Owen Have you ever received the message that you’re “too much”? Too loud, too opinionated, too sensitive or emotional, too talkative, too big, too something… As women, we’ve been socialized since birth to smile, make others comfortable, go along and get along, be helpful and put other people’s needs before our own. And a lot of the time we don’t even consciously realize this is happening.  But repeating these behaviors, over months and years, can lead to resentment, poor boundary-setting, people-pleasing, approval-seeking, lashing out, negative self- talk, and unnecessary apologizing. My guest today is Andrea Owen. She’s an author, global speaker, and professional certified life coach who helps high-achieving women maximize unshakeable confidence, and master resilience.  Andrea’s taught hundreds of thousands of women tools and strategies to be able to empower themselves to live their most kick-ass life through speaking, her books, coaching, and her wildly popular podcast with over 3 million downloads. She is the proud author of three books: How To Stop Feeling Like Shit: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness, 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, and her latest book, Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength.  Today I’m talking with Andrea about common behavior patterns that sabotage our power as women and how to unlearn what we’ve been taught so that we can create a life that serves our needs and desires. For full show notes, head to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/75 Sign up for my FREE CLASS: 5 Secrets To Successfully Take a Break From Drinking (even if you’ve tried and failed in the past) Connect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.com

Ambitious and capable women can easily fall into the trap of overperforming and underliving.We get lost in overthinking, overcommitting, overwhelm, and an over-devotion to letting other people call the shots of our lives. We prioritize other people’s needs and priorities and end up living a life someone else has designed and dictated, instead of saying yes to ourselves and the things we want to do, be, and say. Overperforming can lead to resentment, irritation, exhaustion, feeling unfulfilled and wanting to check out with alcohol at the end of the day. My guest today is here to share how you can stop overperforming and underliving. She’ll help you evaluate what's working in your life, what's not and what's driving your decisions.Tiffany Han is a coach, writer, and podcast host who is on a mission to teach super achievers how to put their striving on a shelf & radically infuse their lives with delight, serendipity, and deep trust in themselves for lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside.For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/74 Support and resources to help you break away from wine mom culture You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days Connect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

Has your people-pleasing habit left you with an overstuffed calendar, unrelenting anxiety that someone might be mad at you, and the inability to get through tough conversations without having a heart attack and the desire to check out at night with alcohol? If you worry a lot about what other people think of you, look towards others for approval and validation, or feel like you need to please the people around you to be accepted and loved, it’s common to reach for a glass of wine to ease that discomfort.  Seeking approval from others can lead to constant underlying anxiety that the approval you’re working for can be taken away at any minute. So let’s talk about how to stop being a people pleaser when you’re quitting drinking.For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/73 Ready for more support to help you break away from alcohol?Join the Sobriety Starter Kit Coaching CourseI've helped thousands of women change their relationship with alcohol and can teach you the step-by-step system you need to successfully take a break from drinking (even if you've tried and failed in the past). Click here to get all the details Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days Bex’s previous episode, Sexy Sobriety with Bex Weller The Sober Girl's Guide To Saying No. How to set boundaries when you're quitting drinking.Core values podcast interview Finding Your Compass For Life w/ Casey Davidson - Confident Sober Women (podcast) Connect with Casey Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

This is Part 2 of a conversation with my husband about what happened in our marriage once I stopped drinking.  To listen to Part 1 of this conversation go to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/71 Mike and I had been together for 18 years before I stopped drinking alcohol. Those years of dating, marrying and becoming parents together were filled with many happy memories of wine tasting weekends, pub crawls, boozy dinner parties and drinking vacations. Of course, not all of the memories of me drinking were positive, and after I stopped drinking certain things in our marriage had to change and evolve while others stayed the same. In this episode, Mike and I talk about our relationship, habits, rituals, parenting and connection to each other since I gave up alcohol and why he doesn’t mind that I’m not as wildly unpredictable as I used to be.  We dive into the last five and a half years since I stopped drinking: early sobriety, where we are now, and where we are going.  And we talk about why it’s important to separate the sadness we might feel about aging and the fact that we no longer have the same relationship we did when we were 25 years old from feelings of sadness and mourning that came up when I quit drinking. For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/72 Support and resources to help you break away from alcohol You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process. Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 DaysConnect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

What role does alcohol play in a marriage? And what happens in relationships when one partner decides to stop drinking?  So many women worry about the role alcohol plays in their marriage and what might happen if they were to decide to quit drinking.  Whether your spouse is your drinking buddy, wants you to stop drinking, doesn’t want you to stop drinking or just doesn’t get it, navigating marriage, parenthood and partnership and your relationship with alcohol is delicate and complicated.  In this very special episode, my husband Mike joins me as we talk about what our relationship was like when we were drinking versus our relationship when I stopped drinking and how my decision to go alcohol-free has affected our marriage throughout the years.  We get real about the good (and the hard) parts of our marriage over the course of the last 19 years and how we navigated the transition from my drinking life and early sobriety to our new normal where I don’t drink and he still does.   For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/71 Support and resources to help you break away from alcohol You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process. Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 DaysConnect with Casey Find out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!

If you've read any Quit Lit, Catherine Gray's book, The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober, is likely on your bookshelf or Kindle. It's one of the first books about giving up alcohol I recommend to women as they're starting their journey to stop drinking. So I'm incredibly excited because my guest today is the author of The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober, Catherine Gray. I met Catherine online in a secret non-drinking Facebook group 8 years ago, when she was first starting her life without alcohol and she has been an inspiration to me ever since. We're here to talk about all things drinking, and quitting drinking, the joy you can find in life without alcohol and her new book, Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected Sober Joy That Lasts. Staying sober is about so much more than putting down the alcohol. It’s about recovering and reclaiming your best possible self.   You don’t have to spend all day sleeping off your hangover, you can leap out of bed at seven and go on an early morning walk, or join your friends for a lovely brunch.Catherine Gray is a Sunday Times bestselling author of five books and an award-winning writer and editor. Catherine's hit debut, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Since then she has published The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober Journal and the critically acclaimed Unexpected Joy of Being Single and The Unexpected Joy of The Ordinary.For full show notes, head over to www.hellosomedaycoaching.com/70 Ready to bring joy back to your life? Check out these resources.You can Drink Less + Live More today with The Sobriety Starter Kit. It’s the private, on-demand coaching course you need to break out of the drinking cycle - without white-knuckling it or hating the process.Grab the  Free Sober Girls Guide To Quitting Drinking, 30 Tips For Your First 30 Days Connect with CaseyFind out more about Casey and her coaching programs, head over to her website, www.hellosomedaycoaching.comTake a screenshot of your favorite episode, post it on your Instagram and tag me @caseymdavidson and tell me your biggest takeaway!