Stop Over-drinking and Start Living

Last week we talked about the #1 top to stop over-drinking which was to  Name How You Are Feeling. This week, I share the #2 tip, and it's a good one. You ready? it is  Notice what you are thinking about having the drink . What is the dialogue in your brain when you want a drink? What is wine "helping" you do? Relax? celebrate? unwind? socialize? "get through it"? I want to help you iden...

Today I share some words from a listener and take a minute to acknowledge my joy in being so close to 200 free episodes! But, I also dive into the #1 tip to stopping over-drinking... Name how you are feeling! Every action we take is driven by our feelings, so you can imagine the importance of understanding them. You might say that your drinking is "just a habit", but guess what... those "habits" b...

What has been whispering in your ear that you want? Tune in to this week's podcast and listen how to claim what you want so that you can drink less.   When we ignore our true desires it creates problems in our lives.. like over-drinking, poor relationships, feeling stuck, health problems and more.   Naming what it is and acknowledging what you actually want is really important. Then you...

I don't know how many times I've heard this.   'I know what to do, but I'm not doing it.' Well, beautiful friends, I hope that this episode helps you understand why this might happen.   We are all very smart and capable and successful in so many area of our lives but sometimes we really struggle to move the needle on permanently changing our relationship with alcohol and/or food.  ...

Y'all MUST listen to this podcast. I recently held a mini coaching program and I recommended making a 7-day 'drink plan' and there were soooo many questions about it.     This podcast dives into: Why planning helps you be successful How it helps you stop over-drinking How planning helps you uncover your belief systems around alcohol ie 'I can't go on vacation and NOT drink' And I tell a...

This week podcast discusses how you can't selectively choose which feelings you want to obliterate with alcohol.   That when you over-drink in response to how you feel, you not only numb the feelings you don't like but it prevents you from feeling the feelings you do want to feel like connection, joy, freedom, and happiness.   Because as you know when you over-drink the feelings that you...

This episode is a sneak peak! More is coming on Saying Yes to Drinking Less , tune in and hear about when you say YES to drinking less you say NO to things like hangovers, eating too much, bad sleep and more. Also, I'm sharing all the details of my quick pop up class next week called Say YES to Drinking Less. We come up with so many reasons to say no, and I want to make it as easy as possible to s...

Trusting yourself is huge when you want to cut back or take a break from alcohol.   Because, the truth is, we have broken trust with ourselves over and over again, right? We say we won’t drink, and then we do. How many times has that happened for you? I'm guessing a few! And because of this broken trust we have with ourselves, it’s sometimes hard to believe that we actually CAN change our beh...

This is the #1 questions I get. A lot of women are really concerned about how reducing their alcohol will effect their partner or friends, especially when that is a a large focus in the relationship.   In this Masterclass, I take you through exercises to help you tap into how you are feeling in your body, and how to process your urges. We get in touch with the sentences in our brain and how t...

Here is another powerful  Rewind  to re-visit one of my most popular episodes.   Many of you are on the automatic cycle of just drinking after work on the weekends or when things feel stressful or overwhelmed or anxious.   But to break that cycle we need to pause and notice what we are about to do, how we feel and what we are thinking.   There is a shit load of power in a...

It's time for another Podcast Rewind! I get this question ALL the time... "How do I cut back on my drinking when my spouse/partner/friend also over-drinks?" Well, I brought in some experts in this area, my badass clients, who have successfully cut back in spite of their partner's drinking habits. We will uncover how they made cutting back work for them WHILE their spouses continued doing what they...

This week’s episode is a PODCAST REWIND to one of my most popular episodes, What Is Fun?!   I evaluate what IS fun with drinking AND what isn’t fun.   If you really evaluate your whole relationship with alcohol you will see that it’s actually not fun all of the time, in fact, I dare to say it’s more NOT fun than fun.. right?   Inside the episode I also explore what is super fun abou...

I recently was interviewed on the AESOP Nation Podcast with Nicole DeBoom, and I wanted to share that interview with you all. I discuss how I became a life-coach, and how changing my relationship with alcohol changed my entire life. I also share a bit about how I grew up and how I struggled with weightloss and diet culture most of my life, to how my life with my family is now. I address the lie th...

This week's episode is a panel interview I did during Stop Over-drinking and Start Living: The CONFERENCE.   3 amazing women, shared their stories of stopping over-drinking. All have different stories and their goals and approach with alcohol was also different.   The one thing in common is that they were ready to change their relationship with alcohol and they believed my program could...

We all need to learn how to suffer, really.   We don’t know how to do this, so we make additional suffering for ourselves in how we deal with it.   We drink, overeat, doom scroll, don’t move our bodies, keep stressing ourselves out with worst-case scenarios, complaining, overspending, avoiding, etc etc etc.   We are suffering enough, we don’t need additional suffering with over-drin...

I am so excited to welcome Amy back to the show. Amy was my very first client interview on the podcast, and she is still making incredible strides today.   Amy has lost weight, improved her relationships, started a new career, and is helping others change their life as well!   Tune in and listen to Amy share how she still uses the tools she learned in coaching with me to maintain her wei...

This week is a special guest interview with Career Strategist and Executive Coach, Jill Griffin.   Jill and I talk about pandemic-related drinking and reentry into the workplace.   We both share tips about how to look at your drinking, and how to deal with the transition of going back to work. It’s common to have anxieties with so many big changes in our lives.   We’re different peo...

We all need to be reminded sometimes of who the F we are. We have all done some amazing things in our lives. And when we get wrapped up in workplace drama or over-drinking or not following through with things we want to do, it's real easy to forget who the F we are. This episode will remind you. And until you get a chance to listen, let me tell you: You are a badass. You know how to do hard things...

Tune in to learn ‘how much’ is enough when you are planning your drinks. The secret answer: whatever you decide — ahead of time. You get to decide how much is enough. Your decision on how much to drink is the perfect amount. That might be 0, that might be 2. But when you decide, with intentionality, ahead of the time , it means you have chose the perfect amount for you and it’s in alignment with y...

This week was a very special treat! Veronica Valli, author of Soberful, came on and we discussed her path to sobriety, and had awesome discussions stemming from her new book, Soberful. We discussed the bandwidth that alcohol requires and Veronica compared a life of drinking too much, like only having 2G internet. We ‘function’ but we aren’t running at the full capacity that we could be. Also, we d...

Let's be real, we are going through some hard times right now. There is a lot happening in the world, and it can be tough to not give in to the stress and numb out with some wine. These tough times inspired me to offer a pop-up Masterclass a few weeks back. and I wanted to share it with the rest of you. In this class, I explain that it is NORMAL to be having emotional responses to what is happenin...

'What else can be true?' is a great question to ask yourself when you notice you are over-thinking, ruminating, spinning out, and notice you might be thinking about one thing for a long time. I ask my clients this question all the time, especially when they present to me with thoughts like ‘I feel like I’m slipping back’ or ‘I haven’t progressed as much as I had wanted to.’ When we look at these t...

In this week's episode I explore addiction. Not just with consuming alcohol or food but other unhealthy behaviors too.   The definition of addiction : a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability...

This week's podcast discusses Weekend Binging with Renae Saager.   Renae is an expert on Binging, and host of the Ditch the Binge podcast. She has recovered from disordered eating and alcoholism and is a funny force to be reckoned with. Make sure you tune in and hear our discussion on how to reduce the weekend binging.   Get more of Renae here:   Freebie:  https://mailchi.mp/re...

This podcast is GOLD! I recently built a shelf (and I'm someone who does NOT build things). I discovered that learning how to build a shelf is the exact same process that I took to stop over-drinking. Here are the steps that I explain in this week's podcast:   1st step -  Deciding you want something {like to not over-drink}. 2nd step - Recognize and be aware of your current beliefs about...