Right before my one-year soberversary I felt blah. I didn't know why since this was something I had been counting down to! Turns out this is common. The more I shared how I felt, the more people shared similar sentiments. Listen to this episode to hear how I adjusted my mind frame when I was unsure of what this meant for my sobriety.

In the last few months, I have added some new things to my routine. Since they have helped me tremendously, I feel that I need to share!

I always told myself life is hard. Whether professionally or personally, I accepted that life was stressful, and I couldn't change that.

Does life have stressors? Yes. But once I learned it doesn't always have to be difficult and I am in the driver's seat, everything changed.

Listen to this episode to hear how exactly I made that mind shift.

I told myself hundreds of times, "this just must be the way I am". I knew drinking wasn't serving me. I knew I had to make a life overhaul. But I told myself this to minimize how the truth made me felt. I told myself this is how I am built, and this is just who I am, and I cannot change that.

All that was a lie. I learned in sobriety I can change, and I am NOT defined by my relationship with alcohol.

In the beginning, sobriety was an adjustment. I gave up alcohol which had a bigger hold on my life then I wanted to admit at the time. And I felt it. I had to change everything. All my routines, develop new habits, embrace new hobbies, and reevaluate my relationships.

But when I started to see how the everyday actions were shaping my life into one I absolutely love, I fell in love with the process and not as focused on the destination.

Listen to this episode to hear about that journey and how I learned to love sobriety for the everyday aspects and not just the big picture.

I used to have awful anxiety. The way I handled it? Drinking. But, the drinking made it worse. So much worse.

It wasn't until I quit drinking did, I truly see the correlation between my drinking and my ever-increasing anxiety.

Listen to this episode to hear how about the true affect alcohol had on my anxiety.

Losing my father in 2018 sent me into a spiral. My already problematic drinking went from not great to worse and downright unmanageable. Every year, I viewed this time as a bad season and a free for all would ensue.

Listen to this episode to hear how even sobriety, I had to make changes to make a time of year I dreaded, to a time I did okay and even, thrived.

When I quit drinking, I had no clue what to expect or what I was doing! Other than general google searches (dangerous rabbit hole for me!), I jumped in blind.

This episode highlights the top 6 things I wish I knew before I quit drinking of what to expect. I hope this helps!

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