“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt We are used to people talking about Dry January or Sober October but rarely a Sober Summer.
That doesn’t seem to be a thing—but what if it was? What if it could be your reality this year? I knew I wanted my relationship with alcohol to be different at many points in my twenties, thirties, and forties, and in the summer of 2017, I decided, “This is it—I am going to choose a different path.” That day in June left me with a terrible hangover the next morning.
I didn’t parent well, I ate all the foods I wouldn’t normally, I underperformed at work, and I went to bed early in a fog of regret, shame, and guilt.
I’d love to tell you that was my last drinking day, but it wasn’t. It took me another two and a half years from that point to get to the start of my .
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