Picture the scene: you’re feeling frazzled after a stressful day of rushing from one thing to another… All you want is a glass of wine to take the edge off. You keep thinking about how great it will be to open a bottle, switch off and pull the...

How do you talk to yourself about sobriety? Exactly what words and phrases do you use? 🤔 The language you choose is important, because it sends a subconscious message to your brain about what alcohol-free living is like. Our words matter....

There are lots of big, brilliant benefits to ditching booze. But my favourite thing to talk about is actually the really small stuff. The teeny tiny, discrete benefits of ditching booze. The side effects that perhaps only you will ever notice, but...

Would you like some bad advice on how to quit drinking? How about some slightly patronising tips that won’t work for more than a day or two? 🤦‍♀️ When it comes to sobriety there are a lot of common but overly simplistic strategies...

“How can I get sober when I love drinking wine? And cocktails? And beer?” At the height of my drinking career, I asked myself this question a lot. I knew I needed to stop and I knew cutting down didn’t really work for me. I hated the...

Did you hear the comedian James Corden talking about trying to drink less recently? He said he’d started to ask himself this question: “How much of tomorrow do I want to borrow?” It’s a great question. Alcohol doesn’t add anything extra into your...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard the news that Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has cancer. It brings to an end weeks of wild online speculation about her. But what does all that have to do with alcohol-free living?...

Have you ever done something stupid when you’ve been drinking… a drunken mistake that’s left you cringing for weeks? Yeah, me too. But we don’t often talk about this stuff. The awkward, embarrassing and shameful things that happen… And yet it can...

Have you seen that meme? The one that says, “The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink!” Motherhood can be tough, no matter what age your kids are. If you struggle to imagine parenthood without the reward of wine at the...