You do not need a rock-bottom story to want this to change.
Wellness coaching in Lancaster and online, for people drinking less or alcohol-free. It starts with a free thirty-minute conversation.
Drinking less frees up room. This is what goes in it.
Sleep
Usually the first thing to improve. We look at what time you actually get into bed, and what the two hours before that look like.
Food
Most people undereat all day and drink on an empty stomach. We start with what you eat at 4pm.
Stress
The drink was doing a job. We work out what the job was, and what else could do it.
Evenings and weekends
Six to ten at night, and Sunday afternoons. Most of the work is here, because that is where the hours are.
Movement
Walking, mostly, and later than you would expect. It comes up once sleep and evenings are steady.
“I may not have looked like rock bottom to the outside world, but I was fighting myself daily.”
You have never had a rock-bottom story. Nobody would call it a crisis. You are just tired of feeling bad.
Dry January. The two-drink rule. Early gym classes, booked so the morning would fix the night before.
Someone alongside you while your evenings change, rather than a program you follow on your own.
I have been alcohol-free for five and a half years, and I am not interested in pretending that was tidy.
I spent years waking up feeling crappy and telling myself I have to stop doing this to myself. It was a manageable routine until it was not. Now I sit across the table from people who have already started and want someone alongside them.
Thirty days to notice what drinking is doing for you, and what it is costing. One prompt a day, two minutes to read.
A free first conversation. Then twice a month, for three or six months.
Enough to change your evenings.
Seven sessions — one 75-minute first conversation, then six of 60 minutes. Messages in between.
Through a holiday season.
Thirteen sessions. Room for a bad month without starting over, and a month of check-ins after we finish.
Sober October: a realistic week-by-week plan
What it is, what to expect, and honest answers about slip-ups and starting late.
Sleep came back first
Three weeks in, the thing nobody warned me would change.
Being asked why you are not drinking
On being asked, and what I say now.
Start with a free conversation.
Thirty minutes, across a table or a screen. If I am not the right person, I will say so.