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One of my favorite things that you wrote in your day 3 post is, I’m going to try to do this without any outside support. And what I love is you said, the first time someone commented on your blog, it was like a light bulb went off, you didn’t actually do it without any outside support now. And then also they won’t know they weren’t on it and unfollow it. And also fill up your feed with the good people. It occupies a unique place of privilege, one in which it is almost universally positioned as good, fun, harmless and required for a good time, despite the fact that it negatively impacts the physical and mental health of millions of people. And she talks to a number of brave women who share detailed, intimate stories about their personal relationships with alcohol. Stories that are at times brutal and heartbreaking, but also inspiring and heart lifting.
I know. And there are still so many people doing this. That’s what breaks my heart. But anyway, yet we managed it. And then it’s not until you take it away. I mean, that’s a wonderful thing. I mean, jumping ahead now, but wonderful thing about being sober. Not only do you feel better, and you manage everything better, but you start to realize it’s just not true, that you need this stuff to live. Yeah, I was so terrified. Right? The Hello Someday Podcast helps busy and successful women build a life they love without alcohol. Host Casey McGuire Davidson, a certified life coach and creator of The Free 30-Day Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free, brings together her experience of quitting drinking while navigating work and motherhood, along with the voices of experts in personal development, self-care, addiction and recovery and self-improvement. Yes. Yeah. And one last thing I know, we talked about really consciously taking a look at the Marketing messages that you’re surrounded by taking a look at how much of that is funded by the alcohol companies how much they’re targeting women, I’m you know, see bottles of wine that are that are, you know, mommy’s happy hour or mommy’s timeout, or, you know, all those things. And we talked about editing your social media feed, which I feel like, is so critical and diving into sober support communities that tell the other side, both the good of not alcohol, not having alcohol in your life, as well as the truth that it is not harmless. Do you have any other piece of advice for women who are really trying to get out of really buying into that mummy white culture that wine is the magic elixir?Lotta wrote her second book Mrs. D Is Going Within– touching on mindfulness and the tools she uses to navigate life from an emotionally healthy place after putting down the wine bottle. I love that. So ,what did you find in sobriety that had been squashed so much by the alcohol for you? What’s really risen up in terms of your authenticity? And, how is your life? Now when you go out and you go to events and socialize? You know? Are you having a terrible time? all the time?
I had a lot of anxiety. I had a lot of never really figured out how to self soothe without alcohol. And once I found alcohol in college, it was like, Oh, my God, this is amazing. And just wanted more and more and daily. And, of course, it’s addictive. But you’re right. There is, you know, there is this line where people say they think that only a really small proportion of society has a problem with this drug. And we know from talking to people from being a member of groups, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of people and women out there struggling with this. Who never talked about it with each other. I think it’s happened really slowly over time to where we have lost sight. And you know that there’s a fable about frogs and apart, if you put a frog in a pot of cool water, and slowly heat the water up, he doesn’t realize he’s cooking. I think we’re frogs in the pot. And we’ve been in this environment with alcohol, and it slowly got liberalized to where the marketing’s quite frankly, you know, there’s a few sort of restrictions around Marketing and Sales, but not a lot. I mean, in my town and my country, you can buy alcohol in the supermarket, it literally sits next to the bread and milk here.If I had a dollar for every time someone who has changed their relationship with alcohol said ‘If I can do it, anyone can’, I’d be a very rich woman. Those words are so frequently uttered by people who have stopped steadily drinking they’ve almost become meaningless. Which is a shame given it’s such a powerful and compelling statement. Just seven short words, but used in this context they are drenched in meaning. They convey pride and power, but also a measure of incredulity, almost as if the person uttering them can’t quite believe what they’ve done in turning their lives around. Why not? Because they genuinely thought they’d never be able to do it. Yeah, absolutely. And so, I wonder one of the things that I love, you’re a big fan of it. I am, too, because I think it’s absolutely critical in quitting drinking is sober retreats. I talk about them all the time. So, tell me about how you look at sober treats, you know, both in early sobriety and now? Yeah, and that’s just who I am. I just feel okay about who I am. I just tried to not be that I tried to be fun, upbeat Lotta. All I ever wanted to be fun. Lalalalala let’s have fun. And that’s still there. But it’s balanced out now by that watery said part of me that sometimes just retreats and needs to kind of snuggle and be sad. All right, I think I’m actually going to go have a cup of tea because I have to say I’m a coffee girl but when you’re talking about tea and all the the kinds of tea you love I I do have a lot I feel like everyone who quits drinking buys the massive tea collection and I actually you know, for years and don’t dip into it very much. So I’m going to go do that. Um, great. Yeah, like people are drinking, you know, at the soccer games at the football games, you know, where their kids are playing, you know? Yeah.
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