I wanted to go sober for a decade before I actually did it and part of the reason was the overwhelming feeling that I would be missing out if I stopped drinking alcohol.

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I am on a mission to spread the word that sober is certainly not boring, in fact far from missing out on anything, you are free to truly enjoy life.

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I was a nearly nightly bottle of wine drinker and had been since my 20's. When I became a mother, the pressure to cope with motherhood with 'wine o'clock' increased and it seemed like the most natural thing in the world to turn to a glass of wine or two (or three) at the end of the day to cope.

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In my day job, I am a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Hypnotherapist and so I was finding a real incongruence with the advice I was giving other people and yet struggling myself behind closed doors.

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In October 2022 I couldn't ignore my desire to go sober any longer and I began my sober journey. It wasn't a straightforward path though. Despite having all the tools I use in my clinic with other people and habit change I couldn't seem to get sobriety to stick.

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I ended up stuck in a resetting loop for a couple of months and my mental health really suffered in that time.

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It finally clicked for me and I worked out why I'd been sabotaging myself. I made the necessary mindset shifts and understood the blocks that I'd been placing in my way.

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That was when I pieced together my experience in early sobriety and wrote a book to document it, alongside the tools and techniques that I use with clients in therapy to help with habit change and intrusive thoughts.