I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book, but it really feels like it was written by alcoholics for alcoholics. After a while, all of the women’s stories start sounding the same. Maybe I truly am too influenced by Big Alcohol, but at times, this book was too political and felt as though the author was pushing her experience on everyone who drinks alcohol. Are you seriously comparing guns and gun owners to alcohol and alcoholics? And people fighting the opening of a liquor store? If you don’t want to drink, don’t shop there. Yes. And I, yeah, yeah. I love that too. And also modeling that mommy doesn’t need to get drunk every night to cope with life. Lotta’s personal memoir of drinking, quitting drinking and living alcohol-free in a drink-filled world is witty, funny, and uplifting.

And what I loved about your book is that you take people through each day, through day 3 through day 5, because there’s such a similar cadence for what we go through in different phases. I mean, day 5 is so hard for everyone, you know, day 16, somehow, it’s really difficult. And you didn’t even intend to document that. Right. It was just for yourself.

The Wine O'Clock Myth

Yeah, I mean, I, I’ve always had pretty good people around me with my family and my husband. It’s mostly it’s an inside job, honestly, mostly, it’s the relationship with myself. Because we really need to rely on ourselves. I mean, it’s lovely having someone who is understanding and supportive, but it’s about how we respond to ourselves. We’re the ones with ourselves at 3 in the morning. With almost 11,000 members, Living Sober provides a place for people to talk and bond as they grind their way through the different stages of getting sober. “It’s a community of peers. None of us are experts, we’re not trained and we come in there and talk about how we feel.” 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?

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.

Blog Archive

You’re right. This… there are so many accounts now. I mean, even in the 9 years since I started blogging, it has really exploded. That’s why I feel positive, because I do think a slow change is coming. It hasn’t filtered into the mainstream yet. But you can find that recovery sobriety stuff. Just, it’s quite easily. Yeah. And once you’ve… once you find one, look at who they’re following, because you’ll find more. And you just fill up your feed with all the good stuff. And it’ll make it really will make a big difference. Yeah, I mean, it’s so hard. It’s sort of like the coping skills that we should have learned at the age of 16 1820 to 25. And we never did, because any time we were happy, sad, frustrated, upset, socially awkward, we just drank. Yeah, so in early sobriety, they were very, very important, especially Friday evening, because Friday comes. This Friday, magic feeling that you feel you need something and so, I’d often, I’d go out on a Friday and I’d buy myself fresh flowers, a magazine, a scented candle, just treats for me.