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Hello darling heart, and welcome to this episode of the Drink Less, Live Better podcast.
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This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring.
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I'm your host, Sarah Williamson, and I decided to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back.
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I'm a best selling author, expert speaker, and life coach.
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I'm here to support you with your alcohol free or drink less adventures.
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Give me a follow on Instagram at drink less, live better, or head to the website drink less, live better.com, where you will
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be able to sign up to the 5 day drink less experiment, find blog posts and you can choose to join the email club, where I
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share resources, wisdom, insights and glimmers of hope and joy. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Let's get straight to it. What a time to be alive.
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This beautiful line was given to me by my 15 year old on holiday.
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It was in relation to not much really.
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He and I were walking along a beautiful street in the Netherlands, eating ice cream together.
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What a time to be alive indeed.
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He just looked at me and smiled and said it, and I smiled back, and we both knew it was a cheeky little moment, and we turned
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our eyes forward again and carried on walking.
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What a time to be alive can be said with a smile and recognizing everything glorious around us and for us, but it could also
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be said in a slightly negative way what a time to be alive' if you were considering all of the things going on around you that did not feel good.
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But today we're gonna focus on the what a time to be alive version that my son and I shared on holiday. What made that moment so special?
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I think, maybe, for a start, the very fact that we were on holiday.
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The 4 of us, my family, is myself, my husband and my 2 boys who are aged 17 15.
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It might just have been that change of scene.
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It might just have been the fact that we had 2 whole weeks together, just the 4 of us.
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It might have been that our senses were being tried in a slightly different way than normal.
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We experienced blue blue skies and gorgeous sunshine every day on holiday.
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That particular son, the 15 year old, and I feel the same about the sun.
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We enjoy the sun being out, but both of us don't do well in extreme heat, so it was just the right temperature where we were.
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I I think we'd spent a lot less time on tech while we were on holiday.
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We did have our phones with us, but actually we'd taken that opportunity to step away from that way of living that creeps
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into our life so often at home.
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We were experiencing blue sky, sun, trees all around us and just enjoying something really simple.
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The ice cream we were eating, it tasted delicious, it was glorious, it looked beautiful, a really pretty cone.
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We'd both chosen our favourite flavors and we were walking along just listening to the sounds of the area.
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So, yes, what a time to be alive.
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We were alongside each other, and I think that's so important in company sometimes.
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It's really easy to sit opposite each other and give each other that intensity that is face to face contact, and sometimes,
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intensity that is face to face contact.
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And sometimes walking side by side where your eyes are both looking at the horizon or looking straight ahead gives us a beautiful
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space to be able to say the things that really are on our mind, and he felt safe to say, what a time to be alive.
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He said it with a smile and knew I was gonna receive it with a smile.
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We were both feeling good in that moment.
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What feels good for you at the moment?
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What feels like this is making it a time to be alive that you are truly joyful about?
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You know, you can always drop me a DM or send me an email at sarah@drinklesslivebetter.com.
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I'll always send a reply. I'm delighted to hear from you.
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I hope you are enjoying this August. Thank you for listening in today. Come back again next week. And, PS, I believe in you.