I've been to a buddhist meditation weekend, a retreat in Ibiza and climbed Mount Snowdon in the first five months of this year - what amazing adventures are you planning in your alcohol-free life? DM and let me know
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Hello darling heart and welcome to 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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With my experience and training, I now help other women with their alcohol free or drink less adventures.
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You can find out more about me and sign up to my 5 day drink less challenge at drink less live better dot com.
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I'm here to tell you that you can relax, connect, and have fun without alcohol in your life.
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Join me here each week to find out how. Today, we're talking about amazing adventures.
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The other night, I was tucking my son into bed.
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I said to him, I'll be here when you get up in the morning, but I'm leaving at 8 AM tomorrow to drive to Wales and climb Mount Snowdon. I'll be back on Sunday.
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He paused for a moment and then said, you're not long back from Ibiza. I know, I said. Aren't I lucky? Yes, mum. You are.
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Having lots of amazing adventures at the moment, and until he pointed it out, I hadn't really noticed.
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If you'd have looked at my annual list of adventures a few years ago, there would have been my annual fixture, which has happened
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for over 20 years and will continue for at least another 30, a weekend away with my oldest friends.
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A half marathon, there'd be a family holiday, and maybe a few big planned days out.
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This year has been a whole other level.
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In January, I went away on a women's Buddhist meditation retreat.
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At the time, I told my friends and family I was going on a yoga retreat because I was afraid of what they'd think. I have no idea why.
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I guess because this wouldn't have been my normal choice of activity for so many years, and I didn't want to have to justify or explain my choice.
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I've driven to Bournemouth for a sober community event.
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I've sober brunches and walks each month of this year. I've run a half marathon.
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I'd say run, that sounds heroic, and I'm not that. I'll try this again. I've jogged a half marathon.
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I've hosted a talk at a festival.
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I've met in the middle of the country with my business besties to walk on what to work on our challenges and dreams.
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I've been to a sober comedy club with a beautiful group of people I've never met before.
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I've been to a business event for a weekend in Manchester and stayed with and had a brilliant time with another beautiful
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group of people I've never met before.
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And most recently, there's been a trip to Ibiza and a walk up up Mount Snowdon, again, with people I didn't know before in real life.
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Listing it all sounds like a lot.
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And still to come in 2022 is the usual weekend with my oldest friends, a 50 kilometre sponsored walk, which is taking a lot
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of training time over the summer, and there'll probably be another big walking challenge in the autumn.
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Next year, my first big adventure will be the retreat that I'm hosting in February.
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If you're interested in that, drop me a DM.
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I only have 8 places available, and I expect it to sell out pretty quickly once it's on sale.
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When my son said to me, you are having lots of amazing adventures at the moment, I gave him a big hug and smiled.
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I know, I said, I really am the luckiest.
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Adventures, loving family, cozy home, fabulous friends, this is the dream.
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We had a snuggle, and then as I left the room, I thought how glad I was that I had caught and redirected a thought 30 seconds earlier.
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When he observed that I'm having lots of amazing adventures, my ego rose up.
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The thought that sprang to mind was super defensive.
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I know I'm just back from Ibiza, and now I'm off to Wales, but I'm allowed to do this.
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I want to meet more people, move my body, use my mind, feel my spirituality, and live more of my life outside the ordinary and comfortable. But here's the thing.
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My son wasn't making a judgment about me or my travels.
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He was making an observation, and he was spot on with it too.
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I want him to know that adventures are a normal and exciting way of life, and they are available to anyone who wants them.
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My husband loves to go away by himself to run a marathon.
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Oh, and he really actually does run a marathon. There's no jogging for him.
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And he loves to book a ticket and go off and see the most god awful bands sorry, did I say that out loud?
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I mean, he goes to fabulous cultural events that really float his boat with people who share the same loves and interests as he does. We have family adventures.
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Some of them are an hour long, some of them are holidays, some planned, and some totally casual and surprising.
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My husband and I also have a weekend away once in a while without the kids, and they love their school residentials or trips
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by themselves with grandparents or friends, and indeed they are just beginning to stretch their wings with their independent
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days out having mini friend led adventures.
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I'm glad I'm modelling a way of life for my children that involves meeting new people, seeing new places, being reliant on
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myself for finding and pursuing the fun.
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I want this for them one day too, and showing them how instead of telling them how from the sofa with a glass of wine in hand,
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feels like a much more aligned way of parenting.
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Over the last few years, my comfort zone has expanded.
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I'm happier and happier pursuing what feels good and thinking less and less about who is judging. Yes.
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People might be having opinions, and, of course, none of that is my business as we well know.
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What adventures are you planning in 2022?
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Have you got your eyes on something exciting and fun or something scary and exhilarating? What about 2023?
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Are you considering planning and saving for something then?
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As always, I love getting your DMs, emails, and voice notes. Keep them coming.
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If you want to tell me your adventure plans, I'm all ears. Thank you for listening today.
