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Hello, darling Hart, and welcome to the drink less, live better podcast. This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking

less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring. 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. With my experience and training, I now help other women with their

alcohol free or drink less adventures. You can find out more about me and sign up to my 5 day drink less challenge at drink

less live better dot com. I'm here to tell you that you can relax, connect and have fun without alcohol in your life. Join

me here each week to find out how. Today I'd like to tell you a story. It's about one of the most important things to do before

you decide to go alcohol free or drink less for a while. It is to get absolutely clear on your reasons why you want this.

It's important because in those moments when you doubt yourself you've got some ideas to go back to and to reassure yourself

that you've made the right choice. I'll tell you some of my reasons I chose to do my alcohol free life experiment in a moment,

but first a tip for you. Once I'd got all the reasons why I wanted to go alcohol free for a while straight in my head, I wrote

them down. I saved them in various places. I put them in the front of my diary. I put them inside the kitchen cupboard door.

I put them on a bookmark, and I took a photo of that list and I saved it into my favourite photos. I also put it in a Trello

board and on Evernote, but you can use whatever apps serve you for this purpose. I also recorded a voice note of myself reading

it out loud to act as my own audio record to listen to in moments of panic. Having my reasons why noted in various places

meant that when I felt like I might be tempted to have a drink, I could find them easily and use them as a tool to dissuade

myself from any rubbish choice I was about to make. On to my reasons why I decided to go alcohol free for a while. I just

knew that there was something more I could do in my life. I was doing all sorts of things that I knew to be good for either

my mind, body, or soul. I was running. I was doing some yoga. I was drinking green smoothies. I was taking vitamins. I was

meditating. I was journaling. But for a long, long time, it didn't occur to me that if I just stopped doing one thing, it

would make a massive difference, and that one thing I decided to stop for a while was drinking alcohol. I wanted to know if

life would be stressful, lonely, or boring without alcohol like I'd led myself to believe, or if it was possible, to relax,

connect with others and have fun without a drink like I suspected it could be. The hangovers and brain fog were getting worse.

In my late thirties I just couldn't get away with it like I had done in my twenties. I wanted to be a more patient parent,

no more selfishly rushing the kids through bedtime because I wanted to get back downstairs to my drink. I wanted hangover

free weekends to actually enjoy my time away from work. I wanted to maximize my nutritional choices. No more rubbish food

choices dictated by brain fog or horrible hangovers. I wanted to sleep deeply and wake up feeling fabulous. I wanted to know

I was giving myself the best chance at not getting high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, breast, mouth, throat,

liver, or colon cancer, dementia, or in any other way compromising my immune system. Once I'd got all these reasons why I

wanted to try an alcohol free life for a while, it was time to decide when was going to be the best time to commit to it.

Thank you for listening today, and please listen in again next time to find out about how I made the commitment to my alcohol

free experiment. It would make me happier than a Buddhist monk if you would 5 star review my podcast on whatever platform

you listen. Please imagine it like tasting notes on the finest wine I'm never going to drink. Thank you, and PS, I believe in you.