Are you getting invitations to socialise this week or are you hosting friends and family? Here are Sarah's top tips for keeping it all alcohol free and fun!
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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.com.
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Jubilees, garden parties, street events, and early summer barbecues.
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Here we are at the time of year when we've had the first wave of spring gatherings, and we're looking at the summer months stretching ahead with its socialising opportunities.
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There are loads of types of invitations we receive and perhaps send that we now might like to give a bit more thought to.
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Let's start off by talking about this Jubilee.
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It's certainly something that has had a lot of press and media attention over the last few weeks.
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It's had a big build up and, however you feel about the Queen, it probably hasn't escaped your notice.
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The last jubilee that was celebrated, I helped to organise our street party.
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Ironically, I'm an alcohol license holder and was nominated to sort all the refreshment details while others took charge of
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food, games, entertainment, road closures, and the rest.
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We had a lovely day, although, of course, I don't remember the end of it because, well, you can guess why, can't you? I'm rolling my eyes out loud. Hope you can hear that. This time, it's different.
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I've swerved the organizing completely, and in fact, I've said we are away for the day. What are you doing?
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Are you having a street party, a garden party?
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Is it all day, afternoon, or evening?
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I've been chatting to clients this week about their sober strategies.
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One client has said she'll go to a party at her mom's street, so she has to drive there and back and therefore can't drink.
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1 client was worried about a party at hers that might have turned very boozy.
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She decided on the idea of a morning party, coffee and French toast, so there was no need to offer any alcohol.
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One client is off to the cinema to avoid the whole thing, and another is drawing the blinds and having a home spa day. I love all of these ideas.
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Just because we are invited to things doesn't mean we have to go, And when we choose to invite other people to our events
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or gatherings, we don't have to serve alcohol. Here's a fun fact.
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Did you know that garden parties at Buckingham Palace include beautiful plates of sandwiches, cakes, and cups of tea or coffee, but no alcohol is served?
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If that's good enough for the Queen's back garden, it's good enough for mine. What's important to you this week? Is it time away from work?
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Is it time to spend with friends and family or people in your community?
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Is it bonus time to spend doing something utterly lovely?
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Not that friends and family or community aren't lovely.
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The point is, what do you really want to do?
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Identify that, do it, and don't feel the need to justify it to anyone else. One more thing, the Jubilee.
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If you really care about it, celebrate it in a way that feels fitting to you, not a way that someone else might have prescribed.
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And if you don't really care about it, then put it to one side and do what does feel important to you.
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It's a long bank holiday weekend, and there are bound to be garden parties and barbecues going on.
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Choose really carefully what you want to go to.
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Ask yourself, am I gonna really enjoy this event?
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And give yourself permission just to go for a couple of hours.
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There's absolutely no reason why you have to go and stay all day or all evening if there are gonna be lots of people there
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drinking and that isn't your bag anymore.
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I hope you've enjoyed the episode this week.
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Please listen in again next week, and, PS, I believe in you.
