Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Back in January, I joined the sober curious movement as I gave up alcohol for the year as a New Year’s Resolution. It was an amazing year and I learned so much about myself. Today I’m sharing my month-by-month experience and <a href="https://www.brookeconley.com/">Brooke Conley</a> joins me for moral support. <br> <br> <br> <br> Show Notes/Links:<br> <br> <br> <br> * <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.simplefamilies.com/episode128/" target="_blank">SFP 128: Living Coffee ’til Cocktails [with Brooke Conley]</a>* <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.simplefamilies.com/episode141/" target="_blank">SFP 141: Q&A – Can you tell us more about your 2019 resolution?</a>* Recommended book to give up drinking: Annie Grace’s <a href="https://amzn.to/35vmsaJ">The Naked Mind</a>* Reach Brooke Conley on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/brooke__conley/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> + Her <a href="https://www.brookeconley.com/">website</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/simple-families-podcast-positive-parenting-simple-living/id1202569587?mt=2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> Full Episode Transcript<br> <br> <br> <br> Denaye:Hi, and welcome to episode 184. As some of you know, I gave up alcohol for my New Year’s resolution way back in January, and today I’m sharing a little bit about my year without alcohol. I hope you all are having a simple holiday season so far. I’ve had a few questions over the course of the year about how my year without alcohol is going and I’ve been pretty quiet on it. I felt like I wanted to let the year ride out and then give you a full recap, so this is it. Now, if you’re new to this story, you can rewind. We started talking about this in episode 128, <a href="http://www.simplefamilies.com/episode128">simplefamilies.com/episode128</a> and in that episode, Living Coffee ’til Cocktails, I talked with Brooke Conley. Brooke is a member of the sober curious movement, and she’s a mom and she shared with me more about what her journey without alcohol has looked like. If you’re new to the sober curious movement, it’s basically a group of individuals who are choosing not to drink, not because of alcoholism, just because they have decided that alcohol doesn’t serve them well and doesn’t play a place in their life anymore. In episode 128, I talked with Brooke about how I was thinking about giving up alcohol, and I was in fact curious about what it was like, and then in episode 141, that’s <a href="http://www.simplefamilies.com/episode141">simplefamilies.com/episode141</a>, I talked more about my decision to give it up completely for the year 2019. It’s been an incredible year and I have learned so much about myself and I’ve invited Brooke back today. I’m going to share month by month what this journey looked like. <br> <br> <br> <br> I’d suggest going back and listening to episodes 128 and 141 if you do want to get this full story, but here’s the quick and dirty. I decided that I wanted to give up alcohol because I was drinking less and less, really about 2 to 3 drinks a week last year around the holidays, and I still felt like it was too much. I felt like I wanted less. I didn’t really feel like it was taking a physical toll on my body, but it was really weighing on me mentally. Ultimately, I figured out that alcohol had become a part of my mental load. When it came to the evenings and the weekends, I was thinking about it.
