It’s a SOLO episode today friends, and Megan is getting open and honest about her relationship with alcohol. She shares about how she was exposed to alcohol as a small child, the trauma that was inflicted upon her during childhood as a result of her parents alcoholism and growing up with dishonesty, evasiveness and shame around alcohol. She shares about having her first drink at age 12, how drinking evolved amongst the pressures to fit in as she got older, the confidence and freedom she felt when drinking, and the life event that propelled her down a path of consistently using alcohol as a coping tool. 

Megan openly shares about the slow progress of drinking alone, how she actively justified her alcohol use, when she realized she was never able to stop at one glass and the cycle of having an open bottle of wine. She talks about the progression of how drinking became a habit, distraction and tool to numb her stress and anxiety - and how COVID amped it up and offered up a culture to cope. She tells us what caused her to stop drinking cold turkey, how uncomfortable it gets when you take away the thing you have been using to cope with stress and anxiety, the TOOLS used and supports she put in place to succeed and break her drinking habit, and what her relationship with alcohol looks like now. 

She speaks to learning very early on how to navigate and anticipate others behaviour because of alcohol, how she is actively healing the root cause of her anxiety, stopping the generational cycle, the importance of giving yourself grace, and the harmful culture our society has built around alcohol. We talk about the damage of “mommy wine culture”, how ingrained alcohol is in our society, the power of having a visual to support your goal, the importance of finding the resources that resonate with you, and navigating a sober curious path with support.

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