What if a break from booze could improve your relationships?

…even if you’re only drinking a few glasses a week?

Alcohol triggers a chain reaction in our bodies & minds that impacts our perspective. It creates stress, worsens anxiety, interrupts our sleep & digestion of nutrients, and more. Tilting us into a state of exhaustion and irritability.

Alcohol acts as a barrier to treating others with compassion… to treating *ourselves* with compassion.

Back when I was living in burnout, I’ll be honest that I was often times drinking AT THINGS. 👈

🍷Drinking AT a stressful day.
🍷Drinking AT a frustrating conversation…

Feeling tired and resentful and wishing, WISHING things were different.

But what I’ve learned is that the chemical chain-reaction from alcohol was not only perpetuating those feelings… it was, in fact, INTENSIFYING them. 😠

When our bodies are focused on purging, processing, and detoxifying alcohol from our system, it’s as if we are riding a rollercoaster of chemicals that are creating stress, anxiety, and fatigue…

We are more irritable; have less patience; and our perspective actually narrows in a way that hinders our capacity for compassion.

🧠 Alcohol triggers our body’s fight-or-flight mechanisms—and our brain, in a state of “survival,” loses access to what would otherwise be a balanced perspective.

If you take a break from drinking long enough to allow your system to return to its “factory settings” ⚖️

You may find that you have more patience:

➡️ For the stressful days
➡️ For the frustrating conversations
➡️ For family discussions at holiday events 😬

By taking a break:

You may rediscover a sense of calm.
Return to a place of patience.
Reclaim a mindset of peace.

You may discover that your own view of yourself actually softens, and that your inner dialogue of judgment and perfectionism lightens up a bit…

You are doing the best you can with the tools you have.
I really believe that.

💌 Ready for some new tools? Grab a copy of my free guide: 3 STEPS to DRINK LESS!

Xo