@thedenisepotter: Have you ever imagined what your life would look like SOBER? 🤔 I did all the time or tried to at least. 👀 It’s hard to visualize something you’ve never experienced.🤷‍♀️ . 👉I’d try to feel what it felt like to come home & watch TV with the fam without drinking. . 👉I imagined being with friends who didn’t always do things involving alcohol.. & when they did, I would be able to say ‘no’ & still have fun. . 👉I saw myself sharing my story & feeling proud. And I visualized replacing Netflix & cocktails with more productive {& fun} things like hiking, painting, & exploring the local yoga studios. . And I still wasn’t prepared for quite a few sobriety attempts. 😬Thinking & DOING are on entirely different levels of the playing field, which I always found out quickly. . I had no idea what to do after getting home from work & making dinner. Like am I supposed to watch Game of Thrones without a drink? Blasphemy! 🫨Who cares that I would forget what I watched… apparently, I didn’t. Because it was the RITUAL of it all💡 . If I associate anything I did while drinking with something else … it would eventually become my new ritual. 🤯 I LOVED drinking while I cooked so it was difficult to cook without drinking at first until I realized that a flavored sparkling water, mocktail, coffee, or smoothie is just as special. This is why I write mocktail recipe ebooks. Having a festive drink in your hand to replace what used to be alcohol is a game changer! Especially, when you’re surrounded by people drinking & want to feel included {or avoid those annoying questions of why you aren’t partaking}. 🚨Tip: If you’re around ppl drinking, visualize yourself waking up ready for your day while everyone else will prob be hungover & maybe, just MAYBE.. Those same ppl will be thinking about the example you set by having fun without drinking. You could very well be inspiring someone who is questioning their own relationship with alcohol but is scared to vocalize it. If your drinking affected others… believe that so will your sobriety. 💯 Keep up the good work! 💜 You are never alone! 🎄Snag my holiday mocktail recipe ebook: Sugar, Spice, & Everything Nice for FREE! It includes 6 recipes & tips for ordering at the bar!! DM me your email for YOURS today!! . . #FestiveDrinks #SoberLiving #SoberNotBoring #socia#socialdrinkera#socialdrinkingge#bingedrinkinge#bingedrinkerr#soberholidayr#sobercuriousr#sobermovementreneveralone

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