Birthdays used to be another excuse that I HAD TO drink. By Alyson Premo.

Birthdays used to be another excuse that I HAD TO drink, and now they're a day I celebrate my life without a substance that would have cut my life short.

Birthdays have a different meaning when 5 years ago, you didn't even know if you'd make it to your next one.

But I remember that first sober birthday wondering how the heck I would celebrate without alcohol?

Would it even be fun?

Telling myself, what's the point of turning another year older without a substance that I thought gave me life?

Alcohol NEVER gave me life.

Looking back, I can't believe I ever thought these things because, at over 5 years sober, I know this simply isn't true.

How do I know it isn't true?

EXPERIENCE.

I've experienced all the "firsts" without alcohol.

I've experienced having wicked anxiety and my mind not going to alcohol to "cure" it.

I've experienced hard fucking days without alcohol.

I've experienced endless possibility and opportunity.

And that's all because I gave up alcohol.

I wouldn't be a leader of a sober mom community.

I wouldn't be coaching women to a fulfilling life without alcohol and now adding the Sober Mom Coaching Academy™ to the list.

I wouldn't be a mom doing the work to heal her own trauma so that she doesn't pass it on to her son. That right there is reason enough alone to ditch alcohol.

Our kids don't deserve to take on our pain.

So how am I celebrating my 38th birthday today? Getting a few work tasks done, a potential 1:1 client call, and out to lunch with my son.

A lunch that used to be filled with booze, and then I'd come back home and drink even more. I'd wake up the next day not remembering half of my birthday with a raging hangover.

Grateful doesn't even cut it for how I feel to be turning another year older without alcohol in my life.

This is possible for you too, but it won't happen overnight.

Stop quitting on yourself before it does!

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