There is nothing wrong with you for the grips alcohol had on you. By Alyson Premo..

There is nothing wrong with you for the grips alcohol had on you.

That's what a chemically addictive substance does. It reels you in, and before you know it, you're trapped. But it was never you. It was the alcohol.

I will continually reiterate this point that there is nothing wrong with you for becoming reliant on a chemically addictive substance. It has nothing to do with morals or you being a bad person.

That's what alcohol does. It reels you in as the passage to adulthood and the way to let loose in social situations. Then slowly, you start to rely on it more and more for not only celebration but when you're sad, stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, or whatever emotion that you don't want to deal with.

It's even become socially acceptable to drink at the end of a hard or stressful day because "you deserve it". No, you don't deserve a poison that alters your brain chemistry so that it becomes so damn hard to remove it from your life.

We become reliant on it that it feels like there's no way out. I promise you there is a way, but first, you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and DECIDE that you're not going to let alcohol control you anymore, and you will do everything in your power to do the work. Look at your triggers. Look at your beliefs around alcohol. And look at what you can do to get you out of this drinking cycle once and for all.

That's why I created the Confidently Be Alcohol-Free - 60 Day Challenge. To help you do the work so that you don't have to keep wasting time, and so you don't have to do this alone.

I said I wasn't having a new round of the challenge in April, BUT plans change. I was supposed to be going to a live event in Philadelphia that is now all virtual, so that means I'm bringing back the challenge for April. That's good news for many of you who have been reaching out, wondering when the next round will start.

Registration opens up this week with a special bonus. The first THREE who sign up will receive a bonus, but I'm not telling you what that is yet. If you want to be the first to know when the challenge re-opens to snag that bonus and your spot in my (@sobermomcoach) signature program, click here to join the waitlist.