What is a "normal drinker" any way? By Alyson Premo

Have you ever thought the people who don't drink are the normal ones for not wanting to ingest a poison that kills your mind, body, and soul?

I hear this a lot from 1:1 clients and mothers in the challenges and here on social media. That they just want to be "normal". What does that even mean? Honestly, what does normal mean? Normal to me means following the crowd, doing things that don't fulfill your purpose because you're scared of what others will think, having a 9-5, and getting stuck in the monotony of life.

F*ck normal!! I don't want to be normal. I want to be ME.

👉🏻 I want to do what lights me up no matter what other people think.

👉🏻 I want to live with my life with no regrets.

👉🏻 I want to live my life unapologetic for who I am.

👉🏻 I want to be on my death bed satisfied and proud of how I lived this one life we have on Earth.

I know now that alcohol wasn't helping me fulfill what I'm here to do. It was slowly killing me.

❌ It was killing my dreams.

❌ It was killing my relationships.

❌ It was killing who I truly am.

I used alcohol to hide and suppress so that I could be perceived as "normal". But have you ever thought the ones who don't drink alcohol are the normal ones for wanting to live their lives fully?

For not wanting to spend their days hungover and crippled with anxiety.

For not wanting to waste this one precious life.

For not wanting to miss moments with their kids.

For not caring what others think of them.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be healthy, fulfilled, and present. I don't want to numb out like everyone else in society is conditioned to do. I've lived that life, and that is not normal. At all.

Are you ready to ditch "normal" for what makes you feel fulfilled? If you said yes, then keep reading.

I (@alysonpremo) have ONE spot left for my 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program for December! This is THE program to leave mommy wine culture along with the guilt, regret, shame, and hangovers behind FOR GOOD!

Apply by clicking here.

P.S. This is the last chance to work with me in 2021, don't miss it!

The best gift you can give your kids. By Alyson Premo.

What's the best gift you can give to yourself and your kids this holiday season? A sober mom.

Today starts the frantic holiday shopping season. I used to do that too, hustling for the best deals, adding everything to my cart. More debt added to the pile. For what? An item that will get thrown out or not even used?

I'll be honest I can go a little overboard still for my son, but he deserves it, and I can, so I will

Anyway, I digress.

❌ Do you know the one thing that will impact your kids in a way that an iPhone, video game, or Lego set can't?

👉🏻 You being a healed mom who doesn't use alcohol as a crutch.

👉🏻 You doing the work so that your kids don't have to heal for decades to come.

Maybe this is a hard pill to swallow, but it's the truth.

📞 I've opened up my calendar today to get on the phone with those who are ready to let go of the one thing that's been affecting EVERY area of their life, aka ALCOHOL.

How can you get on the phone with me today? Apply for the 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program by clicking here.

❌ This is ONLY for women who are ready to commit time-wise and financially to do the inner work so that you can get off the struggle bus once and for all.

If it's not the right time for you, that's ok, but I want you to know there will NEVER be a right time. There will always be a holiday, an event, a stressful day, kids, or whatever excuse you keep telling yourself to push it off.

I may have something special up my sleeve for those who get on a call with me today too. Hint: What's the one constant you're seeing everywhere today? Discounts!

I only have TWO spots for December and THREE spots for January. Get your plan in place NOW so that you don't give yourself another chance to talk yourself out of stepping outside your comfort zone.

🎁 Investing in yourself is not a one-time gift that you'll throw away but a lifelong gift to you, your family, and society. And right now, more than ever, we need you showing up as your healed self without alcohol.

Click here to give this gift to yourself TODAY!

You don't have to drink tonight. By Alyson Premo.

The booziest night of the year is upon us in the U.S., and I wanted to remind you just because you've always drank on Thanksgiving Eve doesn't mean you have to tonight.

How empowering will it be to choose differently tonight?

How proud of yourself are you going to be when you wake up tomorrow WITHOUT feeling like garbage?

No more hair of the dog needed on Thanksgiving just to make you feel "normal". Do you even understand how ridiculous that is?

"Let me intentionally poison myself, and then because I'm going through withdrawal, let me ingest more poison to feel okay." Like WTF!!!

How is this living?

IT'S NOT.

And you're fooling yourself if you think it is. I was trapped for too long because I thought it was normal to wake up hungover and start drinking early on holidays. After all, that's what everyone else did.

Who came up with this absurd rule?

And that's the thing all these "rules" or beliefs aren't even real. 🤯

Once your eyes get opened to how you've been duped, it's impossible not to unsee it, and that's how you start breaking out of this drinking pattern.

I don't know about you, but my choice to not drink is empowering AF.

I know it can be hard to see that initially, but stop looking at it as a punishment and start looking at it as a damn gift because it is.

It's the gift that keeps on giving to you, to your family, to society, and for generations to come.

Are you listening to all the podcasts?

Reading all the quit lit?

Following all of your favorite sober or sober curious accounts on social media?

And still finding yourself in the same spot?

Well, kudos to you because that's an amazing start to changing the pattern, BUT the real beginning to change lies in the inner work that most of you are avoiding, and that's WHY you're struggling. Stop making it harder on yourself than it needs to be and get the support from a certified professional (ahem) ME (@alysonpremo)!

Ready to do the work so that you can break up with booze for good? Apply for the 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program by clicking here. -> -> -> @sobermomtribe

Why now? I only have TWO spots open for December, and the price is increasing on January 1, 2022.

Sober Thanksgiving Week. By Alyson Premo.

Thanksgiving week used to be about stocking up on booze, hangovers, and blurred memories. Now it's about filling up on food made with love, binging Christmas movies, and making memories that I won't' forget by the morning.

It's Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., which for a lot of people means travel, eating lots of food, spending time with family that maybe we don't even want to be around, and an excuse to start drinking early in the morning because it's socially acceptable during a holiday right?

Everything holds true for us alcohol free people except for starting the drinking early and going all day long because we're f*cking badasses who don't need a substance to make it through anything.

❌ The in-laws who drive you nuts? Don't need alcohol for that!

❌ The preparing of the meal with sips (or gulps) of wine in between basting the turkey, making the mashed potatoes, and all the fixings? Don't need alcohol for that!

❌ Kids bouncing off the walls from all the overstimulation? Don't need alcohol for that!

❌ Relaxing when everyone is in bed, and you can finally sit your butt on the couch with a movie? Don't need alcohol for that either!

All these things that we could've sworn we wouldn't be able to get through without alcohol, yet here we are doing the damn thing without booze, and for myself at 5 years sober, not even thinking about alcohol.

If this is your first Thanksgiving, not drinking it may be uncomfortable, but give it a chance. It's not as bad as you think it will be. Hey, you may even have fun with the kids and family. Imagine that? 😉

🎂 And waking up the day after Thanksgiving without a hangover is icing on the cake.

Just thinking about those Fridays waking up with cotton mouth, nauseous, anxiety through the roof, and wondering wtf I said or did the day before makes me cringe right now and wonder why I waited so damn long to stop drinking.

If you're waiting to stop drinking take this as your sign to do it before you're ready because you're never going to be ready.

👉🏻 Need support from a certified professional who has helped hundreds of women reevaluate their relationship with alcohol?

Apply for the 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program by clicking here BEFORE all spots are filled and the price increases on January 1, 2022!

The freedom you're looking for isn't at the bottom of the bottle. It's in the feelings you're avoiding.

Why do most of us get trapped in this cycle? Because we don't want to feel.

We don't want to feel sadness, anxiety, grief, and all the so-called "bad" emotions. But that's all part of being human, right?

At a young age, I learned that crying was considered a sign of weakness. Big girls don't cry. Big girls handle their problems with a smile on their face. Sigh. It's unfortunate, but that's the way parenting was done back in the day.

All that resisting, avoiding, and suppressing isn't doing any of us favors in the long run. I was never taught how to handle these tough emotions, so later in life, I turned to alcohol to make them go away. What I didn't know was they weren't going away; they were festering and eating me alive.

👉🏻 Even when removing the alcohol, we think that there's a way to get rid of the negative emotions or bad days, but there isn't.

"The only way out is through." It's cliche, but it's so true. Once we allow ourselves to feel whatever we're feeling. We can release it and then move on. There's nothing wrong with you for feeling sad or having a bad day. It's just part of life. Allow yourself to feel the spectrum of emotions. That's what makes us human. That's what lets us appreciate pure joy.

❌ Perspective shifts are powerful but can be hard to figure out on our own, which is why coaching is such an amazing tool to help you figure out it faster so that you're not spinning your wheels longer than you need to.

This is why I (@alysonpremo) created the 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program! 90 days of getting you on a path to ditching alcohol and finding the real you that's been hidden under alcohol for far too long

🤚🏻 I'm now accepting applications for the end of the year and into 2022. I know the holidays can be tough to commit time-wise and financially, but what's even tougher is waking up on January 2nd, 2022, and realizing you wasted another two months because of EXCUSES.

How do you want to feel on January 2nd? Proud of yourself or miserable. The choice is yours.

Click here to apply before spots get filled and the price increases!

5 YEARS SOBER. By Alyson Premo.

I couldn't go one day without drinking, thinking about drinking, or hungover. Now here I am 5 YEARS SOBER, sharing my story and helping tens of thousands of women examine their relationship with alcohol and normalizing sobriety.

DO NOT GIVE UP.

I (@alysonpremo), too, was just like you.

👉🏻 I binge drank in college because that's what everyone did. No harm in kids just being kids without their parents around, right? I went to classes and got A's, so nothing was wrong with my drinking.

👉🏻 I got my first "real" job and drank on the weekends. Got a little too tipsy at work events or happy hours, but I was fine, and everyone did that—no harm in letting loose.

👉🏻 I went out on dates, blacked out, and couldn't remember how I ended up in bed with random men. Memes say that's funny, so I'm good.

👉🏻 I became a single mom at 26 and was told the way to get rid of the overwhelm and stress was to have some wine. That's how all parents get through motherhood, right?

👉🏻 Both my grandparents died in a 9-month span, and I used alcohol not to have to deal with their loss. Nothing wrong with that; everyone uses alcohol to numb out their pain.

No one warns you about the progression from being a social drinker to someone with Alcohol Use Disorder.

No one warns you about how badly you want to stop drinking, but you just can't.

No one warns you that alcohol will make you become a shell of a human being.

No one warns you that breaking up with booze will be one of the hardest things you will have to undertake in this lifetime.

❌ All the suppressed emotions and trauma I shoved down for a decade came to the surface on November 14, 2016, and that was the day I said I'm ready to face my demons and walked into detox. The hardest and best day of my life because now I no longer need alcohol to live.

BECAUSE I'M F*CKING FREE.

I share my story as a warning to you, and this isn't to scare you. This is to wake you the f*ck up to what could happen if you continue to let yourself off the hook. If you continue to normalize drinking because that's what others do, or that's what you've been conditioned to believe.

Don't fall for the trap!

I'm now accepting applications for the end of this year into 2022 for my 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program. Click here to apply, and I'll be in touch to schedule a brief chat!

There's nothing better than when that alcohol-induced fog lifts and you're now open to the beauty of everyday moments.

Am I right, or am I right? Drop an emoji if this resonates with you.

I was talking to one of my 1:1 clients yesterday, and this topic came up.

We don't realize how deeply alcohol impacts our quality of life until we remove it. It's as if we were living in black and white before we stopped, and now everything is in color. We can finally see clearly, and our eyes get opened to so much of the world around us.

We are able to find beauty in listening to music while driving down the coast or having a dance party with our kids and experiencing laughter and joy.

Because the thing is, alcohol not only numbs out the "bad", but also the good.

There's beauty in the mundane and every day, but alcohol is preventing you from seeing that.

How amazing would it feel to start living without the haze of alcohol?

I already know, and it's pretty f*cking amazing!

Keep reading if you too want to experience the beauty of everyday life without alcohol as my clients have. 👇🏻

I am now accepting applications for the end of the year into 2022. If you've ever considered 1:1 Coaching, then NOW is the time to do it. You may be asking yourself, why is NOW the time? A few reasons...

👉🏻 The longer you wait, the more alcohol tightens its grip on you, so it becomes harder to let it go.

👉🏻 The longer you wait, the more regret you have for not stopping sooner, and trust me, we all wish we would've stopped sooner.

👉🏻 The longer you wait, the more memories are missed.

👉🏻 The longer you wait, the longer it takes for your brain chemistry to come back into alignment.

👉🏻 My prices will be increasing on January 1, 2022.

So if you've ever wanted someone who is certified and has significant sober time under their belt to hold space for you, ask you powerful questions so that you can get to your "aha" moments and break free from this drinking cycle once and for all then this is THE program for you.

Apply for the 90 Day 1:1 Program by clicking here.

You are made for so much more than continually escaping with alcohol. By Alyson Premo.

I know many of us have at one point or another googled, "Am I an alcoholic?"

Chances are if you're googling that, then your relationship with alcohol isn't healthy. Notice I don't use the label alcoholic because that can hinder some from truly stopping, especially those who are more gray area drinkers. Since they haven't had any real negative consequences, they may talk themselves into not having a problem.

The only requirement to stop drinking is that you feel it isn't serving you anymore. Whether that be the once a month hangover, the anxiety you get after even just having one glass of wine, or knowing that alcohol prevents you from furthering your goals.

But this isn't what this post is really about. This is about...trust.

Trusting your gut.

Trusting your inner guide that something is off.

Trusting that nudge at 3 am that something needs to change.

Trusting that you were made for more than just going through the daily motions of life.

Trusting that it's time for you to heal from your past.

Trusting that it's time to let go.

It's time to let go of a cancer-causing poison that is keeping you small. Keeping you stuck in a relationship, a job you hate, or a life that you continually want to escape from.

Mama, you are made for so much more than barely making it through one day to the next.

You are made for so much more than numbing and escaping through a substance.

Say it with me. You are made for MORE.

❌ It's time to drop the excuses. It's time to finish this year off on a high note and start 2022 on the right foot with tools, resources, and support already in place.

👉🏻 Don't you want to show yourself how capable you truly are?

👉🏻 Don't you want to show your kids that their mama can do anything she puts her mind to?

👉🏻 Don't you want to be a role model for them?

The ONLY way to work with me (@alysonpremo) right now and into 2022 is 1:1 Coaching, so if this post spoke to you, trust that voice that's telling you NOW is the time to stop escaping and numbing out with alcohol.

Click here to apply for the 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program.

Proud survivor of mommy wine culture and the devious tactics of Big Alcohol. By Alyson Premo.

Who else is proud to be sober in a booze-soaked world? 🙋🏼‍♀️

For most of us, when we quit drinking, we think we're being deprived.

We wonder why we just can't be "normal" and have a drink here or there like our mom friends, or literally anyone else in society who can drink without feeling the immense sense of guilt or that they ruined their life the next day.

But as time passes and we realize the benefits of not drinking and that maybe people weren't lying after all when they said life is better sober, it becomes an empowering decision.

You don't feel deprived, like an outcast, or that something is wrong with you. You feel damn proud of yourself for breaking up with a toxic substance that everyone seems to glorify. You've found the secret to a fulfilling life while others are going through the emotions and not reaching their true potential.

Something you thought you could never do is who you are now.

You are a proud survivor of the mommy wine culture and the devious tactics of Big Alcohol.

Are you struggling to look at not drinking as empowering?

This is one of the topics we work on with my 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program using my signature Sober Mom Method™ taking you from hopeless, fearful, anxiety-ridden, depressed, and feeling like a bad mom to owning your power, accepting what is, confident, forgiving your past, and finding your true identity.

I only have ONE spot open for November, so this is your chance to finish the year on a high note instead of wasting yet another year.

Click here to apply

OR message me (@alysonpremo) directly to see if it would be a good fit for you!

What if you invested in yourself as much as you invested in alcohol? By Alyson Premo.

And I'm not just talking about money. The time and energy we put into keeping alcohol in our lives is ridiculous.

Think about it.

How much ENERGY does it take to go back and forth about whether you're going to drink or not?

How much TIME have we lost with our kids due to hangovers?

How much TIME have we wasted by focusing on wine instead of focusing on being present with our kids?

How much MONEY has been thrown away on a poison that only provides a moment of quick relief?

All that time and energy lost can't be taken back either. Once it's gone, it's gone. What you can do, though, is from this day forward, make a commitment to yourself that you're done making excuses.

I used excuses all day long, and what it always came back to was, I was afraid.

Afraid of failure.

Afraid that people would look at me differently.

Afraid of my potential.

Sounds weird, right? I was sabotaging myself. Who could little Alyson be without alcohol? She could be a leader, that's who. She could be a better mom. She could be a better friend. She could be a better daughter. She could do anything she put her mind to because she wasn't being held back by a substance that did absolutely nothing for her.

I know you're afraid too, but I promise you the bigger fear is staying stuck in a drinking cycle while your kids grow older and life passes on by.

Are you ready to not let fear hold you back any longer? I have ONE spot open in November for my 90 Day 1:1 Coaching Program - From Detox To Dedication. This is where I use my signature Sober Mom Method™ to take you from barely surviving with alcohol to thriving without it.

Since this is a commitment time-wise and financially, you must apply by clicking here.

Or message me directly (@alysonpremo) to see if this program would be a good fit for where you're at on your journey.

It's time to stop doing this alone and telling yourself you're not ready yet. You'll never be ready, so do it before you regret that you should've started sooner. Do it before you waste more time and energy that you can't get back.