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Monthly Archives: March 2023

Sobriety gives me the mental edge

Successful people always have that “thing”. The thing that gives them the edge in their personal and professional lives.  How often have we heard about the executive who wakes up at 4am, or the entrepreneur that takes a crazy cold plunge every day?  I’m a morning person, but I’m definitely not that much of a morning person… and sorry I love my hot showers.  Because…

I experience true joy more fully without alcohol

I cheers-ed with ginger ale at my wedding last week. If 25-year old Alexa heard that, she’d be falling out of her chair laughing.  Last Thursday, I cheers-ed with ginger ale at my beach ceremony in Costa Rica.   As I eliminated alcohol from my life, I tended to think of how I would deal with pain, grief, and disappointment without booze? And that was hard. It…