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 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…

Since eliminating alcohol, I’ve been getting the best rest I’ve ever had.  Consuming alcohol affects sleep quality and energy levels.  Sleep is the foundation for good health and plays a critical role in the body.  Alcohol has sedative effects, so it may not immediately look like a culprit for poor sleep… however it disrupts the body’s regulation of sleep, especially during the periods of…

The older I get, the more I realize that the only currency that really matters is time.  We all know this on a fundamental level, but it wasn’t until I stopped drinking alcohol that this became really obvious to me.   I’ve also been learning more about what psychologists have defined as ‘time affluence’: the sense that one regularly has ample time available.  There have been…

Truth bomb, I never actually thought a life without alcohol was possible for me. When I was drinking, I always held a skeptical intrigue towards people who didn’t drink. They seemed like aliens to me. Alcohol is literally everywhere and we are conditioned our entire lives to think it’s a necessary ingredient to business, dating, relationships, and socialization, therefore I genuinely didn’t know how these people did…