Why We’re Overdrinking

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My friend, author, and fellow Certified TNM Alcohol Coach, Emily Lynn Paulson, joins me for an honest discussion around why women’s drinking has been rising dramatically during the last couple of years.

We discuss the connection between stress and alcohol, the additional anxiety and overwhelm of the pandemic, and how that has spiked drinking levels and alcohol-related disease, the normalization of women’s drinking as a necessary tool of motherhood through the media, and the science behind the addictive nature of alcohol.

How do you know if it’s time to make a change? Emily and I both believe that labels aren’t helpful and that objective tests for “problem drinking” just keep women stuck in patterns that aren’t serving them. The only question that matters is “how is alcohol making me feel?” and if the answer is “not great”, then you owe yourself the opportunity to explore it further. And the good news is, there’s a way to do it that without white-knuckling it, and Emily and I have the answer.

Are you questioning your own drinking? My 6-Week REWIND online coaching program is a fantastic place to start. Disrupt your thinking and patterns around alcohol and get back to the YOU that you were before alcohol. Info and registration here: www.wendymccallum.com/rewind