• Mommy Wine Culture

    Mommy Wine Culture

    There’s been a trend in recent years of moms drinking wine as a way to cope with the stress of parenting. You may have heard the term “mommy wine culture,” and this is exactly the trend it’s referring to. Mommy wine culture has been prevalent on social media and other marketing strategies, targeting stressed out… Read more

  • Alcohol-Free Alternatives

    Alcohol-Free Alternatives

    Korey and I started our first year of sobriety right after Thanksgiving, 2021. We purposely planned this to start before the holidays ramped-up for the year because our mindset was if we started the year off with the hardest time of the year to not drink, then the rest of the year should be a… Read more

  • Tracking Macros – Pros, Cons, Tips, and Tricks

    Tracking Macros – Pros, Cons, Tips, and Tricks

    Have you ever done a low carb diet? Keto, Atkins, South Beach? I’m sure there are hundreds more. I am also sure that 99% of the people reading this have attempted a low carb diet at some point in their life. Now, I am not knocking a low carb diet for losing weight -lots of… Read more

  • Alcohol-Free Travel

    Alcohol-Free Travel

    Growing up in North Carolina, the spring beach destination for most high school kids was Myrtle Beach, SC. We would pack as many kids as we could fit in to some dingy high-rise hotel room on the strip of Myrtle Beach and just go balls-to-the-wall partying for a week straight. Myrtle beach is where I… Read more

  • 75Hard: Unexpected Benefits and Lessons

    75Hard: Unexpected Benefits and Lessons

    Tales of a Quitter… I have spent most of my life quietly considering myself a quitter. I didn’t necessarily vocalize this or even consciously think this, but I think it was always there in the back of my mind. I can’t think of anything before the past couple of years that I have ever TRULY… Read more

  • Delivering the News: Useful Tips for Telling People You’re Not Drinking

    Delivering the News: Useful Tips for Telling People You’re Not Drinking

    So, you’ve made the decision that you’d like to attempt exploring a life or a month or a Saturday night without alcohol. Congrats on any of those choices. First and foremost, this is your journey and you don’t owe anyone shit. Not the truth. Not the sugar-coated answer they want to hear. Not a story.… Read more