SEASON FOUR | EPISODE THREE: HOW TO NAVIGATE DRY JANUARY
Episode Description:
Alright, friends. Today’s episode is all about Dry January, a topic near and dear to my heart, and who better to discuss with than Amanda White. Amanda is the founder and director of Therapy for Women’s Center, and author of Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating A Sober Life You Love and she dedicates the best thing she’s ever done for herself to her sobriety. So, as we dive into the year of YOU, today, Heather talks with Amanda about setting boundaries with drinking, how to engage in self-care and how saying no to others can lead you to saying yes to yourself and the things you care about. This is one of the most personal and compelling conversations I’ve had to date on Make Me Known and I am so thrilled to share Amanda’s story with all of you. Whether you are in Dry January as we speak, contemplating sobriety or, simply reevaluating your drinking habits, I am certain you’ll love this chat as much as I did.
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Quotes from the show:
"I really wanted to create a community of therapists where we could overlap and talk about who the person is in between all of those overlaps because I really feel like that's who we really are versus all this compartmentalization."
"We almost kind of act like January holds some specific magic and if we miss January, we can't change any other time of the year and we have to wait until next January...So I think also taking some of the pressure off that if you don't perfectly meet your goal in January or you struggle, there's other opportunities throughout the year. It might not feel as magical or special, but the magic is you not the year."
"'How might my life be better if I stop drinking or I drank less and everything?' I really think just turning that question on its head is so much more powerful...I think it's naive and ridiculous to say that alcohol doesn't have benefits. People wouldn't drink if it didn't serve a purpose for people and it didn't make a difference. So instead of pretending like that's not the case, I think we need to also talk about the benefits of cutting back or sobriety, and then someone can more realistically look at the costs and payoffs to both."
"[For] so many of us, it's so ingrained, especially if you're someone who uses alcohol to wind down at the end of the day. And one of my biggest challenges sometimes to people is asking them, when you're winding down at the end of the day, when do you get the relief?...It's just from the pouring of it. And to me, the challenge is like, well, you could also drink something else then, it's not the alcohol. That's the magic of it. It's actually the ritual that's giving you that relief."
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