22/03/2026
Can I tell you something nobody told me when I stopped drinking?
It gets harder before it gets easier.
Not the not-drinking part. I was already done with that.
The hard part was the silence where the wine used to be.
The friends who drifted.
Feeling left out at every birthday, wedding, work do.
The anxiety I didn’t know I had.
How to have fun again.
Grieving a version of myself — even one that was hurting me.
I wasn’t broken. I was just finally feeling everything.
That realisation led me to power of hypnotherapy — and eventually to training as a hypnotherapist myself.
If any part of this sounds familiar, swipe through. I wrote this for you. 🤍
