 Hi, my name is Amy McFadden and I am 92 days alcohol free. Congratulations Amy, that's amazing. What was your drinking like before you started to go alcohol free and how do you feel now? It was steady, you know, it was just like two, three glasses of wine a night and it just was sort of my daily routine part of my life and now I don't know I'm just I'm more me I'm awake I'm up earlier I just love I love every day now yeah so just more energy and rested and feel good and don't really I don't miss it at all. Amazing. Yeah, you enrolled in our 90 day quit drinking life transformation program. What called you to join us like what was going on in your life at that time that inspired you to book a call ultimately enroll and just go through our methodology for for quitting drinking. It wasn't a bee it wasn't like a particular moment or anything honestly I got one of your emails about because I had done the 30 day like two years ago and it was in October and you just said picture this you wake up on New Year's Day your refreshed you drink water and coffee and you feel really good and I just I was on the cusp well I am I'm turning 50 in April so I knew that was like ahead of me and I was doing another kind of workshop on self-being so the timing the timing was really good and I just thought there's there's no better time than now and your emails were motivating to me and I was just like just do it and then I just put one foot in front of the other. Well as we're speaking now it's almost New Year's morning it's a couple days before as we're recording this and so how do you how did you feel this morning when you woke up let's pretend that it's New Year's Day let's pretend that actually we've gone back three months and you read my email about picture this it's New Year's Day and you're feeling like it's exactly like it I mean this morning okay it's Sunday I woke up at 5 30 in the morning did some reading had a glass of water then had a really good cup of coffee and wrote everything I'm grateful for then I went to yoga then I had coffee with friends um kind of lined up my week for work and um just relaxed and content and yeah does that make is that a good answer because it's really it's really pretty spectacular to me kind of feel like it's the best time of year because I've already I've just gone through all the holidays and now the New Year and so now the New Year way ahead of me like what's next because now I have this platform being alcohol free so now I'm like what what am I going to add to my life that I can do now that I have you know all this mental clarity and and um energy and yeah and what was let's go back to the doom and gloom for a second or when things maybe weren't doom and gloom but maybe when things weren't as as great as they are now so what was the effect that the drinking was having on you or life that you that you recognized um it's funny because a lot of my friends and close family members didn't pick it up at all they said I wouldn't have noticed that you were struggling and by struggling I mean the doom and gloom was like this internal mental game mental negativity that I would wake up with every morning and just feeling sluggish and residing to just not drink that night and I overall I'm generally a healthy person I eat clean food I work out I have a successful business life so it was just something under this it was just internal that was dragging me and also just it took a while for me to bounce back from from alcohol so it would take depending it would it would take part of the weekend to recover so to speak and I just or I would just kind of get through and just not really feel great and I was sad I wasn't I was sad for no reason you know so yeah well alcohol is a depressant it gives us this temporary illusionary feeling of pleasure in the moment when we drink it and it is temporary and it is illusionary as well um and afterwards it makes us depressed because it fills our bodies with toxins it drains us our body's now working hard to try and break down the poison that we've put into our body and all of the studies show that it is a depressant so that makes sense if you were feeling sad and depressed at times it makes sense that if you were drinking you know what you were drinking right what have your friends said to you since you've quit drinking what have people noticed you know it's crazy because I just bumped into an old flame and I had no makeup on I was I had come from yoga and I felt great and I just you know and he was just like oh my god you look gorgeous like and it was just this overall look and I said AF AF baby that's what I said to him he's like I know I gotta quit but my my personal friends and family just they they're really happy for me they they I feel that I'm more present with them they turn to me more now I don't mind that they're drinking I still go out I do you said this in one of your videos you can do everything you do you just don't drink alcohol like so my life really hasn't I mean it's been added but I still go out with my friends and I still have special moments all that but they definitely have seen the benefit they they've seen that you know I look good I feel good so they're they're happy and they know that I it's something that I've wanted to do for a while so yeah and what was your experience like inside of our program what was the support that you got what was the accountability about maybe the community just to share a little bit about your experience about why you think you as well as a result of going through through my particular program this was huge for me because I'm a very independent person do you things on my own I would read the manual and then do it without anybody in this community the program let's see the group calls with everybody was awesome I looked forward to those calls every week um hearing everybody else's share their wins or their ups and downs you just want to pump people up there's no judgment there's no everybody's just so supportive the Marco Polo like you guys like made us do it and it really it was a really cool it's a really cool community I love watching and catching up with everybody uh so that helped me because now I have community and when I did the 30 day I kind of I didn't know what to do after that like now what or I just got bored now I have this network and like you just said you wanted to introduce me to somebody that's also alcohol free it's it's like a movement or something you know I want to know when your wellness weekend is um so I feel it was just hugely helpful uh and the coach the the weekly coaching uh you just knew people were in your court um and your I don't even know if it's accountable but it just it's just a group you're not doing it all yourself and that that was different for me this this go around to me as I wanted to be a lifestyle for me so I I needed to figure out a way how to like integrate it into my life and bring this into the current relationships and friendships and family everything I have so the group helped me be me in this new you know kind of new way if that makes sense yeah do you have to explain to people what AF means or do people start to know what AF means now all right uh well he like my friend knew what that meant because I told him so um yeah sometimes I use I used to say the term alcohol free and AF amongst my family and friends because that's you know short term for it shorthand for it yeah great and uh what would you say to someone who's feeling apprehensive it doesn't feel like they might be able to do this or they're scared with their friends or colleagues or boss or people might think if they go alcohol free I know uh I'd say just do it don't you there is no time to be ready um the hardest thing is getting to that phone call with you because you're really going to do it then you know or um and you'll get help along the way like that one step and then everything will fall if you if you remotely ink you know want to do it you don't need to know all the answers or figure it all out or how it's going to be you just need to like take that one action and then everything will line up yeah I I do it's interesting because I feel like if people are going to do I guess you just have to be ready because you really feel so good I can't see why you'd go back to drinking so that's the that is a real thing like how do you you know you know what's good I know what feels good now um but again that community and and the whole group now has has shifted everything for me so it wasn't just a break for me if that makes sense so the plan now with drinking or not drinking and your life in general is is what um it's alcohol-free um I my plan now is you know to remain alcohol-free I want to you know if I'm if I'm thinking of a goal I would say the 365 day you know I will continue the next 90 days and you know go the year um but for me it's really just integrated in me so I um yeah so now I'm kind of looking for well you know I have some some goals that I want to accomplish so I'll be working on those this year um because now I have that you know the the foundation not only of being alcohol-free so I have like clarity and focus and drive but I also have the tools of how to commit to things how to write things down how to make certain things priorities and so there's like these formulas to achieve more of what I want to achieve got it well you and I will have a conversation now about helping you achieve those goals that you've set for next year and integrating the alcohol-free life but for now I just wanted to say congratulations again amazing achievement thank you for playing full out in the group and you're always a very positive member and if you're watching this now Marco Polo it's a video messaging app that we used where the the other members in our group can send little video messages to each other on a daily basis and it's a great form of daily accountability it's a great way to check in support other people get to know other people um and you are always very active and there and very positive and encouraging and supportive of other other people and also very vulnerable sharing your own experience so uh I wanted to uh so thank you and acknowledge you for that very much Amy you're welcome my pleasure you're so welcome and congratulations again Amy McFadden 49 from Boston 90 something days alcohol-free today long may it continue thanks 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