I just want to talk about how you can go forward and stay out of this cycle.

So for me, 18 months ago it was New Year's Eve and I said to Mariana, look, let's try not drink it for 30 days. And she said, okay, let's try not drink it for 30 days and she said okay let's try it and you know I had

come off to where I was being so dependent on it but I was still kind of using it here

and there let's have some wine here and there but it wasn't really a reason for it

it just became a habit for me to kind of tune out and I was like you know what I'm not gonna do this

and for 30 days we did it and I remember after 30 days my own was like okay let's have a drink now and I'm like you know what I'm going to see if I can push this a little bit more and that was excited because I saw the results and I was super proud of myself and I did another 30 days and another 30 days and there was some difficult moments where it would have been easy to have a

drink and just take a break having a hard day getting angry whatever hanging out

with friends socially but I was like you know what I'm gonna push this and I

found that I could do it and every day I got better and

better and stronger no more excuses no more partial hangovers no more

wasting time no more stupid calories and every 30 days I got stronger and stronger and more proud. I hit the one year mark and I was like wow

This is the longest I've gone without a drink since I was 15 years old or 12 years old. This is incredible

And at the end of this month it'll be 18

months and it's something that I've found is is difficult at some moment sometimes I'm

in a social situation I'm having dinner with Dan Pania and he's like why aren't

you having a drink and I'm

just not and I'm good but other than that a few of those situations where

socially it's uncomfortable for the rest of the time it's just it's been a great

thing it's been an easy thing and I'm telling you the self-esteem goes up and up and up.

It's one of my affirmations every day. I say it as I walk to work. I'm sober and happy. I no longer need

substances to make my life happy. Let me see if I can find it I say it every day so I'm

super excited when I say it and I'm super proud of myself and I say it out loud

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