Hey there!

Every month Annie has a call with our Path 365 members and answers their questions.

She tackles a wide range of topics from what to do with big emotions, what kinds of tips and

advice she has for addressing difficult situations, how to deal with cravings, and

so much more. Listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path

members. Hi, this is Anna Grace and I am answering readers questions and today I have this question, which is, hi Annie, so I've been about a year alcohol free and then I went to visit my friend, my family for the holidays and I ended up having two glasses of wine at dinner. I can't stop beating myself up over this. I feel like I've ruined everything that I had worked so hard for and I feel like I relapsed. What do you think? did I relapse? Wow what a great question so I don't really believe in

relapse I mean I guess it's a thing that you could define what happened to you as people can use that language should they choose.

I would not use that language and here's why. I actually like to look at this journey,

not in terms of relapse, but in terms of data points, right?

And the journey for me is not black mite.

It's not about never drinking again.

It is about how you feel.

And those two things are very, very different, right? it is about how you feel.

And those two things are very, very different, right? You can never have another drink, but inside feel super miserable

as if you're missing out and you're deprived

and wondering what the point is and like just feeling sorry for yourself and I wouldn't call that success or you can you know have this occasional drink but feel really happy and very much back in control and very free and not be

obsessed with drinking, not be fixated on drinking, be totally liberated from drinking, and I wouldn't

call that a failure because the truth is that I'm not here to tell anybody how they should or shouldn't live. I'm not here to tell anybody what they should or should do, should or shouldn't do or how much they should or shouldn't drink. Like we're all adults here and I think we need to make those decisions

for ourselves.

Now what I like to do is I like to put up frameworks,

like in the alcohol experiment, we have this framework.

And if you want to join the

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