Hi and welcome to episode 184 as some of you know I gave up alcohol for my New

Year's resolution way back in January and today I'm sharing a little bit

about my year without alcohol.

Hi this is Deney. I'm the founder of Simple Families.

Simple Families is an online community for parents who are seeking a simpler,

more intentional life.

In this show, we focus on minimalism with

kids, positive parenting, family wellness, and decreasing the mental load. My

perspectives are based in my first-hand experience raising

kids but also rooted in my PhD in child development. So you're going to hear

conversations that are based in research but but more importantly, real life.

Thanks for joining us.

Hi, I hope you all are having a simple holiday season so far.

I've had a few questions over the course of the year about how my year without alcohol is going.

And I've been pretty quiet on it. I felt like I wanted to let the year ride out and then give you a full recap. So this is it.

Now if you're new to this story you can rewind. We started talking about this in episode 128 simple families

dot com forward slash episode 128 and in that episode living coffee till cocktails I

talked with Brooke Conley

Brooke is a member of the sober curious movement and she's a mom and she shared with me more about what her journey without alcohol has looked like. If you're

new to the sober curious movement it's basically a group of individuals who are

choosing not to drink not because of alcoholism just because they've decided

that alcohol doesn't serve them well and doesn't play a place in their life anymore.

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