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I started my newsletter this week focusing on one major change in my own personal life, which is giving up alcohol, but I realized it’s so much more than that. My mindset is shifting because I am not drinking.

I’ve always known that alcohol is not the best drug for me, but I had not reached my threshold for suffering, until recently. I am constantly taking long breaks, but when I do indulge, the hangovers and “hangxiety” take days to recover from. I like to binge. It’s time to breakup with alcohol for good. The low lows are not worth the high highs.

I have been in the business of alcohol for so long, and In my experience, it feels taboo to talk about my toxic relationship with alcohol to a customer that sits at my bar everyday paying my bills. To each their own, ya know? No one wants to hear from their bartender that they are not drinking anymore for their mental health. They want a bartender to drink with, do shots with, to commiserate with.

I am still in the recluse phase of my sobriety. I don’t want to socialize at events where drinking is the main activity any longer.

Ironically, I am working on a new cocktail program for the bar I’m currently working at. Even though I’m not drinking the cocktails, I still know how to make a damn good one.

I am shifting my focus of being behind the bar to consulting.

Thankful for a homebase that allows me to rest, make money, save money, work on repairs and prepare for the open road.

Cheers!