Do you think about alcohol all the time?

Seeing or hearing the term “gray area drinker” and wondering if you are one? Am I an alcoholic? Do I have to call myself one?

Here’s what gray area drinking is:

Sick and tired of always being sick and tired.
Wrapping up the work day and heading straight for that beloved alcoholic beverage.
Uncomfortable in social situations without alcohol in hand.
Worried you don’t or won’t have access to alcohol.

Can’t seem to go more than 1 or 2 days with no alcohol.
Tired of waking up at 3 am with a headache, reaching for a glass of water and then tossing and turning until the alarm goes off.
Creating rules around drinking and then breaking them.
Secretly worried about your drinking.
Wake up with regret and shame because of drinking too much and not remembering everything that may or may not have happened.

Hi, I’m Lindsay and I’m so glad you’re here.

I teach ambitious women how to make alcohol no longer an issue, reclaim their confidence and be the most relaxed woman in the room.

I was an everyday drinker for more than a decade.

Mostly my beloved wine, but I also enjoyed a nice IPA as well. From the outside looking in, people saw that I had a great job, a loving marriage, ate healthy, and exercised.

That was all true, but they didn’t see the inside.

The me that hadn’t gotten a big promotion in over a year, my last 2 raises were just “ok,” but nothing that was saying “YOU’RE AMAZING” at work.

My marriage was good, but I was isolating a lot. Choosing to curl up on the couch with a bottle of Malbec instead of my husband.

This daily habit chipped away at my ambition, at my drive. I was in a seemingly never-ending cycle of telling myself “I won’t drink today” as I was riddled with guilt and shame from drinking too much the night before.

By mid-day, I would be fantasizing about drinking and (almost automatically) I'd find myself back on the couch with a bottle of Sav Blanc in time for the 5 o'clock news.

I knew I needed to change. This wasn’t going to work anymore.

It simply wasn’t sustainable: my health, relationships, and success were suffering.

Two things happened almost simultaneously and that forced me to make a change.

First:

I got to the point where I had a hostile uterus and I had to have a hysterectomy. I was deeply concerned that there would be complications with the anesthesia due to my drinking.

Obviously I had been lying to my doctor for years about how much I drank. Always checking the “1-4 drinks per week” box. As soon as I had the date, I made a commitment to stop drinking 2 weeks in advance.

Second:

During this time I also landed my dream job. I quickly realized I could not function on the level that I wanted to. There was no way I was going to keep up or excel in this new role if I kept up my daily drinking habit.

My surgery was 2 months after I started my new dream job.

I never drank again.

Here’s how that went:

My career exploded with multiple 25% pay increases, accolades and recognition like I had never received before.

After several years there, my calling came.

I had the confidence and courage to walk away from a 6 figure career to help other women break free, ditch alcohol and create the life they really want.

I made big changes, I literally revamped my life. I changed my approach and decided to do things differently. An approach that would not just get me to stop drinking, but that would create a life where I no longer needed alcohol as a crutch.