Hi, fam. Welcome back to a solo Freckled Foodie and Friends episode. Again, I'm

having a lot of fun doing these and I'm getting a ton of great feedback. So I hope

you guys are enjoying them as much as I am. I want to chat about a topic that I've

touched on briefly on my Instagram stories lately. And I'm kind of struggling

with what to call it because I don't know if it's super curious. I'm not

honestly, I don't want to put a label on it. So maybe we're just going to call

this episode, I haven't drank in a month and I feel great. I don't know. But we're

chatting all about my decision to kind of currently and potentially temporarily

cut back on alcohol consumption, what that looks like, how I feel. The thoughts

you guys have, my relationship with alcohol, some other stuff that's going on,

some recent events of where I haven't drank and how I feel. And honestly, just

like everything about this topic. So let's dive the hell in.

So we think it's important to start this conversation like let's rewind and

just unpack my relationship with alcohol, I guess. And I didn't episode a

long time ago. I honestly think it might have been when I was cutting back on

alcohol, which I've done before. And I'll link it, but it's like a very, very

early podcast episode, I think, and it's my relationship with alcohol. So I'll

share that if you want more of an in-depth dive into my relationship with

alcohol. But I guess to start from the beginning, I definitely come from a

family who likes alcohol. I guess that's the way to put it. Enjoys their alcohol

consumption. So from a young age, it was very normalized for me, like cocktails

and wine and such were always had with dinner or after dinner, you know, parties

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