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Podcast: The Truth About Alcohol (Why Quitting Feels So Hard)
Episode: Scared to Lose Friends Without Alcohol? You’ll Find Better Ones
Description: Ever looked at your friends and wondered, “How did we even become friends?”
I didn’t—until I stopped drinking. And when I did, everything changed.
This International Friendship Day, we’re unpacking the messy truth about relationships built under the influence. Not just alcohol, but cultural pressure, emotional hunger, and the desperate human need to belong—even if it means betraying ourselves.
I’ll share how quitting alcohol triggered a friendship reckoning, what PARTS of us cling to relationships out of fear, and why some connections aren’t meant to follow us...