🎧Prefer to listen instead? Click here to listen to Upskilled Podcast. In my 20+ years of working as an addiction counselor, I can say this with certainty: seasonal change is one of the most reliable triggers for a spike in drinking. Do you get anxious at the end of summer? If you suffer from social anxiety or are introverted, the office feels quieter in the summer when enough people are on vacation, this means fewer people to make small talk with on the elevators and in the

Prefer to listen? Head over to the Upskilled podcast episode here. When people tell me they want to get sober to be “healthier”, I call BS. We all want to be healthier, so what does that mean to you? If you’re questioning your relationship with alcohol, it’s important to know fact from fiction, from opinion before looking into a course of action. If you’re drinking to manage overwhelm and anxiety, putting labels on yourself or this process can amplify those feelings. Thes

Prefer to listen instead? Click here for Upskilled Podcast One problem I’m often asked to help solve is how to break the cycle of drinking due to social anxiety. To understand how to do that, you must first recognize it’s even happening. My clients usually struggle with social anxiety that leads to drinking at the end of the evening or drinking to ward off anxiety in a social setting (sometimes both), then paying for it later. Relief-seeking isn’t a problem so much as assumin