I nearly fell out of my chair in 2017, when a client told me the all the senior leaders at work had bar carts in their offices and he should, too. Having worked in behavioral health and law enforcement my whole career, this was not something I’d ever experienced. I’d seen it in movies, but never really thought it was real practice until my client’s job was preventing him from maintaining the sobriety he'd worked so hard to establish. In many workplaces, alcohol has slipped i

🎧 Prefer to listen here instead? Upskilled I recall a former client telling me that travelling was one of the biggest hurdles in his recovery from problem drinking. If he was on a work trip, there was some built-in accountability as his team was usually around, and he was less inclined to overindulge. Personal and solo trips were riskier, and he needed a plan. If you’re sober curious, or drinking in the gray area, your approach to traveling this summer might look different t