1. Save $$$$ - Australian’s spend $16bn on alcohol every year - despite the current economic situation Australian spend on alcohol is not declining, women fastest growing market.

• Activity - alcohol spend calculator
• Problem - Cost of living going up, hard to find spare cash for investments, savings, training, holidays, deposits, separation
• I saved 12k at least over a year of stopping drinking and invested it training & setting up my business - what could you use $5-10k spare cash for this year?

2. Unleash the Awesome Authentic You 

• Testimonials from AF folk on how being AF has allowed them to turbo boost their businesses and transform their personal relationship
• Problem - alcohol keeps us playing small & safe - change can be scary, stepping into our lives without an eject button takes guts, we weren’t out here to play small and safe
• Problem - alcohol stops us stepping in to our authentic power - we use alcohol to suppress our feelings, our needs and our discomfort - when we stop abandoning ourselves we have to stand in where we really are and what we are running away from - we get to have our own back and start choosing us again.  We are meant to be so much more
• Problem - alcohol takes us away from our knowing - that knowing keeps us safe and guides our way to the next right thing, and the next

3. Effortless & Fun - What??? - We have been conditioned to think a break from booze will be hard, sad and dull - I am hear to tell you (like most most things we believe about booze the opposite can be true.

• Problem - It's going to be boring, no fun - Activity: work through this limiting belief - how allowing ourselves to be with our thoughts can deliver the most incredible creative breakthroughs 
• Problem - How an I going to relax? Celebrate? Socialise?  Talk through the science around booze and anxiety - Give tips for socialising AF
• Problem - People will think I have a problem - talk about changing culture, health and the big fat lie that drinking more than you like is a problem that lies with the drinker 

4. Not ready to take the big plunge to a 30 day + break yet? 

• How to completely change your relationship with alcohol without stopping drinking - introduction to my ‘awareness’ worksheets and mindful/ sober curious drinking.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Emma is a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, This Naked Mind and Gray Area Drinking Coach, living in Melbourne, Australia. Emma worked for 20+ years in corporate marketing and ran every morning before work. A working mum fuelled by adrenalin, coffee and booze, she looked like she had it all. But on the inside, she was running on empty. As she reached her mid-forties alcohol started to take more than it gave and so begun her long and very messy break-up with alcohol. Nothing stuck until her eldest asked her to 'stop bringing wine into their bedroom' then it finally landed for her. Emma started the process of rebuilding herself as an adult, with nurturing care. She discovered her values, stopped drinking, and had to create a whole new identity. Kicking the booze to the curb gave Emma a previously unknown level of confidence and personal power to pursue her dreams and become a qualified counsellor and coach. Still very much a work in progress, Emma is an Aussie based peri-menopausal mum of neuro and gender diverse teens. She loves stand up paddle boarding, ocean swimming and has recently purchased some gorgeous hot pink roller-skates. The focus of her coaching work is women in midlife curious as to what could open up for them and their families if they took a break from or stopped drinking. Emma is currently studying in Dr Gabor Maté’s year long Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training.

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