It's really for the dip between Christmas and New Year.
You know that feeling when you go on holiday and come back thinking, 'God, I wish I could have had a holiday where I actually came back feeling rejuvenated'?
This Christmas period might feel a bit like that.
So I created something for the 27th, 28th, 29th.
A little pause.
Listen, I don't know about you, but I am absolutely cream-cracker shattered. This has been one hell of a year. And I know that Christmas and New Year is such a stressful time. We've had all these expectations, all these obligations, and everything comes to the head at Christmas, and then Boxing Day, we sort of... flop.
The lead up can get so intense, so many rules. You've got to have the perfect decorations, the perfect family photo in matching jarmies under the tree, buy all the presents and we are still expected to work. We've got to be going out socialising, meeting up with all these people, not letting relatives near or far down, and it just seems to be way too much.
Alcohol feels like a way to escape from some of that, and it gives us some energy to keep performing, the happy little Christmas elf show.
Of course we use it, because we don't know how to do it any other way. And those presents aren't going to wrap themselves.
Before Jan 2020, I'd go on holiday and I'd always come back thinking, God, I wish I could have another holiday, one where I didn't drink, so I'd come back feeling rejuvenated. And I kind of feel like this Christmas period might feel a bit like that for many of you.
So I wanted to create something for the 27th, 28th, 29th. A little pause.
The FREE 3-Day Festive Alcohol Reset
Repair, Reconnect, and Refresh
It's specifically for the dip between Christmas and New Year.
A palate cleanse from the overwhelming lead up to Christmas. An opportunity to step into the New Year revitalised and intentional with alcohol for 2026.
What It Is:
It's free. It's gentle. It's supportive. You don't need to stop drinking. You don't need to attend everything. This really is set up to fit into your between Christmas and New Year life.
Choose what works for you:
• Come to the 10am AEDT live sessions (Dec 27, 28 & 29)
OR
• Watch the pre-recorded videos at your own pace - binge them all at once, do one a day, whatever works
OR
• Listen as a podcast while you're having your morning walk
OR
• Mix and match - catch one live, listen to another on your walk, watch the replay of the third
There'll be some community there. You can engage or you don't have to.
It's very much about choice, it's not about compliance.
For those of you who want to take a three-day break from alcohol whilst doing the program to really step into that repair, reconnect and refresh energy for New Year - that is absolutely an option, but not a requirement.
Reduce your alcohol consumption over the three days, or stop, whatever you want to do.
Learn some new information that will help you feel energised and motivated to look after yourself again.
Who This Is For:
This is for you if you've tried the willpower approach. The wine witch battles. The top 10 tips. Pay it Forward: The distraction with exercise, the green juice and yoga. Ignoring alcohol and your cravings until they demand you sit up and take notice with a binge. If you keep slipping back because none of it addresses WHY you're reaching for that glass.
This is for seekers. Spiritual, curious people interested in the mind-body connection. People willing and open for something new. Something sustainable.
People who want to dive deeper than surface level. People who also want a giggle and cry with people who get it.
People following the trail to the ultimate panacea: a take-it-or-leave-it relationship with alcohol.
Those who have ND kids that struggle with school are particularly welcome. I see you and your unique struggles as I have them myself.
What You'll Experience:
Day 1 (Dec 27): REPAIR Repair your trust in yourself and your relationship alcohol. Move out of judgment into compassion and curiosity. Create a more relationally safe internal experience
Day 2 (Dec 28): RECONNECT Reconnect to our own power, our own intuition. Return to our source - peace and steadiness. Knowledge is power. When we know new things, we feel differently. When we feel differently, we do differently.
Day 3 (Dec 29): REFRESH The exact tools of what to do next to move into that illusive take-it-or-leave-it relationship with alcohol. Envision the future where alcohol is a non-issue. Refresh your language and belief system to move forward into an intentional relationship with alcohol.
This is so different to everything you've ever done. With a feel good high energy 'what if it was easy?' vibe running throughout.
You will receive the tools to step into freedom not restriction. Slip-ups are seen as gifts & data - not moral failings. Less "new year new me". More a "new year, me OG". Returning to the human we were put on this earth to be.
You'll also get:
• Awareness worksheets - the best tool for working mindfully with drinking - this alone has helped thousands of clients reduce their alcohol consumption
• A grounding meditation - the classic reconnect to body and present moment awareness tool I use through all my programs - run with an neurodivergent (ND) friendly understanding of how tricky we find identifying body signals and emotions.
• A visualisation for 2026 - imagining yourself where you want to be. Visualisation is such a powerful tool and what I used to get me ready to change my career and go back to studying in 2019. It makes the brain feel so safe. Like it's been to the future before - so it doesn't feel so unreachable and scary.
• A journalling workbook for the three days
Everything's optional. Nothing to keep up with. No big drama. Just some time to spend on your own, reflecting on you.
What People Are Saying:
"The Alcohol Reset is a great way to press pause on drinking, and to evaluate why we drink. I found the live sessions each night to be warm and inclusive. No judgement at all. It made me realise there are so many people out there just like me." - Kerrie
"Emma guides you into gently redefining alcohol as being the actual asshole problem, not you. We are not alone." - Sarah
"I worked my way through panic, resentment, blocking, feeling that it's too hard to a feeling of possibility. The 3 days has been alcohol free for me, which I wasn't sure I could do." - Siobhan
"Emma, thank you for being so authentic and real. This allowed myself to hear your teachings without feeling shame or dislike for myself. I was able to attend from the space of curiosity and SELF compassion." - Eilie
"Learning that you can't fail is a great feeling. So positive and non judgy!" - Tracy
"It's like having a good like minded, non judgmental friend in my living room, helping me with a problem I don't want to share with friends or family. I felt safe. It was fun too and I laughed out loud many times." - Anne
How You'll Feel After:
After this 3-day reset, you'll have a quieter mind. You've got some more tools to be able to work with your brain.
There'll be less internal negotiation. Less fighting with yourself.
You'll start to trust yourself again. I think one of the really hard pieces when our alcohol use gets a bit out of whack is that we lose our trust in ourselves, and that makes us so sad.
You'll feel like alcohol is less loud. It's got less control, less power in your mental world and physical world.
You'll go into the new year lighter, brighter, feeling kind of cleansed and lovely.
For some people, those 3 days are enough. For others, it opens the door to deeper support.
What Makes This Different:
See, the difference with what I do is it's not about fixing ourselves. It's about coming home to who we are. Who we're put on this earth to really be, before we created the persona that helps us feel safe in the world.
It's not about being in restriction, afraid of alcohol. It's not about being in constriction, bracing against our cravings.
It's about opening up, leaning in, and taking the fear out of the equation so that we can be in choice.
It's not that we have to, it's that we get to.
Not that we can't, it's that we don't have to.
This is very different to the willpower approach. No abstinence pressure - you can drink and do this if you want.
We don't have to stop drinking to change our relationship with alcohol.
We lean into the reason why we're drinking. We start exploring the root cause. Understanding what is the need that's not being met, so that we can meet it.
I'm trauma-informed, a registered and licensed counsellor and psychotherapist. I'm the AuDHD alcohol coach - a late-diagnosed Autistic/ADHD woman who understands masking fatigue, nervous system overwhelm, and what it's like to use alcohol to cope with a busy brain.
My spaces are judgment- free, neuro-affirming and LBGTIQ+ friendly, if that's you as well. In the inimitable words of Daddy Warbuck & Grace from Annie - "I think you are going to like it here".
It's not about strength or weakness. It's not about coming from a place that we're broken.
It's not about fixing - you're not behind.
It's about coming home to self, remembering who you are, remembering who you were born to be.
It's About Awareness, Not Abstinence
This is about moving out of fear and into choice.
It's about awareness and learning, so we can step into the new year with a changed relationship with alcohol.
Ready?
Please get some rest. Please do something nice for you.
Hi, I'm Emma
A deeply feminist counsellor and coach, helping mid-life bad ass women find their groove without booze.
The having it all myth ...
The pressure on women in mid-life is insane.
We grew up with Madonna on our Walkmans, ‘Working Girl’ at the cinema and ‘we can have it all’ expectations.
Fast forward twenty years and we have been all the things the mum, the wife, the career woman.
Running full throttle on caffeine, booze and adrenaline for so long, we are literally ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’.
It all came to a head for me in 2018 when I suffered burnout from years of chronic stress and I had to leave my corporate career.
After, countless drunken cab rides and trips to the emergency, my eldest child told me to stop bringing wine into the bedroom at storytime as it was making them feel anxious, it really hit home...
I retrained as a counsellor and psychotherapist, stopped drinking and became an alcohol coach to help other women on the same trajectory.
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