“Things are going sooooo well! Shit has hit the fan: loss, travel, tensions, and yet I still haven’t drank wine! When I think about it I am still grossed out. I cannot believe I’ve gone this long!”

This client came to Ashley seeing that she had developed a bit of a habit of overindulging in wine, particularly in stressful situations. It had become a coping mechanism and was greatly affecting her family relationships.

Their session was actually in the midst of a family health emergency - a time that would have typically meant numbing herself from harsh realities via overdrinking. Her family had specifically told her that they needed her to be sober during this time and she came to Ashley to help her be there for them and to face this emergency sober.

And she did it - she faced the family emergency and subsequent loss completely sober.