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Imagine getting to 60 and realising you spent half your life waiting for it to get good 🫠

Your life was actually far from shit…you had a beautiful family, a home, people who loved you and plenty to be grateful for.

But you just kept putting off the things YOU wanted and after a while you stopped wanting much at all.

We can easily become so comfortable with our own dissatisfaction that we stop even considering the possibility of something different.

🔊 You don’t have to hate your life to want more from it.

And wanting more doesn’t make you ungrateful.

It makes you a woman who still has a whole lot of living to do.

For fuck’s sake, don’t forget that ❤️ taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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Your husband doesn’t think you drink too much.

Your friends think you’re more fun when you’re drinking.

Cool 😎

But they’re not the ones waking up in the morning already pissed off that you drank again.

They’re not promising themselves at 8am that tonight will be different, only to pour a wine at 5pm anyway.

They’re not wondering why something they supposedly “choose” to do has become so fucking hard to choose not to do (although, they secretly are 🤫 😉).

And they’re definitely not the ones feeling like they’re losing trust in themselves every time they say they’ll do something and don’t.

At some point, you have to stop letting everyone else’s opinion override your own. You are your own person.

Your drinking doesn’t have to be a problem for your husband.

Your friends don’t have to get why you want to change.

Nobody else gets to decide.

If it’s a problem for YOU, that’s enough.

Everyone around me still drinks. And some of those same people have told me they wish they could do what I’ve done.

Which says it all, really.

I help women change their relationship with alcohol. I used to drink a bottle of wine every night, so I get it. taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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15 days ago

Could have had a wine, chose burpees.

Who tf am I. taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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Anyway, turns out my parents did fuck me up.

Just not in the fun, mysterious way that needs years of therapy 😂

Seriously though, it’s pretty wild to look back at the shit you grew up thinking was completely normal and realise…

Ohhhhhhh.

Well that explains a lot 😂

No blame game or sob story.

Just another thing we get to unlearn as an adult 😆 taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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This is for the women who are always considering other people’s opinions before her own.

This is for the women who’s own voice has been silenced because she’s been too worried about ruffling feathers.

This is for the woman who knows that she’s outgrown parts of her life that don’t serve her anymore but is worried about what other people will think about her if she dares to change.

This is for you.

This is your permission to claim who the fuck you want to be.

And when you need someone to walk by your side into the new fucking fabulous version of you, that’s when you call me.

Speak soon babes 💋 by @nataliestecko

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You mean it in the morning. You actually do.

That’s the part that used to fuck with me.

You wake up tired, annoyed at yourself and thinking there is absolutely NO WAY you’re drinking tonight.

You don’t even want one.

Then you get through the school run, work, the noise, the mess, dinner, someone asking you another fucking question when you’ve already answered 400 of them…

…and somewhere along the way, not drinking tonight starts to feel like a ridiculous idea.

By 5pm you’re already negotiating with yourself.

Maybe just one.
It’s been a shit day.
I’ll be better tomorrow.
I don’t even drink that much.

Then you pour it.

And tomorrow morning, you cannot understand why you changed your mind again.

That gap is what I became obsessed with.

Because if Morning You genuinely doesn’t want the wine, what the hell keeps happening during the day that makes Evening You feel like she needs it?

That’s exactly what Morning You vs Evening You helps you figure out.

It’s $11. If you’re in this cycle, you need to be in this room.

Comment or dm CLASS and I’ll send it to you 👇🏽 by @nataliestecko

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Morning you makes the promises, evening you breaks them.

At this point you’re sick of being both of them.

Morning You vs Evening You will help you finally break the cycle.

DM/Comment CLASS and I’ll send you the details 💌 taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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Drinking less didn’t make my life smaller or more boring.

It just made my tolerance for shit a LOT lower.

10/10 side effect. Would recommend 👌🏽 taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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I do cry more now though…turns out actually feeling your feelings will do that 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you’re sick of waking up not wanting to drink, then spending the rest of the day finding reasons why you should…

Morning You vs Evening You is for you.

Come figure out what’s actually happening in between.

Comment/DM “class” and I’ll send you the link 🤍 by @nataliestecko

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I meant it every single time too.

I’d wake up tired, annoyed at myself and 100% certain I was having a night off.

I’m not drinking tonight became part of my morning routine as much as brushing my teeth.

Then somewhere between school runs, work, dinner, kids losing their shit and me reaching the end of my patience, having a wine would start sounding like a bloody fantastic idea again.

That cycle confused the fuck out of me for years.

How could I be so sure of what I wanted in the morning, then keep changing my own mind by the end of the day?

Did I have a drinking problem? Did I need stricter rules? Was I just going to have this same argument with myself forever?

Eventually I realised I didn’t have a drinking problem.

I had a life problem.

I’d built a life I didn’t know how to cope with without reaching for something at the end of the day to take the edge off it.

So making more rules about alcohol was never going to solve the whole problem.

I needed to figure out what the fuck was happening between Morning Me and Evening Me that made drinking feel like such a good idea again.

Figuring THAT out changed everything.

If you keep waking up determined not to drink and somehow find yourself pouring one again that night

👉🏽 comment/DM “class” for the masterclass.

This is exactly what I’ll be talking about. by @nataliestecko

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There comes a moment when we think…”maybe I am having a little too much wine a little too often” 🤔

If you’ve had this moment and decide things need to change, hey 👋🏽. Whether your goal is to stop drinking, drink less or to just stop feeling so controlled by the urge to pour a drink every afternoon when you walk in the door…

You’re in the right place.
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(DISCLAIMER: this is not sobriety or addiction coaching. I support women who want to change their relationship with alcohol, drawing on my own lived experience and coaching work. If you’re concerned that you may be physically dependent on alcohol, please seek support from a qualified medical or addiction professional before making changes to your drinking) taken in Perth, Western Australia by @nataliestecko

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This is for you if every morning - YOU MEAN IT.

No wine tonight. You’re done with feeling tired, pissed off at yourself and wondering why you keep doing this.

Then 5pm rolls around.

The kids are feral, dinner needs making, you can’t finish a thought without being interrupted, you’ve had enough of everyone needing something from you and suddenly the decision you made this morning feels like it was made by a woman who is living in fairy land. Kid free.

So you pour the wine, again. Because it shuts the noise off for a little bit.

Then wake up the next morning and do the whole bloody thing, again.

I lived in that loop for YEARS before I got out.

If you’re currently living it too 👉🏼 you need the Morning You vs Evening You masterclass. It’s where I break down wtf is happening to those versions of you where you’re so determined in the morning, only to get to the evening and it’s like your resolve has the structural integrity of wet Weetbix.

Comment or DM “class” and I’ll send you the link 🔗 by @nataliestecko

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