Chrissy Janiga on Mummy wine culture, manifesting your life purpose and Purposeful Living

Picture the scene - a harried mom at the end of a tiring day, reaching for a glass of wine to unwind. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? We've all been there, but have you ever truly considered how this habit impacts us and our children? Let's challenge this perception together as we welcome our special guest, Chrissy Jannega, a certified alcohol-free mindset success and NLP coach. Chrissy opens up passionately about her personal struggle with alcohol and body image, her journey to sobriety, and her insightful take on the ubiquitous "Mummy Wine Culture". 

Who hasn't used wine as a stress-buster, a "mommy's little helper"? Join us as we confront this societal narrative that often portrays this behavior as amusing and harmless. We, along with Chrissy, bravely dissect the profound implications of this culture on women and their children, calling for a healthier narrative and a shift in perspective. Let's break the stigma associated with choosing not to drink. It's time we support and provide alternatives for those who opt for an alcohol-free life.

But, it doesn't just stop at quitting alcohol. We explore the transformative power of finding one's purpose and the art of manifesting. Sharing our personal experiences, we demonstrate how removing alcohol can usher in clarity and enable you to tap into your life purpose. From manifesting writing books to Chrissy's inspiring manifestation journey, we emphasise the importance of having faith in the process and maintaining a clear vision. So, are you ready to navigate your relationship with alcohol, discover your purpose, and harness the power of manifestation? Join us for a thought-provoking discussion and equip yourself with tools for a more mindful and purposeful life.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:02

Hello and welcome to the podcast. Today I have a special guest, Chrissy Jannega, who is a certified alcohol-free mindset success and NLP coach. Chrissy helps change your relationship with alcohol, love your life alcohol-free and helps you to manifest your life purpose. Welcome, Chrissy.

Speaker 2: 1:24

Hello, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1: 1:26

Absolute pleasure. Can we start today by hearing a bit about your story and how you've got to where you are today?

Speaker 2: 1:34

Yes, yes. So I actually really didn't think that much about alcohol and removing it until my early 30s. So I was having you know, just having issues with blacking out more, and at that time we lived on the lake and it was a lot of drinking culture, so we drank a lot more, and so I just found myself drinking more and more and then also, on top of that, having body image issues, trying to lose weight by changing what I drank.

Speaker 2: 2:12

So I would then go to liquor and would get super drunk. So there'd be like a lot of the weekends and then sometimes on Thursday, but I never was someone that would be drinking every day. And I think why I'm bringing that up is because I think that and I do not feel like I look like an alcoholic kind of kept me, I think, a bit stuck in figuring out what to do with it. So I mean, I would kind of go up and down, Like sometimes in the winter time I would slow down, In the summers it would get a little bit worse. I'm also a pretty healthy person. I like to work out and take care of myself, and alcohol really didn't help with those things and so it was just really problematic. And at that time I got pregnant, had my son and still continue to drink and it was still have a worse hangovers, and then I really participated a lot in my wine culture. So you know, thought it was funny and did all that. But you know, and then I thought alcohol was so boring. I'm like, oh my gosh if, or alcohol free. People were boring. So if people were drinking, you know or not drinking, I'd be like, oh, that's what's wrong with them. But actually inside I was feeling like this shame and all this, you know, these feelings about how alcohol was making my weekend so bad. And then I feel awful on Sundays and Mondays a lot of times, having to start all over again. And so we moved. We moved to Florida in 2021.

Speaker 2: 3:54

And I, you know, I felt I was getting a little bit better about controlling my alcohol. But the problem is it's so unpredictable and I'm sure you can relate that sometimes you'd be like, oh my gosh, I remembered everything. It was so much fun. The next time it wouldn't be that way and it was unpredictable and it was starting to really wreak havoc on my sleep. I would wake up at three, four, even with small amounts, I would start sweating, and so, you know, just picking the hormones and just getting older, and so on my actually my 39th birthday, on my actual birthday, I decided to start to change my relationship with alcohol. So that's kind of where I started everything.

Speaker 1: 4:39

Amazing, so that wasn't that long ago. How long ago.

Speaker 2: 4:44

So I and I always tell people I changed my relationship with alcohol because I really didn't know where it was going to take me. And I say this because, just because you want to change your relationship with alcohol, I feel like the the, the wise in the house and all those things that keep people stuck, really cannot think about those things. You just got to be like, okay, I got to just do this one thing and see what happens. So in January of 2022 is when I started to change my relationship with alcohol. So I started reading books and I was like flabbergasted. I didn't know anything about alcohol minus. Oh yeah, if you, if you drink a lot and buy a lot like quote unquote alcoholic, yeah, you might have problems with your liver. But then there was all these other things Alcohol being a carcass, the class one carcinogenic substance, just all the things that I was against I was doing. So it was really helpful to learn about alcohol, and so I started the journey then and so I really reduced it.

Speaker 2: 5:48

I didn't drink for about six months and then I found out that I people pleased and drink, not because I actually really wanted to drink, but at that time I was like, well, maybe I'm going to moderate. Maybe I'm going to try this moderation thing because I think I felt bad that I wasn't keeping up with what I wanted to do. So I started really paying attention to what when I drank, how I felt, and I think that was a huge thing. Is this like separation and being mindful? So I drank maybe a handful more times before I actually quit forever, but it wasn't. I didn't drink abnormal amounts each time and I think, because I stopped and because I didn't have as high of a tolerance and because I was stopping after a small amount, you could really feel the effects of alcohol. So one is, I actually felt really depressed and I felt it and I was wow, that's crazy Just how much I felt it.

Speaker 2: 6:55

And then the last time I drank, which was in November of 2022, it was awful. I was emotional wreck, which would happen a lot. I was emotionally unstable. I had the worst gut issues, like my gut was destroyed. I didn't sleep well and the next morning I woke up and I'm like I can't drink anymore. This is insane. Like it's not. It's proven from multiple times that it's not something I want to deal with and that is actually when I decided I want to quit forever and I literally felt like the weights get lift off my shoulders. I felt so much better because the moderation game is such a sticky game and it's not consistent and it's just something that is really hard to figure out how to actually moderate Because sometimes, like I said, alcohol is so unpredictable that you can't really know how to moderate Unless you have a couple sips. But really who's going to do that, especially once you get buzzed?

Speaker 1: 7:57

Absolutely. I just relate to so much of that. It's really interesting that you say when you started looking into it, by November you decided to really be mindful, or up till November you decided to be mindful because, as a coach, with this Naked Mind, we really work on that and I do in my client, with my clients. But it happened naturally for you that you wanted to know how you felt, which is such a big turning point, and I was similar because I did start to notice that I wasn't very happy when I was drinking towards the end, and so I did start to think more about it. And I think it's a natural progression for some people to drink just because it's habit, because your body needs it or wants it, and then to start realizing, ah, that wasn't fun, that didn't make me happy. So it's really interesting to hear that you did that yourself and came to the conclusion, also with moderation, that I did.

Speaker 1: 9:03

It's that thinking about drinking, isn't it? The thought process around moderation is just so painful I found Trying to work out how many drinks will I have, will I have water in between, maybe I'll just drink on a Friday, maybe I'll start with water, and then just so many thoughts that it actually took up all my time. So I also came to the conclusion for myself that moderation was just not. It was almost worse, to be honest, and it was worse because I didn't drink for a couple of sips. That's just like ah, yeah, no, I agree, yeah, I want.

Speaker 1: 9:43

The reason I'm drinking is to numb out and get that buzz initially. So you know, I totally relate to that. I also related when you mentioned being healthy, and I come across. So many people were so conscious of health and I just didn't think about the alcohol I was putting in. I go to the gym, I studied nutrition. I'd be really healthy, you know, and it was this one thing that was always going to prevent that, that goal that I had of being healthy, and I also had the body image. I think there's a little bit about that journey for you, because I also see that in a lot of people who drink this body image issue.

Speaker 2: 10:23

Yeah, so it's. I mean, I think alcohol culture and diet culture obviously are not 100% related, but they're similar, right, yeah, and I think with the body image issues, you know, maintaining this weight and this health, and I think that's very slow, because I love to be healthy, I love to eat healthy foods. But I think also it's similar to alcohol like the habits is that you do get dopamine rushes, do use food sometimes for really bad. I don't want to say bad things, like it's just the habit. Like, for example, anxiety when I get anxious, stressed, I sometimes am an emotional eater. So it's something that I've had to learn.

Speaker 2: 11:09

I'm still working on that, actually still, but I find that I'm like if I can stop drinking, I can work on this other thing, and I think that I just find that when you remove alcohol, a lot of people are like I thought it was gonna be better and I'm like it will get better. But you know, it taught me too is I still have anxiety and things that I have to work on and body image is one of them and it's getting better. But also the habit of going to food to soothe this. So it's like people have counter habits, right? Okay, so now I'm not drinking, but I'm dealing with my emotions still in a way that's not counterproductive.

Speaker 1: 11:50

I very much relate to that and you know, same journey and after stopping drinking I did turn to sugar for quite a bit and I still do at times. You know people. I find some people do want it to be a quick resolution of everything's perfect, but you know it's not and I wouldn't really want it to be, because it's in that after giving up that we learned so much about ourselves. And the reason I'm doing this is because the reasons that all of this connects actually and, like you and I have done, we can help other people with that now as well. But it's also been a journey where we've discovered things about ourselves and I will talk to you soon about the manifestation and finding your purpose, because I feel since stopping drinking, I've been able to find mine. But I did want to ask you about something else you mentioned and that's the mummy wine culture, because it is huge.

Speaker 1: 12:49

So what were your experiences with that? You said that you thought it was funny and so did I, you know. But you also secretly were in a shame, blame kind of cycle. And I do say to clients sometimes, you know, because often when we stop drinking, if someone sort of says why or you're boring, you know it can be a reflection on their feelings. So when you said that, I thought that's exactly it. You had your own. Outwardly it was great and funny and you were joining in, but inwardly we knew. Well, I knew, yeah, it wasn't serving me and it was that cognitive dissonance. I was one person, but I was thinking something different. So can you tell us about your experience with mummy wine culture?

Speaker 2: 13:35

Yeah, I built this like identity. So people would send me funny wine things and I was like huge in a drinking wine and I built this, like when I say identity is, oh see, wine let's think of Chrissy and so I posted a lot about it, I joked about it, you know, and then I even had t-shirts that said different things about wine. There was one that was so bad I threw it away once I stopped drinking, but it was something about, you know, wine and weights, because I have kids like basically saying I have to drink and be strong in order to raise kids, which the being strong part, you know, I could get with that. But then the wine part was like, oh my gosh, like now I read about the statistics about women dying more from alcohol related diseases and I believe that, mummy, wine culture is a huge, huge culprit. And I just I think that it's so important to realize that, you know, we don't need wine or alcohol to numb out, relax, have our me time. And I think I didn't even realize what I was doing. I just thought it was funny and then in some ways I like wondered too. I'm like God, did it give me this identity? I wanted to be known as this funny person, and so it's just a slippery slope.

Speaker 2: 14:59

But at the end of the day, I think it also reinforced the fact that you know again, I don't know exactly what I thought at that time, but I think too, it probably just reinforced. Having wine and laughing about it, drinking wine with friends, this is what we do. We're moms, you know we do that. But then you know, once I again, once I read about all of it and then just really what it was saying. And then I have a child and he's old enough where he can read and I was like, oh, I mean, that just basically says that I need wine to be a mom. And that's insane, if you think about it, because I mean, when we say this about heroin, I need heroin to relax and unwind, and it's. You know, I need heroin to deal with my kids. You know we wouldn't say that, but essentially it's the same concept, right? It's a drug.

Speaker 2: 15:55

So I think, when we take that into consideration, the fact more women are dying, the fact that it's like war on women, you know we have to educate people and I think, just like myself, it's not getting mad at the women that are posting this it's. We need to support each other and say, hey, be careful posting that or listing that. And even if you look on social media, all the likes from the funny wine stuff and the shares. And so I think my fear, now that I'm not drinking and now that I understand just how awful it is, is that one is, children are seeing that. What are they thinking, you know?

Speaker 2: 16:38

And also too, when we not dealing with our own emotions, you know one is we're getting bad coping strategies and it's getting reinforced over and over again by all this saying you need wine, you know how to relax, have wine, you deserve wine or whatever alcohol. But then also our children are seeing that and I am concerned that you know one, the emotional toll it's taking our children. You know there was a study done that it showed that children they were a little bit older, but they felt like confused because sometimes their parents would be different when they drink. They'd be mean, they'd be nicer, it was very inconsistent. And so I think the inconsistency and I even think back to when I was drinking I'm like, oh yeah, I'm sure it was really inconsistent. Right, you stay up later, or you know, it was just different when you are drinking in your buzz verse when you're clear and sober, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 17:40

I read something today about how kids can be affected. You know, sometimes, like you just said, you can be nicer and that you wouldn't necessarily think that's a bad thing for your kids. But you know it was saying that kids felt fear around that predictability, but also they don't want to be smothered by an alcohol-smelling mum who can only be affectionate when they're drinking. I think we overlook those kind of things and it's always a bit of a wake-up call to me when I hear things like that. But I think also you touched on you know this Mummy Wine culture. It's a really enabling thing and for me it worked so well because if anyone put a meme up or said anything to me, that was my green light. Great, I'll drink this afternoon because someone has said you're a mum, you need to.

Speaker 1: 18:34

It enabled me to keep drinking. Almost was a trigger. Really, I never want to come out of this preachy either, because that was me. But, like you said, we're here to support each other. It's no one's, it's society. This is what our kids are growing up with and it is scary. It's really scary.

Speaker 2: 18:57

And I think you know this because you coach, too with the subconscious right. So, like the things we see over and over and over again, what we hear, you know all those different ways we get things into our brain and I think what's real and what's not and we don't know that we're actually like acting on something that we've seen or heard over and over and over again and we can't change it. So the new narrative has to be something that's healthier and makes more sense for women and for kids. Truthfully, because you know, I had a 13-year-old tell me she couldn't wait to drink alcohol.

Speaker 2: 19:36

Not because she's drinking, it's because she's seen adults drink and it looks like fun, they're having a great time, it's really portrayed in movies as a really beautiful thing. It's what adults do. All adults drink, unless you have a problem is really the undertone of everything. So I believe also that because I'm not drinking and my husband drinks, so it's not that I'm going to ever shame someone for drinking. But I also feel like people need to have options and know that they don't have to do something because everyone's doing it, because it doesn't mean that you want to do it and I believe that's really the case with me too, is that I think I actually wanted to drink, probably less than I wanted to drink. I just did what everyone did.

Speaker 1: 20:23

Definitely, and I've got kids who I also think what's portrayed is that you only stop drinking if you've got a big problem. And I really try and tell my kids and I've got two adult daughters now that I chose to stop drinking. It doesn't mean I was worse than someone that's continuing to drink. What I feel is that I'm labelled the problem because I chose to stop, whereas really we have chosen to stop. We're the ones fixing our situation, but from society there's still that stigma attached to it. So it's also important I tell my kids that you don't have to have a problem to stop drinking and alcohol use disorder, because alcoholism isn't a recognised medical term. Alcohol use disorder is binge drinking four or five drinks and suddenly it's like, oh, a lot more people are included in that.

Speaker 2: 21:33

Yes, yeah, yeah, I would say huge chunk of society is in the mild to moderate, if not heavy, but I would take the gray area, probably huge, mild and probably a lot more moderate. I remember googling one time when I was really blacking out because I'm like, oh my God, there's something wrong with me, and because it's embarrassing, it's so anxiety-provoking, and you're like, why can't I control my alcohol? What's wrong with me? And I feel like that's where you know, understanding how alcohol affects you and reading about it can make you feel better. You're like, oh, that makes sense. And honestly, everybody is built so differently too.

Speaker 2: 22:17

And we talk about even alcohol use disorder. Yes, there is a, there is a number of drinks, there is a protocol for getting diagnosed with it. But truthfully, I'm a sensitive person. So, like foods, alcohol, they affect me a lot. And for me not to drink or not to eat mass amounts of sugar, like I just feel better and not saying I never eat sugar.

Speaker 2: 22:42

But you know, I think it's more about listening to your body and listening to what your brain is telling you, your intuition. So a lot of times people know, like I know, I think, I know I should probably stop a little bit or I've been thinking about not drinking and they don't do anything about it because they don't, they're not quote unquote an alcoholic or problematic or whatever they want to define in society standards, and then they don't do anything about it and years go on and that's just kind of a little bit about my story too is I didn't actually know I could quit and I didn't know, like that was an, even an option, because it's not talked about enough. Now it's talked about a little bit more.

Speaker 1: 23:22

Yes, definitely, you know. Jumping back to the mummy wine culture, one of the main reasons I did stop when I stopped was because I was so worried about being the mum on the news that was driving my kids to school but was still over the limit from the night before, and because we've had a couple of celebrities in Sydney who have been caught doing that, as well as non celebrities. But you know it's, I was so worried because I didn't know if I was still going to be over the limit the next day and so bad for the kid I just saw I can't do it and that was a big you know it started. The mummy wine culture got me in and it's sort of also what stopped me, because it was, you know, that scared me more than many things as well, as I wanted to be a better mother for my kids because, no matter what, alcohol wasn't helping me, even though at times I thought, yeah, I'm a better parent, more patient. That was rare, that was rare with alcohol, but yeah, it's a big topic and just allowing, you know, like you just said, knowing that we can stop drinking even if it's not a lot, and I'm sure you find with clients and that that people are in this grey area and I've had people reach out to me and say I was only drinking one drink a week but I've stopped now because they've listened to the podcast and things and found out health issues. It's like we might stop eating bread, you know, white processed, for our health.

Speaker 1: 25:02

Same thing, like you just said. And it, even one drink, can affect our sleep, and I was talking to my kids about that. You know, for me particularly, one drink was a nightmare. I got headaches, definitely couldn't sleep, woke up in the night. And that's just one drink, let alone many, many more. So it's you will know. You know stopping it does over time really positively impact so many different areas. But I also wanted to ask you about manifesting, because you talk about manifesting your purpose. So can you tell us a bit about what that entailed, how you did it and how you came to find manifestation?

Speaker 2: 25:47

So I loved a manifestation before I quit drinking. So I actually stumbled onto it by accident, by some YouTube meditation and that's kind of how I got into it. I was changing jobs to come to Florida and I started learning about manifestation at that time. You know about just different, the way we different, we think about things, just trying to think of the outcome, and all this different part of manifestation. But what happened for me, that really kind of, I think, took it to a different level, is realizing that alcohol was actually my intuition telling me to stop drinking like my higher self saying you should stop drinking, you should stop drinking, you should stop drinking.

Speaker 2: 26:31

And so once I actually, in that November, I stopped drinking, I actually heard myself say doors will open if you stop drinking alcohol, like I heard myself. It was crazy and I was like huh. So then I started thinking about purpose and so for my 2022 goals I kind of want to go back up was my manifestation, I guess, goal or main? I wanted to manifest these types of things. Every year I put something I want to manifest. I put multiple things typically, but one this 2022 was changed my relationship with alcohol and I didn't say sober because I didn't, I didn't know at that time and then in 2023 was fine on purpose. So I think I'll talk a little bit more about the manifesting part, but I think listening to yourself is going to be the key also, and belief. So if you wanna change your relationship with alcohol, you don't have to know exactly how you're gonna do it. You don't have to know because you might not know and oftentimes you don't know how the outcome is gonna go. So in 2023, I was like I don't figure out what my purpose is. You know, and I also did not. I'm gonna tell the truth, I didn't enjoy sobriety in the beginning, and I'm sure you understand too is that we are working the mindset component. So I was still like feeling like I was missing out a little bit and that was a huge thing. So I heard myself say, write books. And then I thought about writing a children's book and at this point I was like, okay, well, I'm just gonna listen to it. So I had the idea to write a kid's book and so now I've written two and kids books, published both on Amazon. I've written a third one. This one I'm going to send to agents. It's actually about alcohol, but it's about owls and a little bit different than my other two books. But yeah, and so that was a huge thing and I really enjoyed that. And then I became a coach, which was something else that I really enjoyed. I think the combination of both was really what made alcohol insignificant.

Speaker 2: 28:47

And again, just learning about the mindset components of alcohol culture and poking holes in the things that I was taught for so many years. So it's like really unlearning, honestly, half the stuff we were taught our holy life about alcohol. And the same goes with manifesting. So if we want to manifest things, it's the belief it's to, sometimes not knowing how we're gonna get it exactly. It's having faith, but it's actually taking action too.

Speaker 2: 29:15

So I could have just thought about writing a book and did nothing with it oh, I can't write books, I'm not an author. But then I was like huh, let's see what we can do with this, and I think that's that is. I mean, I can go on about manifestation, that's how I really feel, like purpose, your intuition, and then we can try to manifest those things too. Right, and again, it's not always having perfect clarity on how we're gonna get there, but if we just think about it and we don't do anything about it like drinking, writing, books, coaching, you wanna go travel the world If we just think about these things and we think, oh, we can't do them, we're not gonna ever do them ever.

Speaker 1: 29:55

Yeah, I really love manifesting as well and I follow someone called Denise Duffield oh, yeah, I know her. Yeah, yeah, so for money. So I've been doing some of that. Yeah, I really, and I think I've always dabbled in it because I was quite spiritual from a teenager and I've read different things. So it really intrigues me and I love that you speak about that highest self-talking to you. I call it the niggle, and it is that voice that once it comes up, it's not going For me. Once it said something has to change around alcohol. It was there and it really is trusting that and it's yourself looking out for yourself, which is amazing. But yeah, so I love manifesting your purpose. So, just a little bit, what did you do around the books that helped you go from just thinking about writing them to publishing?

Speaker 2: 30:59

Yeah. So I think when we talk about manifesting it's, you know one, I'm gonna think of this, I'm gonna do this, I'm a hundred percent gonna do this, having that belief that you're gonna do it, you know, and being grateful, writing out that you're grateful that you published your book or whatever you did in the future like applicants already happened. But as far as, like, what I actually did is, I was like, like I said, I had the thought I should write a kid's book. I was at my counter, I had the idea of what I want to write my kid's book about, and then I'm like, well, I don't know how to write kids books, because I mean, there is some learning to this, right, it's not that I can't do it, but I also have never written a book, right, so I had to have some type of education. So I purchased a program to write kids books you know just how many words like, all that stuff that I have no clue and I did that and that really helped me write it. And once I started writing it, it just came out there's lots, lots, a lot, a lot of ways to publish books. I self-published myself, so I got it edited, I got illustrated and then I it's on Amazon. I have two books on Amazon and so, yeah, that was just, I just did it.

Speaker 2: 32:22

And I think the thing is, when we talk about purpose, you know, again it's ourselves getting tripped up and again, once we remove alcohol, people are like, oh, I just don't know, it doesn't feel so good Because again, any limiting belief you have or any negative emotions, negative thoughts, they were still there. So it's taking the thoughts we have and being curious about them, just like being curious about alcohol. You don't have to necessarily write a book tomorrow, but write it down, like if I have random thoughts, I'll write them down and I can revisit it later. Or if I have a creative idea, I'll write it down, because that's our intuition. It doesn't mean we have to do everything, but the thoughts of writing books, it didn't seem anxiety provoking, it was just a thought, but I did something with it. And so this is the thing with manifesting it's not that like, okay, I'm just gonna hope for large sums of money and it's gonna come by tomorrow. It doesn't work that way. It's taking what they call inspired action. So I took inspired action. I learned, I wrote and it came to life and it was really cool and I do feel like removing alcohol gave me the clarity to actually think about these things, because I didn't really think about these big goals or doing big things.

Speaker 2: 33:51

I also think that people find they're not satisfied in their jobs or not satisfied with certain parts of their lives Doesn't mean they're unhappy, but I feel like that's also with purpose is oh crap. Maybe I'm not very satisfied in parts of my life and alcohol might be exciting or might be a downer. It makes me feel, it helps me chill out or it helps me have more excitement. So I do believe trying to tap into what you're meant to do will make alcohol insignificant at some point. When you're doing things that are just so much better, more fulfilling and you're serving your life purpose on this planet, alcohol doesn't have time, it's irrelevant.

Speaker 1: 34:32

Yeah, I love that my business is called Glassful Field because fulfillment was something I've always searched for. It wasn't until I did take notice of my voice saying stop drinking, you need. You're here for more. You're here for a reason beyond that you haven't discovered yet. And that's when, and, in a way, I've done so many years of thinking.

Speaker 1: 34:57

It's a manifestation of thoughts that's kind of come together and I see it as puzzle pieces and I've always written things down. Like you were saying, with the Denise Duffield Thomas, it's around money and it does involve writing things down. There is work involved, just as there is giving up alcohol, and I always wanted and I know people want a quick fix. But it's interesting work, it's fun work, and I say that about giving up alcohol too. Of course there are hard times, but it's about ourselves. And it's the same with manifesting writing and I'm not a good journal.

Speaker 1: 35:36

I do lists, things like that. Each morning now I do three gratitude things and then I, like you said, I write things in the present. I am worthy, I am earning all that kind of stuff. I just put it under my gratitude list. And there's things like vision boards that I've done in the past but that was great, but I wasn't in the right head space. I literally did it and went great, I've done it, but I didn't then work towards what I'd put on there. But even that was sort of a step in the right direction for me and I enjoy that now doing, say, a vision board and having it up in front of me and then consciously taking the small steps each day. But yeah, so very, very interesting and I'm sure there's so much more to hear from you and learn about. Can I just ask where Alice Ness can find you, chrissy?

Speaker 2: 36:33

Yes, I'm at all social media platforms at Chrissy Janice, janice, I don't know if you'll have it in your show notes.

Speaker 1: 36:41

Yes, I will put it all in the show notes so easy for people to find.

Speaker 2: 36:44

I'm not going to spell my last name and my whole name, but I do all my stuff is my name, but it's wwwchristyjanicecom. But I have a free Facebooker for women. I'm going to be hosting a free masterclass soon, so there's lots of great things going on. I have tons of free resources too. I have alcohol free resources and manifestation and limiting belief resources as well.

Speaker 1: 37:09

Amazing. I'm going to jump on to the manifestation resources and everything will be in the show notes for everyone to find. That was just so interesting and I, like I said, we could keep going, but I will let people find their way to you and learn more that way. But I so appreciate you coming on and spending time with us today, chrissy, thank you so much.

Speaker 2: 37:32

Well, thank you for having me. Yeah, absolute pleasure.