My name is Clare.   

Since my teenage years I considered myself to be a 'party girl'!  I have always been sociable and confident and felt drinking alcohol was enhancing that.  

But with middle age and the menopause knocking at my door along came a new relationship with alcohol. Think crippling hangovers and hangziety, wasted weekends, memory loss, and a general sense of not liking who I saw in the mirror.

I was a grey area drinker.

Drinking was effecting me in more and more ways and I decided that something needed to change. I managed to stop drinking, and it was the best thing I have ever done for myself.

The journey to sobriety is not always easy for grey area drinkers because it's embedded in so much of our lives.   But it truly is possible with the right support.