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. Crippling hangovers and hangziety, wasted weekends, memory loss, and a general sense of not liking who I saw in the mirror.

Drinking was affecting me in more and more ways and I decided that something needed to change.   I have been sober since 2022 and it's quite honestly the best thing I have ever done.