Alcohol Free With Me

13/07/2026

💚Sober in the country, alcohol free beers & boozy country songs

👏785 days sobriety
Dang it, I’m proud of me.

🚐Last week I was on a road trip to Toowoomba and was playing the country top50 playlist on Spotify. (Thanks to Lise at the gym for introducing that one to me). I LOVE COUNTRY 🤠🎶 MUSIC.

I was singing out loud to the songs and couldn’t help but notice/hear the amount of booze, beer, whiskey and wine in the songs. I smiled.
Country music and living a country lifestyle seems to go hand in hand with alcohol….
Till one decides it doesn’t anymore, for them.
I am one of them.

Even though I am not ‘from’ a country lifestyle, I feel super at home when ‘in the country’.
I LOVE the coastal country town of Moore Park Beach that we live in.
The boozing sure is a thing in our country towns.

However, slowly very slowly but surely there are more folks choosing a limited alcohol lifestyle or choosing sobriety.

It ain’t easy but it sure is very doable! If Mira can quit the booze, than anyone can.
Seriously. Not kidding.

If you’re struggling, you’re not alone. I struggled. Without the online and live support I would not have come so far.

Connection is the answer to addiction. Connect. Stay connected. Lost connection? Reconnect…

I’m right here for a chat.
Feel free to reach out if you’d like to explore a life with less or with zero alcohol.

“We are most qualified to help the person we used to be…..”

With love,
-Mira 💚

ps: with so much gratitude for our local Moore Park Beach Tavern for stocking the zero Heaps Normal lager and XPA! 🙏👏🍻

13/07/2026

Happy and grateful that Moore Park Beach Tavern is stocking the Heaps Normal lager and quiet XPA alcohol free beers! 🍻🙏💚

22/05/2026

After I had lost my husband in 2006, we were both only 34, I very much had a “life is short”, “you only live once” attitude; “life can be over in a split second”. Live life to the fullest right. And that meant drinking for me, at that stage…And I drank -just socially. At that stage. Slowly but surely problem drinking sneaked in…. Or had I always been a problem drinker? Was I never able to moderate?
During and after my second marriage I drank quite a bit… numbing? Self medicating? For sure! In hindsight anything is easier to see.
I love what “Radiant in Battle” writes. And I can totally relate.
Life is short for sure and to not numb anything about it anymore with booze and never live in the after alcohol fog anymore is the best thing I’ve done for myself. And I am 100% sure it has a ripper ripple effect on my young son.

22/05/2026

Thank you for visiting my band new page!

Created by the amazing Melissa, my second brain as I love to call her. Because she is.
Melissa also made the website (and I love it so much!):
www.alcoholfreewithme.com.au (have a browse).

In the near future I will be organising (free of course) 'Walk with me's and 'Sober social meet up's.
No pressure, no judgment. Let's build supportive alcohol free friendships.

My workshops (not available till later in the year) will come at a very affordable cost. Or maybe I can get "Great Northern Zero"/"Heineken Zero"/"Heaps Normal Pale Ale", any of them, to sponsor my events.
I am very, very aware there is loads of money being made in the alcohol industry.. I still work in it and have grown up in it... But come on guys, let's keep creating less toxic drinks too!

Why am I loud and proud sober?
Because I have been struggling in silence during my last few NOTSober years... Maybe reading here about my challenges and freedom found, might help you or inspire you to (tiptoe into) exploring sobriety. I am here for you. I have been there. I do not see myself as a 'forever alcoholic'. Why label myself that way??

I say 'I used to be a 'problemdrinker', now I am a proud 'nondrinker'. It is not easy, but it is VERY doable. With the help and support of others. Don't try and go at this alone. Because the answer to addiction is connection. Reach out and connect, if you feel like it. And slowly you will connect better with yourself too. That is where the real answer lies; WITHIN YOU. That is my personal experience.. create calm and clarity and a healthier, alcoholfree life can be around the corner. It takes time, yep. Take that time.
Have a look in the mirror and say to yourself: "You are WORTH IT!" Because you are.

With so much love from me to you,
Mira 💚

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21/05/2026

❣️❣️Two Years 🎈👏🥳🥰🥂
😮2️⃣💕Wow… ‘all of sudden’ it’s been 2 years since I had my last drink.
🥂Bubbles to be precise. At my then home at Sylvan Drive in Moore Park Beach. With a couple of girlfriends. It was fun, it was yum. Even though I enjoyed the drinks in this social setting with a lovely lunch, I remember vividly I could not stop and wanted/needed more. I picked up my bonus daughter from her shift at the tavern and I had brought more bubbles home. Ugh… that stop button was simply nowhere to be found in my system.
🤕😔Waking up on the 19th with another yucky hangover, I simply knew this was REALLY IT. 😩I wasted another day of my life….. not feeling 100% at the hands of alcohol. My own hands..not being able to not touch the alcohol….
❗️I decided THIS IS IT. I just knew it. Once you know, you know. I have never been so sure about knowing anything in my life. This was the end.
I had stopped drinking many times before… to then start again after a little or long break. Over 6 months was my longest sober streak.
I tried moderation…Unsuccessful. 👎
1️⃣ I was so proud to reach a full year. 👏
A whole year of ‘firsts without…’ in this case alcohol. Birthdays, holidays, days off, diners with friends etc….
When we loose a loved one and we go through ‘firsts without….’, it’s hard. We grieve our loved ones. 🥺
And certain special days without them are just the hardest… In a way I grieved my fun life (obviously not always fun, otherwise I wouldn’t feel the NEED to stop)… and sometimes I still miss it. I am not comparing losing a loved to losing alcohol…. I am just sharing my feelings re missing certain moments that will never come back….😔🥰
Yep yep of course I still have heaps of fun in my life, without the booze. But I just really do miss the crazy s**t I got up to sometimes. Many fun memories, but also a few dozen nasty ones in which others or myself got hurt. Not pretty.
So this is definitely it.
⁉️Forever?
Forever for now.😄
Two years and counting!
One day at a time….