January Series 2026 | Day 28 | Drinking Maths

About this episode

Louisa Evans discusses the real costs of moderate drinking and the benefits of sobriety in her January Series episode.

Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026. Most people's goal when trying to moderate is to be a weekend drinker. But let's look at what the real cost of that pattern of drinking is. Sobriety is actually true freedom. Anything you can do to reframe what alcohol offers really helps and so today the focus is the drinking maths and how much time and energy lost to drinking. Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supporting people who want sobriety to feel steadier, clearer and more sustainable. For listeners who want extra support during this month or beyond, Louisa’s course Sober Resilience is available with a thirty percent discount throughout the series using the code DRYJAN26 . The course…

People in this episode

Host: Louisa Evans

Topics covered

• drinking moderation
• psychology of sobriety
• cost of drinking
• cognitive behavioural approaches
• emotional regulation

Keywords

• drinking maths
• sobriety
• alcohol
• psychology
• cravings
• behavioural patterns
• identity shifts

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Organizations: www.louisaevans.com

Products: Sober Resilience

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