For middle aged, exhausted, Aussie women who are done turning to a drink to cope
Twelve weeks, grounded in neuroscience. Understand why you reach for a drink when things get hard, then build a calmer way through burnout that actually sticks.
Next cohort: 2nd October 2026. Limited spots
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I thought I needed to change my drinking. What I actually discovered was how much of myself I'd lost. Throughout the programme I realised I had to quit my toxic job and move to live on a rural farm. DTD really highlighted obstacles I didn't clearly see before. I know who I am again and what I want my life to look like.
QLD, 38
I was always there for my kids but I wasn't always present. I'm calmer, less reactive and our relationship has completely changed. That alone was worth doing this.
NSW, 36
I thought exhaustion, 3am wake-ups and dragging myself through the day were just part of midlife. I sleep properly now, I have energy again and most importantly, I enjoy my life and found love again.
VIC, 48
I don't spend my days negotiating with myself about alcohol anymore. That constant 'tonight, tomorrow, Monday' conversation has finally gone quiet. The freedom is enormous. And I can not believe how much time it created for me. I went in thinking I was quitting booze, I came out with a new lease on life at 52!
NSW, 52
Who it's for
Honestly, if something about your relationship with alcohol doesn't sit right anymore, whatever that looks like for you, hiding it, grey area drinking, bingeing, or something else entirely, this program was built for you.
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Time and how it works
Around thirty to sixty minutes for the video lesson and worksheets, plus a one hour live Zoom call. Miss a call and you've still got the recording, so you won't fall behind.
2nd October! Limited spots available.
Twelve weeks, start to finish and walk away with a Blueprint for Life (a new one).
Each week you get a video lesson from me, the actual science behind why the habit works the way it does, two worksheets to put it into practice, access to the private Facebook group and a live group Zoom call where we go through it together.
Both. The lessons and worksheets are yours to work through in your own time however you're not doing it alone. There's a weekly live call and a private group of women doing the same twelve weeks.
The call gets recorded and the lessons stay available for the whole twelve weeks, so a missed week doesn't put you behind.
Who it's for
Not necessarily. This is for women who want to change their relationship with alcohol. Many are functioning well on paper, holding down a job, running a house, showing up for everyone but who've noticed a drink has become their main way of coping and want to deal with that before it turns into something bigger. Others are drinking too much, hiding it, binging on weekends and starting to have shocking hangovers or memory lapses. Some who just want to become the best version of themselves. We help a range of women in differing phases who ultimately desire change.
This program asks for twelve weeks, not a life sentence. Understand why you were reaching for a drink, put real alternatives in place and you might find going back to the old pattern doesn't appeal much anyway. Over 70% of our clients have not returned to drinking and others find a way to find peace with their moderation. Either way, that's your call to make with a clear head at the end, not something decided for you on day one.
Willpower alone doesn't change the pattern underneath, it just fights it and fighting something for months on end is exhausting and eventually perpetuates the cycle, a nasty loop. This program works on the pattern itself, the brain science behind why the craving turns up, nervous system tools for meeting it differently, and the parts of life, sleep, stress, hormones, identity, that keep the loop running. Designed by someone who has lived it first hand.
If a drink has become your main way of switching off, even a small amount most nights, that's exactly the pattern this program addresses. It's not about a number of drinks, it's about what role alcohol is playing in how you cope.
You don't need them to understand it to do the work. Plenty of women go through this program quietly and only talk about it once they're seeing changes. The group is there for support in the meantime.
The group is private and what's shared on calls and in the group stays there. Beyond that, whether you tell anyone in your life is entirely up to you.
The science and what makes it different
Most approaches focus on the drinking in isolation, willpower, tracking, cutting back. This one starts with why the habit formed in the first place, using neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to build new patterns, so you're not white knuckling your way through twelve weeks. You're changing the pattern, not just suppressing it. It's also about really working out who you really are, your belief systems around drinking and who you want to become.
The program draws on neuroplasticity research, how repeated new behaviour actually rewires habit pathways in the brain, alongside what's known about stress, cortisol and alcohol's effect on sleep and hormones. Every week you get the real science behind it and practical micro habits to start injecting change into your lifestyle.
Alcohol disrupts REM sleep even in small amounts, so most women notice their sleep is one of the first things that shifts once the pattern changes. The sleep and cortisol connection is covered directly in the weekly material. Alcohol alongside menopause is a recipe for pure hell (believe us we lived it).
It changes a lot, actually. Hormone shifts affect mood, sleep and cravings, and a lot of women find the drinking habit gets significantly worse over this period. That connection is covered specifically in the program.
Cost and logistics
Maximum of 15.
It's a group program, twelve weeks with the same cohort of women, plus the option of a one on one discovery call before you start so we can talk through where you're at.
Twelve weeks of video lessons and the real science behind the habit, worksheets that put it into practice, a weekly live Zoom call, access to the private Facebook group of like minded chicks, and a Readiness for Change assessment and Life Blueprint you build as you go.
Once you have committed to the programme the programme is non refundable. It really is to help you commit to change. Your brain is pretty swifty and will make up every excuse about why you shouldn't try.
Community and extra resources
Yes. There's a private Facebook group just for women going through the program, for the life admin questions that come up mid week and support between calls. It isn't an anonymous group, you do need to show your face there and that's deliberate. It is a safe moderated space that is there to assist ease the shame around booze. It's a small group of women doing the same work and actually showing up for each other, not a place to lurk.
Yes, alongside the weekly lessons there are podcast and resource recommendations if you want to go deeper between sessions. This is where a lot of the gold lies! Get off TikTok and use your brain for what it was intended.
After the program
You'll have a Life Blueprint for understanding where you are heading, who you are, handling stress, protecting your sleep and showing up for yourself, built around your own triggers, not a generic plan.
There are 1:1 offerings if you would like to book extra support along the way with the Founder, Mez.
If you're reading this and thinking about your own drink while you read it, that's usually a good sign you already know. The application itself is short and the honest answer comes out in the discovery call, not before you've even applied.
How we get the outcome
We start with why, not what. You'll learn what's actually happening in your brain and body when the craving hits, the stress loop, the dip in dopamine, the hormone shifts, so it stops feeling like a personal failing and starts making sense.
Every week you practise meeting the trigger a different way. Nervous system tools, sleep and stress strategies, honest work on whatever part of life is keeping the pattern alive. This is the part that actually changes things. Reading about it doesn't rewire anything. Doing it, in your actual week, does. This is a program of ACTION. If nothing changes, nothing changes.
By week twelve you've done more than avoid a drink here and there. You've built a blueprint for handling stress, protecting your sleep and showing up for yourself, so the change holds long after the program ends.
Meet the founder
I built Ditch the Drink because I lived it, not because I read about it somewhere. Burnout, perimenopause, menopause, a divorce, raising kids, a pandemic that crippled my business, unprocessed buried grief, looking after ageing parents and starting over in my career, sometimes several of those in the same year. A drink was how I got through a lot of it for a long time.
What actually changed things wasn't willpower, meditation, hypnosis or therapy. It was finally understanding what was going on in my brain and body and having a real structure to change it.
I'm a licensed mental health counsellor, a certified Naked Mind coach and I bring both to every cohort, because you don't need someone lecturing you from a textbook. You need someone who's actually done it.
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