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Founder Tracy Ollerenshaw Sobriety and Identity Coach for Women.
✨This is about so much more than what’s in your glass.
✨Let’s rediscover who you are and what you’re capable of.
1:1 Coaching | Retreats | Glimmers

18/10/2026

The Sunday 7am club
Where you get to choose
rather than the booze. My mouth’s not dry. My head doesn’t hurt. My face isn’t full of slept in make up. I’m not riddled with dread, regret or anxiety. I didn’t row with my husband last night. I can get up early for a hike. I can wake and soak up the peace of my lounge under a blanket with steaming hot coffee. I can light a candle and listen to a meditation track. I can do whatever I want!!! And I couldn’t do that before.

That’s freedom.

When your partner brings w**e as a treat it’s an offer to the old version of you and it’s keeping you stuck.Not because ...
16/10/2026

When your partner brings w**e as a treat it’s an offer to the old version of you and it’s keeping you stuck.

Not because he’s sabotaging you. Because you won’t say the firm truth about what you want.

One client said “my ambivalence is confusing him.”

Right. Because she keeps saying “I’m not sure” instead of “I’m doing two years.”

He hears maybe. So he keeps offering. And she keeps white-knuckling or caving. Then the shame lands. And it reopens tomorrow, next weekend, the next time the kids are in bed.

The partner isn’t the problem. The vague maybe is.

Here’s what I know after coaching women through this: you can’t build an alcohol-free identity you’re keeping secret or negotiable. You can’t be half in. You can’t say “maybe” and expect the door to close.

Truth said out loud is the disruptor. Not his understanding. Not his support. Your firm, clear, non-negotiable truth.

“I’m doing two years.”

“I don’t drink anymore.”

“I’m alcohol-free and that’s not changing.”

Say it to him. Say it to yourself. Say it out loud until it stops feeling like a performance and starts feeling like fact.

Because the moment you own it, the negotiation ends. The door closes. The shame stops compounding.

That’s when it sticks.

If you’re ready to own it, say it, build it loudly and make it stick for good,  DM me GLIMMER and let’s talk. We can start with a free 30 minute Glimmer Shift call.

12/10/2026

“Why am I still thinking about having a drink?”

If you’re solid in your sobriety and that thought pops up at the most unexpected moment, just pause before you make it mean anything.

Because sometimes you can be so busy noticing the thought, worrying about the thought, focusing on the thought that you miss how far you’ve come. Look at how you respond…You assess.You question. You remember what being alcohol free gives you and what drinking took from
you and you choose to protect your precious sobriety.

That’s my Glimmer of the Week. Proof of how far you’ve come. Give yourself some major kudos for that… no matter where you are on your sober journey!

And remember….A thought isn’t an instruction.

I’m Tracy, more than 3.5 years alcohol free, sobriety and identity coach, community leader and retreat host - I talk about your evidence a lot because if you’ve been alcohol free before and that felt better, that’s your evidence and it’s worth thinking about.

“Life’s too short. Have the w**e.”Let’s call BS on this one right now.You’ve said it to yourself so many times. And you’...
11/10/2026

“Life’s too short. Have the w**e.”
Let’s call BS on this one right now.

You’ve said it to yourself so many times.

And you’re right about one thing....life is too short.

Too short to keep waking up hating on yourself because you drank...again....even though you swore blind you weren’t going to earlier in the day. But there was a bottle open. That second one you opened last night.

Too short to keep spending so much of your peri-meno brain power having the same chinwag with the w**e witch all the time. It’s so exhausting. And she’s a sneaky bitch.

Too short to spend three hours sozzled on the sofa, alone, going back and forth to the fridge to top up your small w**e glass - the one you bought to make you drink less.

Those phrases, YOLO, go big or go home, treat yourself, you deserve it, they sound like permission to live your best life.

But when it comes to drinking. They’re actually permission to numb it. You’re not living your life. It’s happening to you. You’re existing. And I know because that was me too.

The regret that hits before you’ve even weaved your way gripping onto the bannister to get to bed isn’t actually enjoyment. It’s a trade-off. And you know it.

The thing is you’ve already had a glimpse of what life feels like without booze.

The Sunday mornings you woke up clear, proud, got a walk in with a friend then came home to make pancakes and catch up with the girls as they showed off their dances for their upcoming show. All before 10.

That glint of confidence to go for the promotion, try that new yoga class and feeling more comfortable and content in your own skin...skin that glows now rather than looking constantly grey and needing allll the foundation.

Those moments? They’re proper evidence of something you want more of.

So maybe “life’s too short” doesn’t have to be your reason to drink.

Maybe it can be your reason to remember this version of you.

You don’t have to wait until you’re more disappointed in yourself to ask for support.

If this sounds a bit like you, DM me YOLO and I’ll send you the 7 questions I ask every woman who’s ready to flip “Life’s Too Short”

05/10/2026

You stopped drinking and started thinking, “Actually, I could do this.”

That business idea. A new qualification. The career change you’d been talking yourself out of.

This week, I had conversations with three women in my world are going for it.

A sauna business.
Training to offer therapeutic yoga and mindfulness to children.
A leadership coaching qualification.

One told me: “I wouldn’t even have dreamt of it, let alone actually started when I was still drinking.”

This is my Glimmer of the Week. Because I remember it. It was me too. My why was because I wanted to retrain and change career. I knew alcohol was in the way. I just had no idea how much.

Maybe you’ve had your own little whiff of that possibility. More energy, more confidence, actually following through.

And now you’re drinking again, wondering how to get back there.

If this is you, I offer a free 30-minute Glimmer Shift session to explore what keeps pulling you back, despite knowing what you want.

DM me GLIMMER and I’ll send you the details.

What did you start believing was possible? ✨

04/10/2026

Who’s with me? 🌅

We used to wake up feeling rank after every Friday night. Now we wake up looking forward to seeing each other. The Sober...
02/10/2026

We used to wake up feeling rank after every Friday night. Now we wake up looking forward to seeing each other.

The Sober Glimmers Community is ONE. And I’m so bloody proud.

Proud of every woman who’s joined. Who’s stepped out of her comfort zone and thought, “I want to meet other people doing this too.”

When I stopped drinking, joining a community at 100 days helped me see what my alcohol-free life could actually look like. Having people who understood, who celebrated the milestones and wanted to do things where alcohol played no part made such a difference. I wanted to create that space for other women.

And now our Saturday morning calls have become a little moment in our week. It’s how we start the weekend. A cuppa, a catch-up, a laugh. Space to talk about whatever’s going on, share without judgement and feel accepted.

I used to go to bed too late on a Friday and wake up feeling like s**t. Now I’m up looking forward to seeing these wonderful women.

Over this year, we’ve taken those friendships from our screens into walks, swims, socials and retreats. We’ve tried new things, had proper, deep connected conversations and laughed lots too.

On our birthday call last night one lady who came on my recent Retreat and then joined the community said:
“I’m just looking forward to having friends to do it with now.”

That’s it. That’s why this matters. To belong.

I get sooooo much from this community too. To every woman who’s been part of our first year: thank you for showing up as yourself and making it what it is.

If you’re a woman building your alcohol-free life and thinking, “I’d love some people to do this with” come and join us.

DM me COMMUNITY and I’ll send you the deets 👯✨💖

01/10/2026

Taking a break from booze is great.

But if you’ve done that before, what’s going to make this time different?

The women I work with have had alcohol-free stints. Multiple times. They’ve done Sober October and/or Dry January, devoured the podcasts, read the books, been in the groups. And know it felt better than they feel right now. Right now they’re back in the w**e loop.

Because a challenge on its own doesn’t get underneath your specific relationship with booze.

You need the job you’re giving alcohol. Spot the patterns. Get curious about them and change them.

That’s what private 1:1 coaching does.

You’ve already got the evidence that alcohol free life feels brighter, better and clearer.

If you’re after proper change, not just a temporary break, give me a follow. I was a 5-night a week grey area drinker who used to worship prosecco and now I’m more than 3.5 years sober and I frickin’ love it 👯✨💖

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