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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

03/09/2026

Bring on the BER months - soBER obvs!
I’m buzzing and it’s not just because the kids are back at school.

Cosy Saturdays on the sofa with Strictly, roast dinners without even a thought of red wine, more gorgeous chilly walks and loads of my husband’s home-made apple crumble with apples from our garden. Oh and my girls eye rolling at me as I now start saying constantly “let’s batten down the hatches”

Can’t wait for every single teeny tiny glimmer that the rest of this year will bring.

If you’re figuring out life alcohol free - I’m a 48 year old party girl turned mummy wine time lover who ditched booze more than 3 years ago why not stick around ✨👯 💖

Big Love,
Tracy xx

“I can stop. I just can’t seem to stay stopped.”That’s something Kate said when we first spoke.She was 40 days alcohol-f...
01/09/2026

“I can stop. I just can’t seem to stay stopped.”

That’s something Kate said when we first spoke.

She was 40 days alcohol-free when she later wrote this about our six weeks together:

“I’ve completed Tracy’s six week Glimmer Shift coaching and it’s been a real breakthrough in my decision to become alcohol free. I was nervous to start up and the financial commitment but I felt I needed to do this coaching with Tracy. Tracey is so friendly, with a bubbly personality and soon my nerves quietened and I felt at ease and comfortable to share my story with her.

I would urge anyone who is worried about their alcohol intake to take up Tracy’s coaching, you will not regret it and she will help you reshape your life.

I am now 40 days alcohol free! I feel confident, happy and determined to carry on with this amazing life I am living - thank you from the bottom of my heart Tracy ❤️”

She’s now more than 80 days alcohol-free.

And September is going to be a very special month.

She’ll reach 100 days.

And she’ll be joining us on a Glimmers Retreat.

But I keep coming back to something else Kate told me when we first spoke:

“I’ve always felt like I’ve never finished anything. I’ve never completed anything.”

And then I read her words now:

“I feel confident, happy and determined to carry on.”

That’s the shift I see.

And I can’t bloody wait to watch her keep living it.

Tracy xx

30/08/2026

I knew alcohol was getting in my way when I stopped drinking.

But I had no idea how much of me was waiting on the other side of it.

More than three and a half years later, some of the biggest evidence isn’t in the things I thought would change.

It’s in moments like this.

Standing in a muddy field with my 15-year-old daughter, chucking it down, singing at the top of our lungs and her turning to me saying she wants to do it all again with me.

I’m the mum I always wanted to be.

And yesterday I got one of those little moments where I realised she gets this version of me too.

That’s my Glimmer of the Week ✨

Although today, after getting home at 2.30am (!) my main glimmer will be an early night.

What’s changed for you in sobriety that you just weren’t expecting? xx

28/08/2026

Maybe the wine’s already in the fridge. The Prosecco too. Maybe there’s a BBQ planned (with the men outside under brollies). Maybe you’ll drink because it’s bank holiday and that = fun. And maybe you’ll enjoy it.

But there’s another thought isn’t there. A louder one. It’s one you keep to yourself. One that’s getting harder to ignore.

September.

“Back to school, back to me, then I’ll do it”

“Then I’ll sort myself out”

“I’m ready for a detox after summer”

Because you already know how exhausted you feel and how fed you are. And you remember when you didn’t feel like that.

So maybe this weekend don’t focus on how much you’re putting away. Notice how much you don’t want it anymore.

That matters.

Tracy xx

One of the most frustrating things in life. Knowing you felt better last year, in 2022, 3 months ago but not understandi...
27/08/2026

One of the most frustrating things in life. Knowing you felt better last year, in 2022, 3 months ago but not understanding why you can’t get back to it.

You’ve listened to so many podcasts, read the quitlit and had the I Am Sober app for yonks and you know how crap your sleep is and that your anxiety’s through the roof so why is it that the thing you know don’t want anymore you keep reaching for anyway?

That’s the Glimmer Shift convo.

30 minutes. It’s free.

If you’d like to find out why you want the wine, even though you can’t actually stand the taste of it these days message me GLIMMER and I’ll pop you a voicenote xx

You can go days, weeks, months - sometimes nearly a year - knowing life is better without alcohol.Then something happens...
25/08/2026

You can go days, weeks, months - sometimes nearly a year - knowing life is better without alcohol.

Then something happens.

And suddenly the thing you didn’t even particularly want yesterday looks like exactly what you need tonight.

I’m never interested in how much you’re drinking or even what’s in your glass.

I’m interested in what changed before the drink started looking useful again.

Because that’s where your pattern starts to make a lot more sense.

And the pattern is exactly what we delve into in a free Glimmer Shift call.

If you’ve already proved you can stop (and you’ve experienced sooooo many gains) but can’t understand why you keep finding yourself back opening a bottle again, DM me GLIMMER and I can send you the details xx

A new one for us this year - we chose an apartment rather than hotel, which gave us more freedom to just do our own thin...
25/08/2026

A new one for us this year - we chose an apartment rather than hotel, which gave us more freedom to just do our own thing and we were in a new destination too.

Three beach days, a day trip to Dubrovnik, gallons of sparkling water and so much time in the clearest, calmest sea you ever did see! My morning sea dips were precious but I also loved seeing Amelie excited to grab her lilo and get into the ocean whenever a boat was coming so she could bob around in the waves.

Croatia is stunning, Cavtat was very chill and you know how much I love a sunset (slide 3)

Thanks to the heatwave it was also 5 degrees hotter than normal so there was also chafing, heat rash plus our afternoon ritual of crocs off, feet on the cold stone floor and being very thankful for aircon.

We’ll definitely be back.

23/08/2026

✨Glimmer of the Week ✨

From worrying you’ll be “caught out” if you drink again… to shouting it from the rooftops.

There’s a big difference to secretly hoping you’ll manage it and white-knuckling over publicly owning your decision.

It’s never just about stopping drinking.

It’s Self-trust. It’s looking in the mirror and liking who you see. It’s a shift in your identity.

There’s a reason Kate’s being asked loads about what she’s doing because she’s glowing. It’s the type of glow you can only get when you feel true contentment and peace inside. And it can happen quicker than you think.

21/08/2026

It always started the night before for me. Even if I was up at 3am.

Then fizz at the airport - wine was too heavy at 6am.

On the flight - I always had the deal so I got 2 drinks. Spirits this time so I had the mixer to dilute it a little but not too much.

Arriving and the only thought being the first drink on holiday. To mark it. Yep even the rank arrival fizz. Down the hatch.

Usually we had an all inclusive so each day I then opened the bar as early as 1130am. Then slowly slurped my way through. Course, I’d play in the pool with the kids, half cut.

Snooze in the sun - thinking it was because I was relaxed but we all know different.

Always wanting to stay out later than I should with small children. Jules always calling it a night first.

And even then - I’d end up on the balcony still drinking. Wow. It’s the first time I’ve actually written it all down.

Alcohol can become so stitched into the idea of a holiday that you don’t even notice how much space it’s taking up. Until you get rid of it. And start gathering completely different evidence.

That you can switch off without it.

Be silly without it. I loved launching myself on that lilo!!

Have delicious meals without it.

Laugh your head off without it and have lovely convos with your kids.

Feel completely relaxed without it. Get up early each morning because you want to and take yourself down to the beach for a dip in the sea and feel so very grateful and peaceful and content.

And come home remembering the whole bloody thing and not needing to detox.

I think that’s one of the biggest shifts when you decide to go alcohol-free.

You stop relying on what you’ve always believed booze gives you.

And start noticing what life keeps giving you without it.

If you’re nodding along give me a follow. I drank for 32 years and now I’m more than 3.5 years sober and it’s the best thing I ever did for myself ✨

Big Love,
Tracy xx

19/08/2026

There’s more than one F**k It button!

The final woman to book my retreat messaged me yesterday:

“I keep thinking about it… it’s like it’s calling me!!!”

Then came the BUT.

The distance. The logistics. Could she make it work?

And today:

“F**k it. I’m doing it.”

Yessssssss!

Because we all know the other F**k it button…don’t we?

F**k it, I’ll have the wine.

But THIS one?

F**k it, I’m doing the thing I really want to do.
F**k it, I’ll find a way.
F**k it, I’m choosing myself.

And with that…

🍃GLIMMERS FOREST RETREAT 🍃
✨ SOLD OUT ✨

10 gorgeous women choosing themselves.

Hence me busting some moves on my crispy lawn - in celebration of each and every one of them!

More of THIS kind of f**k it please 🙏🏼

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