10/05/2026
Ibiza has tested my relationship with alcohol. It’s something I sat with a lot this weekend when in Formentera celebrating one of the kindest souls I know birthday 🎈
I came to Ibiza newly sober, having given up alcohol back in September. When I was younger I definitely had an issue with excess but as I’ve got older not so much. For me I’ve noticed how much alcohol can lower my vibration and increase anxiety, making my mind more unsettled and noisy or cloudy.
The more I dedicate to my spiritual practice, the more I find alcohol just sits in the way of that.
However, I find myself on one of the most fun islands in the world, and although there is a lot of sobriety here (I’ve never seen so much kombucha and coconut water at parties), there’s been a desire to dabble back in. And so I have (I’m just a girl who loves a good glass of wine with a delicious Mediterranean dinner ok!)
But what I’ve noticed is the use or need of alcohol to ‘loosen my grip’, to become less rigid and help go with the flow of life. To become less attached to even the non-drinking. But why do I need a substance to do that? I’m asking myself how can I cultivate that ease, that softness, that ability to let go without anything external?
Maybe the real practice isn’t perfect sobriety or total abstinence. Maybe it’s learning to meet life, in all its wildness and beauty, exactly as I am. To trust that I’m enough without needing to add or take away. Because I know my limits and I can find that flow state from within 🤍