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Sarah Rusbatch is a multi-award-winning health coach, Australia’s leading grey area drinking coach, and best-selling author of Beyond Booze, how to create a life you love alcohol-free. She is based in Perth.

Nervous about your teen at Leavers? Here’s how to start the conversation
Opinion
Alcohol

Nervous about your teen at Leavers? Here’s how to start the conversation

I grew up in a house where alcohol was at every social occasion and appeared to be the only way adults had fun. I’m avoiding that, but not by being “anti-alcohol”.

  • by Sarah Rusbatch

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This Mother’s Day, watch out for the dark side of ‘Mummy Wine Culture’
Opinion
Alcohol

This Mother’s Day, watch out for the dark side of ‘Mummy Wine Culture’

Here’s why we need to rethink our easy assumptions and our go-to celebrations as we recognise the women who keep it all together – at a cost.

  • by Sarah Rusbatch
Four years in, giving up alcohol just gets easier and easier
Opinion
Alcohol

Four years in, giving up alcohol just gets easier and easier

I’m writing in the hope it helps any of you out there reading this and silently thinking, “How the hell do I get to four years? I can’t even get to four days.”

  • by Sarah Rusbatch
Why I’m celebrating my fourth Christmas sober – and how you can too
Opinion
Alcohol

Why I’m celebrating my fourth Christmas sober – and how you can too

If you’d told me a few years ago I’d be sailing into the festive season without a single thought of alcohol, I’d never have believed you.

  • by Sarah Rusbatch
Again you’re doing Dry July. Ask yourself the truth: why?
Opinion
Alcohol

Again you’re doing Dry July. Ask yourself the truth: why?

A month off is a great way to experience improved wellbeing and road-test what a life without alcohol can feel like. But there is a grey area – and a dark side.

  • by Sarah Rusbatch
You’ve hit the mother-load and need a drink – but sauv blanc is not self-care

You’ve hit the mother-load and need a drink – but sauv blanc is not self-care

Got up before dawn and spent the day looking after the house, the kids and the job, with nothing left for yourself at the end of it? You need to read this.

  • by Sarah Rusbatch

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/by/sarah-rusbatch-p5368f