Knowing that AUD is the 3rd leading preventable cause of death in the US, it’s shocking how normalized drinking alcohol is. While drinking alcohol is celebrated, the consequences that can come from it are rarely discussed. Alcohol can contribute to cardiovascular diseases, cause nerve damage, worsen mental health illnesses by altering how your brain functions, accidents, and so much more, including death ⭐️ This is a scary fact to learn, but it’s important to remember that it’s never too late to change your relationship with alcohol. We’re here for you, and we’re always rooting for you! ✨ - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

How can it possibly make sense to drink alcohol “to feel good”, only to feel worse afterward? Let’s do a simple analysis… 💭 Pros: Each drink makes us feel good for about 20 minutes. Cons: Superficial conversations, wasted money, terrible sleep, hangovers, hangxiety, brain fog, bloating, embarrassment, guilt, shame, relationship problems, and the list goes on… The truth is that alcohol doesn’t make sense, no matter how hard we try. Is alcohol truly serving us? Probably not ⭐️ It’s time for change. Let’s be the generation that dares to defy the norm and put an end to the madness. Together, we can create a new narrative, one that embraces life beyond alcohol, where authentic connections, personal growth, and genuine experiences take center stage ☀️ Remember that we’re here for you and we’re always rooting for you. Keep pushing through! 🙌 - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our co-founders, Ziyi Gao and Vedant Pradeep, have achieved a remarkable milestone! 🌟 Their dedication, relentless pursuit of innovation, and unwavering commitment to change the way the world thinks about alcohol-related habits have earned them recognition on Fortune’s list of “13 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health”! 🧠 Their work, fueled by a passion to make a positive impact on the world, is transforming the way we approach health, making it more accessible, personalized, and effective for everyone 🙌 Check out the link below to learn more: https://fortune.com/well/article/health-wellness-innovators-2023/

“Drinking less truly kick-started my recent weight loss journey. Down 55 pounds in about 19 months ⭐️ Photo above left from 2016. My weight fluctuated drastically during the past 20 years (I’m 60 next year). At my largest, I was a tight size 14 (173 lbs), which felt like a lot on my 5-foot-2 body. The photo on the right is me now — a strong and healthy size 4 (118 lbs). 🙌 I first joined @reframe_app in January 2022, and it wasn’t about my weight at all. During the pandemic, I started drinking nightly, and it just spiraled WAY out of control. My physical AND mental health were both in the dumpster, and I experienced depression for the first time. I was REALLY scared. Reframe app taught me how to cut back on the booze, and I also learned so much about the science of it all. For example, WHY I couldn’t stop after just one drink. It’s called PFC (Prefrontal Cortex), and learning about it was a game changer. 💪🏼 I also learned how to identify triggers that caused me so much anxiety over the past few years. For anyone new to Reframe, just take it one day at a time. Show up for yourself by setting cutback goals and doing the work (reading through the daily tasks). The community forum was such a big help to me when I first signed up. It’s anonymous, so we all wrote our struggles without judgment. Felt SO GOOD to not feel alone and have that daily support. I’ve tagged my reframe journey with #JoJoReframe, and stories are pinned to my Instagram profile too. I’m proud of the person I am now. My mental health is in a great place, and at 59, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been! These days, I still drink on occasion. Only once or twice a month when I’m out with friends (never, EVER at home). I’m no longer trying to lose weight, but I am working on my fitness every day. 💃🏻 Goal for my upcoming 60th birthday: Killer abs.” - @mylastbite We’re so proud of you, Jo! Leave some words of encouragement below👇😌 - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

Hollywood’s glamor is often associated with partying and, as a result, drinking. However, that isn’t the case for all the stars 🙌 Many celebrities have chosen sober lifestyles for various reasons ☀️ Some found sobriety later in life, others have never consumed alcohol, and some are briefly taking a break from drinking. “One of the bravest things you can do is slay those dragons and finally change an awful cycle in which you’ve found yourself stuck. For me, it was to stop drinking,” one actress said about their decision to give up alcohol. The beauty of celebrities “coming out” with their sobriety journey is that it helps us all remember that we are not alone in our struggles! 😌 Swipe right to find out which stars lead a sober lifestyle and a little insight into their inspiring sobriety journey. Did we miss anybody? Let us know in the comments! 👇 - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

Maybe alcohol is the reward at the end of your day. Perhaps a few glasses of wine is your cooking buddy. Or, maybe you turn to alcohol to unwind and destress after work 🛁 But on more than one occasion, have you ever found yourself saying, “I’m never going to drink again…” or “starting today I’m going to drink less,” only to continue the same cycle of hangovers, anxiety, and negative experiences? 💫 This is what we call Grey Area Drinking ⭐️ It’s defined as regularly drinking in an unhealthy and habitual way, but not quite meeting the criteria for alcohol dependence. It’s a common experience, and it’s important not to be hard on yourself if you’ve found yourself in a similar place. Still, it can be a slippery slope. We’re here to help! Learn more about how to drink less & have a healthier relationship with alcohol through the daily activities and classes on our app 🧠 - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

Alcohol is categorized as a depressant, meaning it depresses our Central Nervous System, leaving us feeling calmer and more relaxed. While this seems like a quick fix it can actually lead to a bigger problem: dopamine depletion ⭐️ Picture a hamster wheel, and your brain is running on it in order to create your happiness hormones, like dopamine. Every day your brain runs on this wheel to produce the hormones you need to feel pleasure and happiness. Then we add alcohol into the picture. Alcohol comes up to our brain and says “Hey friend, I’ve got it from here you can go take a break,” and our brain steps down from the hamster wheel and alcohol steps in. Now at first, we are thinking ‘wow this is so nice, I get to take a break!’ But as the frequency and amount of alcohol we intake increases, our brain gets lazy and begins to rely on alcohol to run the hamster wheel 🧠 This is dopamine depletion from alcohol misuse. We begin to damage our brain and alter the thresholds required for dopamine cell activation and signaling, which leads to less dopamine being released naturally and causes these negative side effects. - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free living follow @reframe_app 💙

Alcohol may feel like it’s an important part of your life, but how did it get that way? Was it because you really wanted it there, or did it slowly creep in until you never questioned it? 💭 Maybe it’s worth asking if alcohol actually “fits” with who we want to be and whether it’s helping us to achieve our goals in life ⭐️ When we take a step back and reflect on the role alcohol plays in our lives, we might be surprised by the answer we find. We know how difficult change can be, but wouldn’t you like to discover who you really are? Remember that we’re here for you and we’re always rooting for you. Keep pushing through! 🙌 - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

From taking on the challenge of Dry January to marking an incredible 1 year and 9 months of sobriety, Tom Holland’s journey has been both revelatory and transformative. What began as an experiment soon unveiled deeper truths: “All I could think about was having a drink,” he reflected on his initial sober month, recognizing red flags that prompted a deeper commitment 🚨 By his birthday on June 1st, the positive shifts in his life were undeniable. When asked about the intense pressures of the spotlight and its impact on mental health, Tom credits sobriety as his anchor. “I’m feeling so great,” he shares, “I’ve got great mental clarity. I sleep better. I feel motivated every day that I wake up. I feel really proud of myself when I come home from a dinner and I haven’t had a drink. I feel really good, really happy, and safe.” 🌟 Once he chose sobriety, Tom witnessed a transformative journey: a domino effect that guided him towards personal growth, emotional freedom, and the realization of his full potential 🙌 By discarding what no longer serves us, we make space for growth, fulfillment, and authentic relationships! 🌱 How has redefining your relationship with alcohol helped you break free and move closer to your dreams? Share your journey with us in the comments! 👇 - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

Reaching for a drink when we feel extra stressed or tense may seem to initially take the edge off, but remember: that feeling of calm is very short-lived 🚨 In fact, it’s all about perspective — are you giving up something, or are you actually gaining everything? 💭 Take a moment to reflect on all the things alcohol has taken away from you - the time, money, relationships, sleep, and peace of mind. Now, what would life be like if you made that one decision to stop letting alcohol be in control? At the end of the day, it’s really not about what we are giving up: it’s about what we’re taking back 🙌 - More time - More energy - Mental clarity - Better health - Stronger relationships What did alcohol take from you that you’re reclaiming now that you’re drinking less? ⭐️ Let us know in the comments 👇 — For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

Just like an iceberg, we have a side that those around us witness & an internal dialogue, hidden from the surface. Sometimes it can be hard to ask for help when we are struggling. We ask ourselves “is it really that bad?”, “will anyone understand me”, or maybe we even convince ourselves we deserve to feel this way. You don’t. You don’t deserve to struggle and you don’t have to find support alone ⭐️ Reframe isn’t just here to educate you, we want to help you find other like-minded individuals to make life long connections with. And more importantly, we want to help you to foster a healthy, loving relationship with yourself. You don’t have to do this alone ☀️ - For more techniques and tools on alcohol-free/conscious living, follow @reframe_app 💙

Some thoughts on #NationalSoberDay from Coach Kevin:⁣ ⁣ Today marks 1,600 consecutive days without a drop of alcohol for me.⁣ ⁣ But as I reflect, I find myself not thinking about these past 1,600 days but more about the ones that came before them. I’m thinking about 1,601 days ago after vacation and how I drank most of the leftover alcohol that came back home with us because I knew I was going to give this “not drinking thing” another go.⁣ ⁣ I’m thinking about 1,608 days ago when I said I’d give a vacation with moderation a try. It was fairly successful, but as I sat up at night, not ready to go to bed and having already reached my limit for the day, I started to finally question my own personal desire to keep this thing in my life.⁣ ⁣ I’m thinking about 1,697 days ago, where I was sitting on the couch by myself compulsively finishing another drink and said out loud, to no one but my dogs and with tears streaming down my face at this point, “I can’t keep f*cking doing this.”⁣ ⁣ Or 1,805 days ago when I stopped my Sober October attempt on day 5 because I had zero tools to cope with my stress and anxiety except the one I just tried to take away for a month.⁣ ⁣ These past 1,600 days haven’t been easy, but they have gotten easier at least with respect to alcohol. And in working on this one thing I’ve built up my ability to cope and work on many things in my life.⁣ ⁣ But it’s those days before that I’m most proud of really. I’m proud that I just kept trying to figure it all out. I’m proud that I flipped back and forth between trying to cutback and trying to quit until I settled in with what was best for ME. I’m so happy that I started therapy and opened myself up. I’m glad I just kept reading books and other peoples’ stories in order to learn more about myself.⁣ ⁣ So, I’m sitting here in that same spot on the couch I was 1,697 days ago, but crying different tears right now. Thankful tears for the strength it took him to say he needed help. Because the alcohol was just a symptom, a crutch he learned to use for the real problems he was stuffing down underneath it all.⁣ ⁣ Don’t be afraid to work on yourself. Don’t do it alone (there’s no need). Just don’t stop trying.