Welcome back to Louisa’s January Series. After the success of the 2024 series, she wanted to return with something deeper, more practical and more psychology-led for 2026.

Alcohol revs the system up and sobriety does the opposite for our emotional regulation. Those pockets of safety create glimmers that are the true reward of removing alcohol. Today is about spotting those glimmers and how that will help you in the longer term.

Louisa Evans is a psychology-based practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist and the host of the Sober Rebel podcast. She specialises in helping people change their relationship with alcohol in a grounded and realistic way, using a blend of cognitive behavioural approaches, emotional regulation, habit science and nervous system understanding. Her work focuses on grey area drinking, midlife identity shifts, and supp ...