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.

Let's talk about that strange and slightly awkward transition from hiding yourself away in early sobriety to keep yourself safe, to then re-entering the world of socialising sober. Not everyone goes through this but it's pretty common to feel a bit out of sorts. It does get easier.

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 id ...