That feeling when you reach the top, it's closer than you think.
Take This Free Assessment to Find Out
If the title made you pause — even for a second — I think it’s worth your time to keep reading.
You don’t have to be in crisis for this to be relevant. You don’t have to have hit a bottom. You just have to have a quiet sense that something is getting in the way of the life you’re trying to build — and a willingness to inquire what that might be.
I know what that feels like from the inside.
My relationship with alcohol lasted 22 years. I was functional. I showed up. I worked. But my baseline was always operating below what I was capable of — and I couldn’t figure out why.
Mornings were heavy. Ideas felt sluggish. The gap between the life I imagined and the life I was living kept quietly growing.
It wasn’t until I stopped drinking five years ago that I started to understand what had actually been happening. Alcohol wasn’t just affecting my evenings. It was affecting my recovery. And when you can’t recover — really recover — everything else suffers.
The moment I removed it, space opened up. Space I didn’t know was missing.
I started waking up at 4am — not because I forced myself to, but because my body finally wanted to. Consistent gym routine. 15,000 steps daily. 365 consecutive days of meditation. Better food, better sleep, better mood. Removing alcohol didn't just restore who I was. It revealed who I was becoming.
The life I'd been trying to build was waiting on the other side of one decision.
Here's what I want to ask you.
Not whether you drink too much. Not whether you have a problem. Those aren’t the right questions.
The right question is simpler:
Is alcohol getting in the way of the life you’re trying to build?
Maybe it’s subtle — heavier mornings, slower starts, ideas that don’t quite make it into the world. Maybe it’s more obvious — you’ve tried to change before, it hasn’t stuck, and you’re tired of the loop.
Either way, you deserve an honest look at it.
I built this assessment for exactly that.
It’s 10 questions. Takes less than 5 minutes. There are no labels, no diagnosis, no score that tells you what type of person you are.
What you'll walk away with:
Honest clarity on whether alcohol is a factor in where you are right now
An optional personal video from me with what I’m seeing in your specific answers
A sense of what the path forward might actually look like for you
I took this free assessment. We have all had a certain form of something unhealthy throughout life that has become a crutch to get us through a difficult time or helps us “cope”. It wasn’t alcohol for me. I had an unhealthy relationship with food and used to stress eat. I would also eat not mindfully…just snacking because the food tasted good and not because I was hungry. I’ve signed up for the Reset April 2026. I hope this assessment was one of the first steps to me finally fixing my relationship with food.
This is such an important shift in perspective, Josh. As a peer specialist, I see so many people waiting for a "rock bottom" instead of simply asking: "Is this getting in the way of the life I want to lead?" The idea that alcohol doesn't just affect our evenings, but primarily our ability to recover, is key. Great work with this assessment!