Becoming Your Best Version12 Dec 2025

A Conversation with Sarah Rusbatch, Grey Area Drinking Coach and Bestselling Author

“The goal isn't to be sober, the goal is to love yourself so much you don't need to drink," Sarah Rusbatch says. Sarah is author of the bestselling book Beyond Booze, How to Create a Life You Love Alcohol Free, a multi-award-winning Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach, a menopause coach and a keynote speaker sharing her journey to sobriety and impact of alcohol on mental health to global audiences. Sarah works tirelessly to support women all over the world to create and live their best lives as they age.

Sarah is originally from the UK and is now based in Western Australia. She has supported thousands of individuals (mostly women) to change their relationship with alcohol and, consequently, change their lives. Grey Area Drinking describes the place between "every now and again" drinking, and "rock bottom dependent" drinking. This type of drinking in women has increased over 80% in the last 30 years. After an article she wrote for Mamamia (you can read it HERE), 8,000 women reached out to her within 24 hours for help with their drinking.

In this episode we discuss:

--Why Alcohol Use Disorder in Women has increased more than 80% in the last 30 years
--Why ageing impacts a woman’s ability to metabolise alcohol and impact menopause symptoms, yet middle-aged women are drinking the most
--The specific health risks to women of drinking at such a significant level
--The normalization of everyday drinking
--What needs to change in culture and society in order to change drinking patterns
--What it takes to create a life you love without alcohol (the heart of her book)
--Dispelling the myths that a life without alcohol is boring; and explaining what actually opens up for us when we take a break from alcohol
--The peer pressure many people experience when cutting down or removing alcohol and how to handle this
--The benefits the thousands of women she has coached have experienced when they removed alcohol.

"You have full permission to outgrow alcohol," Sarah shares.

Learn more and follow Sarah:

www.sarahrusbatch.com

Instagram - @sarahrusbatch

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