Ready to start the new year feeling better in your body? This 30-day alcohol-free challenge is designed specifically for midlife women who want relief from perimenopause and post-menopause symptoms.
Why Take a Break from Alcohol?
If you're dealing with hot flashes, night sweats, poor sleep, brain fog, mood swings, or weight gain, alcohol might be making everything worse.
Here's how:
- Alcohol disrupts sleep architecture, particularly deep sleep and REM sleep—the restorative stages you desperately need in midlife
- It triggers hot flashes and night sweats, often within hours of drinking
- It increases cortisol, which contributes to belly fat, insulin resistance, and inflammation
- It worsens brain fog and mood instability by affecting neurotransmitter balance
- It interferes with metabolism, making weight management even harder during hormonal shifts
Taking 30 days off gives your body a chance to reset. Many women report dramatic improvements in sleep quality, energy levels, mood stability, and even weight loss—sometimes within the first week.
What You'll Get:
Every day for 30 days, you'll receive one quick, easy alternative to do during "happy hour"—practical strategies to shift that drinking-time habit into something that actually helps you feel better in your body. These aren't complicated or time-consuming. They're simple, doable actions designed to rewire your routine and support your well-being.
Why This Challenge Works:
This challenge is led by E.B. Ferdig, health and life coach who has been teaching sober-curious content to women for over 7 years and has been alcohol-free herself for 6 years. Coaching women who are sober-curious or quitting alcohol is one of her specializations. She gets it—the social pressure, the habit patterns, the mixed feelings—and she'll guide you through it with compassion and practical tools.
Bonus:
Complete all 30 days and you'll be entered into a drawing to win StrongHer Now, a 6-week educational and coaching program designed to support midlife health changes (a $300+ value!).
This is your chance to see what life—and your body—could feel like without alcohol in this phase of life. Even if you're not sure you want to quit forever, 30 days of curiosity could change everything.
Ready to feel better? Let's do this together.
Welcome! I'm so glad you're here!
First, consider downloading the Nas.io app on your phone. It makes interacting with the challenge really easy and convenient.
To start this challenge, we recommend that you stock up on fizzy water, bitters, and other non-alcoholic beverages you may like, i.e. n.a. beers. I will be sharing resources for more, but best to get at least something that you know you like, that you can rely on.
Each challenge will be introduce in the morning, with the idea you might do the challenge item that day at 5pm-ish, your time.
However, you can do the challenge items when you like, and you can skip those you don't like or don't have time for. That said, we suggest that you submit that you HAVE completed the challenge, and consider answering the reflection question that that is proposed with each checkpoint.
You can make your answer private or post to the group feed. We've found that the people who get the most out of our challenges connect with the feed, and interact with each others' posts.
Welcome to this Better Sleep, Feel Better: Dry January Challenge!
Remember, we're not aiming for perfection - we're just trying to show up for ourselves every day with curiosity, kindness, and willingness to step into new ways of feeling better!
Love,
EB
Among those of you who finish the challenge, we'll do a drawing for the StrongHer Now program, a 6-week educational program for women in midlife who want to feel better and create movement habits that sustain healthy aging. There will be one lucky winner! (Value $295)