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Founder Tracy Ollerenshaw Sobriety and Identity Coach for Women.
✨This is about so much more than what’s in your glass.
✨Let’s rediscover who you are and what you’re capable of.
1:1 Coaching | Retreats | Glimmers

02/11/2026

You already know how good you feel alcohol-free. When the w**e wakes you up at 3am that’s where your thoughts go. The irony because back then you were sleeping through. Remember that?!?

But choosing to ditch the booze again feels harder when partner, sofa, w**e is how you roll, your best mate wants the drinking buddy she’s known for decades and your mum says, “Just have one with me?”

You’re allowed to choose something they wouldn’t choose for themselves.

You don’t have to wait until after Christmas to make everyone else comfortable, either.

If you know what you want but keep getting pulled back, that’s what we work on together in Glimmer Shift. Six weeks of coaching. 3 1:1 sessions and WhatsApp support, working through your actual life, those scenarios as they happen.

We build on the evidence you already have.
We break the patterns that keep taking you back and create new shiny alcohol free ones.

I have space for 4 women who aren’t just sober curious…. They’re sober ready and excited to get started ✨

DM me XMAS we begin on 9th November xx

31/10/2026

You already know how good you feel without alcohol. That’s not the question.

The question is whether you can keep choosing it when December hits and everyone around you is drinking.

“I’ll start in January” sounds sensible but it’s the most expensive thing you’ll tell yourself all year.

Weeks of 3am wake-ups with pounding chest. Hangxiety. Pretending you’re alright - and everyone else thinks you are - but you know the truth. By Boxing Day you’ve been drinking 26 days straight and you’re saying exactly the same thing you said to yourself last year. “Never again.” Then it’s January the flattest month going, with no plan and no one in your corner.

Orrrrrrrr you start now. Because when you were alcohol free you felt freer, lighter, clearer and so much more present with the kids.
You prep your mind the way you prep the house, the family presents, the turkey on Christmas Day and allll the extra schizzle that comes with this time of year. And you wake up on New Year’s Day already super proud of yourself. That’s the Glimmer Shift.

Six weeks.
We get underneath exactly why you keep going back and build it so solidly it no longer makes sense.
We start 9 November and by 21 December you’re confident choosing an alcohol-free Christmas. It’s all you want.

DM me XMAS for more info - come and ask me any questions

Big Love
Tracy xx

29/10/2026

You know you can stop drinking. And you know it’s what you want. But you just can’t get back there and now Christmas is around the corner.

Sooooo many Decembers I drank every.single.day. The biggest green light to chuck more booze down my neck and I did at every panto, lights trail, kids nativity, mums night, works do and all the wrapping sessions, always with mulled or red... taking double the amount of time because I was so sloshed.

Thank god I’m heading into my fourth alcohol free Christmas.

Here’s what I did differently. And it’s what I teach now in Glimmer Shift.

I didn’t just stop drinking and endure it. I collected evidence. Daily. Proof that this version of me was stronger, clearer, prouder.

I was waking in the morning and wanting to get outside. I was looking at the colours in the trees like I’d seen them for the first time. I was experiencing a baseline of contentment and joy I don’t think I’ve ever experienced. I built an alcohol-free life so full that going back stopped making sense.

That’s the Evidence Method.

We look at your specific patterns and create new ones. What happens in the ramp up to you hitting the f**k it button. What are you expecting the w**e to give you versus what you actually get.

Then we build the thing that replaces it. Visibly. Proudly. We go all in. So the identity becomes real.

One of my clients said to me before we started: “I don’t want another six weeks. I want my life to be different.”

Six weeks. One to one. Three private sessions plus six weeks of WhatsApp support.

The investment £444.

We start 9 November.
Finish 21 December.

You trust yourself.

You embody being the woman who is alcohol-free. Not another break. The life you’ve wanted for so very long.

This isn’t sober curious this is sober ready.

DM me XMAS and I’ll send you seven Glimmer Shift questions.

27/10/2026

Kate was a stop start drinker who wanted to be rid of w**e and have a peaceful and calm mind.

She knew she could do 30 days, 56 days. But she’d written “Day One” in her journal so many times she was sick of looking at the page. She had zero self trust when it came to booze.

“I’ve never finished anything. I’ve never completed anything.”

She had the same sort of worries we all have at some point in our sober journey - what will the family wedding be like? Will I still get invited out by friends if they’re drinking? Will it change things between me and my husband?

She wanted me to wave a magic wand so she’d just stop wanting w**e.

Six weeks of Glimmer Shift coaching, and her language had completely changed.

“All the noise has disappeared.”

“It’s as if something’s switched inside me.”

“Why would I want to have something when I can drink something I enjoy and it’s not doing me any harm?”

She was looking at alcohol and thinking why would I go back?

The woman who came in wanting a magic spell left saying:

“I’ve got a free path. I can go anywhere and do anything.”

She looked back at a photo of herself from before and said she could cry. Because she remembered feeling broken and trapped. Now she just feels free.

She didn’t need a magic spell. She needed to collect the evidence. She needed help breaking the pattern that kept taking her back. And a wingwoman to help her build an alcohol-free life she bloody loves so drinking again made no sense.

If you’ve done alcohol-free stints before and gone back, but you already know you prefer the version of you without it. You don’t need another challenge. You need space, structure and accountability that helps you turn that want to do this into lasting change.

Six weeks. Three 1:1 private sessions tailored to your specific patterns, triggers and habits, WhatsApp support inbetween for the f**k it button moments.
Start by 9 November.
Finish 21 December.
Walk into Christmas feeling free, like Kate

If being alcohol-free is top of your Christmas wish list. DM me XMAS and let’s have a free Glimmer Shift call.

26/10/2026

Understanding yourself during your sober journey gets you way further than hating on yourself.

If you’re tired of stopping, starting and wondering why you can’t stick to it, but you have evidence that alcohol free life feels better and it’s what you want follow for support and what life without alcohol should feel like. It’s a bloody gift!

Here we don’t count days we collect evidence ✨

Big Love,
Tracy x

25/10/2026

Why do we have to prove we’re still fun when we stop drinking?

In preparation for the legendary Millie Gooch coming into the Sober Glimmers Community to talk about her third book Hangxiety I’ve tuned into a few recent interviews. And in one of them some of the questioning got right on my wick.

“Do you ever miss it?”
Would you ever drink again?
“Please tell me you have some kind of vice.”

There were good questions too. But I came away feeling like Millie had to reassure everyone that she still goes out, still has fun, still eats junk food. Still qualifies as “normal”

Millie handled it brilliantly. It’s the expectation that bothers me.

If someone explains that alcohol made her feel awful, that she’s happier without it why is the line of questioning focusing on what she must be missing.

I love a dance. I love an adventure. I love laughing until my face hurts. But what if I want to go home earlier?
What if my idea of a good Friday night has changed?
What if I actually prefer the life I’ve got now?

Do I have to promise to be exactly the same woman, just with a different drink in my hand?

Stopping drinking gives us a chance to work out what we actually enjoy. Some things stay. Some things change.

I’d love mainstream interviewers to get more curious about what someone has gained, instead of immediately asking whether they’ll go back.

“What do you love about your life now?” That would have been a good question. It’s definitely one I’ll be asking tomorrow. Alongside delving into links between being neurodiverse & alcohol and so much more. I’ve turned so many corners of pages in this book 📕

I know it’ll be one I come back to, refer to and reread!

24/10/2026

You’ve had 30 days alcohol free. 40. Six weeks. Maybe even longer.

And you’ve felt bloody brilliant.

Better sleep - 7 solid hours, yes please.

Less anxiety - waking up without your chest pounding is like a revelation. And that inner peace? Who knew that was a thing.

More energy - hang on I feel like I can actually tackle the 12 to dos

A clearer head and you’re sharper too - I remember our accountant saying he thought I was... I bloody loved that.

That ace feeling of being proud of yourself and happier in your own skin. There is nothing like it.

But then something happens.

A weekend away with friends where moving from pub to pub is the main event (SNORE!).

A stressful work week of back to back meetings and barely time to go to the loo.

Or maybe you’ve just done so well that you convince yourself you can have the odd glass again and it will be different.

And before you know it, you’re back in the same old routine.

Sound familiar?

The thing is...You already know how to stop drinking. You’ve proved that to yourself.

But there’s a difference between taking a break from alcohol and changing your relationship with it.

And that’s the work. Inside Glimmer Shift, we look at what’s keeping that pattern going. The beliefs you have about w**e. What you think it gives you. The stories you tell yourself. And what you might actually need instead. And we build on all that proof you’ve already got. Dealing with all the f**k it moments in real time.

Because I don’t want you to just get through another 30 days. I want you to get to a place where w**e stops being the thing you look forward to.

Where you start trusting yourself again.

Where you feel inner peace on a daily basis.

And where you’re excited about the life you’re creating, rather than wondering when you can next have a drink. Because you’ve had enough of that.

This is about so much more than booze.

I’m currently welcoming women into 1:1 coaching who are ready to do things differently this time.

If you’re thinking, “God, this is me”, send me a DM and the first step is a free Glimmer Shift call to really get underneath the convo you keep having in your head about w**e ✨

20/10/2026

Dare I say the C word?

Christmas. Less than ten weeks to go - and you know exactly what happens if nothing changes.

You stop for a bit. Feel really good. Sleep better. Wake up clear and liking who’s looking back at you in the mirror. You start thinking you’ve actually cracked it this time.

Then life lifes. The irritating boss, the w**e-fuelled school nativity, so many evenings over at your dads helping him, you are exhausted and the only thing that helps you stop, that feels like yours is the w**e. So you have some. And you’re back. The cycle repeats. Again.

By Boxing Day, you’ve drank your way through December so far and you’re standing in the same place you stood last Christmas, wondering why you can’t just get this right.

The truth is you keep going back because you haven’t built an alcohol-free life you actually love.

You’ve endured being sober. You’ve white-knuckled through it. Sitting alongside your partner still slurping. Going out with friends whose hobby is still drinking (no shade, yours was too) You’ve proved you can stop. But you haven’t built the identity, collected the evidence, or filled the gap alcohol left with something that expands you.

So when life gets hard, there’s nothing to protect. Just a version of yourself you’re trying to hold onto while everything around you stays exactly the same.

Less than ten weeks until 25th December.

That’s plenty of time to step into it differently. Not another challenge you endure then lose. Not “may as well start in January”

Almost ten weeks to build an alcohol-free identity so strong that going back stops making sense.
Why not spend 6 of them with me?

Glimmer Shift: three private 1:1 sessions, WhatsApp support for six weeks, built around your evidence. We add to it and build it so solidly that by Christmas, you’re not holding on. You’re free.

I’ve got four Glimmer Shift spaces starting no later than 9th November.

We finish 21st December, 4 days before Christmas.

DM me XMAS for more info x

urious

19/10/2026

Our energy is everything.
There’s a HUGE difference between feeling like you should stop drinking, like it’s forced upon you and you’ll be missing out over deciding it’s genuinely what you want.

It’s pivotal because you start thinking less about the w**e you won’t be drinking and more about the life you could be living.

The better sleep without any 3am wake ups where you have a go at yourself for drinking when you said you wouldn’t. The clarity of thought. The sense of calm each and every morning on the school run. The freedom from that exhausting back-and-forth convo with the w**e witch. So.much.headspace.

Maybe you’ve already had a taste of it. You’ve done a month or two. Maybe more. You’ve felt brilliant. And then you thought you “deserved a treat” or someone said “go on just have one” or you thought you’d moderate this time and that lasted two days.

But what if this time wasn’t about another break or a reset? What if it was about building a life you don’t want to keep taking a break from?

You don’t have to feel 100% confident. You’re bound to be nervous. But you can also be excited about what’s possible.

What if you could already be free by Christmas? If you know you want to stop, we can have a free Glimmer Shift call just like this one. If that excites you too. DM me XMAS.

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