Sober Not Somber Hour

Hey. Hey. Happy Tuesday. It is time for the Sober not Somber hour. I'm your host, Jen Morale. And yeah, we are coming off a holiday weekend here in the States, Memorial Day weekend, where I recall Memorial Day weekends of the past prior to my 10 years of sobriety being pretty heavily involved with drinking and centered on drinking. Yeah, welcome. Come on in. Hey, Shannon. Yeah. And so I am curious today. First of all, I'm going to share a really amazing non alcoholic cocktail I made at this wonderful resort up in Bayfield, Wisconsin called Wild Rice Retreat.

I did a little mixology class and showed people what a great non alcoholic beverage tastes like. So I'm gonna share a little bit about that today. And then also I'd love to hear how were your weekends? Did you. Not even alcohol consumption related, but just in general. How did you fare with your routine, healthy habits? Did you continue them? Did you get off track? A little bit. Um, I know for myself in those drinking days I tended to get really off track with my health and wellness. And believe it or not, I was in active addiction, but also working out, raising a family, doing all the things and weekends like this.

I'd come back to work on a Tuesday, just completely wiped out, not recharged. So I'd love to hear how are your weekends? And then. Yeah, so the class that I did was called NA Movement. The NA Movement and Mixology. And at Wild Rice for about 10 guests, I presented a cocktail made with this lovely beverage. It's called Tilden. And I discovered this through a local bottle shop called Lucille's Non Alcoholic Bottle Shop and my friend Alex Zauner. And this one has, it's their lacewing variety. It has cucumber, basil, lychee and juniper.

So the cocktail that I presented that had these things all put together actually made to share with you. Seriously, so refreshing. It has the Tilden, like a couple ounces of this and then you add a little bit of lavender. Actually Wild Rice made a lavender syrup that was out of this world. I left it there so that they can make more cocktails for their guests. But a substitute that I have on hand is called all the bitter. 5 alcohol in them. This is completely alcohol free bitter by Ian and Carly Blesson out of California.

0 alcohol. So I add a couple syringes of that and it's delicious. And then I top it off with a little sparkling water. Easy, easy. And it tastes so refreshing and amazing. So I learned a lot in doing this. I've never done a mixology class. People expect that I know everything about all the products. But honestly, my work is really in for me. Got out of my comfort zone and I looked a little awkward mixing cocktails. But let me tell you, it was so much fun and the audience was so engaged. They had so many questions about reading menus and, you know, what constituted a good non alcohol cocktail.

And we all agreed that there's way too much sugar in, in most of the mocktails on the menu because restaurants are just removing the alcohol, but they're not really adding anything back that is quality ingredient or non sugar. It's more like let's add Red Bull, let's add more the virgin daiquiri mix. So you're getting sugar with most of those. So just to be aware. Yeah. So people were really appreciative. What I found. These were people at Wild Rice Retreat for three days, a three day weekend, resting and recharging.

And what I find, and you may have noticed, is that holiday weekends and resorts and getaways can tend to be, you know, centered. Like we need alcohol at this happy hour time because we are so ingrained that getting away, unwinding and relaxing entails alcohol, when in truth, today there are so many, not just non alcoholic beverages, but beverages that can shift your mood. So if you've heard of adaptogens or you know, things that either provide calming or grounding even in a beverage are possible.

And they're not. I'm not talking about thc. I'm talking about other things like lion's mane, some mushrooms, like things that are naturally found and carefully added or integrated into a beverage to produce a mood. And a lot of them have now electrolytes and other minerals. You can get just about anything you want in a drink. So I would encourage you to try them. I'm gonna also drop this recipe in my feed so you have it. Okay, so just quickly back to how did your weekends go? Was did you find that you stayed on intention and on track with some of the healthy habits that you had or were they sort of, you know, go by the wayside and that's okay.

Either one of those is fine, obviously, and we forgive ourselves if we go off the rails a little bit or do things that we did not intend, but we come back to today, we come back routine tends to be good for a lot of personality types. I know I myself if, if you're into astrology, I happen to be a moon in Capricorn, which means that I am very Regimented, very organized and I like my schedule. So I notice on weekends like this when one thing kind of gets out of whack, then things tend to either spiral or follow suit.

In my age, I have gotten better with this. So yeah, I don't know if that's true for anyone else. But yeah, certainly being at Wild Rice retreat. So again that's in Bayfield, Wisconsin. An amazing getaway. Helped with rest and recharge. All of those things that I think are necessary to kind of do life like we do. Like how hard and how much we do of it. So I am hoping you all had amazing weekends, you had time to rest and recharge and if you were with friends and family, well, I hope situations weren't as triggering as they have been in the past maybe or as they can potentially be.

And I know almost with any family dynamic that tends to come up over a holiday season. So I appreciated. I was with my boyfriend in Wild Rice retreat so wasn't really around my family. Actually missed my family. I'll catch them on the fourth of July. And then instead when I got back to the cities on Sunday night, I had a whole day planned of self care on Monday. So that was kind of how I let myself, you know, have Friday and Saturday just to be really unpredictable. I had to be present for other people with the mixology class and I did some sauna guided sessions.

But then Monday I took time for me. I got back on schedule with my yoga and sauna session and and here we are recharged for the week and it's not even June. Like we're all crushing it, right? Yeah. So that's what I have just some holiday thoughts. Take time to reflect on how your holiday went, what you might do next holiday that would be different. You know, fourth of July is coming up in not too long and I am sending you na Cheers and this delicious beverage. So good again it's. It's called Tilden and I'll put that in the the comments along with the other beverage I made.

I made two. All right all have a great rest of your day this Tuesday checking out.