Beyond Booze and Into a Better Life: Sarah Rusbatch on Reinventing Midlife for Women Over 40

Sarah Rusbatch joins the podcast to share the pivotal moment she reexamined her drinking and transformed her life. She opens up about the pressures of mummy wine culture, the impact of alcohol on midlife hormones, sleep, mental health, relationships, and identity, and why so many women in their 40s and 50s are reevaluating their relationship with alcohol. Sarah offers refreshing honesty and science-backed insights into sober curiosity, alcohol-free living, and the emotional and physical shifts that happen during perimenopause and midlife reinvention. Listeners will learn how to navigate social circles while cutting back, how to build confidence without relying on wine, and what true freedom, vitality, and well-being can look like on the other side of alcohol.