Category: selfcare

✨2026 let’s Sober Glow!

January 1, 2026

Hello my beautiful Glow Getters,

Happy 2026!!!

January can feel full of pressure – new goals, new habits, new expectations. But this year lets do things differently…..
Not from punishment.
Not from restriction.
But from care and compassion.

This month’s Sober Glow Newsletter is here to support you through Dry January (or sober curiosity), gentle self-care, and setting yourself up for a calmer, clearer year ahead. Its about adding new routines not restrictions and I am here to help you every step of the way!

Let’s begin ✨

Top Tips for Dry January

Whether you’re doing Dry January for the first time or you’re a seasoned sober soul, these tips will help you feel supported — not deprived.

1. Focus on what you’re gaining, not what you’re giving up.
Clear mornings, better sleep, calmer skin, more energy, no regrets or embarrassment.

2. Create an evening ritual.
Swap the wine glass for a mocktail, herbal tea, journaling, skincare, or an early night. I love a cosy early night complete with a face mask, hot chocolate and Netflix! It’s time to do things differently and really discover what helps you relax and wind down after a busy day.

3. Eat well and hydrate more than usual.
Alcohol withdrawal can feel like tiredness or sugar cravings so nourish yourself through it. Let yourself have the sweet treats especially in the early days.

4. Move your body gently.
Walks, stretching, yoga or strength training, any movement boosts mood and motivation. When I first quit drinking in the early days I promised myself I would walk everyday as I wasn’t at a gym – but it was a little promise to myself to get out there and move.

5. Plan ahead for social moments.
Luckily for anyone trying Dry Jan for the first time, its a period when we normally dont have a lot of socialising in our diary. See this as an opportunity to try new healthy activities, join a gym, try a new class or a new hobby. If you do have social events in the diary then plan ahead. Know what you’ll drink, what you’ll say, and give yourself permission to leave early.

6. Track how you feel.
Not just physically, emotionally too. Awareness is powerful. In the Ten Day Soberglow tracker there is a section where you can jot down your thoughts and journal.

7. Remember: you don’t have to decide forever.
Just decide for today, there is a lot to be said for the saying “one day at a time” – it really helps you get through each day if you are struggling.

📝 Your 10-Day Tracker

If you’re someone who loves structure, reflection and gentle accountability, I’ve created a 10-Day Sober Glow Tracker to help you stay focused and motivated.

It’s designed to help you track:
✨ How you’re feeling
✨ Your energy & mood
✨ Your self-care rituals
✨ Your sober wins (big or small)

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10 day soberglow trackerDownload

📚 January Read of the Month

January is the perfect time for a book that feels grounding, inspiring and gently motivating — something that supports your mindset without pressure.

This month’s pick is all about clarity, self-awareness and starting again with intention.
A reminder that you don’t need to overhaul your whole life — just take the next right step.

👉 The Universe Has Your Back – Gabrielle Bernstein

The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein is a gentle reminder to release fear and trust the journey you’re on. This book encourages you to soften, let go of control, and choose peace, especially during times of change or new beginnings.

Shop here – https://amzn.to/4biraxc

🥬My Soberglow Smoothie

This is my go-to kind of January nourishment — fresh, energising and kind to your body, plus it feels like its feeding your skin too!

Green smoothies are brilliant for:
✨ Supporting digestion and boosting essential vitamins
✨ Boosting energy
✨ Nourishing skin
✨ Reducing sugar cravings

How to make it:
Add all ingredients to a blender, blend until smooth, and enjoy!

👉 Frozen Mango/pineapple, frozen spinach, apple, greens powder, turmeric powder, greek yoghurt, seeds and honey

✨Your Sober Glow Starts Here

One of the biggest changes I noticed when I stopped drinking was my skin — but what really transformed it was consistency, kindness, and ritual.

I’ve shared my simple morning skincare routine over on YouTube, designed to:
✨ Wake the skin up gently
✨ Support hydration and glow
✨ Reduce puffiness and dullness
✨ Create a calm, intentional start to the day

This routine isn’t about perfection or having lots of time, it’s about taking five quiet minutes to care for yourself before the world asks anything of you.

Your morning sets the tone for your whole day, and this little ritual is one of my favourite ways to choose myself first. check out my You tube channel for lot of sober and skincare tips…….

👉 https://youtu.be/kRypquBvGwY?si=c1vhYzxnByvIRo5D

🌿 Glow With Tropic — Join My Team and share your sober glow!

If you love clean beauty, self-care and empowering other women, joining Tropic could be a life-changing next step – which came naturally to me after I got sober. At a time I was looking for toxin free beauty and skincare and really thinking about what I was putting on my skin and in my body, the business side of things was never planned! It all happened organically – which is what I love about it, zero pressure!

What you get when you join:
✨ The Tropic Starter Kit filled with bestselling skincare & our founding product, the gorgeous Body Smooth!
✨ 25% off all your own products
✨ Flexible – work online, in person or both. Zero targets or pressure, you have full control and can do as little or as much as you want to do!
✨ A supportive community of Glow Sisters – I have around 100 ladies on the team now and its all grown organically from customers who LOVE the products, and we have quite a few sober glow ladies on there now too!
✨ Personal guidance from me as your mentor – I will be with you every step of the way!!

If you’d love more info, just reach out, I’d love to support you on your Tropic Sober Glow Journey! AND IN JANUARY WE WILL HAVE A NEW STARTER OFFER – message me to find out more!

💛 A Gentle Reminder

You don’t need to become a whole new person this month.
You just need to take care of the one you already are and focus on being sober this January.

Small steps.
New Routines.
Daily self-respect.

That’s the Sober Glow way!

Thank you for being here and walking this journey with me.
Every month I’ll be dropping into your inbox with sober tips, self-care, skincare, mocktails and all the glow you need.

If you enjoyed this January edition, please share with your sober sisters and your socials. Don’t forget to leave a comment or send me a message to let me know what you think – I love hearing from you.

Please check out my linktree https://linktr.ee/soberglowgetter and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/soberglowgetter/ for other ways to connect. I am here for you every step of your sober glow journey.

Big Love

Angie xx

Here’s to a clear, calm, glowing start to the year.

My 2020 lessons of a sober lockdown……..

January 5, 2021

Happy 2021!!

I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas and New year and have been keeping safe at home with your loved ones. How is your New Year so far? If you are doing Dry January 2021 then please look back through my old posts on here as I share a lot of tips and advice on the early days.

WOW 2020 what a year. As you know I don’t like looking back but sometimes you really need to see how far you’ve come and just take a moment to reflect. It feels like its all been a blur, not in a drunken way like it used to do but in a ground hog day way! But when I look back over past social media post, photos and my journal, it really was something else, a year to remember for all the wrong and right reasons. I can see straight away what I have gained from the crazy year that 2020 was. So here goes, my wins, my lessons and my good bits of 2020!

  • The number one, most important lesson for me that I will never take for granted was mine and my family’s health. I know that so many people have lost friends and family during this time and I am truly sorry for that. Having four years of sobriety under my belt certainly made me feel that my immune system always fighting fit. Although I did test positive for the antibodies , I can only pin point last January when I thought had a bad cough so must have only had it mildly. We know that alcohol depletes our vitamin levels and our immune system so by being sober at least we are keeping our body as healthy as can be. Achieveing 4 years sober was a huge achievement for me in November last year.
  • During 2020 I started to view my health differently. Before lockdown I was teaching Bodypump 5-6 times a week. I had got myself in my best physical shape ever but was feeling pretty run down too. Lockdown gave me the chance to take a breath, gain a few lockdown pounds and whilst I was still doing Bodypump I was mixing it up with heavy weights too. Which has had a nice effect of giving me a curvier shape that I’ve never really had before! Rest days and good food with treats added in will help you build muscle and give you a balance that I now realise I was missing. I feel recharged and reenergised and most importantly, I feel super strong.
  • The therapy of a peaceful dog walk! Dogs have definitely won lockdown haven’t they. I’ve started to appreciate where I live more and just enjoy the peace and quiet of walking the dog. We are lucky to live in a semi rural area and I definitely feel lucky to live where I do and be able to escape with the dog everyday.
  • I have read an endless amount of positivity books, including Vex King, Rhoda Byrne and I’m following a lot of positive accounts on social media. When I quit drinking I naturally became a more positive person, which I think you do as you don’t have the dreaded hanxiety that comes with heavy drinking. I also wanted to start looking into manifestation for a while and 2020 seemed the perfect time to do it! I now read something everyday and I constantly try to check my thoughts and feelings, trying to stay as positive as possible to try and manifest my dreams. I fully recommend it, I know some people don’t believe in it but I say give it a go, worse case scenario it makes you look at things in a more positive light. Be protective of your energy too, don’t let others effect you if they are full of negativity, 2020 made me realise my energy is the most important thing especially at a time when you are working hard to keep it positive. You can distance yourself to protect yourself.
  • My little Tropic business boomed last year! In what I thought would be a disastrous year, as Tropic is all about sharing freshly made skincare products in a face to face environment, it turned into the total opposite! My business has more than trebled, with it totally adapting to online sales and people just generally taking more time to look after themselves. From starting 2020 with myself and one other ambassador we are now over 30 women strong, all sharing the love of Tropic. Plus I have also achieved two amazing 5 star trips to Ibiza and Jamaica, when we can actually go!
  • I realised how important holidays are to me. My first feeling when we went into lockdown was a feeling of claustrophobia that we have to stay in the UK. I have had about 5 sober holidays and I just absolutely love them – they really are so amazing. Being sober gives you chance to experience the culture, the area, the activities instead of just sitting by the pool making the most of the all inclusive bar.
  • Paramount to everything else – I realised the love in my family. My family, my husband, two girls and the dog have all been my support circle. We have shown how we can literally be together 24/7 without any (or very little) drama. Not every day has been all happy families but there has only been a handful of times that we have annoyed one another and missed having our own space. I know deep down that the drinking me would have been a totally different person through lockdown, the wheels would have come off big time and my family would have got the worst of it all. My priority would have been how I felt and how I needed to escape with a bottle of wine or two, or three, but the sober mummy that I am made sure that my family felt safe and cared for during this challenging year.
  • And finally -NEVER underestimate the power of a nana nap, chocolate and Netflix. On the days where it got bad, that’s how I escaped my mind – a sleep, food or tv! Not ideal, but did it work -YES!!!

So in a round about way that’s my 2020 and how it worked out for me. I know in the UK we are enering our 3rd Lockdown but we will get through it jut like we did last year, and we will see better days in 2021. We can see the light at the end of it all we just need to get through this last hurdle.

Let me know how you survived 202 sober. I think for anyone to come through ANY part of that year without using alcohol to escape really is a sober warrior, and it shows a strength that will get you through 2021. FEEL PROUD!

If you are just starting your sober journey and doing dry January then please check out my earlier posts. And contact me direct for any help on a 1-2-1 basis. Plus is anyone is looking to give their skincare a refresh in 2021 or even looking to join me in helping women love the skin they are in, then again contact me by email, message or social media. https://www.instagram.com/

2021 we are ready, we have got this and remember better days are ahead!

( I had written this before the announcement last night of a 3rd lockdown in the UK, but hey we’ve done it before we can get through it again!)

Love

Angie xx

Lockdown Self Care – 28 Day Challenge!

November 5, 2020

Hey guys!!

So here we are in the UK at the start of lock down number two. It certainly feels different this time compared to the last and I’ve found myself asking why?

First of all – the weather is certainly different! Sunshine is a natural mood enhancer and I think in the first lockdown we where blessed with amazing weather. Plus we were more tempted to get out and about in the fresh air. This time its dark, wet and lets be honest pretty miserable. However i feel like its making it feel more like hibernation – it feels like the perfect time to nourish and nurture ourselves.

With most of the world going into self-isolation to protect themselves against Covid-19, it is more important than ever to really work on yourself and your mental health. And to do what works for you! 2020 has definitely given me the time for soul searching. Allowing me to really look at what and who I have in my life and focus on all the things that make me feel good and allow me to be ME!

Lets introduce self care! Up until 4 years ago when I stopped drinking – I didn’t know what self care was. Well, I thought I did – I thought self care was downing a bottle of wine on the settee, stuffing my face with chocolate and crisps whilst I half remember a film I’m watching as the wine has got to work on my slumped energy levels and blacked out memory.

Fast forward to 48 months later (on the 21st i will be 4 years sober – whoop whoop!!!) and I pretty much feel like a pro when it comes to self care.

Self care can be so many things. It can be anything from a long hot bath to saying no to a friend who is draining your energy. It comes in so many different forms and there are so many ways in which you can look after YOU.

If any of you follow me on Insta or are a member of my Tropic Skincare VIP group then you will have probably seen the following video. This is a live I did yesterday, explaining all about my selfcare challenge that I am doing for the next 28 days. So if you are looking for a little inspiration, or just wanting to find your way back to YOU then please join me!

I will be posting on Instagram daily and I will be posting on here more often too! Lets share what we do and inspire people to do the same, and start looking after yourself. It just feels like the PERFECT TIME!

If you are on a sober journey, especially in the early days – this will give you a focus away from the wine witch and I guarantee you will be feeling amazing by the end of the 28 days!

If you would like to make a start by trying out a new skincare routine for 28 days – these products are a fab place to start!! Please contact me if you would like further info. They come in three combinations for different skin concerns.

Lets fill these next 28 days with selfcare, self love and lets come out of this feeling strong, sober, refreshed and recharged.

Please find me in insta https://www.instagram.com/soberglowgetter/ or my VIP Facebook group @ Tropic with Angie

We have got this – we have survived it once we can survive it again!

Love Angie xx