This is a great question. We believe that understanding your alcohol story, along with the truth about alcohol and its effects on the body, is crucial, transformative work.

Often, even if we don't consider ourselves to have a "problem," we still have a complicated relationship with alcohol. We may find ourselves turning to alcohol as a self-soothing tool, a way to check out or the default way to celebrate good news.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with any of this, we've found that increasing our awareness of these behaviors (and the deeply-held beliefs propelling them) can have a transformational effect on your everyday life. For us, understanding and rewriting our alcohol story was the missing link to setting healthy boundaries and learning to negotiate with ourselves. It also surprised us with much better sleep, less anxiety and a level of confidence we didn't see coming.

Yes and no. While we believe that experimenting with not drinking can be a healthy exercise for everyone, we recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to alcohol consumption. This course is more about observing and honoring your needs than forcing you to get sober.

We do provide an Observation Journal that will allow you to track your drinking habits and begin to notice where alcohol may be affecting your sleep, concentration and overall mood. For us, this kind of observation sparked an entirely new relationship to alcohol as a substance. We hope your journey takes a similar course.

This is a great question. It might help for us to clarify our name and mission:

We identify as women (she/her/hers) and as mothers/Mamas.

We chose the word “Bare” because it conjures up at least two relevant things:

1) The term “Mama Bear” (wherein the word “bear” has the same pronunciation as “bare” and implies a fierce protective energy) and

2) The word “naked” as in This Naked Mind, the book that inspired us to question our own relationship with alcohol and ultimately to become certified This Naked Mind coaches.

If our mission (or even just the aesthetic of our Instagram memes!) speaks to you, we welcome you wholeheartedly—whether you have kids or identify as a mother/woman or not.

We are totally inclusive. If you’re interested in exploring your relationship to alcohol, and you’re inspired by the idea of raising your consciousness about all these subversive messages from the booze industry, while discovering what it’s like to have increased awareness and choice. . . Bare Mama welcomes you!

One of the most important things we learned our This Naked Mind coaching training is this: Drinking is not a failure. It's a data point.

If you drink during the 28 days of The Observation Project, you'll simply make a note of when and how much. Then you'll answer a few questions about your sleep, mood and energy levels.

Over time, you'll likely begin to see patterns illuminating how drinking impacts your overall quality of life. You also may notice common perks of not drinking, things like better sleep, decreased anxiety and more energy and focus throughout your day. That's how it worked out for us.

The Observation Project is a completely private, self-guided online course. We designed it to be just for you — removed from traditional social media, self-paced and to be started and repeated at your discretion.

You can purchase lifetime access to The Observation Project for $97, and a portion of proceeds will be donated to The Black Mamas Matter Alliance.

Nope! Once you join The Observation Project, the content is yours. You can start, stop and begin again as many times as you'd like without limitation.

Due to the sensitive and self-paced nature of the content, refunds are not available for The Observation Project.