Career coach Chloe Spillane broke her eight-month sobriety after a pregnancy loss, then drank wine before bed while scrolling her phone, two habits she'd quit. She argues that accountability without self-compassion is useless, and slip-ups don't erase progress.
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Confessions of a career coach. I am breaking my rule of not having my phone in my bedroom. Obviously, we're in bed. I also am breaking my rule of not having, like, not being on my phone an hour before bed because I'm about to go to sleep. So I was eight months sober, and then I, when my pregnancy didn't work out, I had a few drinks because I was like, "Fucking, fucking need it," and I was drunk off one glass of wine. So that was fun. Yeah, they're probably my most confessions for tonight. Honestly, I don't know. Like, we set up all these rules and all these goals and it's great. And as a career coach, I'm here to keep you accountable to what you wanna do. But also like, we're fucking human and we're not perfect all the time. Like me right now, like shit happens. Just don't, like, don't be so hard on yourself all the time. Stay like, keep on track, but let yourself fall off every now and then. Like, you can't be, you can't be all on track all the time. Like, you can't do that all the time. That's, that's like inhuman. And when I've been like that, like I'm psycho, like, you know, one or the other, then I'm just not a very fun person to be around. Okay, I'm gonna go to sleep now. How cool are my new glasses?