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Christine is a RN, board-certified health & wellness coach and certified dementia practitioner who has spent thirty-plus years in healthcare developing her passion: helping midlife women build a holistic brain-healthy lifestyle to sharpen their mind, boost confidence, and feel vibrant in their next chapter. To check out more of her work, visit her site, The Wellness Navigator. You can also find her on Instagram. If you want personalized insight. take the Brain Health Quiz,Why Does Everything Feel Harder after 40? It takes two minutes.

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How Dry January Improved My Brain Health and My Life

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“You are not stuck with the brain you have. You can make it better.” ~Dr. Daniel Amen 

At the beginning of the year, I had this whole list in my head about the benefits of dry January: drop a few pounds, sleep better, get those bright white eyes everyone raves about. The standard results you think you would get if you avoided alcohol for a month. But I should have known; my body had something else in mind.  

Truthfully, the real reasons are much more complex. Alcoholism runs in my family. I’ve never thought I had a problem, but occasionally,

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