Leanne Hainsby is celebrating a significant milestone.

The Peloton teacher, 35, marked one 12 months of sobriety with a prolonged Instagram submit Wednesday, reflecting on the various methods her life — and her well being — have improved since quitting consuming.

“1 YEAR ALCOHOL FREE ????” she cheered in her submit, which included a number of textual content slides detailing her transformation over the previous 12 months.

“In the present day marks the day earlier than the day I used to be informed I probably have breast most cancers. It marks the day earlier than I went for my second opinion and was then despatched on to have varied scans forward of my analysis a number of days later,” she started, referring to her August 2022 analysis of early triple-positive breast most cancers.

“In the present day additionally marks the day I finished consuming alcohol,” she added.

Hainsby then defined that she initially made the choice to ditch consuming to make sure that she stayed as wholesome as attainable whereas present process her grueling most cancers remedy. Nevertheless, “it rapidly was the most effective choice I made for myself as a result of every little thing optimistic everybody says about stopping consuming, for me, continues to be true,” she wrote.

She went on to share a few of the optimistic adjustments she’s seen since changing into sober, amongst them psychological readability, higher sleep, better productiveness and boosted confidence. “Funnily sufficient, I am far more assured and not using a drink — who knew?” she wrote.

The health teacher wrote how residing sober helped her be extra current and strengthened her connections with individuals. “Deeper, extra purposeful conversations with associates and the individuals I really like,” she defined.

Hainsby mirrored again on the second a 12 months in the past when she first made the choice to cease consuming after realizing she was utilizing alcohol as a coping mechanism. The biking professional’s finest good friend, Danielle Hampson, tragically died in a automobile accident on her marriage ceremony day in June 2022, leaving Hainsby reeling.

“Deep within the very early levels of traumatic grief and shock, consuming manner an excessive amount of to try to numb an oz. of ache in any manner attainable, after which recognized with most cancers a number of weeks later, it might’ve been a recipe for catastrophe,” the coach wrote.

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Now, she stated, she’s taking the time to really course of her ache, attending weekly remedy periods and nurturing her well being and well-being. “To me, this seems like a fantastic achievement and a brand new stage in life that I am actually pleased with,” she famous.

She concluded her candid submit by encouraging followers on an analogous path to not get discouraged. “It hasn’t at all times been simple … however as somebody who LOVED a celebration, I actually do not feel like I am lacking out,” she stated. “I nonetheless completely take pleasure in time, it simply seems a bit completely different now — good completely different.”

She signed off with, “So let me elevate a glass of kombucha (in a stunning glass, as a result of that feels good) to this second.”

In early April, after 12 weeks of chemotherapy, a lumpectomy and radiation remedy, Hainsby — who lives in London along with her fiancé and fellow Peloton teacher Ben Alldis — was given the all-clear at a three-month scan.

“It was a very massive milestone that I used to be feeling actually anxious about, and it was actually nice information,” she informed PEOPLE on the time.

“For me to have the ability to get higher simply felt like such a privilege,” she added. “I bear in mind a most cancers nurse saying to me: These issues that you concentrate on now will change into so irrelevant even six weeks down the road. I want I might go on that data: All of the issues that we expect are necessary — hair, boobs, seems — when it actually comes all the way down to it, they’re simply… not.”