Leanne Hainsby is celebrating a significant milestone.

The Peloton teacher, 35, marked one yr of sobriety with a prolonged Instagram put up Wednesday, reflecting on the numerous methods her life — and her well being — have improved since quitting consuming.

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

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

“At present additionally marks the day I ended 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 doable whereas present process her grueling most cancers therapy. Nevertheless, “it shortly changed into the very best determination I made for myself as a result of the whole lot constructive everybody says about stopping consuming, for me, continues to be true,” she wrote.

She went on to share a number of the constructive modifications she’s seen since turning into sober, amongst them psychological readability, higher sleep, higher productiveness and boosted confidence. “Funnily sufficient, I am far more assured with no drink — who knew?” she wrote.

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

Hainsby mirrored again on the second a yr 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 pal, Danielle Hampson, tragically died in a automobile accident on her wedding ceremony day in June 2022, leaving Hainsby reeling.

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

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Now, she mentioned, she’s taking the time to actually course of her ache, attending weekly remedy classes and nurturing her well being and well-being. “To me, this appears like an amazing achievement and a brand new stage in life that I am actually happy with,” she famous.

She concluded her candid put up by encouraging followers on an identical 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 mentioned. “I nonetheless completely get pleasure from a very good time, it simply seems a bit totally different now — good totally 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 therapy, Hainsby — who lives in London together 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 develop into so irrelevant even six weeks down the road. I want I might cross on that information: All of the issues that we predict are vital — hair, boobs, seems — when it actually comes right down to it, they’re simply… not.”