It also helps you stay focussed on your goal and feel better about resisting pressure to accept a drink. I brought her on today because she’s the author of the new book, not drinking tonight, a guide to creating a sober life you love, which just came out. As someone who has chosen not to drink mainly due to health reasons, I found this book to be a great resource.

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If you realize this may be you and want to stop drinking, there are resources available to help you find a treatment center. It was a lot less about drinking and more about the why and how we’ve evolved as humans to manage stress and react to the world around us.Whether it’s a glass of wine after work or a weekly bar crawl, your drinking habits can be the result of everything from biology to trauma. If part of what you enjoy about drinking is the ritual, drink all ­beverages from a wine glass – be it fizzy water, tonic, non-alcoholic beer. Over time, excessive alcohol use can cause liver cirrhosis, a condition where healthy tissue is replaced by scar tissue inside the liver after significant inflammation and cell death. However, it can be helpful to look at a list of reasons not to drink to see just how many ways sobriety — or even sober curiosity— can benefit you. Better brain function following a good night's sleep and replacing water instead of alcohol will also have a huge benefit to our skin which will appear clearer, less dry looking and fine lines reduced.

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I’ll teach you how to navigate our drinking obsessed culture without a bus, how to sit with your emotions, when you’re lonely or angry, frustrated or overwhelmed, how to self soothe without a drink, and how to turn the decision to stop drinking from your worst case scenario to the best decision of your life.

My choices are well informed and if there is something that didn’t work out, I'm able to put it into perspective and figure out what I can learn from the situation, instead of beating myself up about it (or turning to drink).