The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Only 3% of millennials say that drinking is “an essential part of socialising”, and there has been a “40% rise in millennials choosing to be teetotal”.

A really honest, real read, narrated excellently on the audiobook by the author for an added touch of genuineness, that I'd recommend to anyone, not just people who think they may have a problem. As one of the thirstiest nations in the world, the British have long clung to the received wisdom that moderate drinking brings some health benefits.Actually, resveratrol, the same substance for which they declared a glass of red wine is “good for you,” is found in much higher amounts in other foods, including dark chocolate. I’m Casey McGuire Davidson, ex-red wine girl turned life coach helping women create lives they love without alcohol.

For the first time in years, she began appreciating work and travel, combining both to live abroad for months. And it just, you know, just the circumstances around it created almost like perfect conditions for my addiction to dig its cause and really take hold. And that’s such a beautiful way to feel because, for instance, my birthdays, I used to hate birthdays, because I felt like another year had inexorably rolled by and I still hadn’t, you know, done the things that I was always intending to do. Surely we already knew this, on an atomic level, that even a small amount of alcohol screws with our body and mental health?Because I was holding down a job, and my life hadn’t fallen apart, they didn’t think that I was an alcoholic,” she tells i. I will probably still pick up the other book I had on my tbr forever which is The Unexpected Joy of Being Single, as it was the one I wanted to read from this author in the first place. You will sleep better and have more energy, you’ll look better and feel better, you’ll have more patience and less anxiety.

The author has a few good points: that it can be a nightmare to have to explain to people why you don’t drink as if you told them you replaced food with the energy of the Sun or something, that alcohol is overrated and that you really can live without it and also that once you have a problem it’s really worth it to quit. So it feels like such hard work keeping alcohol in your life, that when you finally let it go, you realize everything is actually easier. It's something I struggle with every day and I guess all I can say is this book made me realise I'm not alone.

And although we may, occasionally, have made idiots of ourselves, there may have been more positive consequences, too: who knows what proportion of long-term relationships in Britain began under the influence of booze? There’s still you know, a lot of gritty stuff in there, but most of it is about the, you know, the the dawn rather than the darkness. You said in a 2019 study, a bottle of wine a week was compared to the cancer risk of puffing 10 cigarettes for women. And it takes a really long time to figure out all of those lessons, and you know what to do and what works for you. A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.

In 2013 she quit drinking, moved back in with her mother and scribbled down her thoughts in a sober recovery diary each night. I am living proof, as are millions of others, that you can be 100% teetotal and have an infinitely more interesting social life. Catherine lives in Hove and when not writing she enjoys falling off a paddleboard, giving her plants names like 'Cassandra' and 'Miguel', and spamming Instagram with pictures of dogs. What I was really thinking was: Don’t even for a minute think I’m vanilla because the truth is I am so hardcore I had to quit. The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee Indians but there seems to be no real proof of this.

if you think you have a drinking/ addiction issue i highly recommend you listen to this authors story.