Sobercurious

Hiking, cravings and a trip to the pub. — Has it been five months already? This month flew by and I overcame a few obstacles I had been facing before. I went away for two weeks and didn’t miss alcohol Granted the trip was mostly hiking in the Scottish Highlands, but my default after a long hike is to reward myself with a glass of wine over dinner. Because…

Earlier this year we shared a post exploring the Sober Curious Movement. ‘Sober Curious’ refers to people who are choosing to either take a break from alcohol for a short period of time or even permanently. …

“I should be able to figure out my drinking on my own.” — We are bombarded with many different beliefs about drinking, especially how we should be drinking, without any guidance on how to do that. We grew up with just say no or know when to say when and more recently, drink responsibly. And when we don’t just say no, or we…

Our Sober Reference today is Mic, a sobriety advocate and found of Sober Babes Vancouver, a sober community for women, non-binary people & members of the LGBTQ+ community in so-called “Vancouver” who are sober, sober curious, or want to drink less alcohol. Today Mic shares on how to recover find…

They all helped me. — After giving up alcohol for five months so far, I’ve had some time to deal with the highs and lows of sobriety and I have to say, it’s so much better than I thought. If I could give some advice to people who are curious about giving up alcohol, it…

My dad was in the service in the Army before I showed up in the world. His style of raising us kids was in using reverse psychology. He would be negative and criticize in hopes that those words would make us say, ‘What the hell? I’m not like that! I’ll…

Society has created such a stigma around being an “alcoholic” that we have an image of a homeless man sitting on a park bench when we hear that word. …

How I see the future of sober living. — Why aren’t you drinking alcohol? I could never do that. Some of the phrases we used to hear back when being vegetarian were rare, we’re now hearing people utter them when someone says they’re quitting alcohol. Thirty years ago, most people ate meat. Telling someone you are a vegetarian or…

Three years ago, I quit drinking. I cut out alcohol to curb my growing anxiety during COVID and never looked back. The reality was more nuanced, but you can read more about that here. I’m thankful that as I was coming to terms with my sobriety, a movement was picking…