2 days ago I hit a milestone – 100 days alcohol-free. I don’t like the word ‘sober’ as it’s a sad-sounding word ( sober: serious, sensible, and solemn ) and my alcohol-free life has been anything but sad. The common misconceptions when you say you don’t drink alcohol are that you are pregnant, an alcoholic or just plain boring. All of which I am not. There is no juicy story of me waking up one morning in a trash bin after 10 too many tequilas vowing to turn my life around, but I will admit that my relationship with rosé wine had become a little too close in the months following my Dad’s death. I had started a wellness journey which involved daily trips to the gym and lots of motivational audiobooks, both of which were counterproductive when you have a hangover. I eased myself in last October by cutting back on my alcohol intake to the point in April where I just decided to quit it altogether. The less I drank the happier I became. Has it been easy, no, do I sometimes feel like a social leper, yes, but the thing I learnt was I only drank out […]
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