The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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It’s not at all “preachy” or “annoying” - just sets out Catherine’s story in a way that is easy to relate to. I mean, it feels like they’re failing, but then learning all the time, because every slip, there’s an important lesson. Welcome to the Hello Someday Podcast, the podcast for busy women who are ready to drink less and live more. Forsyth documents the dark, addictive episodes – the 18th-century “gin craze”, during which the new urban poor were drinking pints of 80% proof hooch and dying in droves, being a particular low – but also the many ways in which alcohol has lubricated human relationships and held societies together. And it’s so so so, so, so important that the family and friends of those who are embarking upon this sober journey, to know that it’s completely normal, and expected that people will slip.

A must-read for anyone who has a nagging suspicion that alcohol may be taking away more than it's giving. In 2013 she quit drinking, moved back in with her mother and scribbled down her thoughts in a sober recovery diary each night. And this is really something that was really interesting to find out for the book is that neuroscientists and and I talked to four experts very in depth for this new book. And The Sobriety Starter Kit is ready, waiting and available to support you anytime you need it, when it fits into your schedule.

Sobriety has had a bad rap, being equated since time immemorial with seriousness and dull, muted colours. Yeah, I mean, even if you’re watching TV and film, if you completely remove, you know the fact that alcohol sponsors it or there’s advert breaks or whatever 80 to 95% of TV and film depicts alcohol in a positive light said this study. And you were sober and healthy and happy and exploring and having adventures and I the drinker was hung over on my couch.

I have it on audible so have been listening to it on and off for a few days and have cried, laughed, smiled, nodded my head in agreement, laughed and cried again, many times over. So you’re, you know, around the idea of like, once an addict, always an addict, that you are no longer addicted to drinking, because you’re not drinking, but you have no doubt that if you were to pick up again, it would be a serious problem.I’m Casey McGuire Davidson, ex-red wine girl turned life coach helping women create lives they love without alcohol.

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. But her case is still extreme; many of us will have managed to drink alcohol, even drink too much alcohol, for much of our lives without waking up in a police cell or becoming suicidal. Our body tells us that it hates even titchy amounts of booze, if we would only listen; we don’t really need a report to tell us. If you are questioning your relationship with alcohol and the way it makes you feel, do not hesitate to give this book a go!And a fifth of British adults think similarily, since they’re also teetotal, according to the latest Office for National Statistics figures. 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. So it was hard for me to relate to her because I don’t have the kind of money or safety net she has. I think, well, it’s a very clever way of then saying, well, hang on, you know, we’re we’re promoting a zero proof brands. My top sober reads are: Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety by Sacha Z Scoblic, Blackout by Sarah Hepola, This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol by Annie Grace, Dry by Augusten Burroughs and Kick the Drink.

There is a serious stigma out there which prevents people from asking for help if they feel worried, she says.Before embracing sobriety, Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish cycle of drink, horrible decisions and hangovers, during which she had her fair share of 'drunk tank' jail cells and topless-in-a-hot-tub misadventures. The morning-after-the-night-before hangovers have been replaced and I am bright-eyed and bushy-tailed even when I’ve met friends after work the previous day; no more hot sweaty meetings clutching a full-fat can of coke. But the best advice I would give anyone is to treat it like you’re studying for a degree, you know, you are trying to learn how to undo something that you’ve done, probably for at least a couple of decades, because most people don’t quit until they’re in their, you know, late 30s.