And once upon a time, that would have been unthinkable, you know, I needed a booze free bubble to feel safe. The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober + Sunshine Warm Sober With Catherine Gray If you’ve read any Quit Lit, Catherine Gray’s book, The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober , is likely on your bookshelf or Kindle.

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Not everything that you expect, right, in terms of childhood trauma, you know, yes, or anything like that. There’s a lot more in there. Everyone should just try everything, and keep what works, and they’ll find their 30 tools that will help them. And it’s not a failure, it’s just that you’re trying to break something you’ve been doing for decades. Alcohol Change UK is the operating name of Alcohol Research UK, registered charity no. 1140287, a limited company registered in England and Wales.I absolutely love Catherine Gray’s writing style. She is a witty and likeable writer. I am not tee-total myself, but The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober really helped me cut down my alcohol intake massively, and I really feel the benefits. I really enjoyed her other two unexpected joy books as well. The sober revolution taking place in younger generations with baby boomers now drinking more than millennials and gen z The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Please review our So all of these things, it’s not just on a micro level, you know, keeping yourself sober. It’s also on a, it’s on a macro level, realizing that a lot of this is wrong. A lot of what’s going on is corrupt. And once you know that once you can kind of see the man behind the curtain that the reason why we’re not getting the whole truth about alcohol, you are much more immune to the marketing, because you can just see that it’s nonsense. It’s just smoke and mirrors to sell alcohol. Yeah, that’s a perfect place to end this. I love this. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. And I love your new book.

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Yeah, I mean, because one of the things that people don’t necessarily know, and that puts them off, is that they think, oh, there’s so many things I won’t be able to do when I don’t drink, you know, away those pity parties, I won’t dance, I won’t be able to date. Because I mean, when I was about four years sober I remember one of my best friends he’s a therapist saying to me, but you know, you’ve you’ve disentangled yourself from dependent drinking. So surely you can drink moderately, and you know, you’re happy now you’ve sorted everything out and your life. So surely you can drink again. 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. So it’s it’s something that we don’t see very often if if you and it can, over the years, you can forget how bad it was and find yourself inching slowly towards drinking again. When she’s not writing, Catherine can generally be found taking 20 identical pictures of the sunset, wondering why she’s always the sweatiest person in yoga, fighting her ‘spend it all’ financial urges or scanning the body language of strangers to see if it’s okay to pet their dog. Yeah, t hey really are that they’re so tough. If you look at the first test days, honestly, I think they are the equivalent of the whole of year four. They are just so savagely difficult.And I think there is what you bring forth is so many positives about, you know, walking away from this one liquid, right? It’s just a beverage, and you put that down and you get all these other amazing things on the other side and life really is great. Well, I think it’s so interesting. You mentioned the, you know, how inherently bad it is for you. And one thing in your book that that sort of blew my mind, because I actually didn’t know it. 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 obviously, those things are all challenging, and it takes time to learn how to do them. But say, for instance, on that holiday, if me and that gratitude group had been drinking, do you think we would have you know, ridden cable cars and ridden bikes and all of this all this exploring and all this fun outdoors stuff, I don’t think we would have, I think we would have sat in the place that we’d rented and drank.