Welcome to Sober Furious, a place to get furiously serious about being sober curious, vilify your experiences with drinking alcohol and learn some tips, ideas, recipes and non-alcoholic drinkie poo suggestions to help you on your journey to sobriety.
Making a decision to quit drinking alcohol in a world where everyone is obsessed with drinking alcohol is not easy, but it is a hell of a lot easier when you have great alternative drinks to keep you on the wagon. The non-alcoholic and alternative drinks industry has taken off like wild fire alongside the sober curious movement so let’s sit back and take a sip.
- ritualstaying sober needs a daily ritual…
- a new dayA new day has dawned. After twenty five years of binge drinking, the gig is up…
- monday, mondayThe idea of giving up drinking can be crippling. Is it the end of all fun as we know it?
- hollyIt’s important to credit the inspiration who finally got me to quit drinking…
- tea, glorious teaIt is a well known fact that British folks like tea. And me, I like drinking tea even more than the average Brit.
- blueI drink because I am depressed, I am depressed because I drink. Sound familiar?
- beerTo alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. Homer Simpson, 1987…
- traumaLet’s talk about the ups and downs of life and having to deal with a trauma… stone. cold. sober.
- wild“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
- g&t, hold the gPreserving the art of cocktail making and translating it into mocktail making is an important step for me to still feel like myself, just an alcohol-free version of myself.
- binge / multipliersFrom binge drinking to wellness multipliers. How to make the shift foreeeevvvvvver.
- motherSober Mummy = Better Mummy. Plus the mother of all non-alcoholic beers.
- campingSober curious groups are full of posts about the dread of upcoming camping trips that will be filled with pressure to drink alcohol.
- metamorphosisTo quote Lizzo: “I’m not the girl I was or used to be. B!tch, I might be better.”
- wingsConfessions of a past smoker. Guilty pleasures of a past drinker.
- memoriesMaking memories for my family rather than dealing with memory loss and black out.
- highs/lowsBeing sober has mellowed me out. I don’t have such raucous crazy highs nor bummer, fear-ridden lows. I reflect on the relief of no longer having those gut-wrenching lows but also the grief of saying goodbye to a fun chapter of my life.
- wineAre non-alcoholic wines any good or do they deserve to be poured down the drain?
- white wineWhite Wine. How can you be so delicious when done right? And so awful when done wrong?
- dryuaryWhat does dryuary mean to those who choose to be sober all year round?
- two yearsCelebrating my two year soberversary with thoughts on my new normal plus how many rewards I have reaped over the past 730+ days.
- othersHow other people’s drinking habits, or their opinions of my non-drinking habits can really impact me.
- boring / dancingIs being sober making me boring or making me bored? Or none of the above?
- breaking patternsDigging into generational patterns to unlearn some engrained boozy behaviors.
- own itOne thing that has been an important part of growing up into my forties has been “owning my own shit”.
- englandTaking a trip back to Blighty and witnessing first hand the surge in alcohol-free behaviors and products.
- routineMarking my third anniversary of being alcohol free, noting the ease and routine of sober curiousity.
- meta“If I don’t post on my blog will people think I have started drinking again?”