The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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And so we can all like give each other a little leg up when we when we’re out and open about being sober. Even if it’s in a closed group, you don’t have to do it. But you know, where your workmates can see or whatever. But it really does pass it on and pass it down. And that’s the best service you can possibly do. First of all, well done to the author for her sobriety and courage to pen and publish this memoir. Its popularity will hopefully make people notice that as a society we have a problem with alcohol. I don’t think any drugs require encouragement or advertising and it’s sad that people don’t realize that alcohol can be addictive. Yeah, and I do that in the new book as well because I really like that tool, that kind of split screen diary tool and for me I mean, this is the thing for me it consolidates it for me as well in my own head writing these books helps my sobriety. The sober revolution taking place in younger generations with baby boomers now drinking more than millennials and gen z 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.

And I just wanted to tell everyone what it’s actually like, I think a lot of quit lit focuses on that struggle that painful bit, before you start even trying to quit, or the bit where you do have the 37 day ones. Addiction is all about seeking external relief from mental pain; whether you use cocaine, online poker, shopping, sex, razors, cake or exercise.”I read this book during my dry January spell and I found it gave me serious food for thought. Catherine's experiences through her drinking were very open and honest. There were some funny stories however some very serious ones which was very brave of her to put in to a book for all to read. Oh, of course, I got them in front of me. They’re just so you know, within the in the spirit of everyone has a completely different path. I just love that you gave an example of like the big things and the little things that really helped you from you know, crying your eyes out to taking long baths to you know, how you went to sleep and carrying around my little pony to the big stuff like addictive voice recognition and joining 100 Day Challenge. This book is alright. She made some good points and I’m glad she put in scientific, marketing, societal and health information. It really helps her readers get a grasp on how alcohol affects us in multiple fields of just living life. 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. You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist.’ – NIETZSCHE”

Catherine Gray really captures the FUN we can have in sobriety. This book challenges the status quo; sobriet sounds as liberating as taking a trip to the jungle. Fun and inspirational. What an important book for our time! A joy to read.' - Samantha Moyo, founder of Morning Gloryville The Hello Someday Podcast helps busy and successful women build a life they love without alcohol. Host Casey McGuire Davidson, a certified life coach and creator of The Free 30-Day Guide to Quitting Drinking – 30 Tips For Your First Month Alcohol-Free, brings together her experience of quitting drinking while navigating work and motherhood, along with the voices of experts in personal development, self-care, addiction and recovery and self-improvement. Now she wants us to start being honest with ourselves about our own relationship with booze. How many of us are actually drinking the recommended maximum of 14 units or less a week of alcohol, and how many of us are drinking 14 on a Friday night without even trying? I liked how we see Catherine's transformation and the advise she offers in changing your own mind set and using other tools as a coping mechanism for dealing with life. There is a serious stigma out there which prevents people from asking for help if they feel worried, she says. Gray hopes this book will start a conversation.

I met Catherine online in a secret non-drinking Facebook group 8 years ago, when she was first starting her life without alcohol and she has been an inspiration to me ever since. A riveting, raw, yet humorous memoir with actionable advice. A truly unique blend of storytelling and science that holds a universe of hope.' - Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind Alcohol has performed an important social function for most of human history, as Mark Forsyth shows in his old-fashioned booze-loving book, A Short History of Drunkenness. Traces of beer have been found in large stone tubs in the world’s oldest known building, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which dates from 11,000 BC; it seems that before humans had even settled down to agriculture, our hunter-gatherer ancestors were meeting up to share a beer. Traces of wine dating to 7,000 BC have been found in China. The ancient Egyptians drank to commune with the gods; Viking lords inspired loyalty among their troops by lavishing them with mead. “Not to know beer is not normal,” ran a Sumerian proverb from the late 4th millennium BC, and that was still the case in medieval England, where ale was the principal means of hydration (water was dirty and dangerous, and drunk only by the very poor).

This was the first bit of sober lit I ever read, and it was a choice inspired by Sober October. I liked how the book framed sobriety as “liberation, not deprivation.” The act of making a decision feels scary, since you may fail, but once you make a decision and set a definitive goal, the brain likes it more.” So in your first book, in the unexpected joy of being sober, I just want to hype it a little bit, because I loved it so much. And it’s so helpful for women when they’re when they’re starting out. You’re chapter two, in learning to be sober. You outline 30 things that got you through your first 30 days, huh? If you’ve read any Quit Lit, Catherine Gray’s book, The Unexpected Joy Of Being Sober , is likely on your bookshelf or Kindle. It’s a book I absolutely love and it’s one of the first books about giving up alcohol I recommend to women as they’re starting their journey to stop drinking. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober came to me at a time when I much needed it... The book became my best friend, and got me through, and took me on a journey.' - Sadie FrostThat comes through so clearly in all of your books and and that’s why I love recommending them to women because It really is the flip side, you You almost take every argument that we all have that we all hold on to about why we don’t want to stop drinking.

Particularly lovely, because it's not a deep and dark dive into someone's terrible addiction. It's a celebration of everything that she has gained from not drinking' - Laura Donnelly The 37-year-old whose father was a drunk that is starting to have problems with drinking also, the 22-year-old college student who is tired of dealing with hangovers every weekend, and anyone who wonders if there is more to enjoying life than just trying to take the edge off with a drink. E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe.The truth about your drinking that you probably don’t want to admit is that it stopped being enjoyable a while ago. But your brain doesn’t care, it’s built the habit already. Anytime you have a problem of any kind, your brain goes to alcohol as the solution.