The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Betty White of The Golden Girls would say. ‘Why do people say “grow some balls?” Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.’)” In this podcast, my goal is to teach you the tried and true secrets of creating and living a life you don’t want to escape from. This is because when you drink you get a release of dopamine. And as getting drunk each week or day dulls your senses, it becomes the only thing that can get you a significant dopamine release. In other words, drinking rewires your brain, and not to your advantage. 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.

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear. Catherine Gray is an award-winning writer and editor. She has worked on staff for magazines such as Cosmopolitan , GLAMOUR and the Sun 's Fabulous supplement. She has written as a freelancer for publications like Stylist , Marie Claire , YOU , Women's Health , Grazia , the Guardian , Shortlist , BBC Earth , Emerald Street , Heat and the Daily Mail . Yeah, and I mean that that is what we can do to help the people coming up behind us is obviously, you know, attraction, not promotion, don’t preach, because that really turns people off. So if people are curious, and they ask about it, tell them the truth, tell them how much better it is. 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.

I’m so different,” she says simply. “I don’t lie, I don’t cheat on people. I am not lazy anymore. I’ve found out who I really am.”

It definitely made me reevaluate some of my attitudes towards alcohol. The way she spoke about “a spectrum of dependency” rather than healthy/unhealthy drinkers made the book very accessible. Catherine's writing style and voice captivate me. She has a way of translating her story into an experience I don't want to end. I want to drink every drop she produces.' - Holly Whitaker, founder of Hip Sobriety School and co-presenter of Home podcast

Each week, I’ll bring you tools, lessons and conversations to help you drink less and live more. I’ll teach you how to navigate our drinking obsessed culture without a bus, how to sit with your emotions, when you’re lonely or angry, frustrated or overwhelmed, how to self soothe without a drink, and how to turn the decision to stop drinking from your worst case scenario to the best decision of your life. Surely we already knew this, on an atomic level, that even a small amount of alcohol screws with our body and mental health? Even when I managed to keep my pub tab to just two drinks, the next day I still felt the smudge of tiredness, the scratch of anxiety, the roil of nausea, the ghost of sadness. 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. This book is great. A balanced, informative and entertaining melange of memoir, sociology and psychology. I identified very strongly with huge sections of it.' - Jon Stewart, guitarist of Sleeper and Leaving AA, Staying Sober blogger You don’t have to spend all day sleeping off your hangover, you can leap out of bed at seven and go on an early morning walk, or join your friends for a lovely brunch.