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Are you SOBER CURIOUS?

For working mum Lizzy Fowler, 36, alcohol was a way to manage her anxiety and stress. She wasn’t drinking to excess – in fact, she was drinking within the recommended intake and she had spent long periods of her life not drinking, not the least during two pregnancies.

“I’m not a huge fan of labels,” she says, “but I’ve never been an ‘alcoholic’. I’m a high-functioning, hardworking, full-time working mum, but in the past I have definitely gone through periods of having two glasses of wine every day.”

And while that might not seem

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