Dreaming of a Sober Curious Christmas…
“It was when I found myself sitting on my deck with a glass of wine, drunk, sobbing and thinking ‘I don’t even want to drink this, but I can’t stop’, that I realised I’d hit rock bottom,” recalls Faye Lawrence, 48, a sober coach and founder of booze-free social group Untoxicated. “Drinking had stopped being fun. I felt like I’d lost control.”
Irene Falcone, 46, an entrepreneur and founder of zero-alcohol marketplace Sans Drinks, reached her own tipping point two years ago. “We think about alcoholism as the man on the corner drinking vodka out of a paper bag. But there’s a grey area lots of us fall into – and I realised I was probably tipsy more often than sober,” she says.
Stories like these are more common than TikTok dance routines. The ensuing wake-up calls resulted in the ‘sober curious’ movement – a phrase coined by journalist Ruby Warrington in her aptly titled 2019 book to reflect that people
