Ruby Warrington - The Sober Curious Reset

This was the question that sparked my own journey to completely reevaluate my relationship to alcohol over a decade ago. It is the question that became the opening line to my subsequent book, Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol, which was published at the tail end of 2018. In the years since then, I have had countless conversations with people who also identify as being Sober Curiousmany of them as part of the podcast and media interviews that have helped spearhead a global movement, as people all around the world begin to question our collective, often conflicted, love affair with booze.

But equally, these conversations have been with the people in my life. With my friends and family members, with readers, with people I connect with on social media, and with those who attend my workshops and retreats. With people just like you. And all of us with so many questions: Why do I drink when it makes me feel so awful? When did I learn to drink the way I do, and why is it sometimes so hard not to? Will people think Im weird if I dont? Will life be boring without booze? And then theres the big one: Does the fact Im asking all these questions mean I have a problem?

Along the way, Ive learned that while our individual boozestories are interwoven with common threads and themes, the answers to these questions will be different for everyone. Ive seen that there is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to changing the way we drinkwhether its for the night, for a month, or forever. This goes against everything we have been taught about what constitutes problem drinking. Until very recently, the thinking has been resolutely black and white: There are normal drinkers and there are alcoholic drinkers, and if you fall into the latter camp, then you got very unlucky. You are pretty much doomed to die from drink unless you quit. A miserableif not downright frighteningprognosis, not only does this suggest that quitting is so hard that its only worth it if the other option is to end up in the morgue, but I believe it has also prevented millions of gray-area drinkers from even questioning our drinking. Until now.

The Sober Curious Reset is your invitation to become part of a brave minority that is daring to disrupt the status quo. Regular drinkers whose habit perhaps hasnt gotten that bad yet, and who are ready to demand a new normal when it comes to the narrative we have been fed about booze. The result of years of curious inquiry, and designed to help you answer each and every one of your own Sober Curious questions for yourself, each day for the next 100 days I will be sharing an idea, an observation, or a piece of insight sparked by my research in the field, along with a specific exercise to help you apply this to your life. As such, you are also about to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Along the way, there will be laughter, there will be tears, and there will be aha moments aplenty. A little over three months from now, I guarantee you will think completely differently about the way you drink.