Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever

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And on the other hand, it’s been like alchemy; transforming something base and worthless into spun gold. So it’s it’s something that we don’t see very often if if you and it can, over the years, you can forget how bad it was and find yourself inching slowly towards drinking again.

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Despite, you know, worrying about it or trying to moderate or all the things for a good decade before.

I absolutely loved Catherine Gray's previous book on sobriety, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, so I was quite excited to learn about Sunshine Warm Sober, the kind-of sequel.

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And it has been the most healing, unsettling, comforting, scary, exquisite, disarming process I’ve ever undergone. And I have to say I almost broke out laughing right at the end about scanning body language of strangers because my daughter is seven years old and she does that all the time.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

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I didn’t love it quite as much as I loved “Quit Like a Woman” or “We Are the Luckiest” but as a trio, these three books are the perfect way to explore sobriety for any woman today. This was like subliminal marketing in that it crept into the micro-, and then the macro- consciousness. I enjoyed lots of this book, particularly the sections putting ‘stone cold drunk’ and ‘sunshine warm sober’ experiences side by side. Yeah, I mean, because one of the things that people don’t necessarily know, and that puts them off, is that they think, oh, there’s so many things I won’t be able to do when I don’t drink, you know, away those pity parties, I won’t dance, I won’t be able to date. The disclosures about the negative experiences accompanying drinking were useful reminders, as was the fact that going without alcohol doesn’t have to mean going without joy, which is a lesson that bears repeating.

I agree with Catherine that heavy drinking and a culture of encouraging alcoholic misbehaviour is pervasive in the UK. stars but the last few pages were really touching and had me nodding the whole time and I figured I'd give it a 4! And this is really something that was really interesting to find out for the book is that neuroscientists and and I talked to four experts very in depth for this new book. Exercise beforehand to flush adrenaline and cortisol from your system (and give you an endorphin glow). There is so much judgment around what you eat and drink when pregnant, I’ve been told off my total strangers for having a coffee.