The sober curious movement questions your relationship with alcohol, so you can develop healthier drinking habits. Influenced by Ruby Warrington’s 2019 book of the same name, it aims to shift how you see your alcohol consumption, examining how different your life would be if you drunk less or stopped drinking altogether. Sign up to our daily newsletter Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Lancaster Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Gemma Nice , a 41-year-old yoga coach from Brighton, did just that. She became sober curious when she was travelling, she explains: “I was in my early 20s (now 41) and my husband and I backpacked around the world for 7 months. We were at all these amazing backpacker places, especially in Thailand (the full moon party).
It just didn’t feel right that if I drank, I would potentially have a hangover and waste my day the day after. I drank a little in my late teens, I got a bit tipsy on those but to this day, I’ve never been drunk!” Advertisement Advertisement She continued: “I’ve always been into healthy eating and wellbeing, more so after coming back from backpacking and that’s why I decided I didn’t need to drink to have fun. I am a yoga teacher and to me drinking alcohol is a wellbeing decision I’ve chosen to not drink.
” Gemma revealed that she has often felt pressured to drink in social situations, with some of her friends thinking it was “weird” that she’d go to the pub.