The Sober Girl Society Handbook Quotes

“Richard Piper is CEO of one of the UK’s leading alcohol charities, Alcohol Change UK. Formed from the 2017 merger of Alcohol Concern and Alcohol Research UK, Alcohol Change UK is known for its flagship programmes Alcohol Awareness Week and Dry January. I contacted Richard on Twitter, where his bio declares that he is ‘not anti-alcohol, just anti-alcohol-harm’, and so I started by asking him what he means by this”
― Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: Why drinking less means living more

“hard days are more challenging but more beneficial for emotional growth.”
― Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: Why drinking less means living more

“I learned that good mental health is not about being happy 24/7, but about how you process your emotions.”
― Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: Why drinking less means living more

“Now more than ever we’re gunning for autonomy and self-expression. We’re in favour of people dressing how they choose and living how they want. We’re supporting people in their pursuit to truly be their authentic selves. But non-drinkers? We dismiss them as no fun – they’re boring. We’re rising up against systems that tell us what to do and how to be, yet we rarely mention what a great act of defiance it is to choose not to drink in a world that profits from making people (especially women) feel like we should. Similarly, we’re more body positive than ever, but when it comes to our personalities we are carefully curating ourselves to be more exciting, less inhibited. We’re using alcohol to ease our anxiety when it’s generally proven to make us more anxious.”
― Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: Why drinking less means living more

“As the saying in the sober community goes, ‘Alcohol is the only drug that you have to justify not taking.’ And that is the most important point: alcohol is a drug.”
― Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: Why drinking less means living more