How to Quit Drinking in 2024, According to Experts
25.12.2023 - 16:59
/ glamour.com
The below guide on how to quit drinking is part of Glamour's 2024 , which explores reasonable, quantifiable, and—crucially—sane ways to embark on self improvement objectives you'd like to complete this year.
We all know and are mostly designed to make us feel terrible about ourselves and, as a result, spend money on things we think we need to live a more fulfilling life.
Here, writer Micaela English shares of her personal sobriety journey and enlists the advice of experts for anyone looking to quit drinking in 2024, for whatever reason.Four years and 10 months ago, I learned how to quit drinking.
It wasn’t a or Sober October experiment, though I’d done those in the past.
It was a full-on epiphany: this substance is no longer serving me.
Looking back, I never could have understood how drastically the words, “I don’t drink” would transform my life.
I didn't realize how badly I needed to set myself free from the merry-go-round of wine dinners, after work cocktails, brain fog, alcohol-induced anxiety, skin conditions, and that sense that I "needed something" to function in social situations.At the time, I had gone through periods of abstaining from alcohol, and had even stopped cold turkey in my early 20s, but ultimately, it would always creep back into my life.
I think the hardest part of looking back on that chapter, particularly when I was a magazine editor attending black tie galas and glamorous after parties where the alcohol was flowing like water, was that in my gut, I knew I wasn’t being authentically myself.
In a sense, it felt like self-betrayal, because with every drink, I was moving farther away from myself and ultimately, my goals.I did it a decade ago and never looked back.
Let's make 2024 the year you do,
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