Between Sober and Not: Mindful Drinking Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe the sober-curious middle ground. Writers describe the first question — a hangover that lasted two days, a sleep tracker, a comment from a child, a health scare — and the early experiments: dry months, drink counting, alcohol-free substitutes that were terrible and then suddenly were not. There is the daily social navigation that nobody warns you about: the round, the wedding, the work dinner, the friend who takes it personally, the explanations that get shorter with practice. Writers report what changed — sleep, anxiety, mornings, money, weight, and the flatness that some found instead — and describe particular circumstances: pregnancy, medication, culture, sport, grief. Later chapters hold the honest cases where moderation did not hold, and the people who eventually found that stopping altogether was simpler than managing.

Who it's for

For anyone quietly reassessing their drinking, people trying moderation before abstinence, and the friends and partners navigating a changed social contract.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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