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Author Stark, Jill.

Title Higher Sobriety My Years Without Booze
Published Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (303 p.)
Summary What happened next? It's the question Jill Stark has been asked most often since the publication of her acclaimed memoir, High Sobriety. As one of the original pioneers in the 'quit lit' space, Jill started a national conversation about the role of alcohol in our lives, turning the lens on her own rocky relationship with booze and forensically dissecting the culture that gave rise to it. Now, ten years after the book's first release, she fills in the gaps on where life took her after she unwittingly became the poster girl for sobriety. In this updated edition, Jill charts her struggle to become a moderate drinker, the crippling 'hangxiety' that led to her quitting alcohol for good, and the ever-evolving journey of self-discovery sobriety has taken her on. Surviving six long lockdowns alcohol-free, Jill also looks at how a global pandemic tested her sobriety and shone a spotlight on the way alcohol has been sold as the panacea for all our troubles. At the same time, it helped accelerate a seismic change in the nation's drinking habits, with the rise of the sober-curious movement and a booming non-alcoholic drinks industry proving there is a growing appetite for abstinence. After so long feeling like a social pariah, Jill embraces the joy of living life on the outer, and meets a new generation of sober rebels who are radically redefining what it means to be alcohol-free. Now she feels prompted to ask the question, has sobriety become cool?
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Subject Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs.
Coping with drug & alcohol problems.
Drug & substance abuse: social aspects.
Drugs and alcohol: social aspects.
Health & Fitness - General.
Health & personal development.
Illness & addiction: social aspects.
Memoirs.
Popular medicine & health.
Popular psychology.
Psychology - Psychopathology - Addiction.
Self-help - Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism.
Self-help, personal development & practical advice.
Social Science - Popular Culture.
Social Science - Sociology - General.
Society & culture: general.
Sociology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1922586897
9781922586896