Mindful Drinking

How today’s students are changing their attitudes to alcohol. Hear from Laura Willoughby of Club Soda who talks about taking notice of what’s right for you drink wise. Millie Gooch the founder of the Sober Girl Society tells her story and Professor David Nutt who believes drinking less alcohol should be a national priority and is worse than drugs.

The Sober Curious Podcast has an interesting chat to Seedlip founder Ben Branson who created a whole new category when he launched the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits in 2015. Providing those abstaining with something new to drink, and helping to normalize the choice not to drink. Since then, the “no-and-low” category has exploded, with so many alcohol-free options on the market helping people make the conscious choice not to drink.

Rosamund Dean, author of the book Mindful Drinking: How Cutting Down Can Change Your Life, talks about what mindful drinking means to her, how she plans in alcohol-free days every week and the benefits she feels.  Clemmie Telford who gave up drinking earlier this year, talks about the moment she decided to go sober, how she’s navigating nights out and weddings alcohol-free and how she’s never slept better.

From our late 40s we just can’t drink like we used to, we’re suddenly suffering from ‘hangxiety’, we’re noticing health niggles. It’s probably a time when we should all become more mindful about our boozing. Dave Wilson decided at 55 to ‘go sober’ in January 2019. He created an Instagram account – @soberdave. Your Next Episode Podcast talks with Dave and the an incredible online community that he’s part of.