The Sober Spring blog

Check out blogs from sober influencers and experts, every week throughout Sober Spring. You can also read blogs from Dry January with tips for your alcohol-free adventure.

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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week four

Millie Gooch | April 2024 | 5 minutes

Explore the sober lifestyle to the max with Millie Gooch's selection of sage words, canny suggestions, and handy resources.
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Susan Laurie’s four top tips to help you adjust at work when you’re newly alcohol-free

Susan Laurie | April 2024 | 10 minutes

As well as being part of the Training and Consultancy Team, Susan is also Alcohol Change UK’s expert by experience.
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Samantha’s story: Alcohol, my family and me

Samantha Kingston | April 2024 | 10 minutes

In 2018, Samantha lost her mum to stage four liver disease due to alcohol dependency.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week three

Millie Gooch | April 2024 | 7 minutes

Millie Gooch brings another set of brilliant weekly mid-week instalments to help you explore the sober lifestyle to the max.
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Top tips on navigating a family gathering alcohol free

April 2024 | 10 minutes

If you’re trying to cut back on or cut out alcohol but come from a family with a heavy drinking culture, navigating family events alcohol-free can be really challenging.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week two

Millie Gooch | March 2024 | 7 minutes

As ever, Millie brings with her another set of brilliant weekly mid-week instalments to help you explore the sober lifestyle to the max.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Kick off week

Millie Gooch | March 2024 | 7 minutes

Power through your mid-week slump and start exploring the sober lifestyle to the max with Millie's weekly selection of sage words, canny suggestions, and handy resources all hand-picked for you.
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Sober resources by and for people of colour

March 2024 | 11 minutes

All of us in the sober and mindful drinking space need to work much harder to actively make room for people of colour - as a small step in this direction, here are some resources by and for people of colour.
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Dry January 2024: Kick-starting a year of change?

Dr Richard Piper | February 2024 | 10 minutes

Back in December, our research showed that one in four UK adults wanted to reduce how much they drink in 2024.
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Our top five tips for maintaining your gains from Dry January®

February 2024 | 9 minutes

Softer skin, feeling fresher, clearer head, looking trim - the list of Dry January® benefits goes on…
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Top tips for managing your drinking after Dry January®

Erynn Blansjaar | February 2024 | 9 minutes

If you’d like to drink more healthily and happily after Dry January, this blog has some tips to help you.
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Mud, hills and the start of your new journey: the Dry January 10k

January 2024 | 11 minutes

When Ollie Ollerton, of ‘SAS: Who Dares Wins’ fame, Dean Haviland and the whole BreakPoint team wanted to organise the first ever Dry January 10k to support Alcohol Change UK we knew it would be more than just a run.