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Read stories, tips for the month, alcohol-free reviews and lots more!

Top tips for managing your drinking after your dry challenge

If you’d like to drink more healthily and happily after a dry challenge, this blog has some tips to help you.

Top tips for managing your drinking after your dry challenge

If you’d like to drink more healthily and happily after a dry challenge, this blog has some tips to help you.
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Scott Pearson
Beyond the Bar: Gladly queer, proudly sober

June 2024 | 9 minutes

When Scott came out at the age of 16, he quickly found himself enamoured with the party and hedonistic culture of London's Soho nightlife.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week eleven

Millie Gooch | May 2024 | 8 minutes

Millie Gooch brings another of her mid-week instalments to help you explore the sober lifestyle to the max.
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Changing the game: Being an alcohol-free footie fan

Jay Motty | May 2024 | 10 minutes

There are many things I thought I’d never witness during my time as a football fan, England getting to a major final, United going over a decade without a title, City winning the treble (ffs!
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week ten

Millie Gooch | May 2024 | 8 minutes

The wonderful Millie Gooch, sober influencer extraordinaire and founder of Sober Girl Society, is back for yet another year of hosting Sober Spring.
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Time to start really seeing the world – Alcohol-free travel and holidays

Sean Willers | May 2024 | 14 minutes

After years of booze-heavy travel, former soldier and DJ turned fitness coach, Sean Willers, shares his experiences of sober stags-dos and getaways.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week nine

Millie Gooch | May 2024 | 8 minutes

Sober influencer extraordinaire Millie Gooch brings three weekly 'hacks' to power through your mid-week slump.
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Alcohol, Dyslexia, ADHD and me: Lauren’s experiences as a neurodivergent person

Lauren White | May 2024 | 10 minutes

Lauren White, a motivational speaker, life coach, counsellor and Alcohol Change UK Ambassador, talks about her experiences as a neurodivergent person and how this has impacted her relationship with alcohol.
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Fraser Franks on Alcohol and Self-confidence: “For a long time I had all my confidence wrapped up into alcohol"

Fraser Franks | May 2024 | 11 minutes

Our ambassador Fraser Franks uses his own experiences to talk to us about the complex relationship between alcohol and self-confidence.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week eight

Millie Gooch | May 2024 | 8 minutes

In this blog, 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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Becoming alcohol-free as a woman: What’s different?

Mandy Manners | May 2024 | 13 minutes

Life and recovery coach and Alcohol Change UK Ambassador, Mandy Manners, gives her view on the specific challenges and experiences that come with going alcohol-free as a woman.
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Millie’s Sober Spring hacks - Week seven

Millie Gooch | May 2024 | 8 minutes

Millie Gooch brings another of her mid-week instalments to help you explore the sober lifestyle to the max.
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“Sobriety does not have a colour”: Black and Sober Podcast on navigating sobriety as an ethnic minority person

May 2024 | 13 minutes

Ricci and Alisha from the Black and Sober Podcast share their experiences of becoming alcohol-free and their mission to amplify black voices in sobriety resources.