Sarah Wood
@sarahwood
writer based in barcelona
Sarah Wood
The UK’s largest recent study of drinking behaviours showed in 2019, 16-to-25-year-olds were the most likely to be teetotal, with 26% not drinking, compared to the least likely generation (55-to-74-year-olds), 15% of whom didn’t drink.
bbc • Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
On my one-year sober anniversary, I decided I had finally gotten the hang of this thing called “a present life.” I started a new job and threw myself into challenging projects. I felt productive, focused and in control. And then, something utterly unexpected and exciting happened: I met someone.
Man Repeller • Falling in Love While Sober Wasn’t What I Expected
“There is the life that most of us live, and then there is the life we have buried deep inside us, the life we know we’re supposed to be living.”
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
Sobriety and
Existentialism and
“Sobriety, if it is anything, is paying attention, seeing the wonder and the beauty around us that we so easily sprint by on our way to the next thing. And this is more than fun; this is actually living.”