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
“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
“The goal here is to create a situation you no longer have to escape, or a life you don’t have to numb. The achievement of sobriety is not the point; it’s a by-product of the work. The work is the point. Addiction is the hook that gets you in the door, and quitting is the catalyst to heal deeper wounds.”
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
Exploring the relationship between American universities and alcohol
Holly Whitaker • Holly Whitaker's Rudy Moment
“Isolation,” Holly Whitaker writes in her book Quit Like a Woman, is “an almost inextricable and necessary part of recovery”—it is “what saves you, what breathes you, [and] what makes your bones.”
Cornelia Powers • My Relationship With Drinking Ended As The World Shut Down
Gen Z and
“Spending a night out drinking is akin to dismantling every piece of protection we have—our cognition, our decision making, our reaction time, our memory, our standards, our voice. If we thought about alcohol in this way—as something that undermines our collective momentum and personal agency and vitality and self-worth—what would that mean for
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