How and Why I Gave Up Drinking (Almost Entirely)

Kate Ward
7 min readJan 6, 2019
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

“Sober January” constitutes a thing for many people.

Drinking is normalized to such a point in our culture where it’s weirder not to engage than to engage. That’s why we need a dedicated detox period directly following a holiday that’s sponsored by flutes of champagne.

If this article meets you hungover, I apologize. You will hate me for it. I get it, I…

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Kate Ward

Thinking deeply about how to make myself and the world a little better. & writing about creators mostly | email: kate@onedayent.com