{"id":20042,"date":"2025-01-15T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20042"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:29:06","slug":"not-drunk-not-dry-what-it-means-to-be-soberish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20042","title":{"rendered":"Not Drunk, Not Dry: What it Means to Be \u2018Soberish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conscious of the health risks of alcohol, more people are experimenting with cutting back on drinking.<\/p>\n

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One day last year, Christine Mosley woke up with the kind of hangover that inspires self-reckoning. That day, she decided she would never drink again.<\/p>\n

A few days later, Ms. Mosley, 31, found herself with a cocktail in hand. For her at least, she said, \u201cit\u2019s really not that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, Ms. Mosley, a business marketing manager in San Francisco, has tried to be not fully sober, but \u201csoberish<\/em>,\u201d by reducing her alcohol consumption and paying closer attention to its effects on her mood and health.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to emphasize the \u2018-ish\u2019 part \u2014 not to be dry but to increase the number of dry days,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The designation, sometimes also referred to as \u201csober curious,\u201d has caught on in the United States and elsewhere as the health risks of alcohol<\/a> become better understood. \u201cSoberish\u201d can mean drinking more mindfully, drinking less or avoiding alcohol altogether but not other drugs. At parties, people often reach for seltzers and nonalcoholic beers, and more people are using apps that help them track and reduce their alcohol intake.<\/p>\n

The idea has been popularized by confessional podcasts like Soberish Uprising and social media accounts that advocate a soberish lifestyle.<\/p>\n

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Conscious of the health risks of alcohol, more people are experimenting with cutting back on drinking.One day last year, Christine Mosley woke up with the kind of hangover that inspires self-reckoning. That day, she decided she would never drink again.A few days later, Ms. Mosley, 31, found herself with a cocktail in hand. For her at least, she said, \u201cit\u2019s really not that simple.\u201dMore recently, Ms. Mosley, a business marketing manager in San Francisco, has tried to be not fully sober, but \u201csoberish,\u201d by reducing her alcohol consumption and paying closer attention to its effects on her mood and health.\u201cI want to emphasize the \u2018-ish\u2019 part \u2014 not to be dry but to increase the number of dry days,\u201d she said.The designation, sometimes also referred to as \u201csober curious,\u201d has caught on in the United States and elsewhere as the health risks of alcohol become better understood. \u201cSoberish\u201d can mean drinking more mindfully, drinking less or avoiding alcohol altogether but not other drugs. At parties, people often reach for seltzers and nonalcoholic beers, and more people are using apps that help them track and reduce their alcohol intake.The idea has been popularized by confessional podcasts like Soberish Uprising and social media accounts that advocate a soberish lifestyle.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20044,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20045,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042\/revisions\/20045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}