Sober Curious

The whole point of getting Sober Curious is to come to your own conclusions about the true effects of booze and to then apply this heightened awareness to making conscious and informed choices about the role it plays in your life.

How will this drink really make me feel — now, in an hour, tomorrow morning? What am I drinking to not feel? What is the purpose, the desired end result, of my drinking? How many days will it take to recover the full extent of my faculties? What else in my life may be affected as a result of this drink?

“Alcohol is part of my medicine, my spiritual practice, my magic, my culture and ancestral traditions, as well as part of my social life,” she [Jessyka Winston, a Haitian Vodoun priestess] told me. “I associate with it as a spirit. If I overindulge, it will hand me my ass on a platter. If I respect this spirit and treat it with respect, it will elevate me. And as a spirit worker, I can tell you that applies to all spirits!”