In this episode Toni is joined by Millie Gooch, 32, who gave up alcohol almost 6 years ago after years of partying and hangovers started taking a toll on her mental health.
Millie founded the The Sober Girl Society later the same year (2018), and she is the author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook, as well as a mental health ambassador and currently a student - again - studying addiction and mental health.

In this episode we discuss:
- How Millie started The Sober Girl Society because it was something she needed when she first stopped drinking (and her friends didn’t)
- The depression and anxiety that led to her going sober
- Direct and indirect effects of alcohol
- The chemical effects of alcohol on the brain and the lack of education and understanding around this
- How who we are and how we behave when we’re drunk often doesn't align with who we ultimately want to be
- Owning your decision to go sober (your friends will smell any fear!)
- Dating as a sober person
- Disco as a sober person
- Detoxing our social media feeds at the same time as detoxing our bodies
- How Millie's life is still filled with a lot of party and a lot of fun without the booze

PODCAST NOTES + LINKS:

The Sober Girl Handbook by Millie Gooch
The Sober Girl Society website
@sobergirlsociety on Instagram
@milliegooch on Instagram



Drink by Professor David Nutt (book)
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray (book)
The Sober Lush by Amanda Eyre Ward (book)
They Think It’s All Sober (podcast)



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