Doing Dry January this year?

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Happy New Year! Hope you’re all feeling ok today.

If you are doing Dry January this year, then your environment and community are absolutely vital. It’s so much harder if your friends, family, colleagues, partner or housemates are not on board with an alcohol-free month.

So I have a proposition:

I’m going to set up WhatsApp groups for any paying subscribers who are doing Dry January and could do with accountability and support throughout the month.
Depending on how many of you want to do it, there will be several groups, so each one will only have 10-20 people.
I’ll be overseeing each group, and will chip in with tips and advice that I learned while writing Mindful Drinking: How cutting down can change your life.
But the main idea is that you can support each other, sharing favourite alcohol-free drinks, ideas on coping with sober socialising and distraction techniques for those need-a-drink moments.

The WhatsApp groups will have three rules:

1. Dry January-foc…