“Did you know a standard glass of wine can contain as many calories as a piece of chocolate?'
When I ask about the potential parallels between Dry January and diet culture, Whitaker explains how “a beautiful thing that allows people to reexamine their relationship with a drug” can become “commodified” if it's fed into a cultural system that “drives us to believe that our worth is only established by attaining certain ideals that are really impossible.
It can be tempting to lump our goals about our own alcohol consumption under catch-all, cultural ideas about wellness. But in the grander scheme of things, this thinking limits our receptiveness to how sobriety can more powerfully change our lives. “I don't view my sobriety as wellness, and I don't view my recovery as wellness,” Whitaker tells me.
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