Hayley Caronia

So people are

hopping on these trends, they're trying these drinks so that they can still go out and socialize, but they don't have to deal with the negative effects of drinking alcohol.

Sober curious is when you're thinking of going sober, but you're not all in.

So people might start, you know, doing a dry January.

Let me see if I can live my life.

Let me see if I can go out to a bar with my friends and stay sober and what that's like for me.

Or let me try going to this event and not drink.

Or let me see how I feel.

Let me cut it out for this amount of time.

So people are kind of dipping their toe into the sobriety world without going all the way in and diving in, if you will.

And...

You know, so younger people are trying these newer drinks instead of traditional alcoholic beverages.

And, you know, a lot of people use these THC drinks or what are you laughing about in there?

Right.

Right, exactly.

Or it's like when you have a really horrible hangover and you say, I'm never drinking again.

That's sober curious, too.

I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't do this to myself anymore.

Maybe this doesn't feel so good.

I think my body is yelling at me.