18 hours Ago By Philly Powell
We’re taking a look back at some of our favourite and most popular Lifestyle stories of 2024 , giving you a chance to catch up on some of the great reading you might have missed this year. This story was first published in July. Philly Powell is the CEO and founder of Wellbeing Tick, an organisation that works with workplaces worldwide to help transform toxic cultures and improve employee wellbeing .
Now a self-described wellbeing junkie, she spent much of her life with a problematic relationship with alcohol . She started a nine-month period of sobriety on April 14 last year ..
. and is still going. As Dry July continues, Powell shares her story of being addicted to alcohol, and the life-changing benefits of becoming sober.
The first time I remember getting drunk, I was about 13, with family at Christmas , sitting on the deck with a glass of bubbles and a strawberry and having no idea what was going to happen. As I started to feel these feelings of being tipsy, I really loved it. I was like, “whoa, this is so cool”.
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