How to Deal With the Holidays When You’re Sober

Kelly Tompkins
3 min readNov 17, 2023
Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash

Winter is brutal, for a lot of people. But for a lot of us, it can be worse. About 5% of Americans are affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder and it can be debilitating. Add in the holidays and you have the perfect conditions for stress as well. I think that’s why there are so many jokes about drinking during the holidays. How else would you get through the stress of family plus it getting cold and dark at…

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Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.