Reflections on Dry January
Hi, everyone. This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll walk through what I learned about myself during Dry January. Dry January, or the practice of abstaining from alcohol during the month of January, is an exercise that started in the UK about 10 years ago. But recently it feels like more people are trying it out. Or at least some form of it. Some folks do a lesser version, which they call Damp January or Dampuary. I have a close friend who has stopped drinking for a while, so I thought I’d do Dry January this year in solidarity. As I near the end of this little experiment, I thought I’d reflect a bit on what I’ve learned. First some Background - I grew up in a family where alcohol wasn’t important — no one drank much at all. That said, in my high school, drinking was synonymous with independence and rebellion — neither of which I experimented with much until my senior year. But college for me was entirely centered around drinking since I w