I am creating Sober AF for people like me who have lived with fomo their whole lives. I was an extreme social drinker for 20plus years of my life. I never wanted to miss out and I never wanted the party to end which usually meant that I ended up drinking for hours and hours to prolong the "fun" and the "party". I didn't actually need the alcohol but the social groups that I ran with were very much all entangled with extreme drinking. Taking shots and drinking as many drinks as possible and the strongest drinks for the least amount of money. I blacked out often and would end nights with drinken crying sessions and wake up not knowing what I had said the night before or to who.

 

This was a vicious cycle I lived in for years. And even though I was embarrassed and ashamed of it and even though it caused many traumatic events in my life - such as my near death car accident.. I didn't stop because the FOMO was real. I love people and making friends and I want all people to love me, if I stopped drinking in these groups that I was in - no one would like me and I would have non social life and be alone. People who didn't drink had a problem and I certainly didn't have a problem is what I thought. I kept my jobs and provided-ish for my children. I am not able to sip a glass of wine with the ladies and be done ... This is what led me to my 100 days of no drinking challenge. And what I learnt in the 100 days was AMAZING - I can still be social and be fun!!