Hazelden Betty Ford is encouraging people to embrace a Sober October.
Hazelden Betty Ford's Lydia Burr says people tend to pick October for the same reason they pick dry January.
"It's the start of a new season here in Minnesota, and it's heading into the holidays," says Burr. "So people want to try out something new, potentially, and see how it goes for them and and I think that's great."
If you choose the sober route, she says find something to do and make it unique.
"That would be the day that people would be trying to occupy themselves in some other way, get active, do do something in place of when they might normally be using alcohol," Burr explains.
Burr also said it depends on each person as to how difficult it is to abstain, take a month off and reset.
"The holidays are just an interruption to our normal daily routines and activities," she adds. "So we can start to consider the span of a couple of months, really to be one big special occasion in which we're more heavily engaging in alcohol throughout. And that can become its own vicious cycle."
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