“It can be cool to be sober”

The Sherbrookoise Charlotte R. Crevier launched the idea of founding a club of sobriety on social networks which is aimed at people wishing to socialize without consuming alcohol. To his surprise, his video was consulted more than 50,000 times, only in a few days. Obviously, his message tells people.

Sunday was the first rally of the Sherbrooke Sober Club. The members of this new community took advantage of the beach of the Lucien-Blanchard park to listen to music, juggle and play board games.

“It can be cool to be sober. We can have fun Without consumption and we do not need this fuel to do activities and connect with people, ”says Charlotte R. Crevier.

In a society where alcoholic beverages are omnipresent during the rallies, the young mother hopes to make sobriety a joyful and uncompromising practice.

She does not hide it, she is on the way to sobriety.

Basically, it was something personal, but I thought it was impossible that I was alone to feel like that.

I realized that I was missing to have links and friendships without consumption. […] I find that there is alcohol everywhere and it is difficult to feel a little included and to feel accepted in thereshe says.

By dint of withdrawing pleasure in social events without consuming, the ascent becomes less difficult. It sows a small seed in your brain and it creates a new associationunderlines the founder of the Sober Club.

An entertaining option

Charlotte R. Crevier is a regular on the meetings of anonymous alcoholics, but this time she wanted to offer a solution playful pour break isolation And allow everyone to explore a daily life without alcohol or drugs.

The biggest challenge is to find, sober connections. Afterwards, it is consistency in time.

When you stop consuming, you often pick up alone. You isolate yourself. It can be a fairly large cause of relapse. I wanted to bring people together, but in a joyful wayshe continues.

Charlotte R. Crevier insists: The Sober Club is open to all those who wish to take the path of sobriety, the curious as well as the abstinents.

She hopes to keep activities with the club every two weeks. The one who still avoids festivals already has several ideas that she wishes to offer: skittles, bingo, kayak excursions and possibly shows.

It’s really the aspect of feeling safe with a groupshe says.