Jill Stark was the 'poster girl for sobriety'. Then her drinking problem returned

The author and journalist was well-known for her 2013 best-selling book, High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze, which chronicled her tumultuous years-long relationship with alcohol and her decision to give up drinking for 12 months.While she'd never promised that she'd be sober forever, she was met with outrage and betrayal when others found out alcohol was part of her life once more.

But poster girl or not, Jill's journey with alcohol wasn't over. For the next few years, she grappled with her sense of self and her relationship with drinking.Now, a decade on, she's updated her book — renamed Higher Sobriety — to paint a fuller picture of that time.Growing up in the 80s in Scotland — where, she jokes, not drinking was punishable by death — Jill had her first drink at 13."In the early days, I really loved the idea of alcohol," she says.

She began with three months of sobriety in 2011. It was a prospect that seemed daunting at first, but eventually stretched out to over a year and inspired her first book.Suddenly, Jill became the yardstick for alcoholism in many circles — and somewhat of a social outcast among her old drinking buddies.

"There's a certain amount of grief that comes from giving up alcohol and saying goodbye to this part of yourself that you identified with so strongly," she says. "Alcohol was certainly in the past and still for many people continues to be an important way of signalling that they're part of a social group, and it's really kind of knitted into many of the events that we celebrate as Australians," she says.

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why should we care about Jill's problem with the grog? poor self control....is all

It's almost like alcohol is an addictive drug! Gosh, who'd have thunk it?!

Woman can be as pretty as they want to be. Men still wont want them ;p Men are waking up. Children in US likely to resort to crime when they grow up in Fatherless homes

Woman need to get a job because there's not going to be any men around for you in 20 years... and Men need Mates... because these woman are so entitled, they'll abandon you first chance they get. I take mates bush... we are all very happy. None of them wants a partner.

We are entering into a world of Individualism. A womans self-esteem is tied to men. Men dont want them anymore. They are worthless, entitled, cant keep a marriage going. Womans self-esteem is crashing due to stress. Get used to it. Singles Society... here we come ;p

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