Now this is the FCNB podcast network. You just listen to yourself presents. I'm saying with Davis, I'm eight months sober from alcohol today and it feels great. I made the decision after realizing I couldn't remember the last time I went more than a day without some kind of alcoholic beverage. Like many people, my drinking habits rebbed up during COVID and even after lockdowns ended, I continued on with my coping mechanism until one day it just seemed like entirely too much. My body was suffering, my mind was suffering, and my time was suffering. So I took a break, and eight months later, I feel like a different woman. Funny enough, I've been running into a lot of people in my age range who have recently made the same decision like me. These are not chronic alcoholics, but people who realized they developed into problem drinkers over the last few years and want to get healthier. But it's not just Gen X or millennial drinkers who are starting to shed their COVID coat. A recent article in The New York Post highlighted how older gen Zers in the age range of twenty to twenty five are picking up marathon running in higher numbers than ever. It seems to be a bit of a trend for that age bracket. It's my opinion that this is the Gen Z version of shedding the COVID coke. Most of them were pretty young to be developing drinking problems to cope with the pandemic. Most of them were still in some kind of schooling at that time. Used to being stimulated at all times, they struggled with being forced to sit around and isolate. Their drug of choice was streaming, social media and video gaming. So it makes sense that as that generation begins to emerge from their COVID coma, their version of kicking the habit is doing something active. They're desperate to get moving, just like I was desperate to get mental clarity. There aren't a lot of silver linings have come out of our national pandemic nightmare, but perhaps one is that the pressure of that time has forced many of us to overcompensate in a more healthy direction. Would twenty five year olds be flooding the marathon market right now if it were not for COVID We can't know for sure, but I suspect this recent trend is because of COVID and not in spite of it, and that's kind of cool. I guess, So, what's your COVID coked? And have you dealt with it yet? If the trends are as I suspect, now is as good a time as any to break that cycle and make a healthy change for yourself. All the cool kids are doing it. I'm Cia Davison. I'm just saying. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where Real Talk lives. Visit is online at fcbpodcasts dot com.
