This short YouTube video (created/uploaded by Dr. Tabatha Barber on January 8, 2026) discusses how women often feel peer pressure to drink to fit in and highlights the emergence of mocktails and canned/sparkling non-alcoholic options as ways to have fun without alcohol. The speaker encourages viewers to lead by example and introduce mocktails to their friend groups.
I hear from patients and clients that I can't not drink because my girlfriends will question me about it, and they'll think I'm judging them. And so it's like you're stuck in this situation where you can't stop drinking even if you want to. So I'm so excited about the mocktails that have come out. And now they're, like, in cans and sparkling adaptogens and all these different options. Um, but for so long, women just felt this peer pressure to fit in and belong. So if that is you, I really want you to know that it doesn't have to be that way. And your friends probably secretly feel like crap, too.
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And so you gotta just be the leader and get on board and be like, this is what we're doing. Let's try something new. Because we can learn to have fun.
Yeah. Learn to have fun without alcohol. And not associate every outing with alcohol. Cause that's what it is. Like weddings. And for me, it was summer and boating. And I just instantly thought, I gotta have a drink. And so every day that has went by over the last 17 months, that's what's happened.
