Send us a textMy guest on this week’s episode is the awesome Jill Stark.Jill, who is both single and childfree, is a best-selling author, content specialist and award-winning journalist, who uses the power of storytelling as a tool for connection and change. Her best-selling books include Happy Never After and High Sobriety. She is from Scotland but lives in Melbourne, Australia. Topics that we cover are:the parallels between sobriety and choosing the single life;why she describes herself as a social agitator;how Jill grew up in a culture of drinking, and how she took that into her adult life;the irony of how she became a health reporter writing about binge drinking;how she came to quit drinking, initially for three months, and how much she loved it;the book deal that saw her quit drinking for a further year;people’s reactions to Jill’s sobriety;being single, and how Jill never questioned whether she actually wanted to get married and have kids;the correlation between quitting drinking and her clarity around her relationship status;Jill’s podcast, Well Enough Alone;her ‘Solo Sunday’ events in Melbourne;why we shouldn’t be looking to other people to fix feelings of loneliness;the lie we’ve been told that one person can fix all of our problems or complete us;Jill’s mental health crisis in 2014;how fundamentally important it is to develop a strong sense of self;how we’re so conditioned to see marriage and babies as ‘success’;the growing ‘movement’ of single women;how Jill resonates with Bella DePaulo’s notion of being ‘single at heart’.Follow Jill on Instagram:@jillstark__Check out Jill’s website:https://jillstark.com.au/ Check out Jill's podcast, Well Enough Alone:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/well-enough-alone-a-guide-to-thriving-solo/id1751129641 Get £100 any trip with Explore at:https://www.explore.co.uk/offers/current-offers/hood To try out the amazing deal with Republic of Cats, go to:https://www.republicofcats.com/catlady/  Support the showBuy my book, SHINY HAPPY SINGLES (UK) / THRIVE SOLO (US & Canada) at: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/book Join my membership community for single women, Thrive Solo: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/thrivesolo Download my FREE PDF 'Top 10 Comebacks for the MostAnnoying Questions Single Women Get Asked' Go to: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/comebacks Check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thrivesolowithlucymeggeson Join my private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1870817913309222/?ref=share Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrivesolowithlucymeggeson/ Email me: [email protected] And thank you so much for listening!

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