Limerick nurse goes viral selling ‘sober curious life-style’ –

For many people, alcohol is synonymous with our twenties – however Ellen Dundon is adamant to problem this norm. The 26-year-old nurse from Corbally has gone viral for her content material regarding her teetotal life-style. She shares content material on her rising Instagram and TikTok pages.

Ellen’s influencer profession started on the finish of 2024, fueled by her newfound enthusiasm for sober residing. 

“I started making those ‘Sober Sunday’ videos,” she says. “I used to be never able to do anything on Sunday because I was so hungover. So I started documenting all the things I was able to do.” 

Once the lifetime of the celebration, Ellen believes that her anxiousness surrounding socialising muddied her relationship with alcohol. 

“I would say that it was an unhealthy one [relationship with alcohol], not in the sense that I was doing it every day. But when I did go out, I would have to be the last to leave,” she explains. 

Ultimately, Ellen says she grew bored with her outdated methods and sought to vary her life. 

“I had gone out like three nights in a row, and I was like, I’m so sick of feeling like this. I said, I’m not going to drink for a week and I never looked back. But I was nervous about what people would think,” she confesses.

“I think everyone thought I was pregnant or something.” 

The sober life doesn’t come with out its challenges, and Ellen, who’s within the strategy of emigrating to Australia, is feeling considerably ambivalent concerning the 24-hour flight she might be enterprise. Quitting alcohol means she must face her fears of flying unaided. 

“I used to rely on it a lot in those scenarios. That’s how I’d get on the plane and get through the flight. So, it’s something I’m really nervous for.” 

Ellen’s selection was formed by quite a few elements in her life; her occupation included. She feels that her nursing profession has been influential in serving to her witness first-hand the long-term well being harm alcohol causes. 

“When you’re young, you think you’re invincible. You think your body is going to last forever, but it doesn’t.” 

Eager to proceed producing on-line content material whereas she is overseas, Ellen concludes the dialog with phrases of encouragement for younger ladies contemplating taking the bounce to sobriety. 

“No one is ever going to judge you for trying to better yourself, and if they do, then they’re obviously not in a good place themselves.”