Browsing: Drinking

What changes after a year of not drinking? If you’re like me or Sheela, you might have spent years telling yourself you’ll never know because that…

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), roughly 14 to 15 percent of healthcare workers — including doctors, surgeons, and nurses —…

Trigger warning: This post includes references to grief, the loss of a spouse, prolonged caregiving, and a personal health crisis. Drinking after losing your spouse is…

What happens when you finally stop running from yourself after more than fifty years? For Ann, the answer came at 77 years old, in a moment…

What happens when someone who grew up surrounded by alcohol, who watched it destroy relationships and fuel violence, eventually picks up a drink themselves—and doesn’t see…

If you cracked open a well-loved copy of This Naked Mind or The Alcohol Experiment, you’d notice something. Bent pages. Underlines everywhere. Notes scribbled in the…

Do I have a drinking problem if I don’t drink every day? You don’t need to drink daily—or ‘have a problem’—to decide alcohol isn’t worth it.…

Have you ever wondered if quitting drinking without being miserable is actually possible? For Anya, alcohol-free living seemed to require constant willpower, endless struggle, and accepting…

You’ve heard it on coffee mugs and decorative wall art: Choose joy. Great idea in theory, but when you’re trying to figure out how to have…

Home for the holidays. It might make a great song, but let’s be real—it can fill us with dread. That’s true no matter what the circumstances…