This Naked Mind

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 amount of time without alcohol just seemed out of reach. The stop/start drinking loop isn’t a new phenomenon: research shows that a lapse after a period of abstinence often pulls people back to drinking as much as before, sometimes...

“Why can’t I stop drinking once I start?” That’s a question I must have asked myself a million times, and it’s one that haunted Emily too. Emily possessed a characteristic so many of us who end up in a difficult relationship with alcohol often have: a driven, high-performing mindset, and

Drinking to cope with divorce isn’t a cliche, it’s a reality that many people face. Heather experienced that spike in alcohol use herself and turned to drinking as a way to deal with the demands of being a single parent.

Researchers have found that major relations...

Trigger warning: this story includes references to childhood physical and emotional abuse, parental alcohol misuse, and the loss of a spouse.

As a child did you learn to take a deep breath and steel yourself before you walked through your front door? To feel your body brace, fight or flight already firing, before you’d even said a word? That was Lisa’s real...