This Naked Mind

When Monica wrote in sharing her story, this line is what jumped out at me — I started wanting to drink less but really struggled. Same girl, same. You, me, and about 90% of the people out there too. It can feel like our brain is running two different programs simultaneously and we’re a ping-pong ball bouncing between them. It’s exhausting and defeating. Monica found out ...

You can function just fine on the outside and still feel stuck with alcohol on the inside. If you’re like me or Rachel, you know what that looks like: a good career, a solid workout routine, dinners you love to cook, a glass of wine measured out just so, and none of it seeming like a good enough reason to worry. Research on tolerance backs up what so many of us learn the hard...

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