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Website title: This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol by Annie Grace
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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...
Monnica bought wine she doesn’t remember buying and woke up to bottles she couldn’t explain. She used alcohol to manage her emotions for years before any of it made sense to her.
What do we turn to when life and the emotions that come with it get too hard? The books we read, the movies we watch, the songs on the radio, and the people we meet all point to a single de...
Trigger Warning: This story includes a parent’s struggle with alcohol, underage drinking and drug use, drunk driving and arrest, and an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage.
Rebecca blew a .08, exactly the legal limit. She spent the next seventeen hours in a county jail cell. And when she got out, she went right back to drinking the same way as before. She c...
This story includes a parent’s struggle with alcohol, a life-threatening medical emergency, and a child’s serious illness. Please take care of yourself while reading.
If alcohol has ever felt like the only thing that could quiet your body after a medical trauma, you are not imagining that connection. Research on traumatic brain injury shows that a...