Beautiful Hangover

I would never have managed to quit drinking if I’d known what it entailed short term.

When I was nine years old I had a beautiful, charismatic best friend.

Drinking Like A Man Stopped Me Enjoying Being A Woman. How getting sober helped me to understand and make peace with my femininity.

We need to stop vilifying people who can't stop drinking.

How to refuse drinks over Christmas without ruining the vibe or feeling like a loser.

I'm still learning to process pain without alcohol.

When I first quit drinking, I had no intention of stopping for good. I wanted to have a break, to sort a few things out in my life.

My experience of living with a drinking problem was that it was a bit like having two personalities.

My subconscious did a fantastic job of keeping information about alcohol away from my consciousness.

Three things absolutely not to say and what you can try instead.

Until I changed my thinking around alcohol I couldn't break my dependence on it. 1. I’ll stop tomorrow/after that birthday party/next...

When I first started learning about addiction I couldn’t see how I was powerless over alcohol.

The evolution of looking after myself from the drunk years to my fourth year sober.

In a time obsessed with image crafting, public vulnerability feels dangerous and damaging. Honestly, the opposite is true.

It’s a May wedding and I am so freshly sober that I don’t even know I’m getting sober.

eighteen months sober, I arrived in the wilderness. September 2017 I travelled to Svalbard for a writing residency. For three weeks, we...

This time three years ago, I woke, dehydrated, with a sickening feeling of doom. It wasn’t the first time, or even the first thousandth...

If you've ever worried about your drinking, I invite you to try my foolproof and unassailable test. Number of times googled Am I...

Ah, how easy it is to accidentally drink too much on St Patrick’s Day, when all around the world, people gather in pubs to don...

Drinking cured my social anxiety short-term, but made it worse long-term. After finally quitting I found a more constructive source of...