Beautiful Hangover

The five years since I quit have really changed my perspective Five years sober, I have no regrets about my decision to quit. For a...

In my first year sober I wasn't convinced my drinking was that bad. Five years later I have a very different perspective.

Here are the four misconceptions I would most like to correct because they cause the most damage.

After I got sober, I became painfully aware of my people-pleasing habit. Now I'm working to destroy it.

Now I’m almost five years sober, the idea of not drinking being boring is laughable. But I still remember the boredom of those early days.

Drinking too much is a logical response to living through the time we are and it feels like it serves you, but it really doesn’t.

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

Here are the different ways I have tried to defeat the witching hour over the years, and how I managed to beat it for good, four years ago.

One of the most painful parts of my last few years of drinking was the feeling that life was passing me by.