Reclaimed Woman

Send us Fan Mail Two bottles of wine a night doesn’t start as a plan. It starts as relief. I’m talking about the moment social drinking quietly becomes at-home drinking, then nightly drinking, and the awful loop that follows: you drink because you don’t feel good, then you don’t feel good because you’re drinking. If you’ve ever looked at your life and thought, “This isn’t me”, you’ll feel seen here. I share what was really going on underneath my alcohol use in my 40s: a marriage breaking dow...