Yes, Sometimes I do miss alcohol!

Send us Fan Mail Missing alcohol after you quit can feel scary, like it means you’re sliding backwards. We don’t buy that story. We talk about what’s really happening when the thought pops up years into sobriety: your brain is remembering a feeling, a season, a song, a summer night, and alcohol just happens to be tangled up in the memory. That’s nostalgia, not failure, and it’s far more common in alcohol-free living than people admit. We also get real about the myth that life after alcohol i...