The Dry Life

It all started when...

I began to question my relationship with drinking in late 2011. In 2012, I gave up alcohol for a year and I called it A Year Without Wine.

On New Year's Eve 2016, I started @drybeclub on Instagram for those of us who are living - or curious about living #thedrylife. This is a topic that is of personal and professional interest to me and I will keep writing about it.

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Thank you for this, @glennondoyle. My very favorite part: “I have been alive.” ❣️
Sometimes when I’m feeling unsettled or stressed or bored or sad, I think it would be nice to have a glass of wine. Even almost 4 years later, this thought creeps in occasionally. But then I remember the neon truth: Alcohol helps absolutely not
Was just thinking this is a really good time for us to be present and clear-headed. There’s so much injustice and heartache and loss right now and the world needs us all, and all of us. Drinking numbs us and now is a time to feel. Drinking drai
I’ve been busy during this truly heartbreaking time thinking and rethinking, learning and unlearning, facing my undeniable deep white privilege while considering the undeniable deep systemic racism in our country. I’ve been reading lots a
Sunday plans. 💫
Did you drink last night? Did you drink last night even though you vowed not to? Did you drink more than you planned? Did you sleep poorly and wake up with a racing heart wondering what’s wrong with you, why you can’t seem to change? Did
Looking back, I can see that I drank to feel better, to fix things, to smooth edges, to escape. I’ve always had low-level anxiety, a type of anxiety that in many cases served me very well. It allowed me to get straight As, to set goals and achi
Who’s in? 🤷🏼‍♀️
This July will mark four years without a sip of booze. This fact stuns me. Drinking was once part of who I was - or I believed this to be true. I was someone who made all the lame jokes about wine. I was once suspicious of people who didn’t dri
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