When I see her name appear on my WhatsApp, I don’t even open the message. I archive it, to look at another time. In some ways, you could say she archived me 15 years ago, that I was no longer urgent ...

Over the summer, I attended a wedding in Michigan. There was an open bar with endless booze. For some reason, I decided I didn’t want any. And over the last few months, I still haven’t had the taste ...

Melissa Bourke spent decades believing alcohol made her happier, more confident and better able to cope with life's ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Charles Knowles remembers very little about that sunny afternoon in Florida almost ten years ago. He ...

In my drinking days, I searched for answers to these questions for years: How do I quit drinking for good? What can I do to break my drinking patterns once and for all? Today, people come to me with ...

“Why do I still want a drink after all this time?” This is a painful question that many clients come to me with. Each person would list all the reasons why they “should” already be over the desire to ...

After uni, I moved to Sydney and the drinking continued — and lasted throughout my 20s. I never drank alone, always socially. And one drink didn’t always lead to ‘too many’. Sometimes I’d have just ...