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What If High Cortisol Isn’t Your Problem?
If you’re tired all the time, waking up exhausted, feeling wired at night, or struggling with brain fog and mood changes, you’ve probably heard the same ...
Chris Asher was meticulous and tracked everything. He trained 10 to 15 hours a week for half Iron Man distance triathlons, competed at the world championships in obstacle course racing, and earned USA...
Kristina is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist and founder of In Our Nature Therapy in Annapolis. She came to this work the same way a lot of us come to the work that matters most to us...
Maria Winters is 49 years old, a licensed mental health therapist with over two decades of experience, one of the most energetic and engaging people I know, and she still gets told she's boring becaus...
I grew up serving hors d'oeuvres at my parents' cocktail parties in the 1970s.
I thought it was the coolest thing. Sophisticated adults laughing, drinking. And something got logged in my brain early:...
Why Am I Working So Hard to Keep This in My Life?
A woman in one of my groups asked a question last week that I cannot stop thinking about.
She said, "Why am I working so hard to keep this substance...
Laney Demeza was on top of the pyramid at Nationals when she was a kid. Literally, she was flying through the air, competing against teams from across the country with the Pop Warner Rockets in 1991. ...
You're Not Aging. You're Just Contracted. A conversation with somatic expert Tina Lanzoni
Tina Lanzoni sent out an email called Why Yoga is Better Than Wine and I had to have her on Sober Fit Life.
...I wrote in my journal about my drinking for YEARS before I finally stopped.
Most of that time, I kept it completely to myself — the shame, the bargaining, the 2am spiraling, the waking up and immedia...
From Glamorous Blogger to God: My Conversation with Christy Osborne
I'm still thinking about my conversation with Christy Osborne days later. You know when you have one of those conversations that ju...
 The Rock Bottom Myth
We've been sold this narrative that you need a dramatic catastrophe before you're allowed to change your relationship with alcohol. A DUI. A health crisis. Lost relationships. S...
Your Drinking Problem Might Actually Be An ADHD Problem
What happens when the thing you thought was your biggest weakness becomes your greatest strength
"You just needed so much attention when you w...