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Continue reading →: My Scar is Nothing to be Ashamed ofBeing bikini-ready was the last thing I cared about.
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Continue reading →: 10 Ways to Stay Sober When Everything’s Falling ApartMy 2016 had a rocky start…
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Continue reading →: Stop Asking Me To Justify My Food ChoicesI know diets are fraught, but I’m just trying to avoid pain.
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Continue reading →: 5 Nonfiction Books For The Feminist Teenager In Your LifeIt’s been my experience that teenagers, regardless of gender, are intrigued by the notion of feminism. Like so many other things, the media, their families, friends, and larger communities often offer conflicting narratives about what being a feminist means.
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Continue reading →: Women and Their Relationship with Alcohol: A Reading ListOriginally posted on Longreads: My alcohol story seems like a non-story: I grew up in a home of teetotalers. We did not imbibe alcohol, nor did we discuss it. My mom’s parents are Southern Baptists, so her upbringing was the same. Alcohol made my dad sick, so he avoided it.…
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Continue reading →: The Inevitable Ugliness of AlcoholismFor The Establishment The mornings were not always the most severe—but they were the most desperate. I would be fine for a few minutes, as long as I lay perfectly still in my nest on the ground. The moment I went to move, however, the shaking began. It was only…
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Continue reading →: The Dangers of DXMIt’s a story that sent the local news swarming: Five Students in Marin County Hospitalized After Cough Syrup Overdose. The teaser is easy to imagine: “The dangerous new drug that’s sending teens to the hospital—it’s legal, lethal, and could be in your medicine cabinet.” Yet, aside from the classification of…
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Continue reading →: The Big Book of MormonRecovery in the Church of the Latter-day Saints
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Continue reading →: 8 Things I Didn’t Know When I First Got SoberIt’s not particularly easy or fun to be stone cold sober while someone weeps over his childhood ant farm before spilling beer on you.
Katie MacBride 