Quitting Drinking is the Easy Part – It’s What’s Next That’s Hard
It’s really easy to quit drinking. It’s the staying quit that’s the struggle.
Why I Stopped Trusting My Brain Implicitly
Once upon a time, I trusted my brain implicitly. Why wouldn’t I? It had kept me alive, after all, and no one had ever told me that this cerebral cortex of mine was unreliable. When my brain told me certain things—say, that I didn’t have feelings for someone anymore, that a friend had wronged me or that my boss deserved to get an earful about how dissatisfied I was—I assumed it was correct and acted on those thoughts.
