It meant eating past the point of comfort. It meant not letting yourself feel that high, that addictive strength that filled your stomach when you kept it empty of everything else.
Tag: adult child of an alcoholic
For My Mother, Putting Down the Alcohol Wasn't Enough
As an adult, I struggled to reconcile how my mother could be bone sober but still function like the manipulative, bewildering, and self-absorbed alcoholic I sat next to in all those corner bars as a kid.
3 Things My Father Taught Me About Addiction
Reframing the addiction as a disease helped me understand that my father didn’t want to hurt himself or my family.
