What I Miss About Drinking (It’s Not the Alcohol)
Seth Gillihan, a psychology professor, took his last sip of alcohol Chrismas Eve 2016. He’d known for a long time his relationship with alcohol wasn’t a healthy one.
“It turned out to be one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself,” he writes in Psychology Today. “I began to see the benefits of abstinence that weren’t apparent when I was still drinking, and the freedom I found as I no longer had to think about whether and how much I would drink.
And yet, I’ve realized over the past couple of years that I’m missing out on some aspects of consuming alcohol. These include …” (Read more here.)