Perimenopause and Alcohol: Why the Wine Stops Working
Somewhere in your forties, you notice the wine isn't landing the way it used to. One glass leaves you foggier the next morning. You're awake at 3 a.m. with a jittery, out-of-nowhere anxiety.
Two big changes are happening in your body at the same time, and both of them pull in the same direction. This is what perimenopause and alcohol do together.
Stop Waiting for Someone to Tell You You're Enough
For a lot of us, "good enough" has always been borrowed from somewhere outside ourselves. Here's the psychology of why we outsource our worth — and what it looks like to take it back.
Your Parent Might Be a Narcissist. That Doesn't Make You One.
If you grew up with a narcissistic parent, you know the particular exhaustion of a world that revolved entirely around someone else. And you may now be wondering: did that shape me into someone like them? Here's what the research actually says.