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My Parents Taught Me How To Drink

The Glamorous Appeal of Drinking

5 min readMay 6, 2023

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My Parents Taught Me How To Drink

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Dear Alcohol,

We’ve known each other for a long time; we met when I was 15, and I am now 58.

4 min readMay 12, 2024

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Dear Alcohol,

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Beets and Sobriety

The benefits of beets and your liver

4 min readMay 6, 2024

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Beets and Sobriety

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Alcohol’s Insufficiency

The scam of advertising

3 min readApr 25, 2024

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Alcohol’s Insufficiency

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Gray Area Drinking

That Murky Space Somewhere Between Social and Destructive Drinking

3 min readApr 19, 2024

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Gray Area Drinking

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100 Days Sober

Discovering that sweet spot

4 min readApr 13, 2024

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100 Days Sober

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Do I Need to be an Alcoholic to Quit Drinking?

The decision to quit drinking is a personal one.

5 min readApr 11, 2024

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Do I Need to be an Alcoholic to Quit Drinking?

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The Importance of Community When Trying to Quit Drinking

How a community can help you

5 min readApr 7, 2024

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The Importance of Community When Trying to Quit Drinking

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We Are Not Sober Just Because We Put The Drink Down

There’s much more to sobriety than being alcohol free

3 min readMar 29, 2024

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We Are Not Sober Just Because We Put The Drink Down

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I Reject Senior Status At Age 55

Age is just a number

4 min readMar 22, 2024

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I Reject Senior Status At Age 55

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Lisa Yates

Lisa Yates

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Paraeducator for developmentally delayed preschoolers. Writing about my experiences as a motherless daughter, grief and loss, sobriety and more.

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