Then came a real test: a season soaked with social stress and opportunities to take the edge off with a mug of mulled wine. “I felt like something was missing without drinking and I had a lot of despair, thinking it would always be that way,” McKowen says. As hard as it was, the experience…
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When it comes to self-care, I’ve tried it all. Hot baths, hot yoga, trips to hot climates. Retail therapy, sun therapy, cat therapy, talk therapy. Massages, mindfulness, acupuncture, reiki. I felt pretty chill for an hour or so after a massage, sufficiently revitalized after working up a sweat with sun salutations and downward dogs—but the…
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In March, Demi Lovato celebrated six years of sobriety, a journey she’s been very transparent about with her fans. “So grateful for another year of joy, health and happiness,” she wrote at the time. “It is possible.” And now, Lovato’s talking about substance abuse—relapsing, specifically—again in a new song called “Sober.” “I got no excuses…
Read moreDemi Lovato has been vocal about her struggles with mental health, body-image issues, and substance abuse, and now she’s opening up even more about the powerful reason she decided to get clean over five years ago. The defining moment: her parent’s ban on seeing her sister, Madison De La Garza, until she got sober. According…
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