drinking and eating
Caroline Knapp : Drinking: A Love Story:
The deeper connections between alcohol and self-worth and sexuality, the way women (at least women like me) use alcohol to deaden a wide range of conflicted feelings - longing for intimacy and terror of it; a wish to merge with others and a fear of being consumed; profound uncertainty about how and when to maintain boundaries and how and when to let them down…[alcohol] is a way of giving license to the part of you that wants to say yes. Yes to life and yes to deep connection and yes to touch and comfort and love.