Health

Is Alcohol Stealing Your Spirit?

From the glamorous portrayal in the media to the cultural normalization of frequent drinking, alcohol often disguises its detrimental effects behind the façade of social acceptability. How has this entity of synthetic spirits overshadowed so much of humanity’s soul?

By Anna Hugoboom5 min read
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Savoring liquid spirits is akin to being transported in a time machine, passing over centuries of tradition, toil, celebration, rage, delirious happiness, and depressive despair. You taste the generations of debate, whether this borrowed sense of spirit encased in its glass shrine is beneficial to mankind…or not.

In a world where cocktails are a must-have adornment for every social gathering and wine flows freely at celebrations, it’s easy to overlook the subtle impacts of alcohol on our lives, especially as women. But these impacts are significant.