Why life is better without booze – Australian Women’s Weekly – December 2015
More than 500,000 middle-aged Australian women drink far too much, far too often. So what happened when two “high risk” drinkers went teetotal?
At 46, Jules Vandermaat was a self-confessed, “party girl”. She didn’t have a problem with alcohol, and she certainly wasn’t an alcoholic. And yet, booze had become a prominent player in her life. “Drinking was part of my identity,” she recalls.