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When Sobriety Feels Like Starting from Scratch Early recovery often brings relief—but not the kind people imagine. It’s not the relief of joy or peace. It’s the quiet kind. The...
Early sobriety can feel like showing up to a party you weren’t invited to, but still have to smile through. Everyone else is passing drinks around, laughing a little too...
Some people need inpatient. And some people—maybe you—don’t. That doesn’t make your struggle less real or your need for help less urgent. If you left treatment, ghosted mid-program, or felt...
You wake up, brush your teeth, and get to work on time. You answer texts. Make dinner. Maybe you even keep up appearances on social media. To the outside world,...
The day I ghosted my IOP wasn’t dramatic. No big decision. No outburst. I just didn’t show up. Maybe you’ve done the same. You miss a group. Then two. You...
I didn’t expect to relapse. Not after everything I’d done right. I had 90 days. I was showing up to meetings. I was doing the work. And yet—there I was....
I wasn’t brave when I said yes to treatment. I was terrified. Not because I didn’t want help—but because I didn’t know what help would look like. Signing up for...
I didn’t want to get sober. Not because I loved how I felt using, but because I was terrified of who I might become without it. Substances didn’t just help...
There’s a strange moment that happens right after you’re diagnosed. Part relief. Part fear. Part “what now?” If you’re like me, you might’ve walked out of your first appointment clutching...
Sometimes it’s not denial—it’s timing. Sometimes you know you need help, but the thought of going away for 30 days (or more) feels like a wall too high to climb....
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