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Not everyone completes treatment in one continuous stretch—and that’s okay. Gaps happen. People pause, ghost, or disengage from care for reasons that are often complicated and deeply human. Sometimes it’s...
Somewhere between “I’ll be back tomorrow” and “I can’t show my face there again,” I disappeared. Quietly. I didn’t plan to vanish—I just… stopped showing up. Maybe you’ve been there...
Some people worry that therapy will make them disappear. Not physically—but emotionally. Artistically. Spiritually. That the things they feel most intensely—their sadness, their rage, their brilliance, their hunger to be...
Maybe you haven’t blacked out. Maybe you haven’t lost your job, wrecked your car, or burned your life down. But something’s off. The drinks feel heavier. The escape feels more...
It rarely starts with collapse. More often, it starts with the small stuff: forgetting a deadline you never would’ve missed, getting short with your kids, sleeping but not feeling rested....
You don’t have to hit bottom to ask for help. If you’re holding it together on the outside but breaking inside, an intensive outpatient program might be the step that...
When I got sober, I thought the biggest problem would be cravings. Like, physical, desperate, can’t-stop-thinking-about-it cravings. What I didn’t expect? How much I’d miss the idea of drinking. The...
I didn’t plan to relapse. Most people don’t. I had 93 days clean—nearly to the day. I’d stopped counting. Started smiling again. People were proud of me, and for a...
Relapse doesn’t mean your child is broken. It doesn’t mean you failed. It means this is hard. It means they need more support—not more shame. If your young adult son...
It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t been there. You had 90 days. Maybe more. You were sleeping through the night again, your laugh came back, and your friends...
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