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Early recovery is an uncanny place—like standing in a quiet room with all the furniture moved but nothing put back yet. You think you should feel relief, but instead you...
When our 20-year-old relapsed, it was like someone yanked the floor out from under us. We had made it through detox. We’d done the early-recovery chaos. He had been doing...
Starting therapy isn’t easy. It takes guts to say, “I need help.” But even after that first brave step, confusion often follows: What kind of therapy is right? What if...
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...
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