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Early sobriety can feel like floating in open water. You’ve put the bottle down, or stopped using—but now what? Time stretches. Emotions flood in. People say “take it one day...
You’ve been holding it together—barely. You show up to work. You crack jokes at dinner. You meet deadlines, pay bills, take care of people. No one would guess that the...
It’s not always about wanting to die. Sometimes it’s about not knowing how to live anymore. That numbness, that heavy silence inside you—it doesn’t always scream. Sometimes it just whispers...
There’s a moment many parents know all too well. You’ve been here before. Maybe not exactly like this—but close. The phone call. The tension in their voice. The sentence that...
There’s a quiet grief many parents carry—a grief that isn’t loud, but lingers. It sits in your chest during family dinners, keeps you half-awake at 2 a.m., and colors every...
Early sobriety is not the mountaintop moment people think it is. It’s waking up to a quiet house, a too-bright morning, and a nervous system still stuck in fight-or-flight. It’s...
I’ve sat across from hundreds of clients over the years, but some conversations leave a lasting mark. One of those moments came from a client early in their recovery, hunched...
I didn’t plan on relapsing. When I walked out of treatment the first time, I had 90 days of sobriety, a tight grip on my routine, a sponsor I actually...
You might be reading this with your heart in your throat. Maybe someone just said the word “addiction” out loud for the first time—maybe it was you. Maybe you sat...
When you’re newly sober, six months can feel impossibly far away. The days move slow. The emotions hit hard. And even when things are technically “going well,” you might still...
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