Early recovery doesn’t feel brave. It feels weird. Like waking up at a party you don’t remember agreeing to—surrounded by people talking about triggers and
You didn’t mean to fall off. One missed day. Then another. Life got loud, shame crept in, and now it feels like you’ve messed it
Early sobriety is strange. You spend so long numbing yourself to everything—pain, fear, even joy—that when the world comes back into focus, it’s almost too
When you’re the parent of a young adult who just went through detox—again—it’s hard not to feel like you’re holding your breath. You watched them
No one tells you how weird it gets in the middle. You made it through hell. You detoxed. You stayed. You fought through cravings, cried
They check their phones between meds. They ask if there’s Wi-Fi. They want to know if they can finish a contract from their room. One
When you’re watching your child unravel before your eyes—confused, erratic, or using more than ever—it’s hard to know where to begin. One word that keeps
I wasn’t new. I’d done the recovery thing before—meetings, therapy, breathwork, dry January times ten. I had 93 days sober. The edges of my life
I didn’t walk into treatment hopeful. I walked in pissed off, tired, and honestly? Embarrassed to be there again. This wasn’t my first time in
There’s a fear that doesn’t always get named in treatment centers. A quiet, intimate kind of fear. It’s not just, What if this doesn’t work?
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