You’re keeping up. Barely. Your calendar is full, your inbox is cleared, and your family thinks you’re fine. Maybe you even believe it, too—until that
What if you’re not falling apart… but something still feels off? Maybe you’ve noticed you sleep worse after drinking. Or that your social life revolves
You’ve just been told you have alcohol use disorder—or maybe you already knew, deep down. What you didn’t expect? The treatment plan includes medication. Suddenly
You already know something has to change. Maybe it hit you all at once—after a close call, a breakdown, or just the silence after another
There’s a moment—sometimes after a panic attack, sometimes after a long stretch of numbness—when someone looks up and realizes they can’t do this alone anymore.
There wasn’t a single moment I “knew.” No dramatic rock-bottom scene. No intervention. No bottles crashing to the floor. Just a slow erosion of things
There was a stretch of time where I didn’t want to be here. Not dead, exactly. But not… alive either. I wasn’t making plans or
I used to think getting sober would make me disappear. Not physically—I mean the me I actually liked. The one who felt everything too hard
There’s a loneliness that surprises people in early recovery. You expect withdrawal. You might even prepare for cravings. But no one really warns you about
For years, my art lived in the same space as my addiction. I couldn’t separate the two. If I wasn’t high, I wasn’t inspired. If
