Early sobriety can feel lonelier than anyone warned you about. The chaos might be gone. The substances might be gone. But sometimes the heaviness is still there. The low mood....
There wasn’t a dramatic exit. No big speech. No slammed doors. You just stopped going. Maybe it was one missed day in your depression treatment program. Then another. Then the...
I used to think being young and struggling meant I was dramatic. Too sensitive. Too intense. Too much. If you’re young and sober — or trying to be — and...
I’ve sat across from artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, writers, and big-feeling humans who all share the same quiet fear: “If I regulate my emotions… will I lose what makes me me?”...
I didn’t relapse. I didn’t lose my job. I didn’t blow up a relationship. From the outside, I looked solid. But inside? Sobriety had started to feel flat. Predictable. Mechanical....
I wasn’t spiraling out of control. I was just tired of waking up and thinking, Why did I do that again? If you’re sober curious, you might not be in...
I didn’t make a dramatic exit. I just stopped showing up. No big speech. No confrontation. Just silence. If you left your intensive outpatient program mid-treatment and haven’t responded to...
I didn’t think I’d be writing something like this. Ninety days sober. Chips. Applause. The quiet pride of waking up clear-headed. And then… I drank again. Or used again. Or...
Sometimes the hardest part of starting therapy isn’t the fear of talking—it’s the fear that once you start, something inside you won’t stop. If you’ve been researching EMDR and feeling...
I honestly believed I was done with therapy. Not because I was fully healed, but because I knew the drill. I’d done my time on the couch. I had a...
