I remember the silence most. When someone you care about enters a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), life doesn’t just go on as usual. The rhythm shifts. Conversations get shorter, routines...
I wanted help. Badly. But the idea of inpatient treatment stopped me cold. Leaving for 30, 45, or 60 days? Impossible. My life was already hanging by a thread. If...
If you’ve stepped away from treatment, skipped sessions, or even ghosted your program, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It just means you hit a wall—and you’re not the first. At...
You know the script. You walk into your therapist’s office, settle into the chair, talk through your week… and leave wondering if you actually got anywhere. You’ve been responsible. You’ve...
There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t show on the outside. You get through your day. You hit your deadlines. You don’t cancel plans. But the quiet truth is:...
You can run a meeting, make deadlines, post happy photos, and still feel like you’re one wrong move away from unraveling. High-functioning anxiety and depression are brutal because they stay...
Some days, I couldn’t explain it—not to friends, not to therapists, not even to myself. I just knew I was tired. Tired in a way that didn’t go away with...
Being in love isn’t supposed to feel like going through the motions. Yet for many partners and spouses of someone struggling with addiction, it quietly turns into just that—surviving the...
When you’re newly sober, there’s a quiet expectation that things will feel better—lighter, easier, calmer. But often, it’s the opposite. The noise of drinking or using goes away… and the...
As a parent, few things feel heavier than watching your child carry pain they can’t escape. When you’ve done everything you can—therapy appointments, encouragement, even treatment—and they’re still struggling, it’s...
