Your child is not okay—and you can feel it in your bones. Maybe they’re sleeping through entire weekends. Or maybe they’re barely sleeping at all. Maybe
I didn’t walk into alcohol addiction treatment believing it would save me. I wasn’t full of courage or clarity. I wasn’t ready to change my life.
You’ve built your identity around feeling deeply. Maybe it shows up as art, or as sensitivity, or as the way you see things others don’t. Maybe
When I got diagnosed with depression, I wasn’t relieved. I was terrified. People talk about diagnoses like they’re answers. But all I heard was: This is
When someone you love is drinking too much—but isn’t ready to stop—it puts you in an impossible spot. You’re watching them hurt themselves, maybe hurting you
In early recovery, loneliness can hit harder than expected. It’s not just the absence of alcohol—it’s the silence where old routines used to be, the ache
January wasn’t dramatic. No arrest. No ER trip. No one found me passed out or made me confront my “problem.” There was no loud intervention. There
You didn’t fail. You paused. You left a program. You ghosted a group. You stopped answering calls. And now you’re wondering… can I come back? Yes.
For a long time, I didn’t think I needed help. Not because things were good, but because they weren’t bad enough. I was still showing up
You’ve done this before—maybe more than once. The detox. The white-knuckling. The shaky week or two when you’re technically sober but feel nowhere near okay. And
If you’ve tried therapy before and thought, This didn’t help, I believe you. I’m not here to convince you that your past experience was “wrong” or
Getting sober in your teens or twenties is hard. Staying sober? Even harder. Especially when everyone around you is still drinking “for fun,” using “just to
