The Help That Makes It Worse Most families don’t think they’re enabling addiction. They think they’re helping. They think they’re being loving. They think they’re protecting someone who is struggling. They think they’re doing what…
The worst time to improvise When a family hits a crisis point with addiction, the house becomes a pressure cooker. Someone has overdosed or nearly overdosed, someone has disappeared for a night or three, someone…
The Myth That Leaving Solves Everything Society loves a clean ending. People want to believe that once a victim leaves an abusive relationship, the danger evaporates and life immediately becomes lighter, calmer, and simpler. They…
Completing a rehab programme is often treated like a victory lap. Families breathe out for the first time in months or years. The person leaving treatment feels relief, pride, and hope all at once. There…
The War on Feeling Good Somewhere along the line, recovery became synonymous with restraint. The message was clear, pleasure is dangerous. Keep your emotions flat. Stay away from anything that feels too good, because good…
The Lie That Looks Like Success Not every addict looks like an addict. Some wear suits. Some pay their bills. Some even run companies or families with frightening efficiency. They don’t fit the picture of…
The New Religion of Recovery There was a time when healing meant work, real, uncomfortable, internal work. It was sitting across from a therapist and unpicking years of silence. It was accountability, humility, and rebuilding…
The Age of Emotional Overload We’re living in an era where emotions have become public property. Everything we feel is turned into a caption, a confession, or a clinical term. The internet has made it…
Sobriety is meant to free you, from substances, from self-destruction, from shame. But somewhere along the line, it can quietly turn into something else. A role. A performance. A badge you wear to prove you’ve…
When most people think of addiction, they imagine the substances, bottles, needles, pills. What they don’t see is the invisible clutter that remains long after detox. Memories. Regrets. Guilt. Grudges. These don’t fit neatly into…