I kept trying to quit, but caffeine addiction is particularly insidious because it’s so damn easy to justify.
Keeping Recovery Afloat
A preview from the recovery meditational, Just for Right F*cking Now
Hacking Addiction Using the Interim Period
There’s this gap of time between deciding to give in to an addictive craving, and the physical attainment and consumption of the vice. Use this gap wisely, for often here the craving disappears…
Beyond Snap Judgments Awaits the Human Heart
First impressions are perhaps more influenced by the one receiving the impression than on the one making it.
Standing Up to Addiction: Connection and Relation
A challenge of recovery is tapping into consistent motivation and urgency without a gun to our heads.
Song Expresses the Inner Fight of Addiction and Recovery
In my twenties, my experience of addiction felt a bit like having another personality fighting to take over.
Falling Apart for a New Start
This book is my anthem to those in early recovery. We may feel alone, but we aren’t. At all.
20 Things I Do Not Miss About Doing Drugs
I did enough drugs to wipe out an entire colony of elephants. It’s a Christmas miracle that I’m still alive. I’m one of the lucky ones.
Writing in Recovery: Rise, Fall, and Return to Form
When we tell our stories, we find the connective tissue between us, which renders obsolete our snap judgments and narcissistic delusions of apartness.
From the Edge of Death to a New Way of Life
I was the last to realize, that I wasn’t the victim.
I was the nuclear blast.