by PAL | Jun 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
June in Phoenix has a way of reminding me. The heat doesn’t ask permission before it arrives. It settles over everything – sidewalks, steering wheels, skin, breath. There is a heaviness to it that only people who have lived through an Arizona summer truly...
by PAL | May 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
Mother’s Day used to be complicated for me. Not because I didn’t believe in it… but because I didn’t know where I fit in it. There was a time in my life when I wasn’t showing up as the kind of daughter any mother would feel celebrated by. I was the one creating chaos....
by PAL | Apr 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
It had four walls. A front seat, a back seat, and a windshield that turned the Phoenix sun into something almost unbearable. By mid‑morning, the heat would begin to rise, and by afternoon it pressed in from every direction—thick and unmoving—making it hard to breathe....
by PAL | Mar 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
There were years when I didn’t believe spring would ever come.Everything felt like winter—cold, uncertain, and stuck. From the outside, I’m sure my family wondered if anything good could grow from what addiction had done to all of us. Trust felt frozen. Hope felt...
by PAL | Feb 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
There was a time in my life when I believed love meant rescue. Love meant saying yes.Love meant coming through.Love meant giving me what I wanted, especially when I was falling apart. And I can admit it now… I had a very specific definition of “unconditional love,”...
by PAL | Jan 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
January invites us into something quiet and sacred. A pause between what was and what could be. A fresh start. And yet, new beginnings often require us to loosen our grip on things that feel familiar, even when they are painful. Sometimes the hardest part of change...
