by PAL | Feb 1, 2025 | Someone In Recovery
Someday the pain will end. Someday the frustration, the agony, the struggle to make sense of it all will meet at the intersection of our limited human understanding and reality and hopefully give us peace. It’s getting through day to day that is the true...
by PAL | Jan 1, 2025 | Someone In Recovery
“What could possibly be different this time? How long have you been sober? When is it going to stick?” If you’ve walked alongside someone battling addiction, or if you’ve fought the battle yourself, you’ve probably heard these questions—maybe even asked...
by PAL | Dec 1, 2024 | Someone In Recovery
“These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.” Jose Ortega y Gasset. I’ve spent holidays in detoxes. I’ve spent them in hospitals. I’ve spent them alone. I’ve spent them in cynicism and...
by PAL | Nov 1, 2024 | Someone In Recovery
In 2014, I went to treatment in Prescott, AZ. After a long string of failed attempts at getting clean, it felt like my last hope, and for whatever reason, I felt a spark of inspiration when this opportunity presented itself to me. Removing myself from my...
by PAL | Oct 1, 2024 | Someone In Recovery
Ask your self I learned several things reading Stage II Recovery by Ernie Larson. This book was written for those in recovery as they take the next steps to really change their lives. However, I have found it to be very helpful to parents and others who...
by PAL | Sep 1, 2024 | Someone In Recovery
I couldn’t tell you exactly what the catalyst was for me. For true change. For recovery. Sometimes it feels like luck. Working in behavioral health, I’m confronted with tragic outcomes and end stages of addiction and mental illness consistently. It can be...
