by A Counselor | Oct 31, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
By Jamie | November 2026 On November 1, my husband Andrew and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. One whole year. And while I certainly don’t claim to have marriage figured out after 365 days, I have found myself reflecting on just how much life can change. As...
by PAL | Oct 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
Fall has always felt like a season that gives us permission to let go. The trees don’t fight to hold onto every leaf. They release what has run its course, not because the tree is dying, but because another season is coming. I wish I had understood that kind of...
by PAL | Aug 31, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
For almost thirty years, I was convinced that I was the reason. I was eleven years old when my family was involved in a car accident that took the life of my older sister and left my mother with injuries she would ultimately die from six years later. Two hours before...
by PAL | Aug 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
There was a time in my life when I was convinced that Hope was something I had run out of. I couldn’t imagine a future much different from the life I was living. Every promise I made to myself seemed to end the same way. Every attempt to change felt temporary....
by PAL | Jul 1, 2026 | Someone In Recovery
Every July, we celebrate freedom. But somewhere along the way, I realized something about recovery: Freedom isn’t free. In fact, recovery has cost me a great deal. It cost me my way of doing things. I had to stop being the exception. Stop believing I was somehow...
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...
