by PAL | Mar 31, 2025 | Someone In Recovery
When I first got sober, I thought I had crossed the finish line. I had fought the battle against substances, surrendered to the reality of the powerlessness of my disease, and made the decision to start over. What I didn’t realize at the time was that sobriety wasn’t...
by PAL | Mar 1, 2025 | Someone In Recovery
As I sit here reflecting on the days of my past, I find myself transported back to a time when my life was consumed by addiction. It was a time when heroin dictated my every decision, and I felt like a spectator in my own life—watching from a distance as I spiraled...
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...
