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Married to a Normie: Relationship Rules

Even though it’s a positive change, adjusting to marriage with a newly sober spouse is a challenge. Some situations are a little tricky to navigate. After being with my husband for 15 years, it might seem like there would be few suprises left. We have the kind of relationship that includes conversations like, “Hey, Harmony,… Continue reading Married to a Normie: Relationship Rules

She Recovers Brings High End Feminist Recovery to Los Angeles

I could say a hundred things about every incredible woman I encountered over the weekend and it would not hold a candle to the inspiration I felt. The only catch? The price of admission. One year ago, Harvey Weinstein and men like him were purged from their high positions in industry jobs due to allegations… Continue reading She Recovers Brings High End Feminist Recovery to Los Angeles

National Prison Strikers Demand More Drug and Mental Health Treatment

Effective drug and mental health therapy requires sincerity and trust. But prison is not a trustworthy environment for inmates. For example, all “therapeutic” prison spaces are recorded. Improved drug and mental health services were demands of the 2018 National Prison Strike in the U.S. and Nova Scotia. Just ask Isa, age 50, who is held… Continue reading National Prison Strikers Demand More Drug and Mental Health Treatment

Using Love as a Drug

I used drugs and alcohol to control my feelings and gave up on relationships early on since people are harder to control than substances. As I felt the other person pull away, my urge to control increased. Recently I was sitting in a meeting with a little over two years sober, feeling completely insane. For… Continue reading Using Love as a Drug

How Do You Define "Recovery"?

Our time would be better spent trying to help people recover in whatever way is most effective for them rather than pushing and shaming everyone into one particular recovery pathway. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard someone say that a person might be sober, but that they’re not in recovery, or… Continue reading How Do You Define "Recovery"?

Beautiful Boy: An Interview with Nic Sheff

“A really cool expression of the family bond in the film is how the love survives everything that the disease can throw at it. Despite so much trauma, at the very end, you see that that core love never goes away.”The journey from addiction to recovery is a personal one, with details usually confined to… Continue reading Beautiful Boy: An Interview with Nic Sheff

7 Reasons Why I Thought AA Wasn't for "Someone Like Me"

By the end, as we stood in a circle holding hands, I thought: “This is a cult, right? This has to be a cult.” I remember the first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous that I ever attended, about three years ago. I’ll be honest — I wasn’t the friendliest face at that meeting. I had a… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why I Thought AA Wasn't for "Someone Like Me"

There Was Light A Mile Deep: Interview with Poet William Brewer

Someone contacted me when the book came out, who had very recently lost a parent to heroin. She said to me, and I’ve held on to this, “The poems gave me a feeling that I had a place to go.” The West Virginian landscape exists as one of the great splendors of North America, but… Continue reading There Was Light A Mile Deep: Interview with Poet William Brewer

The Most Important Person in the Room

There’s no need to worry about my career, or lack of intimate relationships, or future, or even quitting nicotine. I’m taking it easy, I’m in my first year of sobriety. Every time I relapse I forget I am not God. I am no longer able to allow the darkness to bloom into the grand external… Continue reading The Most Important Person in the Room

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