Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does
The ABC-DE method is one of the best tools for managing urges in recovery. But most versions miss half the picture—your body. Here’s how adding somatic awareness changes everything, plus a worksheet to try it yourself.
When the Behavior Becomes the Problem: Understanding Process Disorders (Part 1 of 3)
You know you should stop, but you keep going anyway—scrolling, shopping, working, exercising. The behavior started as something enjoyable. Now it feels like it's controlling you. If this sounds familiar, you're dealing with what researchers call process disorders. Understanding them is the first step toward taking back control.
Harm Reduction: A Path Forward When Abstinence Isn't the Starting Point
Harm reduction meets people exactly where they are—without judgment, without ultimatums, and without pretending that one approach fits everyone.
Finding Balance in Recovery: The Whole Life Wheel
Think of your life like a wheel. What people see—your sobriety, your job, your relationships—that's the rim, the part everyone else notices. But a wheel only rolls smoothly when its spokes are even. Your spokes are the six dimensions that keep you steady: physical, financial, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual. When one spoke is overbuilt and another goes neglected, the whole wheel wobbles.
Understanding Trauma Types
Your trauma is valid—whatever form it takes. Your healing matters. And your capacity for growth? It’s greater than you know.