A Letter to My Addiction

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Dear Addiction, I need to tell you something, and for once, I need you to listen without interrupting. You have had the floor for long enough. When we first met, you were everything I needed. You made the noise quiet. You made the awkward comfortable. You made the unbearable bearable. I thought I had found […]

The Family Guide to Not Enabling

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You love someone who is destroying themselves, and everything you do to help seems to make things worse. Or, more precisely, everything you do to help makes things feel better in the moment while making the underlying problem worse in the long run. Welcome to the exhausting, bewildering world of enabling. What Enabling Actually Looks […]

Why Smart People Struggle More in Recovery

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Intelligence should be an advantage in recovery. After all, understanding the problem is the first step to solving it, and clever people are good at understanding things. So why do so many intelligent, successful, articulate people struggle to get and stay sober? The answer is uncomfortable: the same cognitive abilities that made you successful in […]

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