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I was recently invited to a dear friends 50th birthday party. I wanted to go, so of course I said YES! This is where many of us...

How much energy must it take to choose to identify with the negative?!?! "Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness" said someone. I'm...

Up until recently I felt like everything in my life was telling me to go fly a kite! Nothing seemed to work out quite the way I wanted it...

Is it time in your life to release something or someone? How do we know when it's time? I can be impulsive and I know this has caused...

I'm currently roaming the grief cycle. My father is dying, very slowly. One day he was the quirky, strong, disciplinarian that kept me...

Do you ever feel like breaking something? Like the pain inside is so bad that the only outlet you have is to find something, hopefully...

I feel that I am a survivor of a severe illness. I have survived the terminal disease of addiction. I was 16 years old and already...

I am Amber. I am an Addict. Besides being an addict, I am also a mentor, advocate, college student pursuing a degree in Substance Abuse...

I don't think I'm special when I share with you how much of my life I've spent in my head. I can analyze anything down to the atoms that...

I could give you several reasons that I justified my drinking. I lost my job of over 20 years and I lost my home. I had lost any...

As I near the silver anniversary of my sobriety from alcohol and substances, I look back at what recovery means to me. I have recovered...