You can be sober and still feel lost.
You can abstain from every substance, every compulsive behavior—and still be disconnected from your body, your relationships, your purpose, your life.

Let’s begin with a truth most people don’t say out loud: recovery isn’t just about not drinking or using.

It’s about rebuilding your life from the inside out.

There’s something incredibly powerful about watching someone you admire fall apart—and get back up.

It’s not the falling that captures our attention. It’s the rising. The rebuilding. The slow and sacred act of learning how to live again without numbing, hiding, or pretending.

I remember the first time I read it. I stopped mid-sentence and felt something deep in my chest loosen like a knot untangling. It named something I had always felt but hadn’t quite put into words.