Sobriety is not using. That’s the whole definition. You put the substance down and you stay stopped. By that measure, a person who quit drinking because their doctor scared them into it and resents every sober day is doing the same thing as someone who has rebuilt their entire life.…

You had every intention of going to the gym. You meant to cook. You were going to work on that thing you keep pushing off. And then 7 pm came and you ordered takeout and watched something you didn’t even really want to watch and went to bed feeling behind…

Living with chronic pain is exhausting in a way that’s hard to put into words. Not just the pain itself. The fact that it’s still there tomorrow. Planning everything around it. Explaining yourself to people who keep expecting you to be better by now.Some research shows that between 40% of…

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Some mornings the alarm goes off, and you are already annoyed before your feet hit the floor.Not at anything specific. Just annoyed, and a little flattened underneath it, like the day already feels like too much, and it has not even started yet.People type “why do I wake up angry…