This piece was shared with a THRIVE group facilitator by a participant during a visit to the jail. It’s published here with respect and permission. "Hello to all my brothers and sisters in recovery or just reading this, hopefully on your way at least to recovery. I...

Picture a kitchen garbage pail that is clearly full. You know you should take it out, but instead you press the trash down. Tomorrow, you think. Tomorrow comes, and you make more room. A week passes, and you avoid the pail entirely, letting trash pile beside it....

Congratulations. You made it through Thanksgiving. You navigated mashed potatoes, unsolicited political opinions, Aunt Linda’s “just a sip” Champagne pressure, and turkey dry enough to exfoliate. And you did it sober. That’s huge. But now we enter the Holiday Bermuda...

They say addiction is a family disease, and one of the reasons I sought out becoming a CRPA is because substance use disorder had its grip on my family since I was a young child. I wanted to bring into this field the same tools and practices that had helped me...

Every day, one, two, maybe just maybe even three different people come to talk to us. Us, the ones that are usually forgotten about. Some of us are here for punitive reasons. Others are here because they were honestly, wrongly convicted. Most of us are guilty of...

Choosing sobriety changed everything. It brought me back to the present fully, intentionally. I can now show up for the people in my life, even when they don’t respect the boundaries I’ve set. And yes, that bothers some of them because those boundaries no longer give...