July is often associated with freedom. There are fireworks, backyard barbecues, beach days, concerts, vacations, and long evenings spent with family and friends. While our country celebrates Independence Day, July also offers us an opportunity to reflect on another...

There is something incredibly special about summer in recovery, especially here on Long Island. For many of us, the summer months once carried a different meaning. Long days, parties, isolation, unhealthy routines, or simply trying to escape ourselves. Recovery...

Recorery is a body. It breathes, shifts, aches, stretches, and grows. It is not a single moment or a neat linear path, but a living ecosystem with parts that rely on one another. Recovery cannot exist in isolation any more than a body can function without its...

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...