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28 essential books to build a solid, evolving recovery from addiction
Updated to address neurodivergence, burnout, and cptsd/relational trauma
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Maybe we're not supposed to be making sense of all this
on the frantic need to find an answer when there isn't one
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Recovering Round-up, August 2025
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If narcissism causes addiction, what happens when recovery causes narcissism?
Some *still forming* thoughts on what happens when the thing that saved us becomes the thing we need saving from
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Q: Is it possible to heal your most toxic friendship?
A: Sometimes.
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The return of the Recovering Roundup
Links for the month of July, 2025
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It's okay to disappear. Even for years.
You're feeling lost and stuck and unmotivated and pointless and purposeless for a reason; it's a gift; don't ignore it.
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What if your ‘wrong’ way of responding to this moment is actually right?
14 thoughts
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Recommendations
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On Things
On Things
Madeleine Dore
Peace of Mind by Meg Josephson
Peace of Mind by Meg Josephson
Meg Josephson
Special, A Serial Memoir
Special, A Serial Memoir
Sondra Primeaux
Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein
the utter
the utter
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Quitting Drinking
Do you miss drinking?
Can you moderate alcohol?
15 essential books to build a holistic recovery from addiction
You are doing it. This is the it.
9 reasons to stop using the word alcoholic
Drinking alcohol like them
15 things I do to maintain sobriety after four years in recovery
How to travel sober: 23 questions asked and answered
7 tips to survive a family holiday sober
Best of Recovering
The long game of boundaries
What you're not good at anymore
The mistake you keep making
Do you want it because you want it or because you think everyone else wants it
The courage to listen to ourselves
What to do with the things you don't want
The courage to listen to ourselves
The part where you finally open your mail and pay your taxes
Depression as bliss
Just a vain post
50 best books I read in the after times

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