Recovery is supposed to feel like relief, a light at the end of a long, brutal tunnel. You picture freedom, peace, clarity. But when it finally arrives, it doesn’t feel like joy. It feels like loss. This is the relapse nobody talks about, the emotional collapse that happens not when...
How High-Functioning Addiction Hides in Plain Sight
They wake up early, go to work, pay the bills, and smile in meetings. They show up for family dinners, crack jokes, and never miss a deadline. To everyone around them, they’re thriving, confident, capable, and in control. But beneath that image is the kind of exhaustion that sleep can’t...