Stormborn Sobriety
Stormborn Sobriety
Recovery doesn’t just change who you are. It changes what people expect from you—and what you expect from them. Most resentments in recovery aren’t born from some dramatic betrayal. They’re built like plaque: tiny deposits, day after day. Twenty dollars…
You’re not “being dramatic.” If you’re in recovery, getting pulled back into party scenes isn’t cute, and it isn’t “just one night.” For a lot of us it’s a relapse pipeline that ends in jail, the ER, or a funeral.…
I remember the lie that used to live in my mouth before it even reached my brain: “This is the last time.” It wasn’t always meant as a con. Sometimes it was desperation dressed up like a promise—said to keep…
Boundaries aren’t “selfish.” They’re how you stay sober, stay sane, and stop letting other people’s chaos rent space in your nervous system. In recovery, relationships and boundaries either support the rebuild—or they become the slow leak that takes you out.…
If you’re reading this, it’s already been bad. You’ve watched someone you love disappear behind lies, chaos, and “I’ll change tomorrow.” You’ve tried being nice, being tough, being patient, being loud, being quiet, paying the bill, not paying the bill—none of…