Don’t Be Your Daughter’s Best Friend
How Healthy Boundaries Actually Bring You Closer The relationship you’ve been longing for isn’t built on being everything to each other. It’s built on knowing where you each begin and end and that is not being your daughter’s best friend. Maybe you’ve always wanted to be your daughter’s best friend, or the mom your daughter […]
Recovery Burnout: When Recovery Itself Is Exhausting
You’re doing the work. So why does healing feel so hard right now? You May Have Recovery Burnout Meet recovery burnout. You’ve been going to therapy. Attending your meetings. Journaling, meditating, doing all the things you’re “supposed” to do. And yet, somewhere along the way, you started dreading the very routines that were supposed to […]
What Is The Vagus Nerve
The Vagus Nerve Is Having a Moment — But Does It Actually Work for Anxiety? If you’ve spent any time on wellness social media accounts lately, you’ve almost certainly seen someone clipping a little device to their ear, humming in a low tone, or doing elaborate breathing exercises — all in the name of “stimulating […]
The Loneliness Epidemic in 2026
The Loneliness Epidemic: Why So Many of Us Feel Invisible — And What Actually Helps You can have 800 friends on Facebook, a full work calendar, and a partner sleeping next to you — and still feel completely alone. That gap between the life that looks connected and the life that feels connected is at […]
The 7 Relationships That Shape Your Life
The 7 Relationships That Shape Your Life — And Why Healing Them Changes Everything I’ve spent most of my adult life thinking about relationships. As a daughter. As a partner. As someone in recovery. As a writer and advocate who has sat with hundreds of stories of families broken apart and — sometimes, beautifully — […]
Spotlight: How Recovery Jobs Is Turning Community Into Opportunity
Recovery Jobs Is A Job Solution For People In Recovery An Interview with Alex Paar, founder of Recovery Jobs In recovery, we talk a lot about rebuilding — rebuilding trust, rebuilding health, rebuilding relationships. But one of the hardest things to rebuild is purpose. And for many people, purpose starts with meaningful work. This isn’t […]