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Cravings have a way of making everything else feel smaller. They narrow your focus. They pull your attention inward. They can make time feel distorted, like the only thing that exists is the urge itself. For many people, cravings do not show up as a clear thought like “I want this.” They arrive as pressure, restlessness, tension, or an uneasy sense that something is wrong and must be fixed immediately. If you have ever felt that, you are not broken. You are human. This week's

There are moments when life speeds up and something inside us shuts down. The room feels louder. The pressure rises. Thoughts scatter. Control feels out of reach, and instinct starts whispering that escape would be easier than staying present. This session focused on those moments. Not the dramatic ones we prepare for, but the everyday situations that quietly make us feel unsteady. Conflict. Uncertainty. Being overwhelmed. Feeling watched. Feeling trapped. Feeling responsible

Triggers are part of life. They don’t mean you’re weak or failing. They mean you’re human. This week, we talked about identifying personal triggers and noticing how we respond when they show up. For some, triggers are tied to people or places. For others, emotions, stress, or specific memories. The goal isn't to eliminate triggers. The goal is awareness and choice. Reflection Triggers don’t control you. Awareness gives you options, even when the urge feels strong. This Week’s

Some thoughts do not fade with time.They wait. They show up late at night, in the car, or in quiet moments when there is nothing left to distract us. Often, these are the words we never said. The truth we edited. The feelings we swallowed to keep the peace or avoid consequences. This session invited people to notice those unspoken words without pressure to share them out loud. For many, the weight is not in what happened, but in what never got said. The apology that stayed in

Avoidance is one of addiction’s quiet tools. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’re doing it. We just keep moving past the thing we don’t want to face. This week, we gently explored the question: What have I been avoiding? For some, it was a conversation. For others, a feeling. For some, a responsibility, a memory, or even hope itself. This wasn’t about judgment. Avoidance usually starts as protection. But over time, what we avoid tends to grow heavier, not lighter. Reflection

Recovery can feel like starting over, and that idea brings mixed emotions. Hope. Fear. Grief. Relief. This week, we talked about what starting over really means. Not erasing the past, and not pretending it didn’t matter, but choosing to let today be different. Many people realized they’ve already started over in small ways without giving themselves credit: Showing up Asking for help Being honest Pausing instead of reacting Those moments count. Reflection Starting over doesn’t

Addiction often teaches us to avoid certain emotions, especially the ones that feel too intense or too vulnerable. This week, we explored which feelings we allow ourselves to feel, and which ones we try to escape. For some, anger feels safer than sadness. For others, numbness feels safer than fear. For many, sitting with any emotion at all feels uncomfortable. But emotions don’t go away just because we ignore them. Learning to notice them, even briefly, can take away some of

Many of us don’t realize we’re struggling until we’re already overwhelmed. This session focused on learning how to notice earlier signs, before things spiral. We talked about the small cues: Changes in mood, isolation, irritability. restlessness and numbness to name a few. Noticing these signs isn’t weakness. It’s awareness! When we learn to recognize our own warning signals, we give ourselves the chance to respond with care instead of reacting out of habit. Reflection Being

Addiction has a way of shrinking our identity until it feels like it’s the only thing people see, and sometimes the only thing we see in ourselves. This week, we asked a harder question than it sounds: Who am I without addiction? For many people, this question brings discomfort. Some realize they hadn’t thought about themselves apart from their struggle in a very long time. Others feel grief for parts of themselves that feel lost or buried. But there's always something else i

If you’re reading this because you couldn’t make it to group, or because you’re not quite ready to walk through the door yet, you belong here just as much as anyone sitting in the room. This week, we started with a simple but powerful question: What brought me here today? For some people, it was pain. For others, curiosity. For some, it was exhaustion or a quiet thought that wouldn’t go away. And for a few, it might have been nothing more than “I don’t know what else to do.”