recovery

My general working definition of compulsive/addictive behavior is “a pathological relationship to any mood-altering experience that has life-damaging consequences.”

John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You

I knew how quickly a small slip could turn into a full-on relapse. I also knew the biggest problem wasn’t always the relapse itself, but the things I told myself about the relapse.

Cait Flanders • The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more

Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE

One of the central myths of American romance right now is this notion that you and your partner should be able to tell each other anything and everything

I am begging you not to do this

There are so many things about you that are just for you, for your soul, as well as a whole other category of things that are only for your therapist or priest to... See more

X. It’s what’s happening

life is heavy enough without you adding your own self-seriousness to it, you've got to learn to take yourself lightly, life falls into place after that

Dylano on Substack

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."

—Cynthia Occelli

newsflash buddy “motivation” is actually a metric for the strength of the narratives/personal myths you tell yourself

sof 𓋹 • Tweet

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

-- W.B. Yeats

When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking