Author: Ashley A
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Part 1: Happy Chemical Series
Why Your Brain Keeps Choosing What Hurts You Understanding the hidden chemicals driving your behavior – “The Happy Chemicals” Content Warning: This article discusses addiction, mental health, and behavioral patterns. If you are currently struggling, you are not alone. Please see the Resource section below. Introduction If I’m being honest—my entire life, I never really…
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I Got My 5 Years — Then Accidentally Overdosed
Don’t Worry — I Still Have My Clean Time (A lesson on Essential Vitamins) Five years sober.No alcohol. No drugs. And somehow… I still managed to “overdose.” Now this sounds very dramatic. I still have my clean time. It wasn’t an overdose as what probably comes to mind when you hear that. It was an…
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Practicing What I Preach
I’m taking a step back this week The last couple weeks has been good but has brought a lot up… and it’s been emotionally exhausting. If I’m going to start a business and write about burnout, boundaries, and mental health—I should practice what I preach. So I’m giving myself a week to take a break.…
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It’s Been 5 (Long) Years!
I Didn’t Think I Would Survive — But I Did I didn’t hit rock bottom the way people think. There wasn’t just one moment.It was a series of them—stacked so close together that I stopped believing I was going to make it out at all. At one point, I truly believed I was going to…
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