Category: Personal Stories
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Domestic Violence by the Numbers Reported As Of This Year (2026)
What Decades of Data Are Telling Us—and the Anomaly of COVID October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and for the rest of this month I want to talk about domestic violence from a few different angles—what the numbers show us, how abuse has changed over time, why so much of it is never reported, why…
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ADHD: The Things I Laughed Off Until They Weren’t Funny Anymore
More Than Just Being Distracted Somehow, we flew through September and made it to October. October is both ADHD Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I’ll be talking mostly about domestic violence this month, but I’m starting with ADHD because it’s something I didn’t understand for a very long time—even after I was diagnosed.…
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Getting Sober Is the Beginning
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.”– Mahatma Gandhi What Recovery Really Requires This is my last article for Recovery Month, and after spending the last few weeks talking about addiction, trauma, hypervigilance, sobriety, accountability, and what can sit…
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Mini Detour: Getting In The Rooms!
Today, I got Serene Efficiency into its first room. 💜 It may not look like a huge milestone from the outside, but after spending the last year building this business mostly behind the scenes, it felt like one. There have been countless hours of research, writing, rewriting, creating workshop materials, building presentations, applying for speaking…
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Recovery Is Not Just About Not Using — And Getting Sober Doesn’t Make You a Good Person
Content Warning: This article discusses addiction, recovery, trauma, withdrawal, abuse, and relationships affected by substance use. Please read with care. 💜 “Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions.”– Alcoholics Anonymous Getting sober is hard. Really fucking hard. Depending on the substance, it can mean withdrawal, cravings,…
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