HeyJaredLove & Addiction
Essays to Help You Reframe Your Past and Reclaim Your Future—For Those Ready for More Than Traditional Recovery
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A Seed Called Freedom (opens the original)
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I spent years trapped in a story I started telling at fifteen: alcohol was part of what made me me—fun, fearless, free. Pushing forty, I still couldn’t see past it.Some identities are handed to us. Others we build, one repetition at a time, until they harden into fact. Eventually, we mistake repeating ourselves for being ourselves, and the walls we live inside feel as if they’ve always been there.Recovery would eventually require me to tear those walls down, but I had no idea who I might be with
Alcohol Stole My Good-Byes (opens the original)
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August 1992“I’m trying to remember the last time I saw Grandma,” I say to Mom. We’re back at the house after Grandma’s service. “I think it was her and Grandpa’s fiftieth wedding anniversary.”Mom tilts her head. “Lisa, honey, you can’t be serious.” She furrows her brows. “Grandma, Grandpa, and I spent a week with you in Lake Placid last fall. Don’t you remember?”Stunned, I stammer, “Of course…I meant before that.”It was the last time I’d ever see my
Two People Burning in the Same Place (opens the original)
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At thirty-five, I still believed love would save me from the outside in.I was selfish the way addicts are—entirely and without knowing it. I mistook validation for healing and being wanted for being whole. I asked another addict to stand in my fire and called it devotion. Called it grace, even. But really, it was just two people burning in the same place.The romance was real. The spiritual charge was real, but so was the danger.Sometimes love arrives before we’re ready. And a savior cannot survi
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