Day 1 of Recovery

I didn’t write it with confidence. I wrote it because I needed to mark the moment—some kind of line in the sand. I’ve been here before. The fog lifts just enough to feel like I’m coming back to myself, and for a while, things feel clearer

Mental health isn’t linear. It’s not a neat path of progress or a tidy checklist of recovery. It’s chaotic. It’s a rollercoaster that doesn’t just go forward and backward—it pivots, lunges sideways, shuffles, and sometimes slams you face-first into the ground