DISCIPLINE — SOBERMINDS FIELD NOTES Self-care has become a word that means almost nothing because it has been applied to almost everything. Bath bombs. Face masks. A glass of wine to unwind. The wellness industry turned it into a product category. And somewhere in the process, the actual meaning got lost. For people in recovery, […]
GRIEF — SOBERMINDS FIELD NOTES Self-forgiveness is the part of recovery nobody tells you is going to be the hardest. Not the cravings. Not the physical withdrawal. Not even the rebuilding. The hardest part is learning to stop punishing yourself for what you did when you were a different person living a different life. And
IDENTITY — SOBERMINDS FIELD NOTES Art was the first thing that came back. Not relationships. Not routine. Not any of the things the recovery literature tells you to rebuild first. Art. The need to make something. To put something external into the world that matched what was happening internally. That came back before almost anything
