My hands were shaky as I tried to keep hold of the phone. "Are you still there?", said my friend Julia. "yeah.... I'm still here.", I said trying to not show the shock in my voice from the news. "I'm going to get off the phone, now. I have to go to work.", I said almost surprising myself, with the abruptness. I hung up the phone and took a deep breath. I had just discovered that one of my best friends had O.D'ed just the night before. This was a shock to many that were close to him. He had...

Hey Reader You know those people in your life who just get you? Like, so much so that when you’re talking, the rest of the world might as well be in airplane mode? That’s my brother. He and I have always spoken our own weird little twin-language. Since we were kids. Before trauma. Before therapy. Before astrology even found me. It’s how we process the big stuff—like sobriety, identity, and the tangled mess of being human. So we decided to hit record. This week’s podcast episode is the first...

Hey you, So… quick confession: A few weeks ago, I accidentally joined a gym. Not in a “new year, new me” moment of motivation. No. This was a “I just came in to use the bathroom and somehow I’m now enrolled in a 12-month contract” kind of situation. The woman at the front desk was very persuasive. She told me I had “a good energy,” and suddenly I was nodding along like yes, I DO deserve to be the best version of myself, even though all I wanted was to not pee on the side of the road. I walked...