The Seduction of Addiction Can Take Anyone Out

Including addiction therapists like me

Photo by em&theo on Unsplash; Addiction can obscure the beautiful reality sitting right in front of us.

The line between addiction and recovery can be tenuous and fragile.

Though I have years of hard-fought sobriety, I walked right up to the edge of substance use the other week. I stood at the edge of that yawning abyss of nothingness and reveled in a moment of thrill-seeking defiance.