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September 2025

The worst horse

Last week I wrote about how perhaps we should not be trying to make sense of what’s happening. Up next is the September roundup and I’ll be kicking off…

Sep 28 • 

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Maybe we're not supposed to be making sense of all this

on the frantic need to find an answer when there isn't one

Sep 21 • 

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Recovering Round-up, August 2025

Links links links links

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August 2025

28 essential books to build a solid, evolving recovery from addiction

Updated to address neurodivergence, burnout, and cptsd/relational trauma

Aug 27 • 

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If narcissism causes addiction, what happens when recovery causes narcissism?

Some *still forming* thoughts on what happens when the thing that saved us becomes the thing we need saving from

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

Q: Is it possible to heal your most toxic friendship?

A: Sometimes.

Jul 31 • 

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The return of the Recovering Roundup

Links for the month of July, 2025

Jul 26 • 

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It's okay to disappear. Even for years.

You're feeling lost and stuck and unmotivated and pointless and purposeless for a reason; it's a gift; don't ignore it.

Jul 15 • 

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June 2025

What if your ‘wrong’ way of responding to this moment is actually right?

14 thoughts

Jun 27 • 

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The beautiful world is coming

Chris La Tray on how US fascism is nothing new, and what it takes to build the America of our imagination

Jun 14 • 

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It's a podcast!

Introducing co-regulation, a new podcast for whatever tf this part is

Jun 12 • 

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