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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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Holly Whitaker
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If narcissism causes addiction, what happens when recovery causes narcissism?
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July 2025
Q: Is it possible to heal your most toxic friendship?
A: Sometimes.
Jul 31
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Holly Whitaker
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Q: Is it possible to heal your most toxic friendship?
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The return of the Recovering Roundup
Links for the month of July, 2025
Jul 26
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Holly Whitaker
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The return of the Recovering Roundup
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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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Holly Whitaker
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It's okay to disappear. Even for years.
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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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Holly Whitaker
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What if your ‘wrong’ way of responding to this moment is actually right?
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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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Holly Whitaker
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The beautiful world is coming
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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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Holly Whitaker
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It's a podcast!
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May 2025
Panic attacking
I had a panic attack Saturday, a thing I used to experience that I don’t anymore, except I guess I do now.
May 27
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Holly Whitaker
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Melody Beattie wrote 18 books without social media
The refusal of celebrity by a self-help legend is one of her bigger legacies
May 15
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Holly Whitaker
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Melody Beattie wrote 18 books without social media
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Writing to be understood vs. writing to be in service
Allowing myself to eviscerate myself in the book I'm currently writing has been extremely good medicine; it's also made for some of my better work.
May 5
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Holly Whitaker
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Writing to be understood vs. writing to be in service
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April 2025
This is about Glennon coming to Substack; this is also not about that
When we say we are leaving social media, what we mean is we are leaving a mindset- not a platform
Apr 29
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Holly Whitaker
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This is about Glennon coming to Substack; this is also not about that
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Celebrating a year in the only healthy relationship I’ve ever had
On the myth of no good men and the chronically undatable anxious attached, and what good actually feels like.
Apr 20
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Holly Whitaker
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Celebrating a year in the only healthy relationship I’ve ever had
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