2,973 days sober from alcohol 6,105 days sober from heroin Holy balls

“Do you want a drink?” Me: “No thank you.” [twirls away awkwardly]

30-second peer support Recovery works in small steps ❤️‍🩹

And that's a wrap. X has finally stopped sharing my most viral recovery post ever. I don't know how 653,000 views happened, but as Ace Ventura would say: I'm just an innocent little rhino.

Grateful. Sober. Managing expectations.

Finally, the people like me post 🥲

Got sober. Stayed awkward. I’ll take it.

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ⁠ – Will Rogers⁠ Recovery Art: 44/100 Happy effing New Years!! What's your New Years resolution? Mine is to find a publisher.

Good luck to all the New Year’s resolutions. Everyone already knows the odds and has heard the criticisms about why January is meaningless. Ignore it. Try anyway. We recover together!

Recovery has taught me that more than one thing can be true at the same time. And sometimes progress isn’t glamorous. It just… is.

“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”⁠ – Steve Jobs⁠ Recovery Art: 43/100

She did. I had found her. My biological mom. Jasmine Lladera.

And that night, I found a “Jasmine Lladera” on social media. Scanned the old photo. Sent a message. “Do you remember being in this picture in the 80s?”

She nodded slowly. “It is interesting because it is pronounced ‘ya—dera’, correct?” “Yea, I think so,” I responded. And then she said, “Well, usually that is spelled ‘el-el-a-d-e-r-a’ (Lladera).” And then it hit me. Thirty years ago, Helen wrote the name phonetically. She

Then she asked me, “Who wrote this name?” I said, “It looks like Helen’s handwriting.” She paused, “Hmm, that’s interesting. Does she know Spanish?” I laughed. “Helen? Oh no, she’s a crazy Jewish woman. She only knows Hebrew curse words.”

One evening, a close friend came over for dinner. She’s a fierce Panamanian woman; doesn’t like strangers but would break her back for friends and family. She saw the photo of Jasmine sitting out and asked me about it. When I told her about the name on the back of the photo, she