The Descent No One Talks About

Recovery culture talks about hope, community, and self-love.

What it avoids is the descent.

The phase where:

• You feel worse before you feel free
• You lose the identity built around survival
• You grieve the self that needed the addiction to stay alive

This is not pathology.
This is transformation.

You are not breaking down.
You are being stripped of what no longer works.

‍