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Lipstick Armour: The Beauty That…
Lady Danger & Learning To Feel Powerful People often assume beauty is vanity. For me, beauty became armour. Long before recovery, beauty was one of the few things that made…
How One Night Changed My…
I never imagined one night could change the direction of my entire life. But sometimes life forces you to stop. And sometimes it does not do it gently. There was…
How Makeup Helped My Confidence,…
Makeup and confidence became connected for me long before I understood recovery, self-esteem or healing. Beauty was never simply about appearance. It became comfort. Ritual. Confidence. And sometimes, if I…
Four Years Without My Mother
My mother packed my entire life into bin bags and left them in the shed. I still think about that moment sometimes. Over fifty bin bags filled with my belongings,…
Losing Friends while losing myself…
Not only did I lose family — the only family in my life — I also lost two best friends. Both things are difficult for me to talk about. Because…
The Fur Babies Who Witnessed…
Especially cats. In many ways, they felt safer to me than humans did. They gave me affection in ways humans sometimes could not. Comfort without questions. Love without conditions. They…
How Grief, Trauma & Loss…
I do not think my alcoholism began with alcohol. I think it began with grief. With loss. With trauma I did not know how to process properly. I lost two…
The disease that took my…
One of the hardest things about addiction is that eventually you stop only fearing for yourself. You start watching the disease take other people too. And somewhere along the way,…
How Muay Thai and Yoga…
I actually started Muay Thai in rehab. Yoga I had done before on and off throughout my life, but Muay Thai was completely new to me. One thing people do…
How trauma lives in the…
One thing people do not really talk about in recovery is how much trauma and stress stays trapped in the body. In rehab, massages were actually part of the programme.We…
The day I Learnt to…
When I first went to rehab, I was told I needed to be detoxed. I had no idea what that even meant. In my head, detox simply meant stopping drinking.…
Beauty and Fashion became my…
It wasn’t until I turned 28 that I became openly honest about my alcoholism to everybody, not just people within the recovery community. Before that, secrecy had become part of…
