Another first-person essay on what it’s like to love an addict.
TSB Features
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September check-ins are here.
Sober anniversary
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Nobody will write a better check-in this month than Elizabeth Gilbert, but you should try. Also, in this issue: The Tao Te Ching. A darn good poem. And more!
Expanded Recovery
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August stories you may have missed, and a call for September check-ins!
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“When I consider what it must be like for him to feel that concern for other humans each day, I don’t have to wonder why it all became too much.”
Love
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The things we don't confront begin to control us. Inspiring quotes for people with dark existential yearning. Pema on meditation and other shit. Three new tunes on the TSB playlist.
AA Sponsorship
"Can't I ghost her? Everyone I know who switches their therapist stops seeing them and moves on."
Therapy
Introducing TSB’s Poet Laureate series.
Grief
“I felt on-edge most of the time, but especially in cars. I was waiting for the next loud noise to rearrange everything.”
Fear
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