alcoholism

“Remove the shame and the whole darn world would have a much easier time getting well.”

“We know that numbing out isn’t going to change the things about ourselves that we don’t like—and it certainly isn’t going to change a world which desperately needs changing.”

“My recovery is specific to me as a black queer femme and I think that’s important for me to name.”

“If we could stop blaming addicts and judging people for their addictions I think we could save a lot of people a lot of pain.”

There is someone on every city block struggling: for every school class, a mother who drinks herself to sleep at night; for every friend group, an individual who has questioned their relationship with booze.

“I would watch my son sleep and I would apologize a million times, wrapping my arms around him, feeling him stir as he lay next to his toxic mother.”