What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done when no one was watching? The best answer I can give to this daily prompt is not throwing away five years of clean time last summer. I wouldn’t have come back from it. I don’t have another recovery in me. And the life I get to be here…

What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised? I was raised to be kind and respect others. But as I grew into adolescence I wasn’t kind and respectful to myself. Today I get to live life and be present in the lives I most care about.