The Body Grief Journal

Prioritize your well-being this holiday season. Set boundaries, lean on support, and honor your needs—you deserve care and compassion.

My journey of leaving 12-step recovery, questioning its fit for me, and rebuilding community on my own terms. Redefining recovery my way.

As someone with lived and living experience, I’ve spent years navigating the mental health system as both a consumer and a professional. I entered this work hoping to be part of a solution, but what I witnessed behind closed doors left me disillusioned and heartbroken. The moral injury I experienced in treatment settings has shaped not only how I see the system, but how I choose to engage with it moving forward. One of the most devastating parts was witnessing how people seek