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Recovery didn’t fix me.
And that matters, because a lot of people expect it to.

This video is about the quiet, uncomfortable truth of addiction recovery — that healing doesn’t arrive as a repair. It doesn’t erase the past, remove flaws, or make life feel calm and resolved. What recovery actually does is change how you live inside yourself.

Before recovery, my life was built around avoidance.
Avoiding feelings.
Avoiding consequences.
Avoiding myself.

Getting sober took that distance away. At first, that felt like exposure — not healing.

Recovery didn’t remove discomfort.
It changed my relationship to it.
Discomfort stopped meaning escape and started meaning information.

Recovery slowed time down.
It created space between impulse and action.
It made emotions legible instead of overwhelming.

That space didn’t make life easier.
It made it more honest.

This video is for people in recovery who are waiting to feel “fixed” and wondering why it hasn’t happened yet. If you’re sober and still uncomfortable, still emotional, still learning how to live without running — that doesn’t mean recovery isn’t working.

It means it’s changing you.

Recovery isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about becoming someone you can stay with.

The change recovery offers doesn’t look dramatic from the outside.
It shows up quietly — in pauses, in choices, in self-respect practiced instead of felt.

Recovery works not because it makes you perfect, but because it changes what’s possible.
It gives you a life that becomes more livable over time.

Not fixed.
Changed.