04/23/2025
Recovery isn’t about bad people becoming good people.
It’s about good people becoming healthy people.
For a long time, I couldn’t understand that.
In the chains of my own addiction, the harm I caused wasn’t just to myself… it was to the people I loved, the people who trusted me, the people who believed in me.
And the weight of that? It was unbearable at times.
But what made it heavier was the stigma. The labels. The way society treats addiction like a moral failure, instead of what it really is… a human struggle.
Truth is… you don’t have to beat a man while he’s down.
We’re already doing that ourselves.
The internal war inside someone battling addiction is louder, crueler, and more relentless than anything the world could throw at us.
What we need is grace.
What we need is a little understanding.
Not enabling, not excusing…
But a hand instead of a fist.
A conversation instead of condemnation.
Because good people lose their way.
And with love and a little grace, they find it again.
Healing is possible.
We don’t need saving. We need believing.
Don’t give up on them.
You might be the reason they get back up.