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Relapse Isn't Failure. It Can Be Part of Recovery
Relapse carries so much shame that people quit recovery entirely rather than start again. Aeon Archer counts differently: 14 years in recovery, 205 days sober, and every fall in between taught something that holds him up now.
He and host Lisa Urbanski — open about her own recovery — talk through the functioning years nobody saw, the Easter Sunday he landed in Atlanta with $30 and no bed and stayed determined anyway, relearning hunger and tiredness like a newborn, why men's silence stores trauma in the body, and the morning practice that recreates the pink cloud without the hangover…
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