Recovery Room: From Gumption to Inner-Sobriety

Over the last year, I’ve received my fair share of me-too emails, emails in which the writer has reached out to say, “you’ve wrestled with addiction? Me too.” These emails take various shapes and forms–advice from someone ten years ahead of me on this recovery journey, confessions from otheraddicts on the other side of the screen. This is the beauty of confession–it both invites the wisdom and grace of age, and encouragesthe lame to take their own first step.

Yesterday, I received an email fr...