Lauren Flynn found a comedy workshop, changed her surroundings, and began putting down roots. Her personal recovery journey explores the choices that helped her build stability, while making clear that she is sharing her own experience.

Charles Hurst offers a deeply personal and highly critical challenge to Alcoholics Anonymous. Drawing on more than 16 years of sobriety, he argues that recovery should lead beyond lifelong disease identity and meeting dependence toward a permanent personal commitment to abstinence and a fuller life.

John Makohen, CASAC Advanced, RCP, tells a powerful story about stigma and traditional recovery systems. What happens when the system meant to help you rejects you?