From My Substack

How I Use My Recovery to Navigate the Stretch When Everything Finally Starts to Work

The stretch when the work starts gaining traction has its own set of risks. Here is how recovery taught me to stay grounded when the momentum finally arrives.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Grounded When Someone I Respect Notices the Work

Positive recognition from someone whose opinion matters can be as destabilizing as criticism. Here is how recovery taught me to receive it without losing my footing.

How I Use My Recovery to Handle the Moments When the Work Produces Unexpected Results

Building online sometimes produces results you did not plan for and are not sure how to hold. Here is how recovery taught me to receive the unexpected without losing my footing.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Connected to the Reader I Used to Be

The person who needs this work most is not the subscriber with the most engagement. It is the person I was before I found what I needed. Here is how I keep writing for that person.

How I Use My Recovery to Keep the Work From Becoming the New Addiction

Recovery taught me what addictive patterns look like in my own behavior. Here is how I watch for those same patterns in the way I build online.

How I Use My Recovery to Navigate the Days When the Work and the Recovery Both Feel Heavy at Once

Most days the recovery supports the work. On some days both feel like they are asking more than is available. Here is how I move through those days without losing either one.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Soft When the Work Is Trying to Make Me Hard

Building something online over time creates pressure to toughen up, grind harder, and care less about the things that do not convert. Here is how recovery keeps me from going that direction.

How I Use My Recovery to Find My Way Back to Gratitude When It Has Gone Quiet

Gratitude in recovery is not always available as a feeling. Here is how I find my way back to it honestly when the quiet stretches arrive.

How I Use My Recovery to Keep Showing Up When the Work Stops Feeling Like Enough

There are seasons when the work feels small and insufficient and not worth the effort it takes. Here is how recovery taught me to keep going anyway.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Kind to Myself When the Work Is Not Going Well

Self-criticism in recovery and in building online can look a lot like motivation. Here is how I learned to tell the difference and what I do instead.

How I Use My Recovery to Find Meaning in the Work on the Days It Feels Like Just a Job

Every practice has days when it feels mechanical rather than meaningful. Here is how recovery taught me to find the meaning again without forcing it.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Patient When the Platform Is Growing Slower Than I Expected

low growth in building online feels a lot like early recovery. Here is how the patience I built in one place is holding me steady in the other.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Generous When the Work Feels Thankless

Service without recognition is one of the oldest principles in recovery. Here is how I apply it to building online when the work goes out and nothing comes back.

How I Use My Recovery to Handle the Pressure of Being Consistent in Public

Showing up every day in public creates its own kind of pressure. Here is how thirty years of recovery taught me to carry that pressure without letting it become the thing that breaks the practice.

How I Use My Recovery to Stay Honest When the Online Version of Me Starts to Drift

Building a public presence creates a version of you that can slowly diverge from the real one. Here is how I use recovery to notice the drift and come back to honest.