Reconstructing Reflections

Recovery is about more than stopping.

Eventually, you have to figure out what the hell you're going to do with the life you fought so hard to get back.

Reconstructing Reflections: Daily Throat Punches for the Addictoholic's Recovery is a 365-day collection of honest, irreverent, and thought-provoking reflections for people who are ready to move beyond simply surviving addiction and start building a life they actually want to live.

Drawing from addiction medicine, neuroscience, more than two decades of personal recovery, and a healthy intolerance for bullshit, Dr. Nicole Labor explores the parts of recovery that don't always fit neatly into traditional daily readers: cravings and connection, shame and self-respect, boundaries and relationships, boredom and purpose, discipline, identity, grief, joy, ambition, vulnerability, and what happens when recovery itself is no longer the biggest thing in your life.

There are no inspirational platitudes here. No expectation that you should be grateful every fucking minute. And no pretending that getting sober magically makes you happy, emotionally healthy, or good at being a human.

Each day offers a short reflection followed by a Before You Go... question designed to make you stop, think, and occasionally call yourself on your own shit.

Because abstinence may save your life.

But eventually, you have to build one.

We're not just recovering. We're reconstructing.