The Adult Child Comes Home For many people, leaving rehab means returning to a family home. Sometimes it is financial necessity. Sometimes it is because the family wants oversight. Sometimes it is because the person burned bridges and has nowhere […]
Families rarely set out to enable addiction. Most are trying to keep a loved one alive, keep the home calm, protect children, and stop the chaos spreading into work and community. In South Africa that pressure is intense because families […]
Detox is not the win In Cape Town, detox has become a comforting word families cling to because it sounds practical and clean. You picture a person going in rough, getting medically sorted out, sleeping properly for a few nights, […]
A Drug That Breaks Entire Environments Methamphetamine (tik) is not simply a substance problem. It is a community problem, a family problem, a structural problem, and a mental-health problem all bleeding into each other until no one can tell where […]
For most people, boredom is harmless, an empty afternoon, a long queue, a quiet Sunday. But for someone in recovery, boredom can feel like a threat. The silence of ordinary life is deafening when you’ve lived in chaos. Stillness feels […]
When people picture addiction, they often imagine chaos, broken homes, poverty, absentee parents, shattered relationships. But what happens when the addiction grows quietly inside a “good” family? The kind with two cars, Sunday lunches, and framed graduation photos? The kind […]
We live in an age where even healing has a spotlight. Sobriety isn’t just a private journey anymore, it’s content. People document every step, from detox to “day 1000,” turning recovery into something that looks more like a brand than […]
The first truth about recovery that no one warns you about is this: it doesn’t just strip away the drugs, the booze, or the behaviours. It strips away you. Or at least, the version of you that addiction built, the […]
It’s one of the hardest conversations in addiction recovery, the moment when someone says, “Rehab didn’t work for me.” It’s usually said with quiet frustration, or bitterness, or shame. And yes, sometimes, it’s true. Not every rehab is good. Not […]
There’s a dangerous myth about addiction, that it happens to people who are reckless, selfish, or weak. The truth is the opposite. Many of the people who struggle most deeply with addiction are, in fact, good people, kind, empathetic, responsible, […]
