A recovery & ADHD journal
The Bside of Recovery.
Not the highlight reel. The other side of the record — the honest one. I'm B: in recovery, wired with ADHD, and writing down what actually gets me through the day. Hard days, small wins, and the systems that hold when willpower doesn't.
The journal
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The Spiral, and the Way Back
I missed three days of everything — meetings, meds, messages back to people who love me. Here's what the shame spiral told me, and what I did instead of listening.
Read the entry →The Timer System That Finally Stuck
I've tried every productivity system that promised to fix my brain. The one that actually worked is embarrassingly simple and I'm sharing it anyway.
Read the entry →A Genuinely Small Win (That Felt Enormous)
I opened the mail for six weeks straight without letting it pile up into a paper monster on the counter. I know how that sounds. I don't care.
Read the entry →The Day I Almost Didn't Write This
Some days the honest version of the story is just: I got through it. Not gracefully. Not with any wisdom to hand out. I just got through it.
Read the entry →Why I Started This Blog
I'm not an expert, a counselor, or a cautionary tale with a tidy ending. I'm just B, trying to be honest about the parts of this that nobody warned me about.
Read the entry →Two things, tangled together
Recovery and ADHD were never separate stories.
Nobody warned me how much they'd talk to each other — the same brain that struggles to plan and follow through is the one rebuilding trust with itself, one day at a time. This blog is where I keep track of both, honestly, without a tidy ending.
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“The small wins are not the consolation prize. They're the actual prize. They're the whole game.”
— from A Genuinely Small Win