FROM BITTER TO BETTER...

Motivation is unreliable - especially in winter, especially in becoming. 🌱 Consideration There’s a moment that comes for a lot of people in winter. The excitement fades. The routines feel heavier. The “why” gets quieter. And suddenly, it feels like something is wrong with you because motivation is gone. But here’s the truth we don’t say often enough: Motivation is unreliable - especially in winter, especially in recovery, growth, healing and becoming. Low light. Cold weather. Emotional...

Movement doesn't always mean success. 🌱 Consideration Progress. Growth. Change you can point to. We often hear that you measure success by movement. There's an old saying: "Don't believe anything you hear, and half of what you see." Measuring success by how far you've come can actually do harm. Because some seasons aren’t about moving forward. They’re about not going backward. They’re about staying sober. Staying connected. Staying alive. Staying when it would be easier to disappear. And if...

Winter Isn’t a Time to Reinvent Yourself 🌱 Consideration January and February get sold to us as a restart. New goals. New energy. New discipline. But for many of us - especially those in recovery, healing, or coming off a hard year - winter doesn’t feel like a fresh start. It feels quieter. Heavier. More honest. So instead of pushing against the season, From Bitter to Better is going to walk with it. This winter, we’re choosing small good things over big promises - and connection over...

Begin the year without burning yourself out! 🌱 Consideration Every January comes with noise. New Year. New You. Big goals. Big changes. Big pressure. But for people in recovery and honestly, for anyone who has lived through something hard, that pressure can feel less like motivation and more like a threat. Because healing doesn’t happen in leaps. It happens in small good things, done consistently. You don’t need a resolution that remakes your life. You need habits that help you stay in it. 🗣️...

"You made it through...that deserves to be honored." 🌱 Consideration As the year comes to a close, there’s a lot of noise about reflection. What you accomplished. What you built. What you should be proud of. But for a lot of people - especially those in recovery, healing from trauma, grief, or loss - the biggest achievement doesn’t show up on a list. You made it through. You stayed. You kept going. You survived things you didn’t think you would. And that deserves to be honored. Not with...

Sometimes the pressure to be "merry" makes healing harder. 🌱 Consideration There’s a quiet pressure that shows up every December. The pressure to be “on.” To be grateful. To be cheerful. To show up smiling, even when life is heavy. And if you don’t? There’s often guilt layered on top of it. What we don’t talk about enough is how that pressure can work against healing, especially for people in recovery, people grieving, or people simply trying to stay afloat. You can love your people and need...

Joy wasn't meant to be seasonal because belonging is meant to be permanent. 🌱 Consideration The Season That Saves Lives, and Still Hurts Like Hell There’s a myth that suicides skyrocket during the holidays. We’ve all heard it. Maybe believed it. Truth is? Data from national reports and mental-health studies show suicides actually drop in December, including on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. But here’s where it gets real: You can be surrounded by twinkling lights and still feel completely...

I thought I was just writing - turns out, I was finding my people. Lately, I’ve been paying attention - not just to who’s reading, subscribing, sharing, and engaging… but to who keeps showing up. And it hit me: I’m not just building a newsletter, a platform, or a brand. I’m finding my people. And somehow - you’re finding me, too. For that, I am deeply, and humbly grateful. Because stepping more fully into myself… into my voice… into the things I actually believe (without apology) hasn’t...

“Every generation must resist the temptation to become the very empire God rescued them from.” — Rob Bell, Jesus Wants to Save Christians 🌱 Consideration “Every generation must resist the temptation to become the very empire God rescued them from.” — Rob Bell, Jesus Wants to Save Christians Lately, I have been thinking a lot about that line from one of my personal rabbi's, Rob Bell. The story of Exodus, of the Israelites leaving captivity in Eygpt under Moses' guidance is well known enough...

We don’t just inherit history - we inherit the stories people told to make sense of it, to justify it, or to survive it. Most of us were handed versions of history that made someone look heroic and someone else invisible. Those stories shape how we see ourselves, our country, and each other. But the moment we start to question them (when we start to widen the lens) we begin to understand that remembering differently isn’t betrayal. It’s restoration. It’s how we give voice back to the people...